The importance of comprehensive annotations for learning resources is widely recognized. However, it is often unclear how these annotations should be created. A promising solution might be that learners annotate learning resources during execution of learning processes. This paper examines...

Responsive open learning environments (ROLEs) are characterized through their openness for new configurations, new contents and new users, and through their responsiveness to learners' activities in respect to learning goals. Openness specifically encompasses the ability to include new learning...

This paper argues that interest differences are the key to understanding the nature of organizational learning and the processes by which it occurs, yet the concept of 'interest' is very much underdeveloped in the organizational learning literature. Drawing on the work of Habermas and Lukes, the...

Resource flexibility, arguably among the most celebrated operational concepts, is known to provide firms facing demand uncertainty with such benefits as risk pooling, revenue-maximization optionality, and operational hedging. In this article we uncover a heretofore unknown benefit: we establish...

The prevailing aid orthodoxy works well enough in stable environments, but is ill-equipped to navigate contexts of volatility and fragility. The orthodox approach is adept at solving straightforward technical or logistical problems (paving roads, building schools, immunizing children), but often...

In many nations today the state has little capability to carry out even basic functions like security, policing, regulation or core service delivery. Enhancing this capability, especially in fragile states, is a long-term task. Countries like Haiti or Liberia will take many decades to reach even...