It is not uncommon for lecturer to assume student understanding key concepts in her/his organisation and presentation of a topic, when these concepts, in fact, can be quite problematic for the students. This creates barriers to knowledge development in students. To overcome this barrier, it is...

One of the perceived drawbacks of e-learning is the absence of non-verbal communication. This leads one to conclude that e-learning in general, and fully online education in particular, is inferior to its on-campus counterpart in terms of its communicative capability. This paper challenges this...

A key, overarching goal for any committed educator is to ensure that the learner has a meaningful and memorable learning experience while achieving the desired learning outcomes. In this paper it is argued that in order to achieve such a goal, a strategy needs to be put in place that is capable...

In an era when there is increasing pressure for universities to become more entrepreneurial and generate revenue to fill the gap left by ever-declining public funding, it is often the university business schools that have led the way through the provision of full-fee paying post-graduate...

Many countries are contemplating the design of institutions to address ‘the greatest market failure the world has ever seen’.3 In Australia, a carbon trading scheme is being considered, and prominent amongst the proposals being discussed is the ‘McKibbin-Wilcoxen hybrid scheme’ (2007,...

This paper explores the role of sustainable enterprise in the context of a rapidly emerging economy. It centres on a multiple case study analysis based upon observations and interview data from six organisations operating in Dubai. Preliminary results indicate that the motivation to transition...

Getting students to work in teams is a tried and tested mechanism for promoting active learning (Kadel & Keehner 1994). Team work, and the ability to work in teams, is also becoming increasingly valued in the world of business and commerce (Senge 1990). The question is: to what extent should...

In online education, virtual teams play an important role in collaborative and peer learning. Unlike traditional face-to-face teams, the students in a virtual team may be geographically distributed, work in different time zones, and may never physically meet face-to-face. Universitas 21 Global,...

This paper reflects on the current crisis that confronts neo-classical economics in the wake of declining enrolments in academic economics programmes around the world, the emergence of a popular ‘post-autistic' economics network following the revolt of economics students at a number of leading...

This paper argues that, in the information age, the closed book, invigilated final examination has become an anachronism. Most significantly, it is an assessment instrument that does not assess deep conceptual understanding and process skills. Indeed, the anecdotal evidence one often hears from...