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Rexeisen, Richard J.; Owens, Ernest L., Jr.; Garrison, Michael J. – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The importance, and associated challenges, of faculty ownership and engagement in the assurance of learning (AoL) process are well documented in the literature. The authors demonstrate how schools can further their AoL objectives by encouraging and subsequently supporting organic, faculty-led initiatives. Specifically, we present a case study of a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Business Administration Education, Sequential Approach, Teacher Leadership
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Gilad, Benjamin; Chussil, Mark – Performance Improvement, 2013
Executive development programs teach various skills deemed important in future leaders and help shape future leadership and its performance. However, they are often excessively focused on competencies required for dealing with internal issues and relationships. They do a much less admirable job preparing future executives for the unique skills…
Descriptors: Management Development, Competition, Games, Performance Technology
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Bingham, Tony – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2012
What does performance improvement look like in practice in today's organizations? As part of its commitment to the learning profession, the American Society for Training and Development annually judges the practices of organizations through a blind peer review process to determine what merits the best practice designation. This article contains…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Best Practices, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs
Terkla, Dawn Geronimo; Sharkness, Jessica; Cohen, Margaret; Roscoe, Heather S.; Wiseman, Marjorie – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2012
In an age in which information and data are more readily available than ever, it is critical for higher education institutions to develop tools that can communicate essential information to those who make decisions in an easy-to-understand format. One of the tools available for this purpose is a dashboard, a one- to two-page document that presents…
Descriptors: Measurement Equipment, Database Management Systems, Management Information Systems, Educational Indicators
Weinstein, Margery – Training, 2010
Creating a balanced learning space for employees is about more than trying different types of seating. It is a challenge that an affect how well employees absorb the lessons and whether they will be able to product better results for the company. The possible solutions are as diverse as the learners. This article describes how three companies…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Space Utilization, Industrial Training, Training Objectives
Weinstein, Margery – Training, 2010
A training department revamp is a huge, but not impossible, undertaking, and a chore that may be inevitable every now and then. Taking the plunge and deciding to rebuild one's training structure can offer a sizable return on investment to one's senior executives, and a more effective learning strategy for employees. The tricky part is ensuring the…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Change Strategies, Performance Technology, Program Implementation
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Nguyen, Frank; Frazee, James P. – Performance Improvement, 2009
Higher education institutions struggle with planning for future needs, growth, and, sometimes, contraction. As student populations expand and as faculty members adopt new technologies, universities struggle to support these needs. To the casual observer, it may seem that the technology planning process is haphazard. This article details a process…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Technology Planning, Educational Technology
Bretherton, Tanya – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
The early childhood education and care industry in Australia is undergoing a shift in philosophy. Changes in policy are driving the industry towards a combined early childhood education and care focus, away from one on child care only. This move has implications for the skilling of the child care workforce. This research overview describes the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Child Care
Archibald, Fred – Campus Technology, 2008
When it comes to anti-malware protection, today's university IT departments have their work cut out for them. Network managers must walk the fine line between enabling a highly collaborative, non-restrictive environment, and ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and computing resources. This is no easy task, especially…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Integrity, Privacy, Computer Security
Schaffhauser, Dian – Campus Technology, 2008
Data loss from life's little power calamities may be the most common form of IT disaster any campus can face. According to a 2007 industry association survey(www.connect.educause.edu/library/ecar/shelterfromthestormitandb/41174), 82 percent of higher education institutions reporting a disruptive occurrence in the five years prior to the study…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Computer Security, Troubleshooting, Technical Support
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Freudenburg, William R.; Gramling, Robert; Laska, Shirley; Erikson, Kai T. – Social Forces, 2008
Disaster studies have made important progress in recognizing the unequally distributed consequences of disasters, but there has been less progress in analyzing social factors that help create "natural" disasters. Even well-known patterns of hazard-creation tend to be interpreted generically--as representing "economic development" or…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Natural Disasters, Safety, Human Factors Engineering
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Nguyen, Frank; Hanzel, Matthew – Performance Improvement, 2007
Those involved in training know that creating instructional materials can become a tedious, repetitive process. They also know that business conditions often require training interventions to be delivered in ways that are not ideally structured or timed. This article examines the notion that learning objects can be reused and adapted for…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Job Performance, Performance Technology, Case Studies
Birk, Thomas A.; Burk, John E. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2000
Examines the relationship between environmental design, communication, and organizational culture to provide performance improvement practitioners with an analytical tool that helps determine appropriate interventions. Provides a case study to illustrate how three levels of organizational culture can be used for environmental analysis, performance…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Performance Technology
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Phillips, Jack J.; Phillips, Patricia P. – Performance Improvement, 2003
Discusses the use of action planning to measure the return on investment (ROI) for use with performance improvement interventions. Describes how this process is used and presents a case study showing how one organization built evaluation into the performance improvement process and positioned action planning as an application tool. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Performance Technology
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Chevalier, Roger – Performance Improvement, 2003
Considers Thomas Gilbert's Behavior Engineering Model as a tool for systematically identifying barriers to individual and organizational performance. Includes a detailed case study and a performance aid that incorporates gap analysis, cause analysis, and force field analysis to update the original model. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Force Field Analysis, Models, Performance Technology
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