From the glue-pot to the internet

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Marie-Cécile Comerre
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Glass Ceramics ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Auction House ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
The World

Drouot-Documentation, the library of the oldest auction house in the world, began the 21st century by putting its furniture and furnishings database onto the Internet. This has given access not only to the 12,000 objects Drouot sells and photographs for its sales catalogues each year, but also to selected data in this specialised subject field from provincial sales in France and from others overseas, notably American and English ones. And there are plans eventually to convert the remaining manual indexes, which cover many other hard-to-find topics like the art of glass, ceramics and goldsmiths’ work.

21st Century House Call: The Internet and the World Wide Web

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Whitney R. Bischof ◽  
Stefanie J. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
House Call

The Essence of Security Sciences

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Andrzej Czupryński
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Human Security ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Freedom And Responsibility

We live in a world of great opportunities, but also of boundless demands. It is generally agreed that the 21st century would be a century of culture. Globalization of culture is an important element of social globalization. This process should be understood as a formation of various relationships and dependencies between societies and their cultures. Globalization of culture entails a change in values and norms, a disturbance of social memory, and shallow culture. Presently culture has become a consumer culture, and it is created by the world of media and the Internet. The article is an important voice in a wider discussion on the impact of cultural globalism on human security. The author is convinced that cultural globalism to the greatest extent affects human personality and social hazards. An important part of it is the description of personal security, in which human subjectivity, freedom and responsibility of cultural threats play a significant role.

Learning in 2010

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Allen ◽  
Pamela Bracey ◽  
Mariya Gavrilova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Learning Challenges ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Open Dialogue ◽  
Student Instructor

Decades of research into learning have demonstrated that learners are diverse, changing, and adaptable. In this regard, the practice as educators must become flexible and adaptive to meet the wide variation of learning needs. A general consensus exists among educators, businesses, and other stakeholders that there is a significant gap between the knowledge and skills needed for success in life and the current state of education in schools throughout the world (The Conference Board et al., 2006). The internet, social networking, and distance education have created learners with a different set of characteristics, incoming skills, needs, desires, and goals. To meet the learning challenges of the 21st century, instructors must serve as catalysts of change by encouraging classrooms of open dialogue and developing the ability to effectively and efficiently use online communications. Through the process of learning from one another through problem-based activities, students and instructors improve the student-instructor relationship, encounter challenges, and solve them collaboratively.

Re-Establishing the School in the Light of Information Technology

2020 ◽  
pp. 184-202
Author(s):  
Süheyla Bozkurt
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
School Structure ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Insight Into

The aim is to open the discussion of the concept of education and school that emerged as a result of the changes in information technologies and to provide insight into the future educational institutions. Firstly, the effects of changes in the world on educational institutions were discussed. The skills needed by the world were introduced and finally the 21st century Web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 technologies, which are information sharing methods that enable data sharing over the internet. In the conclusion part, a school structure where principles such as personalized ways and methods of access to information, development of creativity, acquisition of necessary methods for reasoning, integration of information with systematic attitude is proposed. For the schools of the future, it has been concluded that the elements of education such as classrooms, technique, methods, tools, and materials, and the role of the teacher should be reconsidered, and the school should be designed in a way that individuals can establish their own knowledge sphere within the boundaries of the school buildings.

Electronic Commerce in Egypt

2011 ◽  
pp. 210-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherif Kamel
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Business Development ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Information And Communication

The information and communication technologies have had remarkable impacts worldwide on the emergence of a number of trends and applications affecting business, the industry and the economy. One of the vastly growing waves in today’s changing environment is electronic commerce. It is directly affecting the way people communicate, interact and do business. Electronic commerce currently represents 2% of the global business transactions but promises to dominate the business environment in the 21st century. The successful presence of electronic commerce through the Internet has helped create low cost and more efficient channels for product and service sales through a more dynamic and interactive venue of opportunities where the world becomes the market place. This chapter reflects on the ways business will be developed and formulated in the 21st century. As the world is converging into a global village where supply and demand interacts across nations and continents, electronic commerce represents an opportunity for many countries around the world. Egypt, one of the rapidly growing economies among the developing world has thoroughly invested in transforming its society to deal with the information-based global market economy of the coming century. Respectively, one of the associated technologies in business development and trading has been electronic commerce. With the introduction of the Internet since 1993 in Egypt, today there are around 250,000 Internet subscribers served by 50 Internet service providers and representing the starting point for a potential electronic commerce community. As the Internet grows in magnitude and capacity, electronic commerce will flourish and will have direct implications on the socioeconomic and business development process in Egypt. This chapter demonstrates Egypt’s vision with regard to electronic commerce and its possible utilization in its developmental and planning processes. Moreover, the chapter will demonstrate the roles of the government, the public and the private sector facing the challenges and opportunities enabled by electronic commerce, and how Egypt places the new enabled information and communication technologies as tools that can help in the nation’s development process.

Cultural Globalization and Human Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-163
Author(s):  
Andrzej Pieczywok
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Human Security ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cultural Globalization ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Freedom And Responsibility

We live in a world of great opportunities, but also of boundless demands. It is generally agreed that the 21st century would be a century of culture. Globalization of culture is an important element of social globalization. This process should be understood as a formation of various relationships and dependencies between societies and their cultures. Globalization of culture entails a change in values and norms, a disturbance of social memory, and shallow culture. Presently culture has become a consumer culture, and it is created by the world of media and the Internet. The article is an important voice in a wider discussion on the impact of cultural globalism on human security. The author is convinced that cultural globalism to the greatest extent affects human personality and social hazards. An important part of it is the description of personal security, in which human subjectivity, freedom and responsibility of cultural threats play a significant role.

Sprachenwahl im Tourismus: Italienisch

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandro M. Moraldo
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World

Abstract Tourism is the leading economy of the 21st century also for Italy. The language could also benefit from it, which statistically performs very well in many areas (on the world stage, on the internet, in foreign language learning, etc.). Unfortunately, the country’s tourist-economic importance does not correlate positively with its language value. Here, the Italian state is asked to do more with investment for the ‚visibility’ of the language in the tourism sector, e.g. with the opening of foreign ENIT headquarters.

The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century. By Robert Gilpin, with the assistance of Jean Millis Gilpin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 373p. $29.95.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-258
Author(s):  
Sylvia Ostry
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The World ◽  
World Econ

The word globalization first appeared in the second half of the 1980s and now has become the most ubiquitous in the language of international relations. It has spawned a new vocabulary: globaloney (Why all the hype when the global economy was more integrated in the age of Queen Victo- ria?): globaphobia (the new, mainly mistaken, backlash); globeratti (the members of the international nongovernmen- tal organizations [INGOs] who travel around the world from conference to conference, except when they are on the Internet mobilizing for the next conference), and so on. For Robert Gilpin, among the world's most eminent scholars of international relations, globalization is insightfully defined as the deepening and widening integration of the world econ- omy by trade, financial flows, investment, and technology.

Learning in 2010

2012 ◽  
pp. 181-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Allen ◽  
Pamela Bracey ◽  
Mariya Gavrilova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Learning Challenges ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Open Dialogue ◽  
Student Instructor

Decades of research into learning have demonstrated that learners are diverse, changing, and adaptable. In this regard, the practice as educators must become flexible and adaptive to meet the wide variation of learning needs. A general consensus exists among educators, businesses, and other stakeholders that there is a significant gap between the knowledge and skills needed for success in life and the current state of education in schools throughout the world (The Conference Board et al., 2006). The internet, social networking, and distance education have created learners with a different set of characteristics, incoming skills, needs, desires, and goals. To meet the learning challenges of the 21st century, instructors must serve as catalysts of change by encouraging classrooms of open dialogue and developing the ability to effectively and efficiently use online communications. Through the process of learning from one another through problem-based activities, students and instructors improve the student-instructor relationship, encounter challenges, and solve them collaboratively.

Classrooms of the 21st Century: Teacher Competence, Confidence and Collaboration

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Wilburn Clouse ◽  
Elaine Alexander
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Technology

For the past two decades, information and technology have grown exponentially. We are now able to surf the world on the Internet. Students are able to go places they have never been before and see ideas and concepts presented in a new multimedia approach. However, to a great extent, students are learning these skills without the assistance of knowledgeable teachers. This research suggests some areas to improve technology-based education.

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