"Access, equity and capacity are elements within the higher education environment that interact in complex ways to effect virtually all other aspects of such institutions. This volume examines various features of how these concepts are generated, transformed throughout policy environments, and deployed across the complex differences of higher education in ten countries in the Asia-Pacific Region. The book's contributors assert that at virtually every turn issues of quality are deeply implicated with how these three dimensions occur within these diverse institutional environments"-- Provided by publisher.

Higher education is growing most rapidly in the Asia-Pacific region, and policy makers are facing the task of balancing quality and quantity. This book will help readers understand the current situation of higher education not only in this region but everywhere that they may work.' - Shinichi Yamamoto, Hiroshima University, Japan

A revolutionary approach to the ongoing transformation of knowledge media as an evolutionary process

In this age of information, knowledge is the currency that drives society. But what is knowledge, and how do you manage it? In this revolutionary book, Yuzuru Tanaka proposes a powerful new paradigm: that knowledge media, or "memes," operate in a way that closely resembles the biological function of genes, with their network publishing repository working as a gene pool to accelerate the evolution of knowledge shared in our societies. In Meme Media and Meme Market Architectures: Knowledge Media for Editing, Distributing, and Managing Intellectual Resources, Tanaka outlines a ready-to-use knowledge media system, supplemented with sample media objects, which allows readers to experience the knowledge media paradigm.

Professor Tanaka begins with a thorough, logical tracing of the development of "knowledge media" from Egyptian scrolls through printed matter to MS Word documents complete with embedded charts and images, and shows how this development resembles the human evolutionary process.

He then presents an integrated view of the five kinds of enabling technologies in terms of knowledge media architecture, including:

• Multimedia and hypermedia
• Object-oriented GUI and visual programming
• Reusable component software and component integration
• Network publishing and electronic commerce
• Object-oriented and multimedia databases

Finally, the author introduces the IntelligentPad content management system and shows how it meets the criteria for advancing knowledge media to the next level. He provides everything the practicing engineer or researcher needs to work with IntelligentPad, including creating and using new Pads, as well as information for end-users who want to create custom applications using existing low-level Pads and Pad applications.

Among the first books to focus on media for the editing, distribution, and management of knowledge, Meme Media and Meme Market Architectures: Knowledge Media for Editing, Distributing, and Managing Intellectual Resources propels the field of knowledge media from hypothesis into real-world application.

Unprecedented improvements in digital technologies and productivity have transformed the very foundations of our global economy, rendering 20th-century economic measurements insufficient--and often stunningly inaccurate--in tracking real economic growth. In the groundbreaking and solidly researched Digital Deflation, noted money manager and market analyst Graham Tanaka takes an up-close look at the new economic environment, revealing how far off base many of today's most venerated statistical measures really are. Tanaka introduces models designed to help economists and corporate decision-makers quantify what is really driving productivity growth and corporate value, along with techniques investors can use to uncover and invest in today's most high-potential, undervalued companies.

Combining surprising new ideas and eye-opening analysis with convincing charts and graphs, Digital Deflation explains: Why inflation and interest rates are at their lowest levels in decades, and new economic realities that are likely to drive them even lower A unique and illuminating analysis of today's "Productivity Revolution"--and what both developed and emerging economies must do to reap its greatest rewards How and why many of the forces that fueled the '90s stock market growth are poised to return, along with guidelines investors can follow to profit from those forces

In addition, interviews with Michael Dell, Gordon Moore, and other pioneers and leading players in the Digital Revolution spell out the history of Digital Deflation, what is happening behind closed doors today, and what economists, observers, and investors should expect in the coming ten to twenty years.