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Song, Yaxiao – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Video surrogates can help people quickly make sense of the content of a video before downloading or seeking more detailed information. Visual and audio features of a video are primary information carriers and might become important components of video retrieval and video sense-making. In the past decades, most research and development efforts on…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Research and Development, Internet, Information Technology
West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, 2014
In 2005, West Virginia science and education leaders developed a strategic plan entitled: "Vision 2015: The West Virginia Science and Technology Strategic Plan." The plan is comprised of five (5) target areas for infrastructure development, with 14 goals for action by designated leaders from higher education, state government, and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, STEM Education, Science Education, Federal Aid
Hyslop, Alisha – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2008
National activities focus on priority areas and are often designed to develop, improve and identify the most successful methods and techniques for providing career and technical education (CTE) programs under Perkins. One of these priority areas under the 2006 Perkins Act is the integration of academic and technical education. Since the early…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Mathematics Education, Agriculture, Food
Turkle, Sherry – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
In the ongoing national conversation about science education in America, there is a new consensus that people have entered a time of crisis in their relationship to the international scientific and engineering community. When the science committee of the House of Representatives asked the National Academies, the nation's leading scientific…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Incentives, Science Teachers, Public Agencies
National Science Foundation, 2010
The Science Indicators series was designed to provide a broad base of quantitative information about U.S. science, engineering, and technology for use by policymakers, researchers, and the general public. "Science and Engineering Indicators 2010" contains analyses of key aspects of the scope, quality, and vitality of the Nation's science…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Education, Engineering Education, Competition
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1990
Prepared in response to a request from the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, this report assesses how scientific and technical information (STI) developed by or for the Federal Government can contribute to a more competitive United States and what actions are needed to realize this potential. It is argued that STI is important…
Descriptors: Databases, Federal Government, Global Approach, Government Role