The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World

by McCuddy, Michael K.; Van Den Bosch, Herman; Martz, William Benjamin, Jr.; Matveev, Alexei V.

• ISBN13: 9781402056116
• ISBN10: 1402056117
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-06
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

As an educator, are you struggling with any of the following challenges? Do you know what competencies, capacities, attitudes, and perspectives learners need to develop so they can be contributing, productive members of organizations and society? What resource constraints do you need to address in trying to provide innovative and meaningful education? How can you make the learning process more effective? How can you best use technology to effectively deliver content and meaningfully engage learners in the educational process? What can you do to help people become effective leaders of businesses and other organizations in an increasingly complex and values-driven world that is changing rapidly and often contentiously? How do you accommodate the needs of learners throughout their lives? How do you accomplish all of this in a multicultural and global environment? If you are facing any of these challenges, this volume is a "must read" it tackles these questions and more, providing perspectives and insights from leading educators around the globe. This volume will help educators and the educational enterprise become more innovative, efficient, and effective in addressing the teaching/learning challenges associated with helping students prepare to face their own challenges as leaders and followers in an increasingly complex, uncertain, and global economy.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The challenges of educating people to lead in a challenging world	p. 3
The teaching/learning conundrum : issues, challenges, and prospects	p. 31
"Learning on demand" : the education objective for the knowledge economy	p. 33
The model of cooperative contextual change : a process for implementing problem-based learning	p. 51
Dealing with dilemmas in contemporary higher education : Universitat Oberta de Catalunya	p. 73
From teaching to learning : a Tempus Tacis project as a catalyst for change in post-Soviet Georgia	p. 95
Lifelong learning in higher education : is there a gap between the idea and its application in higher education?	p. 115
Implementing and sustaining educational innovations	p. 131
Willingness to innovate : use, misuse, and abuse of student evaluations of instruction	p. 149
Assessing the dimensions and characteristics of learning and learners	p. 169
The identification of constructivist pedagogy in different learning environments	p. 171
Learning in venture creation : development of competence in translating business ideas into practice	p. 197
Commonalities in attitudes and beliefs toward different academic subjects	p. 225
Multicultural perceptions of the entrepreneurial lifestyle	p. 251
Developing learning materials for the unknown online learner	p. 273
'Credit where credit's due' : piloting the accreditation of experiential learning - a case study	p. 291
Developing competencies for career success : issues and practices	p. 307
Teaching for life - generic capabilities that link university learning with workplace learning	p. 309
How distance education can sustain the development of competencies	p. 325
The ethical education of future leaders an approach for helping students become authentic ethical role models	p. 343
Developing critical thinking skills online to facilitate a discursive multicultural classroom	p. 361
Competence development in entrepreneurship : the role of university education	p. 385
Using technology to facilitate teaching and learning	p. 399
LMS, LCMS, and E-learning environments : where did the didactics go?	p. 401
Adoption of blended learning by faculty : an exploratory analysis	p. 423
Digital media U, the sectoral university : applying the concept of a corporate university to a business sector	p. 437
Design and implementation of various Web-based courses which involve a didactic technique : the ITESM model	p. 455
Action E-learning : an exploratory case study examining the impact of action learning on the design of management-level Web-based instruction	p. 475
Online Internet testing : lower perceived performance by students	p. 499
Teaching and learning insights from unique applications	p. 513
Bridging the knowing-doing gap : powerful ideas for innovative learning design and the use of IT in corporate education	p. 515
Educating professionals : leveraging diversity in globalizing education	p. 533
Social entrepreneurship and cultural change : the relevance of a public sector experiment for innovative education	p. 555
Integrating language learning with PBL : principles and practices	p. 581
Any problems? : PBL experience with first year business undergraduates	p. 599
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