Learning the price of quality

Article Abstract:

The mediocrity of multimedia learning packages in the UK has more to do with the nature of the market than with a failure to produce a new breed of creative cross-disciplinary managers as has been claimed. The UK market for multimedia learning products suffers from a number of structural problems, including an effective duopoly in the retail market. The main problem is the highly segmented nature of the education market and its gross underfunding. The need to produce multimedia learning packages that schools can afford on their limited budgets hampers the creative process and makes mediocrity inevitable.

Standards, Product information, Educational software, Multimedia industry, Instructional materials industry

---

Maths for the 21st century

Article Abstract:

Mathematics is often used by other disciplines to help investigate and analyze problems. The application of mathematics is used by a range of industries during research on how to make improvements to their manufacturing process. Mathematical models are used in a whole range of businesses, such as statistical models for the financial markets. Some 20 scientific organisations will join together at the Fourth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics. It is due to be held on 5th-9th July 1999, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Usage, Mathematical models, Mathematics

---

Learning for the 21st Century

Article Abstract:

The UK's National Advisory Group for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning believes that the government's main aim should be to develop an organized education system for lifelong learning. New opportunities should be offered to the majority rather than the minority and access to learning should be universal. An abridged version of the group's report is presented.

Social aspects, Continuing education

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Devaluing the human factor. Renaissance will follow reform in 21st century. Life story inside a cell
• Abstracts: Learn in the community. Excellence is an island. In defence of Cambridge excellence
• Abstracts: A theatre of arrogance. Demand for MRes takes off. Binary mix takes a leading role in the global theatre
• Abstracts: Crimes against humanity. Fleshpots, ennui and our thinly veiled fantasies
• Abstracts: A world language: will it be English? The rise of English nationalism. English as the official language: the problem of multiple cultures

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.