E-learning in tertiary education: where do we stand?
Following the burst of the dot-com bubble in 2000, scepticism about e-learning replaced over-enthusiasm. Rhetoric aside, where do we stand? Why and how do different kinds of tertiary education institutions engage in e-learning? What do institutions perceive to be the pedagogic impact of e-learning in its different forms? How do institutions understand the costs of e-learning? How might e-learning impact staffing and staff development?
Talk in Action: Interactions, Identities, and Institutions (Language in Society)
Talk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions, introducing students to the research methodology of Conversation Analysis.
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Better Than Conscious?: Decision Making, the Human Mind, and Implications For Institutions
Conscious control enables human decision makers to override routines, to exercise willpower, to find innovative solutions, to learn by instruction, to decide collectively, and to justify their choices. These and many more advantages, however, come at a price: the ability to process information consciously is severely limited and conscious decision makers are liable to hundreds of biases.
Risk Management in Financial Institutions: Formulating Value Propositions
Risk managers are under pressure to compete in a competitive environment while solidly honouring their obligations and navigating their business safely toward the future. Paramount to their success is the ability to identify, formulate, assess and communicate value propositions to their stakeholders. This book presents valuable insights from principal researchers and practitioners from leading financial institutions. They provide many insightful ideas, concepts and methods to help shape or reshape value propositions.
