The collaborative development methods pioneered by the open source software community offer a way to create lessons that are open, accessible, and sustainable. This paper presents ten simple rules for doing this drawn from our experience with several successful projects.

Corresponding to the concept of 'Think globally, act locally and plan regionally' of sustainable development, this paper discusses the approach of planning a sustainable community in terms of systems thinking. We apply a systems tool, the sensitivity model (SM), to build a model of the development of the community of Ping-Ding, located adjacent to the Yang-Ming-Shan National Park, Taiwan. The m...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Chester Community Physical Therapy Clinic (clinic) is a student-led pro bono clinic that provides physical therapy services to uninsured and underinsured community members. The purposes of this administrative case report are to describe the creation and implementation of a student-led pro bono clinic model designed to meet student and community needs and to consider i...

in thelight of historical and economic circumstances of 1960s, dominant paradigm in international development law was essentially relayed on economic development. but gradually by international efforts and issuing brountland report, the conception of sustainable development came up in context of international law; the conception that by avoiding of mere consideration of economic development and...

Background Development institutions constantly seek effective ways to work with local communities to build sustainable change. Research has shown that diffusion of information and adoption of new practices becomes sustainable when they are tailored to the local context (Sugden et al., 2014). This requires recognition of and a familiarity with the unique relationships and distribution and availa...

Improper management practices in tourism can have an undesirable impact on the environment and society threaten both development of economic viability communities. Awareness this challenge has led to widespread acceptance concept sustainable development. The purpose paper is highlight that achieved with support participation all parties involved tourism. As promoted as a tool for community cons...

Unmet needs in the area of enterprise applications have led to a new type of system development. Community source is collaborative open source development among multiple institutional partners, typically to achieve mutually desired outcomes. By examining a real world community source project – Kuali, this study addresses the challenges community source faces for sustaining in a large and compli...

abstract today, due to the rapid growth of population, development of the construction industry is a necessity. all around the world, new subjects such as sustainable development, environmental pollution, conservation of resources, and reduction of co2 emission have become the most important research topics among the scientific societies. in recent years, especially after 1997, new tools were i...