Purpose: Research into professional services firms that have successfully implemented and adopted Web 2.0 tools are still rare, with no widely known accepted methodologies or frameworks. The purpose of this case study is to investigate a medium-sized law firm that embarked on a KM programme that makes explicit use of emergent enterprise-based Web…

Intended for individuals and/or agencies who provide or require evaluation services, this paper attempts to deal with the lack of standards and procedures for evaluation contracts. The first section of the report, Summary and Overview of Standards and Procedures for Evaluation Contracting, contains a brief discussion of the use of the proposed…

The basic thesis of the larger paper from which this condensation is drawn is that the use of evaluation contracts is advisable when evaluations are to be conducted by persons external to the institution responsible for the program to be evaluated (or, in larger institutions such as large universities, by persons external to the unit or department…

The Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges (CASC) conducted this study of the funding and implementation of a faculty development program starting in 1973. In each of the four case studies, selected from 40 participating colleges, a team of faculty members was created as a mechanism to improve faculty development efforts. A team of three…

The introduction to this annual report traces the history, activities, and growth of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), and notes future challenges facing ACER. Abstracts are presented of seven papers which were delivered at the Invitational Conference on Societal Change held in August l980 at the University of Melbourne.…