This article offers an overview of how Laurea, a Finnish university Applied Sciences navigated the unprecedented situation with COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. We also share our reflections on support provided to online teaching and learning through lens TPACK, communities practice (CoP), design models. The empirical part describes Laurea supported its academic staff transitioning their online, at s...

Poverty is a widespread problem not only inflicting poor nations, but also nations like the United States of America. In the history of the United States, women and racial minorities had always been persistently struggling with poverty. This paper intends to investigate poverty among Hispanic women between 2005 and 2010 and identify and analyze the relevant contributing factors. Within this per...

Countries around the world have observed reduced infections from SARS-CoV-2 virus, that causes COVID-19 illness, primarily due to non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as lockdowns and social distancing measures designed limit physical proximity between people. However, economies societal interactions require restarting, so cannot continue indefinitely. Therefore, much hope is placed in ...

People not only care about outcomes, they also value the procedures which lead to the outcomes. Procedural utility is a potentially important source of human well-being. This paper aims at introducing the concept of procedural utility into economics, and argues that it should be incorporated more widely into economic theory and empirical research. Three building blocks of a concept of procedura...

Scan this QR code to go to the UNICEF publications website www.unicef.org/publications The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, aims to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development. Marking the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Rio+20 will assess progress to ...