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READY FOR THE FUTURE The four principles of Nomadic Learning

AbstractPurpose - This essay aims to develop a new concept of learning for organizations. Change concepts are used to explore and find principles of learning that make employees and their organizations...

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Building better learning and learning better building, with learners rather...

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe the relevant role of users/learners as designers/creators of meaningful and effective learning places and spaces in both digital and virtual...

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Heavy switchers in translearning: from formal teaching to ubiquitous learning

AbstractPurpose - We explore the role of Personal Learning Environments in an already ICT-dense context and in combination with some educational approaches in the field of technology enhanced...

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Limitless: Becoming Remarkable in the Borderless Economy

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine how the emerging borderless economy is impacting the future of human capital development and the future of work. Computer-enhanced...

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Borderlands: Developing character strengths for a knowmadic world.

AbstractPurpose - To highlight the value of non-cognitive strengths such as creativity and grit. In a knowledge age, those aspects will be the distinguishing characteristics in a global work force and...

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Mechanisms to identify and study the demand for innovation skills in...

AbstractPurpose - This paper explores the interrelationship between the fields of education and workforce in the context of post-industrial societies. We analyzed key challenges associated with the...

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New work, old power: Inequities within the labour of internationalization

AbstractPurpose - In this paper, Dorothy Smith’s conceptual understanding of work is extended to consider the emerging labour of "knowmads" within internationalization of higher education. Through...

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Knowmad Society: The "new" work and education

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The Academy: Hiding Behind Pay Walls?

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A formal approach for designing creative futures based on C-K theory

AbstractPurpose– Despite an increasingly explicit professional nature, the futures studies field has suffered an increasing constraining to a collection of specific techniques. The purpose of this...

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A theoretical frame for future studies

AbstractPurpose– Future studies can be given several interpretations. The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for anticipation in a well delimited frame, that of multi-scale complex...

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Universal perspectivism: transcending “facta” and “futura” through foresight...

AbstractPurpose– Contemporary foresight activities are increasingly dominated by commitment to research methods and an ambition to found a sound theory of futures thinking. Arguably, there has been a...

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Towards an ontology of the present moment

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to propose that conceptions of time and future that are currently in use restrict the possibilities for framing decision making. By privileging the notion...

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Resilience: Outcome, Process, Emergence, Narrative (OPEN) theory

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to synthesize coherent theory that identifies and links the cognitive and structural elements in both the psychosocial and organizational dimensions of...

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Overcoming divides

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to explain why finding a theory for futures studies is such a demanding task. In particular, the paper paves the way towards a theoretical framework that...

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Ready for the future: the four principles of nomadic learning in organizations

AbstractPurpose– This essay aims to develop a new concept of learning for organizations. Change concepts are used to explore and find principles of learning that make employees and their organizations...

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Building better learning and learning better building, with learners rather...

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to describe the relevant role of users/learners as designers/creators of meaningful and effective learning places and spaces in both digital and virtual...

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Heavy switchers in translearning: from formal teaching to ubiquitous learning

AbstractPurpose– The aim is to explore the role of personal learning environments in an already ICT-dense context and in combination with some educational approaches in the field of technology enhanced...

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Limitless: becoming remarkable in the borderless economy

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine how the emerging new economy is impacting the future of human capital development and the future of work.Design/methodology/approach– A detailed...

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