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- Recruitment and Development of Online Adjunct Instructors
- Adjunct faculty is used heavily in the community college setting. Community colleges are market-sensitive, and strive to serve the community. With the advent of distance learning, community colleges now serve a global community. Distance learning managers will frequently recruit faculty from the institutional full time faculty pool. However, with recent...
- Tags: University Of West Georgia, Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, E-learning, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Distance Education: Facing the Faculty Challenge
- For a variety of reasons, faculty resist efforts to force them into distance learning. They resist individually or as a whole, often seeking the guidance of union representatives. While individual faculty members may have individual reasons to resist participating in the latest wave of distance education, there are several reasons...
- Tags: Distance Education, University Of West Georgia, Faculty, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Faculty Recruitment Strategies for Online Programs
- This paper addresses faculty recruitment for online programs. Related issues are faculty perceptions, program processes, and administrative supports. At traditional academic institutions, it is a challenge for program administrators to recruit admirable faculty members to teach in the online programs. The complaints and concerns expressed by the detractors need to...
- Tags: Program, University Of West Georgia, Faculty Recruitment, Strategy, Management
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- Corporate to Academia
- Has anyone successfully made the transition from the corporate world to academia college level? Can you describe your experience? Can you please provide your thoughts on the following?· Are you full-time or a part-time adjunct faculty member? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of either?· How did...
- Tags: academia, career, faculty, PhD, RB_ITProfessional, teaching
- Discussion threads 2006-08-30
- Faculty Attitudes Toward Distance Education at the State University of West Georgia
- The purpose of the study presented in this paper was to identify possible factors that affect faculty attitudes toward distance education. Results indicated a significant difference in attitude among those who had taught distance courses and those who had not, leading to the conclusion that experience breeds acceptance. The primary...
- Tags: Distance Education, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Literature Review - Faculty Participation in Online Distance Education: Barriers and Motivators
- Distance education is a medium of teaching and learning that has grown significantly in the past 10 years as indicated by the number of higher education institutions that offer courses and/or full degree programs via distance learning. The purpose of this paper is to examine the overall attitude of higher...
- Tags: Barrier, Distance Education, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Faculty of Law Improves e-Learning Experience With IBM and Opus Neo
- To meet government demands and encourage student applications to its programmes, the Faculty of Law at Lund University needed to improve its online course delivery system. An existing system could deliver lectures online, but did not provide sufficient interactivity and necessitated considerable manual processing. The Faculty of Law at Lund...
- Tags: Lund University, e-learning, IBM Corp.
- Case studies 2006-10-20
- Proxim Case Study: University of Tennessee Wireless
- The University of Tennessee at Knoxville offers undergraduate, graduate and professional education to over 27,000 students and employs more than 4,000 faculty and staff. As one of the premier universities in the state, the University is at the forefront of using technology and has recently deployed a campus wireless network...
- Tags: Proxim Corp., Wi-Fi, Wireless
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- Best Practices for Faculty using MindManager in the Education Environment
- This 30-minute webinar focuses on best practices for faculty members on using MindManager within the education environment. Learn more about using the mapping method to visualize information, develop ideas, enhance learning and increase productivity. NOTE: This webinar may require downloading the Webex player to view it....
- Tags: Education, Environment, Webinar, Best Practice, Mindjet
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- Business Software Gives Students Workplace Advantages, Faculty Receives Honor
- The Bloomsburg University College of Business strives to provide its students with relevant course material to prepare them for positions in real-world organizations. The College of Business partnered with the Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance to implement Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains 8.0, now a part of Microsoft Dynamics. Faculty...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Software, Workplace, Business Software, Microsoft Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Case studies 2006-11-01
- Cleveland State's WoWnet Gives Faculty and Students Convenient Access to Web and Courseware
- Cleveland State University CSU is a public, coeducational institution offering undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. Despite having installed a new wired infrastructure in 1999 throughout the campus, university officials soon recognized that a growing proportion of students - and faculty - were using portable computing systems. Cisco Aironet access points...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Access, University, Cisco Systems Inc., Cleveland State University
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- LDAP Searches From Darn Near Anywhere
- LDAP is most frequently accessed within e-mail clients to look up addresses and other information about users. At a large online university, many faculty find it useful to locate information about students by searching the comprehensive faculty and student LDAP directory. LDAP queries can be performed through a variety of...
- Tags: LDAP, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2004-03-08
- College Boosts IT Services, Builds Community, With Information Management Solution
- Tallahassee Community College TCC offers high-quality education at low cost to students in Florida. The college wanted to provide better IT services and information management solutions to faculty, staff, and students to improve the learning environment. To that end, TCC deployed an integrated solution of Microsoft server and desktop technologies...
- Tags: Information Management, IT Services, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Tallahassee Community College, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2008-03-26
- Creating a Thriving Learning Environment in Qatar With Symantec
- How do you ensure faculty, staff, and students are helped, not hindered by the technology that they rely on? That was the challenge facing The College of the North Atlantic in Qatar. Starting from a green field - or more likely a sandy - site, the College has deployed a...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Environment, Qatar, Security
- Case studies 2007-09-13
- How to get a job as an adjunct IT instructor
- Working as an adjunct college or technical school instructor is a great way to supplement your consulting income and make good networking contacts. You also get to enjoy a feeling of achievement in helping someone learn from your years of experience in the IT industry.I've worked as an adjunct for...
- Tags: adjunct, information technology, instructor, J.W. McCord, job
- Technical articles 2003-08-11
- Ruprecht-Karls-University's Medical Research Center (ZMF) Uses SAS to Take a Closer Look at Microarray DNA Research Data to Find New Targets
- The Medical Research Center ZMF, part of the Faculty for Clinical Medicine, Mannheim, a faculty of Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg, is a central service-provider for research units at the Faculty. In spite of the high level of investment in microarray systems, the ZMF faced a problem: how to more quickly convert...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Medical Research, Ruprecht-Karls-University, ZMF
- Case studies
- University Launches Online Courses, Measures Learning Outcomes With Education Portal
- North Carolina's Queens University of Charlotte wanted to better support its community's need for online education. Queens knew that online offerings and Web-based support for faculty would enhance the school's ability to attract faculty and students. Queens deployed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, the Microsoft Learning Gateway portal, and the...
- Tags: Education, Student, Microsoft Corp., Queens University, Portals, Web Technology, Collaboration, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Sepsis EGDT (zip)
- This is a program designed for implementation of Early Goal Directed Therapy EGDT. This program includes information about antibiotics, indications/contraindications to activated protein C Xigris, steps to complete EGDT, adjunct therapies and walks the clinician through EGDT.
- Tags: Program, HandHeldDoc, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-05-19
- Danish Engineering Students Gain Competitive Edge With Industry-Standard ERP Tools
- The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark is based on multiple sites. It caters for 2,200 students, more than 300 of whom are from overseas. Teaching is in Danish and English. The faculty is committed to ensuring its graduates are equipped to work in real-world settings. It...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Corp., Faculty, Service Management, Business Structures, Productivity, Strategy, Finance, Management
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- Attracting Students and Faculty to Western Kentucky With Intelligent Multi-Campus Voice, IM, Video and Mobility Applications
- Western Kentucky University wanted to increase the productivity and quality of faculty, staff and student interactions, including flexible methods of remote instruction and remote "Virtual" office hours across seven campuses. To bring students and faculty together for classes and meetings across seven campuses, Western Kentucky University engineered individualized video communications...
- Tags: IM, Voice, Mobility, Video, Avaya Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-08-01
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