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Work/family conflict is often cited as a concern for attracting and retaining talent in professional careers. STEM careers have been noted as particularly discouraging to professionals, especially women, for work/family concerns among other reasons. However, little research has explored the work/family attitudes of prospective professionals in these careers. This paper explores the work/family attitudes...
The web-based autonomous learning is gaining momentum. Despite the abundant learning resources and the incomparable learning freedom it offers, the brand-new learning environment poses problems such as the establishment of learning goals, the designing of learning plans, the monitoring of learning processes and the evaluation of learning outcomes, which might create obstacles for successful web-based...
This paper describes the processes that have started to reform the curriculum and learning landscape at Computer Engineering School of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) within the European Higher Education Area framework. In this context, competences and learning outcomes are emerging as a new teaching/learning paradigm, where approaches centered on the learner are increasingly important...
A new national initiative is underway in India for the transformation of India into a knowledge society. Government of India has set up a National Knowledge Commission with a mandate to serve as a high-level advisory body to the Prime Minister of India in sectors ranging from education to e-government in the following five principal focus areas: Access; Concepts; Creation; Application; and Services...
A critical infrastructure (CI) consists of those physical and information technology facilities, networks, services and assets which, if disrupted or destroyed, have a serious impact on the health, safety, security or economic well-being of citizens or the effective functioning of governments. Nowadays, the operation controls of these infrastructures have been computerized and have gradually become...
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