This paper explores the assimilation gap, the gap between the acquisition of a technology and its deployment, in higher education teaching. The relevant literature covers three themes: technology diffusion, the technology acceptance model and task-technology fit. To explore the significance…

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in ‘Evidence
and Policy’. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: Statham, E., 2009.
Promoting intergenerational programmes: where is the evidence to inform policy and
practice? Evidence and Policy: A Journal of…

The paper draws on in-depth qualitative. comments from student evaluation of an e-learning module on an MSc in Information Technologies and Management, to develop a picture of their perspective on the experience. Questionnaires that yielded some basic quantitative data and…

Suggests that we are reaching a crisis in the Western worldview where abstract thinking has lost touch with nature as untrammelled growth leads to chaos
in the money markets, global warming
and violence. The purely rational
worldview which began with…

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Nationally, there has been debate on the role of research within higher education and increased interest in the teaching/research nexus. A team of Academic Liaison Librarians at Anglia Polytechnic University was awarded funding to investigate the extent to which learning…

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in the British Journal of Social Work following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Beckett, C., 2005. The Swedish myth: the corporal punishment ban and child death statistics.…

The notion of ‘participation’ has growing currency at many levels of social policy in the UK where the Labour government uses it to
denote the engagement of ‘local people’ in decision-making about the services and structures which affect their daily…