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Publication date: 18 September 2017

Erno Lokkila, Erkki Kaila, Rolf Lindén, Mikko-Jussi Laakso and Erkki Sutinen

The purpose of this paper was to determine whether applying e-learning material to a course leads to consistently improved student performance.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper was to determine whether applying e-learning material to a course leads to consistently improved student performance.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper analyzes grade data from seven instances of the course. The first three instances were performed traditionally. After an intervention, in the form of applying e-learning methodologies, more data were collected from four course instances. These data are then analyzed and compared.

Findings

The main finding of this paper is that the application of e-learning improved the overall grades and decreased the fail rates of students who took this course.

Originality/value

This paper demonstrates the efficacy of applying e-learning methods to an undergraduate course. This paper is of special interest to educators, who wish to improve and enhance their teaching.

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Interactive Technology and Smart Education, vol. 14 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1741-5659

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Publication date: 15 December 2008

Manda Rosser, Nicole LP Stedman, Chanda Elbert and Tracy Rutherford

Many youth leadership organizations exist today and provide a variety of leadership experiences. One such organization provides a week long leadership experience to high school…

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Many youth leadership organizations exist today and provide a variety of leadership experiences. One such organization provides a week long leadership experience to high school students with its primary purpose being to guide students through a process of identifying a community need and developing a plan to address that need. This article reports on two qualitative case studies which investigate this leadership education tool and its impacts on the students’ involved, as well as the participating communities. The Living to Serve plans (LTS), the capstone leadership education experience, which the students develop are used to help students understand the process of identifying problems and solving those problems through identified steps.

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Journal of Leadership Education, vol. 7 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1552-9045

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Publication date: 3 December 2024

Trine Monica Myrvold and Ellen Os

Social innovation has played an important role in the expansion of the Norwegian kindergarten sector. Private non-profit organisations began to establish childcare institutions…

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Social innovation has played an important role in the expansion of the Norwegian kindergarten sector. Private non-profit organisations began to establish childcare institutions for single, working mothers from the late 1880s. The development of full kindergarten coverage depended on private initiatives, and up until the 2000s, these initiatives were predominantly social innovations. Since 2009, children aged 1–5 years have had the right to a place at kindergarten, and now 93% of children are enrolled during the pre-school period. Kindergarten services are currently provided by both municipal and (non-profit and for-profit) private actors, each enrolling about half of the children meaning private kindergarten service is now almost fully institutionalised. Being mainly publicly funded, all kindergartens are regulated by national law setting requirements for their basic values, content and pedagogical quality. The close interplay between public and private actors in expanding the kindergarten sector has contributed to the high female labour market participation that Norway enjoys today. This also enables families to have two incomes, thereby reducing the risk of poverty. While kindergartens established by social innovation have been institutionalised into a unitary system, municipal kindergartens tend to take on a broader social mandate than private kindergartens. This might have consequences for social equalisation, with private kindergartens more common in more affluent areas. No major differences in quality have been found between municipal and private kindergartens, but general challenges in terms of pedagogic quality may diminish the equalising effects of Norwegian kindergartens.

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Social Innovation and Welfare State Retrenchment
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ISBN: 978-1-83753-929-1

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Publication date: 18 February 2004

Lars Magnusson

A review essay on Ronald Findlay, Lars Jonung and Mats Lundahl, eds. Bertil Ohlin: Centennial Celebration (1899–1999). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 546. $60.00.The…

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A review essay on Ronald Findlay, Lars Jonung and Mats Lundahl, eds. Bertil Ohlin: Centennial Celebration (1899–1999). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 546. $60.00. The Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin was born in 1899 and died in 1979. Less than half of his professional life he spent as a full time academic scholar in economics. He was a student at the University of Stockholm and was supervised by his teachers, Gustav Cassel and Eli Heckscher. In 1922, Ohlin presented his licentiat thesis where he set out the ideas later conceptualised as the Heckscher-Ohlin model. Two years later, in 1924, he took his doctoral degree under Cassel with a dissertation simply called Handelns teori (The Theory of Trade). A longer version of this dissertation was later published in English as Interregional and International Trade (1933). This work made him a famous trade theorist in a line of tradition going back to Ricardo and Torrens. Paul Samuelson in 1941 coined and immortalised the term “the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem” which he and Wolfgang Stolper developed further in a famous article in the Review of Economic Studies (1941) entitled “Protection and Real Wages.” Already at the age of 26 the bright young man Ohlin became a professor in economics at the University of Copenhagen and five years later he was appointed to a chair in the same subject at Handelshogskolan (The Stockholm School of Economics) in Stockholm.

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A Research Annual
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ISBN: 978-0-76231-089-0

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Publication date: 5 February 2018

Uta Schloegel, Sebastian Stegmann, Alexander Maedche and Rolf van Dick

Research on agile software development (ASD) has so far primarily focused on processes and tools. Recently, researchers have started to investigate the social dimensions of ASD…

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Research on agile software development (ASD) has so far primarily focused on processes and tools. Recently, researchers have started to investigate the social dimensions of ASD. The authors contribute to this and examine the largely invisible psychological factor of age stereotypes as one important social dimension of ASD. Driven by demographic change, employees of different age groups will need to work closely together in ASD in the future. However, age stereotypes can hinder many aspects of communication, cooperation and coordination in these self-managed teams. The purpose of this paper is to identify and differentiate age stereotypes in ASD.

Design/methodology/approach

A quantitative survey at the individual level was conducted with 464 employees in two software development companies. The authors developed an age stereotype model for ASD and developed two scales to measure performance expectations (PEs) in ASD.

Findings

Employees in ASD show a bias in general PEs, favoring middle-aged employees over both younger and older employees. The perceived PE of a developer decreases over working life. Furthermore, the data show a complex interplay of age and job role in both the research participants and the group evaluated. Younger developers hold the strongest negative age stereotypes and older developers suffer most from stereotypes.

Practical implications

Management should enact formal or informal measures against stereotypes when an older or younger employee joins a team of members of other age groups, or when a new team is formed. In addition, the authors propose human resources to create permeable career paths.

Originality/value

The study extends the stereotype content model by adding additional age groups and including job role as a moderating variable. It identifies obstacles in daily employee interactions in agile development, and proposes ways of incorporating invisible psychological aspects in ASD-specific theories.

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Publication date: 1 October 1965

All items listed may be borrowed from the Aslib Library, except those marked *, which may be consulted in the Library.

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All items listed may be borrowed from the Aslib Library, except those marked *, which may be consulted in the Library.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 17 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 August 2001

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Microelectronics International, vol. 18 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1356-5362

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Publication date: 1 May 2009

David Bergman, Stina Fransson‐Sellgren, Rolf Wahlström and Christer Sandahl

The purpose of this article is to study the impact of two leadership programmes for healthcare managers regarding their attitudes to, and views on, their leadership.

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Purpose

The purpose of this article is to study the impact of two leadership programmes for healthcare managers regarding their attitudes to, and views on, their leadership.

Design/methodology/approach

A total of 53 managers participated in two different leadership programmes i.e. one‐week (OW‐DGL) intensive leadership course and long‐term support groups. Of those, 39 (74 per cent) responded to the Wheel Questionnaire, both soon before and six months after the end of their respective leadership programmes. Overall, eight focus group interviews were conducted, and the data were analysed through content analysis.

Findings

Both leadership programmes seem to have strengthened the managers in their leadership roles. The OW‐DGL course supported the managers in learning about group dynamics and relationship‐orientated leadership. The programmes' methods differed, but the conclusion is that they complemented each other. The long‐term support groups helped the managers to structure and cope with everyday leadership situations in their occupational environment.

Practical implications

The OW‐DGL course was found to be good for inexperienced managers and the long‐term support groups for more experienced managers.

Originality/value

There is a lack of intervention studies regarding the efficacy of leadership programmes directed toward managers in health care. Two different approaches to leadership training are compared in this paper, using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

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Leadership in Health Services, vol. 22 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1751-1879

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Publication date: 21 December 2010

Liam Leonard and Paula Kenny

This chapter will discuss understandings of forms of sustainable political economy within the context of sustainability in the community. Essentially, it will examine the issues…

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This chapter will discuss understandings of forms of sustainable political economy within the context of sustainability in the community. Essentially, it will examine the issues which emerge when a community favours a green economic model within the context of the now largely discredited neo-liberal framework that never valued notions of sustainability, and is now largely in crisis due to the market decline and ‘credit crunch’. In addition, the section will outline the significance of community-based political economy for the development of sustainable forms of justice. A sustainable form of political economy incorporates particular concerns, such as ‘the geographical scope of production for local needs, and the exposing and combating the institutions and power structures that lead to poverty and lack of local control’ (Kennet & Heinemann, 2006, p. 78). Under the neo-liberal system, a dichotomy existed between community development and the dominant, yet ultimately unsustainable, growth-based form of political economy.

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Sustainable Justice and the Community
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-85724-301-0

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