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Larkin, Mary; Milne, Alisoun – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2020
Background: Although there is now an extensive international body of research and evidence about care and carers it is fragmented and disparate. Without synthesis, organisation and accessibility it cannot effectively inform and improve policy and practice with carers. Key points for discussion: This paper makes the case for an accessible…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Evidence, Policy
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Sabitha, A. Sai; Mehrotra, Deepti; Bansal, Abhay – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
Currently the challenges in e-Learning are converging the learning content from various sources and managing them within e-learning practices. Data mining learning algorithms can be used and the contents can be converged based on the Metadata of the objects. Ensemble methods use multiple learning algorithms and it can be used to converge the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Metadata, Computer System Design, Design Preferences
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Cundiff, Jacob; McCallum, Taylor; Rich, Andrew; Truax, Michael; Ward, Tamara; Havelka, Douglas – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2015
The launch of HealthCare.gov, the website of the Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare), was a major public relations disaster for the Obama administration. This case examines some of the factors that contributed to the failure of the launch and then details how Optum, an information technology service provider, considered the opportunity provided by…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Information Systems, Database Management Systems, Online Vendors
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Morris, Gerard; Fustos, Janos; Haga, Wayne – Information Systems Education Journal, 2018
One definition of a network administrator describes a person who works with computer infrastructures with an emphasis on networking. To determine the specific skills required of a network administrator by employers, data was collected from 698 nationwide job advertisements on Dice.com. The data collection focused on technical skills rather than…
Descriptors: Skill Analysis, Job Skills, Database Management Systems, Information Networks
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Ferrandino, Joseph – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2018
This article details the Northwest Indiana Public Safety Data Consortium (NWIPSDC), a privately funded data-sharing network housed at Indiana University Northwest, an anchor institution, that includes several private-sector participants and over 30 public safety agencies at all levels of government (local, county, state, and federal). The NWIPSDC…
Descriptors: Safety, National Security, Consortia, Partnerships in Education
Carpenter, Dick M., II; Clayton, Grant – Educational Leadership, 2016
In this article, researchers Dick M. Carpenter II and Grant Clayton explore common enrollment systems (CESs)--how they work and what school leaders can learn from districts that have implemented CESs. Denver, New Orleans, and Newark (New Jersey) have rolled out this centralized enrollment process for all district-run and charter schools in their…
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, Enrollment, Database Management Systems, Management Information Systems
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Kwanya, Tom; Stilwell, Christine; Underwood, Peter G. – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2013
Using the "point oh" naming system for developments in librarianship is attracting debate about its appropriateness, basis and syntax and the meaning and potential of Library 2.0. Now a new term, Library 3.0, has emerged. Is there is any significant difference between the two models? Using documentary analysis to explore the terms, the…
Descriptors: Information Networks, Library Automation, Library Development, Library Services
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Martinez, Michael E.; Peters Burton, Erin E. – Educational Media International, 2011
The "cyberinfrastucture" is a broad informational network that entails connections to real-time data sensors as well as tools that permit visualization and other forms of analysis, and that facilitates access to vast scientific databases. This multifaceted network, already a major boon to scientific discovery, now shows exceptional promise in…
Descriptors: Visualization, Educational Technology, STEM Education, Cognitive Processes
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Singer, Ross – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2009
There is a growing interest in making available and making sense of the data on the Web and trapped in databases. Rather than a web of unstructured documents, full of information understandable only to humans, there is a movement whose intention is to make these data structured, reusable, machine-readable, and interrelated. This approach to Web…
Descriptors: Redundancy, Documentation, Information Networks, Metadata
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Tolley, Hilary; Shulruf, Boaz – Computers & Education, 2009
No school is an island; it is a part of a continuum or a pipeline of institutions which together form an educational pipeline through which groups of students pass. To turn a body of data into useful information for knowledge-based decision-making at any level, data must be collected, organised, analysed and reflected upon. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Database Management Systems, Information Management, Management Information Systems
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Woods, Millicent – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
Online Student Service provides all Houston Community College (HCC) students and its surrounding community access to college information 24/7. Queries may be made regarding the admissions process, financial aid, testing, veterans' affairs, international admission, tuition costs, and programs and courses offered at each HCC location. Also available…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Online Systems, Information Sources, Student Personnel Services
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Ajit; Nighat Jabeen; Handa, A. K.; Uma – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2008
Agroforestry (AF)/forestry is no longer an isolated field, with so many developmental activities having links with this sector, and thus the information required to be handled by the researchers all over the world has increased exponentially. This article discusses a website that was developed by the National Research Centre for Agroforestry…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Information Systems, Forestry, Foreign Countries
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Ramaswami, Rama – T.H.E. Journal, 2008
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) does not mince words when describing the looming data storage problem. In its 2007 report, "Solving the Coming Archive Crisis--the 100-Year Dilemma," the trade group asserts that the volume of disparate digital information sources being kept online for long-term preservation is overwhelming and…
Descriptors: Preservation, Information Sources, State Agencies, Databases
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Di Giorgi, Rosa Maria; Nannucci, Roberta – History Microcomputer Review, 1990
Surveys new developments in legal bibliographical documentation. Traces the development of database systems. Discusses the addition of personal computing to traditional information retrieval systems and the problems that this creates. Examines the most recent methods of information dissemination--the CD-ROM and Hypertext systems. (RW)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliometrics, Computers, Databases
Tysdal, Craig – Telecommunications, 1996
Discusses problems associated with increasing corporate network complexity as a result of the proliferation of client/server applications at remote locations, and suggests the key to providing high WAN (wide area network) availability is relational databases used in an integrated management approach. (LRW)
Descriptors: Corporations, Databases, Information Networks, Problems
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