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A Strategic Plan for Introducing, Implementing, Managing, and Monitoring an Urban Extension Platform
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Warner, Laura A.; Vavrina, Charlie S.; Campbell, Mary L.; Elliott, Monica L.; Northrop, Robert J.; Place, Nick T. – Journal of Extension, 2017
Florida's Strategic Plan for Extension in Metropolitan Regions reflects an adaptive management approach to the state's urban Extension mission within the context of establishing essential elements, performance indicators, key outcomes, and suggested alternatives for action. Extension leadership has adopted the strategic plan, and implementation…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Implementation, Program Administration, Extension Education
Teaching Technology and Engineering
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de Vries, Marc J.; Hacker, Michael; Burghardt, David – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2010
The publication of "Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology" (ITEA/ITEEA, 2000/2002/2007) represented a major step forward in identifying the educational components necessary for life in a technological world. But this list of standards, though substantial, does not clearly identify the components that are most…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Technological Literacy, Engineering Technology, Fundamental Concepts
Designing a Mobile-App-Based Collaborative Learning System
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Cheong, Christopher; Bruno, Vince; Cheong, France – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2012
An important aspect of education is to promote higher-order thinking skills to learners. However, in the lecture environment, learners are passively engaged and it is unlikely for higher-order thinking to occur. Although interventions such as "clickers" can be used to increase engagement in lectures, this does not necessarily promote…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Handheld Devices, Computer Software
Using Consultative Methods to Investigate Professional-Client Interaction as an Aspect of Process Evaluation
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Hogard, Elaine – American Journal of Evaluation, 2007
This article introduces a novel consultative method termed reconstitutive ethnography, considered useful for the in-depth description and analysis of the interaction between professional and client in the delivery of a health or social care program. The article contextualizes this method in process evaluation generally and specifically in what the…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Ethnography, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
Delphi: A Catalytic Strategy for Motivating Curriculum Revision by Faculty.
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Dailey, Anne Louise; Holmberg, James C. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1990
Describes the use of the Delphi process at the Community College of Allegheny County in a total curriculum revision. Reviews results of college's Delphi and makes recommendations for Delphi use. (DMM)
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Delphi Technique
A Decision-Making Framework for Description of Innovative Education Programs.
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Wang, Margaret C.; And Others – 1990
In this study, a programmatic decision-making framework called the consensus marker-outcome variable system (CMOVS) was developed as a result of a comprehensive "meta-review" and synthesis of research on variables considered by experts to be important to learning for all students, including those with special needs or those at risk of failing. The…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Delphi Technique, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives