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Knowledge-Sharing and Potential Virtual Communities of Practice in the U.S. Coast Guard's Afloat Community: A Qualitative Pilot Study
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Rodman, Lisa; Trespalacios, Jesús – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2018
Virtual communities of Practice (VCoP) offer a flexible option for professional development that may be employed by geographically dispersed communities. Due to unique and dynamic operational demands and a reduced training budget, the United States Coast Guard's (USCG) afloat community has limited opportunity for formal professional development,…
Descriptors: Information Networks, Military Service, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development
Beyond Borders: Understanding the Development and Mobility of Human Capital in an Age of Data-Driven Accountability. A Report on WICHE's Multistate Longitudinal Data Exchange Pilot Project
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Prescott, Brian T. – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2014
As educational attainment grows increasingly more essential to individual and societal prosperity and simultaneously more expensive, policymakers' appetite for evidence of the return on the investment in a college education has swelled and they increasingly want to equip prospective college students and their families with concrete information…
Descriptors: Data, Accountability, Human Capital, Mobility
The Illinois Community College Sustainability Network--A Successful Model
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Jacobson, Bert – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
In 2008, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), Bureau of Energy and Recycling, funded a pilot project creating a network of Sustainability Centers. The pilot project demonstrated that networked campus sustainability centers are an efficient mechanism to reach consumers, business, and industry. All 48 community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Pilot Projects, Economic Opportunities, Two Year Colleges
GPS: Shaping Student Success One Conversation at a Time
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Star, Mikhael; Collette, Lanita – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
Increasing instructor-student interactions and improving support personnel interventions with students positively affects their academic performance, retention, and graduation rates. This article discusses the Grade Performance Status (GPS) which is Northern Arizona University's new online, academic early alert tool for increasing instructor…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Internet, Teacher Student Relationship, Information Networks
The Evolution of South Korea's Broadband Convergence Network, 2004-2007
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Menon, Siddhartha Shankar – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Broadband holds a critical position in the progress of economic and social indicators by connecting consumers, businesses and governments. South Korea has consistently been the global leader in broadband deployment since 1999. In the last ten years the Korean government has pursued several strategies for its broadband policy. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Social Indicators, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
Shadow netWorkspace: An Open Source Intranet for Learning Communities
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Laffey, James M.; Musser, Dale – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2006
Shadow netWorkspace (SNS) is a web application system that allows a school or any type of community to establish an intranet with network workspaces for all members and groups. The goal of SNS has been to make it easy for schools and other educational organizations to provide network services in support of implementing a learning community. SNS is…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Communities of Practice, Social Networks, Instructional Development