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Sustainability and Political Opportunities of the Open Education Movement: A Case Study of China’s Potential Role (m37111)
Keywords: censorship, China, democracy, education policy, freedom, intellectual property, international relations, marketization, open education, sustainability
Summary: This paper will propose two potential applications for the developing open education movement, or OE. One will recommend a policy solution with the potential to settle the OE conundrum of sustaining the movement while maintaining the attributes of openness. Another will examine the possibility of using OE as a tool ... i.e. China.
Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 34.31%
Revised: 2011-02-22
Revisions: New
Sustainability and Public Policy (m42116)
Author: Tom Theis
Summary: In this module, the problem-driven nature of policy development is discussed.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 49.06%
Revised: 2012-03-07
Revisions: 4
Sustainability Ethics (m41069)
Author: Gillen Wood
Keywords: common but differentiated, Cornucopian, precautionary principle, remote responsibilities, Responsibilities
Summary: In this module, the concept of the "tragedy of the commons" is related to global environmental problems such as climate change and ocean acidification. The principal of the intergenerational social contract is described as the core or sustainability ethics.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 52.35%
Revised: 2012-07-05
Revisions: 6
Sustainability in Engineering Education and Ethics (m19062)
Author: Bill Kelly
Keywords: education, engineering, ethics, social responsibility, sustainability
Summary: In 1994, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) updated its Code of Ethics to include an obligation to employ the principles of sustainable development in civil engineering practice and at about the same time adopted a policy on sustainable development (PS 418). The ASCE was founded in 1852; its ... engineering profession.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 61.13%
Revised: 2008-12-27
Revisions: New
Sustainability Metrics and Rating Systems (m41616)
Keywords: Carrying Capacity, Ecosystem, Ecosystem Goods and Services, Emergy, Emjoule, Entropy, Exergy, Indicator, Indicator-Based Systems, Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY), Narrative Assessments, Quantitative Data, Resilience
Summary: In this module, the following topics are covered: 1) the challenges are when measuring sustainability, 2) commonly used measures for sustainability, 3) the different types of measures and their value within a measuring system.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 74.94%
Revised: 2012-04-30
Revisions: 6
The sustainability of natural resources (m21519)
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 77.77%
Revised: 2009-04-09
Revisions: New
Sustainability Studies: A Systems Literacy Approach (m41039)
Author: Gillen Wood
Keywords: biocomplexity, carbon neutrality, closed loops, diachronic/synchronic, interdisciplinarity, lifecycle, metabolism and footprint, resilience and vulnerability, systems literacy
Summary: In this module, you will learn how systems literacy is tailored specifically to the understanding and remedy of environmental problems, and the ways in which it differs from traditional disciplinary approaches to academic learning.
Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 42.40%
Revised: 2012-05-02
Revisions: 5
Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation (col11325)
Institution: University of Illinois
Summary: With “Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation”, first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowldege – including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study ... the field.
Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 99.60%
Revised: 2012-10-08
Revisions: 40
Sustainability: The Elephant in the Room (m34328)
Keywords: Berkeley, California, Digital, funding, Humanities, librarianship, libraries, library, Online, Scholarship, University
Subject: Arts
Language: English
Popularity: 61.73%
Revised: 2010-05-14
Revisions: 2
Sustainable activities (m20298)
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 63.23%
Revised: 2009-03-12
Revisions: New
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