This article describes a small-scale study that explored the relationship between the pedagogical practices characterised as “open” and the existing model of undergraduate teaching and learning at a large research-intensive university (RIU). The aim was to determine the factors that might enable (conversely impede) the greater uptake of open educational resources (OER) in universities of this t...

Agile methods are widely believed to have the potential to improve software processes. Given the variety of agile practices, organizations face difficult decisions on which ones to adopt. Recognizing that agile adoption is often motivated by strategic concerns such as market competitiveness or responsiveness to customer needs, this paper outlines a framework for the strategic analysis of agile ...

The Design and Trial of a Learning Environment Based on Model Construction Approach to Instruction Aimed at Improving Concept Learning and Modeling Practices   M. Maaleki* H. FarDaanesh, Ph.D.** E. Talaa’ee, Ph.D.*** J. Haatami, Ph.D.****   Model construction is an integrated approach aimed at a better understanding and acquisition of scientific/epistemological concepts and skills. To tr...

The main aim of the program is to develop the institutional capacity for universities and research centres to carry out strategic research and to develop university training and capacity building programs that strengthen Endogenous Development for poverty reduction. Endogenous Development is development based mainly, but not exclusively, on locally available resources, local knowledge, culture ...

Managing organizational knowledge in alliances implies establishing the best possible strategic design to create, acquire, maintain, transfer, and apply organizational knowledge developed between the partners (or acquired from partners) in order to achieve competitive goals. In this paper, the role of knowledge management strategy (KMS) in strategic alliances is analyzed in a technology-intensi...

The literature offers little empiric evidence on the role of management accounting in inter-firm relationships. So, in the following research, we examined the effect of the use of a set of new management accounting practices namely the ABC, the balanced scorecard and the financial and accounting benchmarking as well as the effect of the investment in information and communication technologies (...

the balanced scorecard framework with a hierarchical, multilayer, and causal-effect structure can shed light on the growth path and pave the development steps, which in addition to monitoring the financial goals. it also considers and controls the other effective and driving factors. in this study, after reviewing the balanced scorecard, a model was proposed in addition to extract the strategic...