This report was prepared for, and presented at, the Asian Regional Policy Dialogue held in Bangkok, Thailand, November 24-26, 1999. This Dialogue was one of a series of three Dialogues organized by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development under the aegis of the UNCTAD/UNDP Global Programme. Participants at the workshops included senior policy makers from various ministries...

The commercialization of academic research has been promoted by North American policy makers for over 30 years as a means of increasing university financing and to ensure that promising research would eventually find its way to the marketplace. The following issues paper constitutes a reflection on the impact of the Canadian commercialization framework on academic research in the field of genom...

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Could current efforts to reshape legal education and give more emphasis to professional identity formation be harbingers of a developing social movement in higher education? I want to argue that they should be seen that way. Furthermore, I want to suggest that conceptualizing those efforts as a social movement helps to explain why recent workshops on the formation of student professional identi...

Using the national dissemination of Chronic Disease Self-Management Education (CDSME) programs, the purposes of this study were to (1) document intervention attendance rates as related to the number of participants enrolled in the workshop and (2) compare the relationship between workshop attendance and workshop size by delivery site rurality and type. Data were analyzed from the first 100,000 ...

This book review aims to assist instructors in their selection of textbooks for entry-level or intermediate educational technology courses or workshops for teachers. It discusses four major textbooks: Instructional Media and Technologies for Learning, by Heinich, Molenda, Russell, and Smaldino; Teachers Discovering Computers: Integrating Technology in the Classroom, by Shelly, Cashman, Gunter, ...

A programme of sex and relationship education was delivered in a comprehensive school in North Yorkshire by a theatre company. The programme was supported by a series of preparatory and follow-up workshops and was evaluated by a questionnaire before and after the intervention to measure changes in pupil's knowledge and attitudes. The evaluation found that the theatre production made a useful co...

Since the publication of the first edition of our book in late 1998, Ken Burnham and I have given a number of 1-, or 2-, or 4-day shortcoursesor workshops on the "InformationTheoretic" approaches to professional people with wide variety of science interests. Often, people are undecided as to whether they should take one of these shortcourses and how they might expect to benefit if they did. The...

Briefly described is a multidisciplinary half-day workshop on the treatment of defective newborns held at St. Thomas's hospital in London. The responses of the participants to a questionnaire on various decision making issues were used to stimulate discussion of parental rights, quality of life, and withholding treatment. The multidisiciplinary approach to ethical problems was endorsed, with ...

This study examined factors influencing involvement of siblings of individuals with developmental disabilities in future planning and their expectation of future caregiving. The sample consisted of 139 adult siblings recruited from an online sibling list and a sibling conference. Results indicated that few families made plans or involved siblings in the planning. Siblings who were most involved...