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Technology for Online Portfolio Assessment Programs
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Ferrara, Victoria M. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2010
Portfolio assessment is a valid and reliable method to assess experiential learning. Developing a fully online portfolio assessment program is neither easy nor inexpensive. The institution seeking to take its portfolio assessment program online must make a commitment to its students by offering the technologies most suited to meet students' needs.…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Experiential Learning, Program Effectiveness
Computerized Point of Sale = Faster Service + Better Accountability.
Pannell, Dorothy V. – School Business Affairs, 1991
Describes selecting and installing a computerized point of sale for a district food service program; the equipment needed and preferred; and the training of trainers, managers, and cashiers. Also discusses the direct benefits and side benefits of the system. (MLF)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer System Design, Cost Effectiveness, Food Service
A Computerized System for Workplace Design for Visually Impaired Workers.
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Chen, J-G; Hou, C-A – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1991
VITAL (Vision Impaired Task and Assignment Lexicon) is an integrated computerized system that performs workplace design tasks for visually impaired workers. VITAL consists of three modules: ergonomics consultation, disability index, and work measurement. Evaluation indicated that VITAL could be used as a tool to help nonprofessional vocational…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Design, Computer System Design, Human Factors Engineering, Man Machine Systems
Intelligent Insight or Blind Arrogance? The Development of an Integrated Information System.
Dubois, Ronald; Freeman, Neil – Business Officer, 1991
The first part in a two-part series about the development of an integrated management information system at Chaminade University (Hawaii) discusses decisions made about the system's integration and transportability, modularization, programing language, and productivity in the first five years. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Planning, Computer Software
Funding Information across the State: The University of Tennessee's Resources System.
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Farris, Jane Park; Cole, Greg – SRA Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1991
The University of Tennessee's coordinated Faculty Interests/Funding Opportunities database system comprises statewide computer networking facilities, information from many sources, results of annual surveys, over 50 relational database files and software, and software applications. The system allows matching of information on funding opportunities…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer System Design
ELCAT: An E-Learning Content Adaptation Toolkit
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Clements, Iain; Xu, Zhijie – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2005
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present an e-learning content adaptation toolkit--ELCAT--that helps to achieve the objectives of the KTP project No. 3509. Design/methodology/approach: The chosen methodology is absolutely practical. The tool was put into motion and results were observed as university and the collaborating company members…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Internet, Computer System Design, User Needs (Information)
School District Information Systems: Infrastructure of the '90s.
Kory, Ross – School Business Affairs, 1991
A survey of America's 244 largest school districts, with responses from 215, showed that 28 percent are actively procuring at least 1 of 3 major administrative information systems: financial, human resources, or student information. Describes the installation and use of a new information infrastructure in a Maryland school district. (MLF)
Descriptors: Computer Software Selection, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Database Management Systems
Organization and Management of Project Athena.
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Champine, George A. – Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1991
Project Athena is a $100 million, eight-year project to install a large network of high performance computer work stations for education and research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Organizational, legal, and administrative aspects of the project allow two competitors (Digital Equipment Corporation and IBM) to work together…
Descriptors: Competition, Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer System Design
What Is User Friendly? Papers presented at the Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (23rd, Urbana, Illinois, April 20-22, 1986).
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Lancaster, F. W., Ed. – 1987
The papers in this proceedings consider ways in which user friendly interface design may be used to make online systems in public and academic libraries easier to use, and thus more attractive to potential users. A short introduction by F. W. Lancaster is followed by nine papers: (1) "Linking the Unlinkable" (Michael Gorman); (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer System Design, Higher Education, Information Retrieval