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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
Facilitating Participation: From the EML Web Site to the Learning Network for Learning Design
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Hummel, Hans G. K.; Tattersall, Colin; Burgos, Daniel; Brouns, Francis; Kurvers, Hub; Koper, Rob – Interactive Learning Environments, 2005
This article investigates conditions for increasing active participation in on-line communities. As a case study, we use three generations of facilities designed to promote learning in the area of Educational Modelling Languages. Following a description of early experience with a conventional web site and with a community site offering facilities…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Information Networks, Web Sites, Case Studies