Agriculture is the main driver of the economy and the source of living for the majority of the population in Ethiopia. However, its performance has been poor and unable to feed the ever increasing population. Thus there is a need to change this trend and ensure the food security of the population. Agricultural …

In this chapter I would like to introduce the knowledge management concept known as communities of practice (CoPs) and show a direct link between CoPs and human resource development (HRD). CoPs are a proven way to effectively manage knowledge as well as promote organizational learning, so it is a logical …

Genomics has multiplied the number of targets for new therapeutic interventions, but this has not yet lead to a marked increase of pharma pipeline outputs. The complexity of protein function in higher order biological systems is often underestimated. Translation from in vitro and in vivo results to the …

Dit artikel is een vertaling van Steyaert, J. (2005). Web based higher education, the inclusion/exclusion paradox. Journal of technology in human services, 23(1/2), 67-78. Het beschrijft de relatie tussen e-learning en toegankelijkheid voor studenten met een functionele beperking.

Increasingly, education is delivered through computers and the internet. This article highlights that while such development is beneficial for some students with functional impairments, it might be excluding others if insufficient attention is paid to accessibility. Both the electronic learning environment …

What options are open for people—citizens, politicians, and other nonscientists—to become actively involved in and anticipate new directions in the life sciences? In addressing this question, this article focuses on the start of the Human Genome Project (1985-1990). By contrasting various models of democracy …

Deze tekst beschrijft de globale digitale kloof. Daarbij wordt opgemerkt dat we ons niet mogen laten verleiden door de simpliciteit van het meetbare, t.w. het al dan niet hebben van een computer met internettoegang. De digitale kloof kent immers meerdere dimensies, waarvan bezit maar een is. Zo moet …

The Fontys University of professional Education, department of Mechanical Engineering, has started development of a new curriculum during the year 2000-2001, Human Mechanical Engineering (HME). Next to immersion of our students in actual technology practices, we aim to include for our students new topics …

There are different strategies of curriculum implementation regarding ICT education in schools of social work. It concentrates on ICT as a content of social work education, not on educational technology. Theoretically, an integral approach of ICT teaching ( social informatics ) is considered an adequate …

This article discusses the viability of a feminist constructivist approach of knowledge through the careful reading of the work of the feminist scholar and historian of science and technology, Donna Haraway. Haraway proposes an interpretation of objectivity in terms of "situated knowledges". Both the …