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Creating 21st Century Learning Environments
Li, Phan Pit; Locke, John; Nair, Prakash; Bunting, Andrew - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2005
tools for teaching and meet the needs of students in the future? What components are required to design effective schools …. Finally, the director of an architectural firm defines the common purposes of secondary schooling and their relation to design. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963137
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Measuring Design and its Role in Innovation
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Millot, Valentine - Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry … - 2015
on the role of design. It reviews a broad range of novel design-related measures, indicating their advantages and … limitations in terms of policy relevance and insights. The analysis of design provides a valuable test-case for assessing the … definition of innovation and innovation activities. It also identifies a range of design concepts based on an informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277039
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The Intelligent School
Louis, François - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2001
On 14 and 15 December 2000 the Milan Centre for Educational Innovation and Experimentation (CISEM), a research institute reporting to the Province of Milan and the Union of Italian Provinces, held an international seminar sponsored by the province and entitled “Intelligent School – Towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963161
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Planning, Designing and Managing Higher Education Institutions
Daigneau, William A.; Valenti, Mark S.; Ricciarini, Sylvana - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2005
facilities management practices. The technology-enabled learning space. Natural hazard risk mitigation. The modernisation of … Montreal’s Concordia University. An analysis of decision-making in integrating information and communications technology in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045314
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Rural roads in Sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from World Bank experience.
Riverson, J.; Gaviria, J.; Thriscutt, S. - World Bank Group - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486437
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Factors that influence the development and diffusion of technical innovations in the construction industry
Gambatese, John; Hallowell, Matthew - In: Construction Management and Economics 29 (2011) 5, pp. 507-517
Some technical innovations diffuse rapidly throughout the construction industry while others take a long time or are never integrated into everyday practice. Understanding the initiation, development, implementation and outcomes of successful technical innovations within the construction...
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The changing face of irrigation in Kenya: opportunities for anticipating changes in Eastern and Southern Africa
Blank, H. G.; Mutero, C. M.; Murray-Rust, H. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132032
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Architectures of Control in Consumer Product Design
Lockton, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005
The idea of architectures of control is introduced through examples ranging from urban planning to digital rights management, and the intentions behind their use in consumer products are examined, with reference to case studies of printer cartridges and proposed ‘optimum lifetime products.’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118858
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The Evolution of the Internet Community and the"Yet-to-Evolve" Smart Grid Community: Parallels and Lessons-to-be-Learned
McParland, Charles - 2010
evolution and current state of the Internet as a predictor for best practices in the architectural design of certain portions of … fundamentally transformative as previous developments such as modern computing technology and high bandwidth data communications … will be determined not by its technology, but by its system architecture. Fortunately, we have a recent example of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437326
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Green design : design for the environment
Mackenzie, Dorothy (contributor) - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004112065