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Blending On And Off Campus: A Tale Of Two Cities, Geraldine E. Lefoe, J. G. Hedberg
Blending On And Off Campus: A Tale Of Two Cities, Geraldine E. Lefoe, J. G. Hedberg
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
Increasingly online learning has become part of the normal educational experience of students. This chapter examines the changes faced by two universities in different countries as they move to blend traditional face-to-face learning activities with those online. In particular, it reviews lessons that can be drawn for others moving into blended learning environments for successful implementation.
The Soviet Legacy And Leader Cults In Post-Communist Central Asia: The Example Of Turkmenistan, Stephen M. Brown, Konstantin Sheiko
The Soviet Legacy And Leader Cults In Post-Communist Central Asia: The Example Of Turkmenistan, Stephen M. Brown, Konstantin Sheiko
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
[Extract] While a new wave of democratic revolutions was widely expected in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, progress towards democratisation has proven slow. In many parts of the world, including Central Asia, victory in what Francis Fukuyama claimed was the last of history’s battles has proved elusive.2 Perhaps the most striking feature of the politics of Central Asia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 has been the durability of the leader cults that have grown up around Presidents Nasultan Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, Islam Karimov in Uzbekistan, and Saparmurat Niyazov in Turkmenistan.
Re/Constructing South Asia, Paul Sharrad
Re/Constructing South Asia, Paul Sharrad
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
[extract] In her early essays on life in India as an expatriate writer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala describes her cycle of emotional responses to living abroad. Firstly, everything in India is wonderful; secondly everything about India is appalling; thirdly, reality is a mix of the two. In her model of the Westerner doing Asian Studies, at least in the Indian context, the wheel keeps turning from delighted fascination to extreme irritation to more moderate feelings that are nonetheless never a state of completely stable harmony (An Experience of India).