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The future of learning institutions in a digital age
In this report, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg focus on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet. They argue that the single most important characteristic of the Internet is its capacity for world-wide community and the limitless exchange of ideas. The Internet brings about a way of learning that is not new or revolutionary but is now the norm for …
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- 9780262258715
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- 1 online resource (xi, 67 pages) :illustrations.
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The future of thinking :learning institutions in a digital age
How traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites.Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the same for years, even centuries. Wh…
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- 9780262266529
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 288 pages) :illustrations.
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Voice :vocal aesthetics in digital arts and media
This work provides perspectives on the voice and technology from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262289695
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 399 pages) :illustrations.
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The radiance of France :nuclear power and national identity after World War II
Originally published: 1998. With new foreword and afterword.How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258890
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- 1 online resource (xxviii, 461 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Insatiable curiosity :innovation in a fragile future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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- 9780262280761
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The mechanical mind in history
"A Bradford book."The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture. Tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinary contributions, and the origins of ideas now central to artifical intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science and neuroscience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256384
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- 1 online resource (458 pages)
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Internet architecture and innovation
Today--following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment--the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture--a …
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- 9780262265867
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- 1 online resource (xii, 574 pages) :illustrations
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WMD terrorism :science and policy choices
Terrorism by means of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has been studied for decades - since the Cold War and fears of secret agents with suitcase-sized atomic bombs. Although WMD research has accelerated since September 11, 2001, much of this scholarship is hard to find, forcing nonspecialists to fall back on gut instinct and Beltway clich?es. This book provides a review of what scientists and…
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- 9780262012980
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- 1 online resource (x, 608 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Value sensitive design :shaping technology with moral imagination
Using our moral and technical imaginations to create responsible innovations: theory, method, and applications for value sensitive design. Implantable medical devices and human dignity. Private and secure access to information. Engineering projects that transform the Earth. Multigenerational information systems for international justice. How should designers, engineers, architects, policy maker…
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- 9780262351690
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- 1 online resource (248 pages) :illustrations
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Medical malpractice
Economist Frank Sloan and lawyer Lindsey Chepke examine the U.S. medical malpractice process from legal, medical, economic & insurance perspectives, analyse past efforts at reform, & offer policy recommendations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283809
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- 1 online resource (viii, 458 pages) :illustrations
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