Empowerment of women and girls is firmly on the political agenda in many countries around the world, including the UAE. This paper evaluates public policy to date with a focus on the extent to which historical and cultural factors have helped or hindered progress towards gender equality, and how...

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...

‘Digital Storytelling’ is a term often used to refer to a number of different types of digital narrative including web-based stories, hypertexts, videoblogs and computer games. This emergent form of creative work has found an outlet in a wide variety of different domains ranging from...

As ecological economists we research passionately those issues that will give us a clearer understanding of the complex interaction between the economy and the environment. We believe this to be vital for implementing environmental policies that will have fewer unanticipated or irreversible side...

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,...

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,...