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Download or read book Learning Adaptability and Change written by Professor John Heywood and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1989-10-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique overview of the vital importance that education has for business, industry and government, and for society in general. It advocates that unless our educational system can teach individuals to adapt, their contribution to society, and thus society itself will be weakened.

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Download or read book Handbook of Open Distance and Digital Education written by Olaf Zawacki-Richter and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access handbook offers a one-stop-shop for both new and established researchers, educators, policy makers and administrators in the field of open, distance and digital education (ODDE) to gain a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and practice at all levels of ODDE, and at the same time stimulates in-depth discussions on various themes and issues of ODDE for today and future. Researchers, scholars and students in the field of ODDE can use this handbook as a major reference to conduct their own research and learning agendas. To cover the field comprehensively, the handbook is structured following the 3M framework developed by one of the chief editors Zawacki-Richter. The 3M framework categorizes the major research areas and issues in ODDE on three levels. Accordingly, the handbook is divided into six sections in total, two section at each of the three levels: 1) Macro Level – ODDE Systems and Theories, 2) Meso Level - Institutional Perspectives, Management and Organization, and 3) Micro Level – Learning and Teaching in ODDE. This is an open access book.

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