What skills do volunteer leaders need? A Delphi study

What knowledge and skills do caregivers need?

Caregivers need certain knowledge and skills both to provide the best possible care and to protect their own well-being.

What Do Leaders Know?

The ability of a society to make the right decisions on relevant matters relies on its capability to properly aggregate the noisy information spread across the individuals of which it is made. In this paper, we study the information aggregation performance of a stylized model of a society, whose most influential individuals—the leaders—are highly connected among themselves and uninformed. Agent...

What Do Markets Need?

D uring my time in graduate school, I became very aware that those views which were informed by my faith were not represented in the academy. The Association of Christian Economists (ACE) provided me a community to explore how my faith and intellect could be integrated with one another. Perhaps it sounds almost quaint to say that somebody of good intellect cannot be a serious Christian, but we ...

What do we know? What do we need to know?

What Do You Need to Know to Use a Search Engine? Why We Still Need to Teach Research Skills

WINTER 2015 61 What does it mean to know something in the age of the search engine? To put it another way, how does a search engine transform human cognition, knowledge, and learning? Web search tools are in many ways probably the most sophisticated AI systems that most people use on a daily basis. They’re expressly designed for straightforward walk-up use without instruction, and in the vast m...