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The importance of soft skills, both for the learning process and employment, is well outlined in a number of documents …
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In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements … conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT … causal effect of ICT on student achievements, controlling for their initial level. Despite a significant financial investment …
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Web 2.0 offers great tools for building better customer relationships, improving employees' productivity, and cutting costs. Results of different international research showed that many companies recognize the benefits of Web 2.0 technologies and use it in everyday business. But what is the...
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learning activities using ICT. In the current research, the focus is on the use of Web 2.0 tools by students. Although the …, formal teaching is gradually replaced by open and virtual learning environments, which have made interactive learning … environments and user-generated content a prominent issue. It seems obvious that these phenomena and their use in learning are …
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One important incentive for a regional, decentralised university- and college structure is that higher education institutions should supply the local labour markets with sufficient high-educated labour. Local and regional recruitment to studies is expected to increase the probability that...
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In the paper the authors are challenging the human capital in agriculture issues and its ability to ensure development and reduce poverty, bringing such way better quality of life for the entire people. They are also discussing the role of high educational system - the causes of inefficiency and...
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This paper considers the impact that technology has on firms' choices over organisational form, in particular whether to produce inhouse or outsource and offshore services, and firms' decision over the location of activity. Technology reduces the transaction and adjustment costs of moving...
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changes in the patterns of evolution of the market structure caused by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the … E-conomy in comparison to the Old Economy (without ICT). The relationship between the two economy concepts can be summed …
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During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic progress. Looking at the labour indices calculated over the period from 1982 to 1996 one...
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authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper analyzes the impact of organizational change as well as the impact … of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment … all skill groups except for unskilled labor. New ICT and the share of training expenditures are primary forces behind OC …
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