E-books: Business Technology Education

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 4th International Conference on Frontiers of Manufacturing Science and Measuring Technology (ICFMM 2014), June 19-20, 2014, Guilin, China. The 487 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Materials Engineering, Technology and Application, Chapter 2: Applied Mechanics, Design, Simulation and Manufacturing, Chapter 3: Measurement, Monitoring, Control and Testing Technologies, Chapter 4: Communication and Navigation, Information Technologies, Algorithms and Numerical Methods, Image, Video, Signal and Data Processing, Chapter 5: New Technologies in Education and Sports, Chapter 6: Management Engineering, Business and Economics Engineering.

This book integrates research, action research, best practice and case studies detailing how some educators have embraced the opportunities afforded by mobile learning. In particular, it brings together a range of scenarios, solutions and discussions relating to mobile learning in development and other resource challenged contexts. The book will appeal to elected public/government representatives, public service agencies, community groups, regional development bodies, researchers, educational technologists and others interested in mobile learning. Students on senior undergraduate or postgraduate courses in educational technology, education, development studies, information technology, information systems, business, health, and social work will find this book useful in their studies related to the application of mobiles in learning and development.

Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages analyzes a $15 million community change initiative designed to bridge the digital divide in East Palo Alto, East Baltimore, and San Diego. Involving a partnership between Hewlett-Packard, Stanford University, and three ethnically diverse communities, this initiative enabled its constituencies to build their own technology-oriented businesses, improve their education systems, and improve their economic health. While examining this large-scale, multi-site case, Fetterman highlights the potential for empowerment evaluation to build local capacity and sustain improvements within communities. He provides deep insights into key steps in empowerment evaluation by exploring the way that each of these phases took place in the digital villages. Additionally, the text provides evaluators with real-world stories and practical advice from the front lines. The Digital Village case also demonstrates the social value of combining corporate philanthropy, academic prowess, and community empowerment--highlighting the role of evaluation in this process.

In the world of English-language academic publishing, the future of the university has increasingly attracted the attention of critical theorists in the humanities. While Bill Readings in 1996 catalyzed debate on corporatization, curriculum, and pedagogy, Frank Donoghue and Marc Bousquet in 2008 have analyzed the emergence of the for-profit university and swelling ranks of contingent faculty. Yet these provocative works restrict their focus to the North American university, as if oblivious to how powerful interests of global capital have converged on the restructuring of higher education. Comparative analysis of globalization and the university has been left to educational policy experts. This volume breaks new ground in making university reform the topic of a multilingual symposium. It takes global transformation of the university in the age of informatic capital as an urgent question for practitioners of both translation and critical theory. Prominent scholars writing from sites as dispersed as Seoul, Mérida, Paris, and Moscow address issues such as the emergence of cognitive capitalism, neo-colonialism and the hegemony of academic English, academic freedom, and the rise of new, exploitative regimes of self-management that have implicated the university in a profound reorganization of labor dissolving distinctions between the "mental" and "manual." Essays in the book deal with university restructuring across multiple national and disciplinary boundaries. It is unique in its symposium-style structure, which brings together critical perspectives on university reform produced by scholars from China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States. The book should appeal to a general readership in the humanities, as well as to an international readership of scholars concerned about the university and the commercialization of higher education. It should appeal particularly to scholars with interests in the university, the humanities, cultural studies, comparative modernities, global studies, translation studies, and post-colonial studies. Contributors Gil Anidjar, Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz, Brett de Bary, Philippe Bonin, CAO Li, Eric Cheyfitz, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Helmut Dubiel, Laurent Dubreuil, GOH Byeong-Gwon, Iwasaki Minoru, Andrew Jewett, Kang Nae-hui, Daniel Won-gu Kim, KO Mi-Sook, Dominick LaCapra, LEE Seok-Won, Lei QiLi, Risa L. Lieberwitz, Ding-tzann LII, MA Hongnan, Alberto Moreiras, Meaghan MORRIS, Yann MOULIER BOUTANG, Helen Petrovsky, Naoki Sakai, Eric Savoth, Ukai Satoshi, Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, Gavin Walker, C. J. W.-L. WEE.