Gintarė Amber Andrews

Kaunas University of Technology · Department of Educational Sciences

Scholars agree with the necessity to relate university educational environments with real life situations. Some universities try to create such environments through organizing students’ practical tasks in real work organisations. Unfortunately, students encounter difficulties in adaptation to organizations. This paper is a theoretical attempt to in...

Abstract. Changing society needs implement a change in working environments. New management styles and complexity of tasks require employees to apply new skills and competences, as well as foster continuing work place learning. Thus, universities should prepare students for complex and collective decision making in workplaces. Study process should...

In the last few decades universities became service providers. In this case an open question is raised: what is the student role then? This article aims to enlighten the discourse of the student role. At first glance, a student is supposed to be just a passive service consumer – a client. Yet recent service management literature proposes that clien...

According to Blewitt (2010), individual managers as well as organizations and institutions need to be flexible and attentive enough to adapt to slow and rapid changes in a process of learning-by-doing. Managers need a generic understanding of sustainability. There is also an undoubted need for sustainability generalists who can communicate with and...

The popularity of social networking sites has led educators to the idea of engaging learners with their studies. After reviewing the potential areas of social network sites employment in higher education, essential social network software tools were composed in a conceptual model. This model covers most popular areas of social networking possibilit...