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This paper contributes to the blended learning paradigm for educational events in a leisure context, where organisers and participants can no longer rely on a linear approach for knowledge transfer and learning (Robinson, 2011; Giacalone, 2001) in a non-linear world (Castells, 2000). With the design of meaningful experiences at the core of Leisure Studies and of Events as their sub-field (Richards, G., Marques, L. & Mein, K., 2016), it is appropriate to investigate experiential learning and the role of blended learning in the participants’ experience, in a leisure context. The qualitative methodology focuses on in-depth, semi-structured interviews held with students enrolled in leisure studies and tourism management programmes who took part in the World Leisure international field school, which takes place biennially as a satellite event to the World Leisure Congress. The findings indicate that constructing a tailored blended learning experience in an educational event within a leisure context has a positive impact on the participants’ learning experience and knowledge transfer, extending it in terms of time and spaces. This research has relevant implications for practitioners, academics and designers targeting blended learning environments in educational events in leisure-related contexts.
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Closing remarks from Congress Chair during Closing Ceremony World Leisure Congress.
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Eutropolis is an everchanging utopian vision for the Euregion Meuse-Rhine, an international region. A vision about to make borders fade.
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This paper will describe the rationale and findings from a multinational study of online uses and gratifications conducted in the United States, Korea, and the Netherlands in spring 2003. A survey research method of study was conducted using a questionnaire developed in three languages and was presented to approximately 400 respondents in each country via the Web. Web uses and gratifications were analyzed cross-nationally in a comparative fashion and focused on the perceived involvement in different types of on-line communities. Findings indicate that demographic characteristics, cultural values, and Internet connection type emerged as critical factors that explain why the same technology is adopted differently. The analyses identified seven major gratifications sought by users in each country: social support, surveillance & advice, learning, entertainment, escape, fame & aesthetic, and respect. Although the Internet is a global medium, in general, web use is more local and regional. Evidence of media use and cultural values reported by country and online community supports the hypothesis of a technological convergence between societies, not a cultural convergence.
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In Proceedings of the first CARPE conference november 2011
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The Utrecht School of Journalism has a long tradition in international higher education. The School’s European Culture & European Journalism (ED&EJ) programme is an example of a pedagogical practice in higher education where advanced students learn how to perform in an international context. Journalism students from Moscow to Ottawa and from Helsinki to Bilbao learn alongside Dutch students. It is not only the content of the programme and the reporting for the Web Magazine that makes the EC&EJ programme an inspirational educational experience. The programme demonstrates the importance of sharing different professional and cultural values. This sharing and confronting of professional standards contributes to an important new qualification for all higher educated professionals: awareness of cultural differences and similarities
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Het project “Sporttoerisme - Sportas Amsterdam” draait om de vraag: welke kansen biedt sporttoerisme voor Sportas? De aanleiding voor het project is het bredere programma rond het gebiedsconcept Sportas Amsterdam. Dit programma behelst de ambitie van de gemeente Amsterdam, gemeente Amstelveen en partners om één ruimtelijk geheel te maken van het gebied en de sportfaciliteiten die in zuidwest Amsterdam zijn gelegen, grofweg van het Olympische Stadion tot en met de sportfaciliteiten in het Amsterdamse Bos. Het programma draagt bij aan city branding (regio Amsterdam), lokale bedrijfsontwikkeling (o.a. horeca, retail, dienstverlening), ondersteunen lokaal verenigingsleven en sportfaciliteiten (vitaliteit kantines en accommodatie), veiligheid (ruimtelijke eenheid, levendig) en leefbaarheid (toegankelijke en aantrekkelijke openbare ruimte). Bovenal kan de Sportas bijdragen aan het aantrekken en binden van de relatief hoogopgeleide en weinig plaatsgebonden leeftijdsgroep van 18-35 jaar. Dit sluit aan bij de ideeën van auteurs als Richard Florida (“The rise of the creative class”) en Charles Landry (“The art of city making”) over het aantrekken en vasthouden van de creatieve klasse en de kenniswerker. Het idee van de Sportas veronderstelt een transitie, van een versnipperd sportgebied naar geïntegreerd vrijetijdslandschap. Het gebied is momenteel al interessant voor sporttoerisme (topsport, breedtesport) en kan door deze transitie een impuls krijgen. Tegelijkertijd is de ontwikkeling van sporttoerisme een schakel in deze transitie. Er is echter nog te weinig bekend over de omvang van sporttoerisme en de potenties van de Sportas op dit vlak.
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