Leaders, innovators, and managers face tough challenges in an increasingly globalized world. It is growing harder to accomplish personal and organizational objectives. One of the sources of difficulty in accomplishing these objectives is the disregard of researchers, educators, and practitioners toward global leadership. Problems in the Middle East, Africa, and other parts of the world demand great leaders, and few people are answering the call. Written by an accomplished professor, this textbook provides a framework for leadership success throughout the world. Drawing upon examples from Africa and elsewhere, author Michael Ba Banutu-Gomez demonstrates how to deal with organizational cultures, teams, and change in a global setting; be more profitable in an increasingly globalized world; define your organizational culture and inspire others; manage your business in Africa and other developing nations. Intended for students, leaders, managers, and professionals, this inspiring guide provides you with the vision you need to approach your mission from a global perspective. If you want to be more profitable and make a difference, you must focus on Global Leadership, Change, Organizations, and Development.
The leader uses obstacles to create a positive future; is consistent: willing to set an example of sacrifice for the good of the next generation. The primary task of Leadership is to establish and maintain “intimacy” (caring) because ...
This book makes a contribution to a global conversation about the competencies, challenges, and changes being introduced as a result of digital technologies. This volume consists of four parts, with the first being elaborated from each of the featured panelists at CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age) 2014. Part One is an introduction to the global conversation about competencies and challenges for 21st-century teachers and learners. Part Two discusses the changes in learning and instructional paradigms. Part Three is a discussion of assessments and analytics for teachers and decision makers. Lastly, Part Four analyzes the changing tools and learning environments teachers and learners must face. Each of the four parts has six chapters. In addition, the book opens with a paper by the keynote speaker aimed at the broad considerations to take into account with regard to instructional design and learning in the digital age. The volume closes with a reflective piece on the progress towards systemic and sustainable improvements in educational systems in the early part of the 21st century.
supportive of authentic learning activities, at the NTLC meeting, it was the science educators who expressed reluctance at having technology and engineering divert student interest from the basic concepts and principles of science that ...
Privacy and data protection are recognized as fundamental human rights. Recent developments, however, indicate that security issues are used to undermine these fundamental rights. As new technologies effectively facilitate collection, storage, processing and combination of personal data government agencies take advantage for their own purposes. Increasingly, and for other reasons, the business sector threatens the privacy of citizens as well. The contributions to this book explore the different aspects of the relationship between technology and privacy. The emergence of new technologies threaten increasingly privacy and/or data protection; however, little is known about the potential of these technologies that call for innovative and prospective analysis, or even new conceptual frameworks. Technology and privacy are two intertwined notions that must be jointly analyzed and faced. Technology is a social practice that embodies the capacity of societies to transform themselves by creating the possibility to generate and manipulate not only physical objects, but also symbols, cultural forms and social relations. In turn, privacy describes a vital and complex aspect of these social relations. Thus technology influences people’s understanding of privacy, and people’s understanding of privacy is a key factor in defining the direction of technological development. This book was originally published as a special issue of Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.
The EC's 2009 Communication on freedom, security and justice reinforced this claim: ''The area of freedom, security and justice must above all be a single area in which fundamental rights are protected, and in which respect for the ...
Digital collaboration is abundant in todays world, but it is often problematic and does not provide an apt solution to the human need for comprehensive communication. Humans require more personal interactions beyond what can be achieved online. Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue and Understanding Human Communication in the Digital Age is a collection of innovative studies on the methods and applications of comparing online human interactions to face-to-face interactions. While highlighting topics including digital collaboration, social media, and privacy, this book is a vital reference source for public administrators, educators, businesses, academicians, and researchers seeking current research on the importance of non-digital communication between people.
“Making kind cool”: Parents' suggestions for preventing cyber bullying and fostering cyber kindness. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 46(4), 415–436. doi:10.2190/EC.46.4.f Cassidy, W., Brown, K., & Jackson, M. (2012b).
This edited volume with selected expanded papers from CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age) 2009 (http://www.celda-conf.org/) addresses the main issues concerned with problem solving, evolving learning processes, innovative pedagogies, and technology-based educational applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a fast pace and affecting academia and professional practice in many ways. Paradigms such as just-in-time learning, constructivism, student-centered learning and collaborative approaches have emerged and are being supported by technological advancements such as simulations, virtual reality and multi-agents systems. These developments have created both opportunities and areas of serious concerns. This volume aims to cover both technological as well as pedagogical issues related to these developments.
A conception of agents-based user modelling shell for intelligent knowledge assessment system. ... Papanastasiou, E. C. (2003). ... The power of e-learning: The essential guide for teaching in the digital age (p. 228).
Based on the bestselling book Transmission Networking: SONET and the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, this new work is a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art in the design, planning, and management of digital transport networks. Principles, architectures, standards, and interfaces are described and explained with clarity and authority by the authors, who are internationally-renowned experts.
Based on the bestselling book Transmission Networking: SONET and the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, this new work is a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art in the design, planning, and management of digital transport networks.
MPEG-2 and ATM are technologies that are the enabling factors for services like video on demand or digital video broadcasting. The understanding of these technologies is of importance to: people in the TV/broadcast industry and people working in the telecommunications area. This work describes these technologies in the revolution of digital video.
If you're a communications professional, this is your comprehensive briefing on MPEG-2 and digital video. If you're a video professional, this is the first ATM primer designed specifically for you.
In a book for the non-communications professional, ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) and ADSL (digital signal line) technologies are presented at an understandable level. The CD-ROM contains ATM training software.
Such applications include banks and financial institutions that need to ship huge volumes of data concerning financial transactions in short time periods . Another example is a government bureaucracy such as the Social Security ...
