Month: January 2018
Effects of Socioeconomic Factors on Tourist Demand and Consumer Surplus
In this paper, we analyze the effect of socioeconomic characteristics on the Korean tourist demand and estimate the consumer surplus. …
Factors Affecting Human Capital Efforts in Developing Economies: A Case Study on Cuba
Cuba faces considerable domestic and global challenges as they strive to compete in the global marketplace and increase their population’s …
Evidence-Based Development of an Undergraduate Disaster Volunteerism Course for English Learners
Disaster management is a field of increasing importance as global climate change increasingly impacts our world. Students can, and often …
Learners’ Perspective of the Critical Benefits of Digitalisation of Teaching and Learning in Nigeria Higher Education
In recent years, the Nigeria youths have embraced online interactions through social media, though for social interactions with least applications …
Sustainable Education: Institutional and Academic Plans for Student Success
In view of recent efforts to redefine the meaningful role of education on a global scale, this paper will outline …
A Case Study in Collaboration, Cross-Disciplinarity, and Mixed Reality Prototyping in Higher Education
The Supercourse brings together students from five different university degree-programs to develop mixed reality prototypes, in collaborative teams, using elements …
Concurrent Instruction of Japanese Adult Learners via Independent Call Methods and Classroom Instruction
This presentation focuses on the efficacy of teaching EFL learners through an approach that combines independent computer-based grammar learning with …
Top Global University Project: Promotion of Around-The-Clock Liberal Arts Education and its Educational Outcomes
This presentation describes the educational outcomes resulted from the implementation of the project “Promotion of around-the-clock liberal arts education.” This …
How Do Executives’ Values Influence Corporate Responsibility Adoption
Strategic Leadership theory posits that senior executives are responsible for shaping their organizations’ strategic direction. Values are central in guiding …
Student and Teacher Inter-Agency in Negotiated Learning Environments
Opening exciting new opportunities for student learning and fulfilment calls for curiosity, creativity, empathy and the ability to negotiate, and …
Case Study of Administrative Planning in Japan: Initiation Stage of Citizen Participation and Information Sharing in Child-Rearing Support Plan
In Tokyo, encouraging the acceptance of childcare centers is an urgent issue as many children still need a nursery. The …
Information Sharing and Administrative Planning: From Japan’s Local Government Ordinances
There is presently no provision for administrative plans under the Administrative Procedure Law of Japan. In administrative planning, utilizing the …
A Study on Education in Japanese Legal Expression: Through a Survey of Japanese University Students
The text on Japanese law is known for being difficult for Japanese people. The law is a part of the …
Cosmetic & Disruptive Technologies Management in Education
The user experience is well developed in the business world but less so in the world of Education. Hours of …
Improving Online Readiness in Higher Education: A Case Study
eLearning is becoming the sine qua non of higher education due to its increasing popularity and numerous Learning Experience (Lx), …
Bio-Oil Production From the Pyrolysis of Blue-Green Algae for Sustainability Alternative Fuels
Pyrolysis experiments of blue-green algae (Arthrospira platensis) were carried out in a custom-built tube reactor to determine the pyrolysis conditions …
Managing to Reduce the Risk of Mango Harvest and to Make the Value of Integrated Agro-Tourism: A Case Study of Mango Orchard Entrepreneur in Chachoengsao, Thailand
Mango is a kind of fruit which can be planted all over the world including Thailand, and Chachoengsao is one …
Efficiency Analysis of Rice Farmers in the Upper East Region of Ghana
This paper examines the efficiency of two rice producer groups in Kassena–Nankana Municipality, the upper east region of Ghana. Comparing …
Examining Conflicts Over Land Acquisition and Ownership in Dormaa Traditional Area, Ghana
In Ghana, conflicts over land are ubiquitous largely due to competing views of ownership as well as diverse cultural and …
Qattara Depression and Its Hydropower Potential
The Qattara Depression in Egypt has been suggested to be used for hydropower production. This paper investigates the possibility of …
Assessment of Disaster Safety at Matara District General Hospital in Sri Lanka
Kenya-Tanzania Conservation Synergy for Migratory Lesser Flamingoes
Every year, about 805,000 flamingoes migrate between Lake Nakuru, Kenya’s primary flamingo feeding site, and Lake Natron, another important breeding …
Lending Māori Artistic Practice Structures to Academic Research and Writing: Mahi-Toi
Māori (Indigenous New Zealand) researchers may have one or many mahi-toi (artistic) talents. All mahi-toi are ideas brought forth from …
The Gap Between Curriculum, Assessments, and National Standards Within Vietnamese English Language Teacher Education
English Language Teacher Education (ELTE) in Vietnam is undergoing rapid change in response to the requirements of a rapidly evolving …
Curriculum Development and K-12 Challenges in the Philippines: A Reflexive Case Analysis Towards Redesigning Language and Literature Education in College
Higher education in the Philippines has been challenged to adopt changes in the curriculum given the institutionalization of K-12 basic …
Exploring Vietnamese EFL Teacher Educators’ Professional Development in the Context of the National Foreign Languages Policy
This presentation outlines a project researching Vietnamese teacher educators’ professional development (PD) in a period of ongoing educational transformation, initiated …
Educational Television in India: Challenges and Prospects
Today, in India television is considered as an important medium that is being extensively used to impart information to its …
Culture and Identity in Public Green Spaces: The Story of Suropati and Menteng Park in Central Jakarta, Indonesia
Changing the role of parks and green spaces to fit into the sustainable city framework are now an ongoing agenda …
Surviving at Fire and Post-Fire Debris/Mudflow Prone Zones in Colorado Front Range in Light Feng-Shui
Extreme climate patterns in recent decades have led to frequent fire events, rainstorms and debris/mudflows in Colorado Front Range, USA. …
The Integration of iBooks and Travel Documentary Films for Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
Authentic travel documentaries provide language learners with a deep insight into the target language and culture. A travel documentary as …
Estimating Effectiveness and Efficiency of Solar Energy Policy for Indonesia: A Hybrid Agent-Based Model Analysis
We estimate the impacts of four renewable energy policy interventions to photovoltaic (PV) market size, government expenditure, economic growth, and …
Conceptualizing Media Health Literacy in Thailand: Bridging Between Media and Health Concept
Health literacy concepts have been addressed for a period and are continuously reviewed, redefined, and used as variables in health …
Students’ Intercultural Communication Competence in Rural Areas of Japan
Most local governments in rural areas of Japan have been suffering from population decline. Local companies in the areas are …
International Posture and Ideal L2 Self as Determinants of Informal Mobile-Assisted Language Learning
In recent years, mobile devices have become popular tools used to facilitate language learning due to their unique characteristics such …
Scouting Method: Innovative Process for Happiness of Life: A Case Study From Scouting in Thailand
The 75-year Harvard Study of Adult Development on happiness indicates three lessons learned for being a “happy person” including social …
Leveraging Online Databases to Enhance Australian International Students’ Academic Skills: A Case of Gapminder
The academic adaption in the university context has become a challenge facing the international students in Australia (Yu & Wright, …
Transformational Model of Management for Integrated Schools in the Philippines
One of the Department of Education’s initiatives to increase the literacy rate in the Philippines has been the conversion of …
Economic Evaluation of Pastures in the Kyrgyz Republic
This paper estimates the economic valuation of pastures in the Kyrgyz Republic. The agriculture sector of the Kyrgyz Republic faces …
The Effect of Socio-Economic Status on Informal Mobile-Assisted Language Learning
Japan is known as a highly technological proficient country with a wealthy population. However, since the 1990s, the country has …
Taiwanese Students’ Place in the World: Lessons from Inventors and Left-Handers in EFL Textbooks
Despite of their considerable influence on multiple aspects of learning, language textbooks have most often been investigated for their cultural …
Deaths of Rural Police Departments threaten the Security of Their Small Towns
Small town police departments have the same legal and operational obligations as those in urban areas, but far fewer resources …
Factors Influencing Education Students’ Perception of Aggression at a University in South Africa
Short description: A multivariate approach was applied focussing on perceptions of students’ self, relationships and aggression.Long description: The dynamics of …
Applying Health Equity to the Classroom: Using the IOM Report on Social Determinants of Health to Teach Professionals
The US Institute of Medicine (IOM) 2016 report urges educators to incorporate the social determinants of health into training the …
Decolonizing the Contemporary African University: Towards an Inevitable Alternative
Studies show that many universities in developing countries imitate the Western university model (Chan, Li, & Yang, 2017). In the …
The Effects of Culture on Consumers’ Response to a Carbon Tax and Container Deposit Scheme: A Sustainable Consumption Study
As the temperature of the planet rises, governments are adopting measures to curb human activities that contribute to global warming. …
Environmental Intensity of Human Wellbeing in Bhutan : Evidence from Regression Analysis
A special volume on ‘Absolute Reductions’ in the Journal of Cleaner Production (Akenji, Bengtsson, Bleischwitz, Tukker, & Schandl, 2016) emphasised …
Where were you Mutti? Reflections on the Success of Decreasing Gender Bias in Education History Texts for Senior Secondary Schools in New South Wales
One of the transformations of modern history has been the institutional recognition of female agency to historical processes. Given that …
Teacher Perceptions and Beliefs About Field Trips as a Curricular Source
In today’s educational arena, field trips are often viewed as an extracurricular activity disconnected from curriculum. Currently, teachers are experiencing …