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- Nortel Networks Case Study: University of West Georgia
- The University of West Georgia serves 10,000-plus students and proudly proclaims its motto of "Educational Excellence in a Personal Environment." They wanted uniform telephone service across campus, and they needed the flexibility to serve 43 buildings with varying densities of phone lines - from 5 to 20 people in smaller...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., University Of West Georgia, Nortel Communication Server 1000M, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies 2005-11-21
- 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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- A Framework for Operational Decision-Making in Course Development and Delivery
- This paper will discuss factors that influence operational decision-making during curriculum and course development and delivery, how these factors integrate, findings in the literature and how they apply to the practical context. Finally, the paper provides a framework to support decision-making processes involved in the online instructional practice within distance...
- Tags: Distance Education, Decision-making, University Of West Georgia, Tools & Techniques, E-learning, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
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- A Planning and Assessment Model for Developing Effective CMS Support
- At the University of Florida, in Spring 2003, more than 32,000 individuals enrolled in courses using the centrally-supported Course Management System CMS. Because less than 1 full time equivalent FTE was allocated to support the CMS, this created problems for both users and support providers. In the face of rapid...
- Tags: University Of West Georgia, Content Management System, Content Management, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Human Resources, Management
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- Thirty-Two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Planning
- Recent issues in this journal and other prominent distance-learning journals have established the need for administrators to be informed and prepared with strategic plans equal to foreseeable challenges. This paper provides decision makers with 32 trends that affect distance learning and thus enable them to plan accordingly. The trends are...
- Tags: Trend, Distance Education, Distance Learning, Strategic Planning, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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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 Learning: Promises, Problems, and Possibilities
- Distance learning and its relationship to emerging computer technologies have together offered many promises to the field of education. In practice however, the combination often falls short of what it attempts to accomplish. Some of the shortcomings are due to problems with the technology; others have more to do with...
- Tags: Distance Learning, University Of West Georgia, 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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- 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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- Bringing It All Together
- Faculty are moving forward, technologies are improving, and student demand is increasing?but few changes are taking place in the university structure as a whole to accommodate the special needs of the distance-learning student. More attention needs to be given to organizational structures that service the distance learner. There has never...
- Tags: Student, University Of West Georgia, Organizational Structure, Human Resources
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- Case-Study: A Satellite-Based Internet Learning System for the Hospitality Industry
- This paper describes and evaluates the Northern Arizona University NAU pilot program for delivering training and continuing education programs to students at homes and hospitality establishments using a combination of satellite and Internet technologies. This investigation involved the delivery of three different hospitality courses to four different Arizona sites using...
- Tags: Industry, University Of West Georgia, Satellite, Internet, Network Technology, Networking
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- Six Factors to Consider When Planning Online Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education
- The Internet and the World Wide Web WWW have made the process of obtaining an education without regard to time or location easier for the student. At the same time, they have provided more challenges for the colleges providing this education. In online distance learning, not only does the instruction...
- Tags: Education, Distance Learning, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?
- According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...
- Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs
- A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...
- Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?
- Any major Western company doing business in China is collaborating with the government to some degree. We know this. Chinese citizens know this. The best case scenario is probably Microsoft or Google's operations where access to certain information is limited. The worst case, until now, has been Yahoo's explicit cooperation...
- Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Tom, Government, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Wireless, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese service
- Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese serviceSo when do we clean up our own act?First we need to clean up our own operation, put a little sunshine into the dark corners of the domestic-"intelligence" "community", enact and enforce strong privacy legislation (at least on par with what's in effect...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Says, agreement
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have now
- Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have nowRE: Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have nowMy friend, you are correct. Kudos to you, and thanks for the heads-up.I think the slash in the C:/ prompt is backwards...C: instead of C:/ in PC...
- Tags: Keyboards, nostalgia, Gadget nostalgia, C:","ZDDF.DT.29.52609
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Semantic guardians for our computers?
- If your computer has never crashed, it's because it has been built on another planet. The microprocessors we use are faster and more complex year after year, increasing the risks of being hit by 'functional bugs.' This is why University of Michigan (U-M) researchers have started to develop a system...
- Tags: Monitor, Researcher, Computer, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Fans to build own radio as Slacker takes on iPod
- Fans to build own radio as Slacker takes on iPodWow, just heard about these guysAs it turns out I just found an ad for these guys right up there when looking for "internet Music-on-Demand" at google. There were just a few links Prior to this company's URL though. ...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Digital music, Microsoft Zune, Slacker, Apple iPod, radio
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
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