This "public domain" resource is a nice multimedia presentation on the United Nations. It is also available as a PDF file. (http://www.un.org/un60/60ways_short.pdf)
July 11, 2007
This course written by William Frey and Jose A. Cruz-Cruz, takes an interdisciplinary approach to ethics in business and provides modules in Ethical Leadership, Ethical Decision-Making, Social Responsibility, and Corporate Governance. This course will culminate in an Ethics Bowl competition in which students will practice ethics advocacy in a variety of organizational contexts in business.
April 23, 2007
myEUROPE is a Web-based project of European SchoolNet which aims to help teachers raise their pupils' awareness of "what it means to be a young citizen in Europe". The project offers online a repository of over 250 Learning Objects (LO). Those Learning Objects are available in 25 languages and may be used for collective or individual learning focusing on European citizenship.
March 29, 2007
eRepublic.org contains a more up-to-date, comprehensive directory of national government Internet sites and / or ( when found comprehensive for the a country's individual eGov sites and user-friendly ) Web portals worldwide. The directory also includes, amongst other eGov related things, active Web site listings for diplomatic missions abroad by country. Sources are listed by country alphabetically. The Web site also provides interesting resources related to e-Government (news, guides...).
January 1, 2007
This course examines competing theories, models, and analytical frameworks for understanding policymaking. Case study application is used to underscore lessons learned. it endeavours to answer several these fundamental questions: Why government gets involved in some things and not in others?; How public problems are framed and described?;What criteria are useful in developing and assessing policy choices?
November 1, 2005