The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World

Cover -- Contents -- Contributing Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Team -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World -- Part II: The teaching/learning Conundrum: issues, challenges, and prospects -- "Learning on Demand": The Education Objective for the Knowledge Economy -- The Model of Cooperative Contextual Change: A Process for Implementing Problem-based Learning -- Dealing with Dilemmas in Contemporary Higher Education: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya -- From Teaching to Learning: A Tempus Tacis Project as a Catalyst for Change in Post-Soviet Georgia -- Lifelong Learning in Higher Education: Is There a Gap Between the Idea and its Application in Higher Education? -- Implementing and Sustaining Educational Innovations -- Willingness to Innovate: Use, Misuse, and Abuse of Student Evaluations of Instruction -- Part III: Assessing the dimensions and characteristics of learning and learners -- The Identification of Constructivist Pedagogy in Different Learning Environments -- Learning in Venture Creation: Development of Competence in Translating Business Ideas into Practice -- Commonalities in Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Different Academic Subjects -- Multicultural Perceptions of the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle -- Developing Learning Materials for the Unknown Online Learner -- 'Credit Where Credit's Due': Piloting the Accreditation of Experiential Learning -- A Case Study -- Part IV: Developing competencies for career success: issues and practices -- Teaching for Life-Generic Capabilities that Link University Learning with Workplace Learning -- How Distance Education Can Sustain the Development of Competencies -- The Ethical Education of Future Leaders: An Approach for Helping Students Become Authentic Ethical Role Models -- Developing Critical Thinking Skills Online to Facilitate a Discursive Multicultural Classroom -- Competence Development in Entrepreneurship: The Role of University Education -- Part V: using technology to facilitite teaching and learning -- LMS, LCMS, and E-Learning Environments: Where Did the Didactics Go? -- Adoption of Blended Learning by Faculty: An Exploratory Analysis -- Digital Media U, the Sectoral University: Applying the Concept of a Corporate University to a Business Sector -- Design and Implementation of Various Web-Based Courses which Involve a Didactic Technique: The ITESM Model -- Action E-learning: An Exploratory Case Study Examining the Impact of Action Learning on the Design of Management-level Web-based Instruction -- Online Internet Testing: Lower Perceived Performance by Students -- Part VI: Teaching and learning insights from unique applications -- Bridging the Knowing-Doing Gap: Powerful Ideas for Innovative Learning Design and the Use of IT in Corporate Education -- Educating Professionals: Leveraging Diversity in Globalizing Education -- Social Entrepreneurship and Cultural Change: The Relevance of a Public Sector Experiment for Innovative Education -- Integrating Language Learning with PBL Principles and Practices -- Any Problems?: PBL Experience with First Year Business Undergraduates -- Index -- Last Page.