AUTHOR Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva and Piotr Pawlak ABSTRACT Tourism is a global trend which engages a key role in economics, which in 2007 represented over 745 billion dollars (World Trade Organization, 2007). Still, in accordance to the same institution tourism can be defined as: “the activities of persons […]
AUTHOR Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Mary Prior and Simon Rogerson ABSTRACT Alvin Toffler argued years ago that the knowledge based society represents the acme of the human society development, when knowledge become the core resource of the economy, as the last and the ultimate source of power (Toffler, 1995). Moreover, knowledge society is a […]
AUTHOR Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Tiago Filipe Rodrigues da Fonseca and Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva ABSTRACT Already massive change is happening due to emerging technologies. In fact, some of this convergence is happening organically, as the evolution of interdisciplinary science, a systems-approach and the necessity of sharing tools and knowledge is bringing separate […]
AUTHOR Penny Duquenoy, Bern Martens and Norberto Patrignani ABSTRACT Introduction In Europe, and most industrialised countries, ICT competences are a prerequisite for the majority of jobs, and even for life as a fully functioning member of society in general. In recognising this, universities, colleges, high schools, careers developers, train-the-trainers organizations, etc. have introduced ICT courses […]
AUTHOR Göran Collste ABSTRACT Within applied ethics moral problems in different spheres of society like medicine, politics and technology are analysed. Applied ethics transcends disciplinary borders. Its point of departure is either ethics or the sphere of application. Thus, one way to do applied ethics is that ethicists use their theories and methods for analysing […]
AUTHOR Valérie Chanal and Chris Kimble ABSTRACT Communities of practice were originally described in terms of a set of emergent social arrangements, termed legitimate peripheral participation, that act as a vehicle for spontaneous and situated learning (Brown and Duguid 1991; Lave and Wenger 1991). Later, what was essentially a social dynamic within a relatively small […]