the central issue in strategy formulation and implementation process, or strategy-making, is the identification of environmental forces and the preparation of a plan of action to deal with them. this necessitates scanning the environment for gathering information. environmental scanning should enable the firm to identify these forces. doing this not only calls for information gathering, but als...

Introduction Since the early 1960s the concept of culture has gradually gained a prominent place in a number of social sciences, like organization theory and management studies, other than its parent discipline, anthropology. Also in studies on higher education the concept of culture has been used to explain, for example, the effectiveness of universities and colleges However, as with many prom...

This course is an attempt to summarise some of the current knowledge of complexity of cognitive processing within the new “natural context” of learning – the computers. Computers are viewed as much more flexible devices for understanding, modeling, guiding and prompting the learner, than it is generally assumed. In order to be efficient educational tools, they have to accommodate both the gener...

Consumer technologies and web 2.0 networks bring liberating potentials to music-making while simultaneously challenging recent conceptions of professional practice. These effects are felt strongly in Western tertiary education institutions, now increasingly held accountable to a central responsibility for an expanded role in the cultural and commercial innovation environment. This article exami...

Service quality is imperative for higher education institutes in order to remain competitive and growing. There is a need to ensure students’ satisfaction with university. This study will help improve service quality of the institutes. Information and data are collected using a survey questionnaire from the higher education institutes of Pakistan using convenience sampling technique. Findings r...

The Cultural Artefacts in Education (CAE) questionnaire is used to determine the educational values of different cultures. In this paper I examine the results for ten countries, specifically focussing on their attitudes towards adaptive hypermedia in an educational setting. These results can inform the authoring process for adaptive systems & content, with Adaptive Hypermedia systems being able...

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