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Gunton, Lyndelle – Australian Library Journal, 2011
What informs members of the church community as they learn? Do the ways people engage with information differ according to the circumstances in which they learn? Informed learning, or the ways in which people use information in the learning experience and the degree to which they are aware of that, has become a focus of contemporary information…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Information Literacy, Learning Experience, Lay People
Ford, Wendy G. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
There are a wide variety of e-government information and services that small business owners and managers can utilize. However, in spite of all of the service incentives and initiatives to promote e-government, research studies have shown that this information is not widely accessed. Studies that explore the utilization of e-government information…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Information Utilization, Profiles, Internet
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Yettick, Holly – Urban Education, 2016
If school choice programs are to provide any degree of equitable access to educational opportunities, then useful information about academic quality needs to be available to all participants, not just those who hob knob with the school board members or chat with the superintendent over the backyard fence. This study draws upon a unique data set to…
Descriptors: School Choice, Information Utilization, Educational Quality, Information Sources
Vest, Joshua Ryan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Health information exchange (HIE) is the process of electronically sharing patient-level information among different organizations with the objectives of quality and cost improvements. The adoption of HIE in the United States is not widespread, but numerous efforts at facilitating HIE exist and the incentives for electronic health record system…
Descriptors: Health Materials, Information Transfer, Electronic Publishing, Adoption (Ideas)
Karras, Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Little is known about how Deaf people perceive, access, and utilize interpersonal and media sources for health information. In light of the scarcity of research on health information management among this group, a two-phase study was conducted that included eight focus groups (N=39) and survey data (N=366) with Deaf participants to determine the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Information Management, Information Sources, Health Education