This IDB book includes presentations from the international policy dialogue seminar entitled "New Options for Higher Education in Latin America: Lessons from the Community College Experience." The seminar was sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Harvard University Graduate...

This IDB book includes presentations from the international policy dialogue seminar entitled "New Options for Higher Education in Latin America: Lessons from the Community College Experience." The seminar was sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Harvard University Graduate...

This IDB book includes presentations from the international policy dialogue seminar entitled "New Options for Higher Education in Latin America: Lessons from the Community College Experience." The seminar was sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Harvard University Graduate...

This paper documents an experiment of using complementary teaching and assessment methods in promoting active learning among students in applying econometric techniques to real world problems in a postgraduate econometrics course at a South African university in two academic years. The...

This paper investigates the reasons behind what has been termed the 'Oulu Phenomenon' in Northern Finland. Over the past two to three decades the city of Oulu has transformed its economy from dependency on timber, paper and pulp industries into one based on High Technology, notably,...

This paper investigates the reasons behind what has been termed the ‘Oulu Phenomenon‘ in Northern Finland. Over the past two to three decades the city of Oulu has transformed its economy from dependency on timber, paper and pulp industries into one based on High Technology, notably,...

The ever-growing interest of educational institutions and academic communities in e-learning and the increasing number of related papers and papers reflect the need for improving or creating new theories that better support e-learning. This paper discusses the view prevailing in educational...

The ever-growing interest of educational institutions and academic communities in e-learning and the increasing number of related papers and papers reflect the need for improving or creating new theories that better support e-learning. This paper discusses the view prevailing in educational...

This article examines different approaches to teaching economic theory. We discuss several experiments which help to clarify some economic concepts. The paper outlines an idea that despite a large volume of literature on innovational teaching methods that was accumulated, students active...