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Greening the global classroom: experiences using MOOCs to advance sustainability education

The proliferation of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has been a phenomenon in higher education but only recently the subject of academic literature. MOOCs combine the traditional ideas of cohort and guided learning with open access and a truly global classroom. With over twenty thousand learners attracted to such courses, we argue that they can be a powerful tool in advancing sustainability ed

Orientation as a strategy of spatial reference

This paper explores a strategy of spatial expression which utilizes orientation, a way of describing the spatial relationship of entities by means of reference to their facets. We present detailed data and analysis from two languages, Jahai (Mon-Khmer, Malay Peninsula) and Lavukaleve (Papuan isolate, Solomon Islands), and supporting data from five more languages, to show that the orientation strat

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This article analyzes how the American philosopher and educator John Dewey was received, adapted, and transformed in four different time periods in China: during the Republican era (1912–1949), after the Communist take-over in 1949, after Deng Xiaoping's launch of the 'Four Modernizations' (in the 1980s), and in present-day China. Dewey is generally seen to have exerted an immense influence on Ch

[Different types of acidemia at birth, fetal heart rate patterns and infants outcome at four years of age]

OBJECTIVE: To study the relations between different types of acidemia in umbilical artery at birth, fetal heart rate patter'ns (FHR) during laobr and infant long-term outcome. METHODS: 2,981 cases with singleton term pregnancy were selected for retrospective case-control study. Fetal monitoring was performed periodically during labor and umbilical blood gas was analyzed at birth and the infants ou

Research Libraries and Research Data Management within the Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Data Management (RDM) is a process that is designed to deliver high quality datasets, which comply with scholarly, legal and ethical requirements. There are two outputs of the RDM process: 1. Long term preservation of datasets through archiving 2. Sharing and reuse of datasets for further research and other purposes in society at large. This proposal outlines the creation of a coherent