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Truman, Gregory E.; Pachamanova, Dessislava A.; Goldstein, Michael A. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2010
InterCon provides services to health insurers of foreign tourists who travel to the United States and Canada. Management wants to implement a new information system that will deal with several operational problems, but it is having difficulty securing the capital resources to fund the system's development. After an initial failure, the chief…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Services, Travel
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Kensing, Finn; Simonsen, Jesper; Bodker, Keld – Human-Computer Interaction, 1998
Presents a conceptual framework and a coherent method for information-technology design in an organizational context within the participatory-design tradition. The MUST method, developed through projects in Danish and American organizations, is based on thorough participation with users and managers and combines the use of ethnographic techniques…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Cooperative Programs, Designers, Ethnography
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Hamilton, Stephen F. – Educational Researcher, 1993
Challenges identified by T. Bailey (1993) as obstacles to youth apprenticeship programs are accurate but do not justify the turn to alternative approaches he recommends. U.S.-style program can be built to overcome these difficulties if employer-worker collaboration can be fostered and institutional bases can be constructed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Bailey, Thomas – Educational Researcher, 1993
S. F. Hamilton and the author agree on the potential of youth apprenticeship programs for education but disagree on the strength of the problems facing implementation of apprenticeship models. A two-level reform strategy is recommended to develop an institutional and legal structure and to encourage employer participation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Bronack, Stephen C.; Riedl, Richard E. – 1998
Pedagogy embodies the beliefs one holds about students, about the various attributes of media technologies, and about the essential qualities of the content at hand. Teachers make decisions based on the interactions of these beliefs. Therefore, it is imperative to begin the process of designing and contemplating instruction with a consideration of…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Programs