...Report on Corporate e-Learning INTRODUCTION For good reason, the growth and development of our employees through improved learning opportunities is one of the main values found in PG&E’s mission statement. As a company, we are painstakingly aware that the future success of PG&E depends on our ability to provide our employees with the training and development that is necessary to drive better business outcomes in safety, customer satisfaction, financial performance, and environmental leadership. As corporate resources—time and money—continue to decline, providing the required training has become an increasingly difficult task. Faced with similar time and budget constraints, an increasing number of companies are turning to corporate e-learning as a viable solution. Corporate e-learning offers the promise of a more dynamic and interactive learning experience compared to traditional methods of corporate training at a lower and more cost-effective price (Brack 2). Over the past decade, there has been extensive research conducted in the field of corporate e-learning. This information is abundant, cheap, and readily accessible to those who wish to obtain it. For companies such as PG&E who are considering the adoption of corporate e-learning, whether purchased from an external source or designed and developed in-house, conducting a research literature review is the first step. Research literature discussing how e-learning programs meet or fail the needs of corporate e-learners, environmental...
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...University of Phoenix Material Practicum Learning Agreement Approved – AJP – 4-1-2014 Christine Lanthorn Anna Jean Pickus RN, MSN Student’s Name Faculty Name 606-932-9131 lanthorn7@aol.com University of Phoenix online Student’s Phone E-mail UOPX Campus 122 Saint Christopher Drive Ashland, Kentucky 41101 (606-836-0202) Ashland Bellefonte Cancer Center (ABCC) Michelle Brown contact person Practicum Site Name Practicum Address, City, State, Zip No practicum projects can be approved if they are based in Maryland, Tennessee, or Washington State, USA. No RN MSN mentors can be approved if they live and/or work in Maryland, Tennessee, or Washington State, USA. Stephanie Johnson EdD©, MSN,RN Morehead State University 150 University Boulevard Morehead, Ky 40351 Mentor’s Name and Educational Credentials Mentor’s Agency (Minimum of RN MSN required) Clinical Nursing Instructor 606-836-0202 sj.johnson@moreheadstate.edu Mentor’s Job Title Mentor’s Phone E-mail Maryland, Tennessee, and Washington, USA Students Students cannot complete ground-based clinical hours within the states of Maryland, Tennessee, or Washington, USA. Residents of these states must contact their instructor for further direction. |Practicum Goal: ...
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...accessibility support demands in electronic learning systems in the context of Higher Education Information Services. Your reasons and purposes for undertaking this project This programme of study continues personal research and professional practice in the field of Information Science, particularly within the area of end-user systems accessibility. Within Higher Education, there is evidence of constant innovation and changing approaches to provision of online services; however, the wide ranging and long term issue of user accessibility has clearly become a secondary consideration. My PhD research should underpin improved provision of accessible systems for adult learners who are disabled (as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act and amendments). Your research project Most recently, the VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) has become an important feature of electronic service delivery within the HE Information Services sector, demanding close attention to issues of functionality, sustainability and usability. Whilst some research has begun to examine the functionality of e-learning systems, little attention has been paid to usability issues, in particular to the accessibility of complex Web based interfaces for disabled users. Standards for achieving accessibility via technical specifications and interface design have been established for the conventional Web, however, it remains to be seen how far e-learning systems are conforming to these standards...
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...2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ce) DOI:10.4236/ce.2012.38b014 Critical Success Factors for Online Distance Learning in Higher Education: A Review of the Literature Bussakorn Cheawjindakarn1, Praweenya Suwannatthachote2, Anuchai Theeraroungchaisri3 1 Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Email: bussakornonline@gmail.com, praweenya@gmail.com, anuchai@gmail.com 2 Received 2012 The aim of this paper is to specify the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for Online Distance Learning (ODL) in Higher Education (HE). Research methodology was analyzing and synthesizing the literature review. The literatures were reviewed to determine items relevant to online learning success as implementation, criteria and indicator. A total of 19 papers, published during 2000-2012, were selected from Chulalongkorn University reference databases. Data analysis method was using one of the popular analysis techniques for qualitative research works or the content analysis. The results on the CSFs for ODL can be grouped into 5 factors: 1) institutional management, 2) learning environment, 3) instructional design, 4) services support and 5) course evaluation. Each of these 5 factors includes several important elements that can assist to enhance efficiency of online learning courses in higher education institutions. It is a concrete approach to lead functions of an online institute or course...
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...Managing Change in the NHS Organisational Change A REVIEW FOR HEALTH CARE MANAGERS, PROFESSIONALS AND RESEARCHERS Valerie Iles and Kim Sutherland Managing Change in the NHS Organisational Change A REVIEW FOR HEALTH CARE MANAGERS, PROFESSIONALS AND RESEARCHERS Valerie Iles and Kim Sutherland Contents Purpose and Acknowledgements Foreword 5 7 8 Introduction Part 1 The literature on change management Part 2 Tools, models and approaches: a selective review 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Where does the literature come from? What kind of evidence does it provide? What is meant by ‘change’? Organisational change in the NHS 12 13 14 18 2.1 How to access the models 2.2 How can we understand complexity, interdependence and fragmentation? Weisbord’s Six-Box Organisational Model 7S Model PESTELI Five Whys Content, Context and Process Model Soft Systems Methodology Process modelling Process flow Influence diagram Theory of Constraints (TOC) 22 25 25 27 29 30 32 34 36 37 38 39 40 40 42 43 45 46 47 48 48 50 54 54 55 56 56 58 2.3 Why do we need to change? SWOT analysis 2.4 Who and what can change? Force field analysis ‘Sources and potency of forces’ ‘Readiness and capability’ Commitment, enrolment and compliance Organisation-level change interventions Total Quality Management (TQM) Business Process Reengineering (BPR) Group-level change interventions Parallel learning structures Self-managed teams Individual-level change interventions Innovation research...
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...HRBUS83/101/0/2016 Tutorial Letter 101/0/2016 HRBUS83 - Research Project (Business Management) Department of Business Management IMPORTANT INFORMATION This tutorial letter contains important information about module HRBUS83. YOU MUST READ THROUGH THIS TUTORIAL LETTER AND BECHONB/301/3/2016. Open Rubric CONTENTS Page 1 INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3 2 PURPOSE OF AND OUTCOMES FOR THE MODULE ................................................................ 3 2.1 Purpose ........................................................................................................................................3 2.2 Learning outcomes .......................................................................................................................4 3 LECTURER(S) AND CONTACT DETAILS................................................................................... 4 3.1 Coordinator and lecturer/supervisor .............................................................................................. 4 3.2 Department ...................................................................................................................................4 3.3 Unisa contact details .....................................................................................................................4 4 MODULE-RELATED RESOURCES ............................................
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...Support Curriculum Review, Revision, and Design in an Associate Degree Nursing Program B E T T Y W. D AV I S P A R T I C I PAT I O N IN CURRICULUM DESIGN of program outcomes has been identified as a core competency for nurse educators A N D E VA L UAT I O N (Billings & Halstead, 2009; Southern Regional Education Board, 2002). Facing declining NCLEX-RN® pass rates, faculty at an associate degree nursing program at a public community college in Mississippi responded to the National League for Nursing ([NLN] 2005b) call to transform nursing education by undertaking an intensive critique of its curriculum and program outcomes. Based on this analysis, a conceptual framework was created to guide curriculum revision, development, and implementation. The framework provides structure for ongoing and systematic curriculum review and revision. A review of the literature revealed the need to move from a teaching-centered to a learning-centered approach to teaching. Learning-centered institutional design is reflective of a number of principles: the need to bring about substantive change in participants; the full engagement of learners and the mindset that students bear primary responsibility for personal choices; multiple learning options to appeal to students’ preferred learning styles; the enhancement of collaboration; educators as learning facilitators; and measurement of success through the documented improvement and expansion of learning. Learning-centered curricula...
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...HRBUS82/101/0/2015 Tutorial letter 101/0/2015 Research Report HRBUS82 Year Module Department of Business Management IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This tutorial letter contains important information about your module. Note: This is an online module, and therefore your module is available on myUnisa. However, in order to support you in your learning process, you will also receive some study materials in printed format. Open Rubric CONTENTS Page 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 4 1.1 Module format ................................................................................................................................. 4 1.1.1 Fully online module ......................................................................................................................... 4 1.1.2 Printed materials to support the online module............................................................................... 4 2 PURPOSE OF AND OUTCOMES FOR THE MODULE ............................................................... 5 2.1 Purpose .......................................................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Outcomes ....................................................................................................................................... 5 3 ...
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...DESIGNING E-LEARNING IN THE BUSINESS SCHOOLS OF KARACHI Research Project 1 Syed Arsalan Ali GR.No: 211018 In partial fulfillment of the requirement of the degree of Bachelors of Business Administration Under the Supervision of Mr. Riaz H. Soomro Presented to Hamdard Institute of Management Sciences HAMDARD UNIVERSITY, KARACHI Spring 2014 ABSTRACT We know that e-learning is very important factor in teaching of the universities, many universities use e-learning methods in their teaching and many not, by using e-learning methods in the teachings the university can satisfy their students and can generate their more and more revenue. For this study the different business schools of Karachi is selected to find out that at what level university is using e-learning methods in their teaching, for that the questionnaire is generated with the help of which the survey is done from different students of different universities of Karachi. In result there are some areas at which the universities of Karachi is not using e-learning methods for that the recommendation is done in order to improve the performance of that universities, that recommendation can be seen in conclusion of this study. CERTIFICATE This is certified that research work contained in this Research Project 1 entitled “DESIGNINGE-LEARNING IN BUSINESS SCHOOLS OF KARACHI” has been carried out and completed by Syed Arsalan Ali under my direct supervision and guidance at the Hamdard Institute...
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...Academy of Management Review 2007, Vol. 32, No. 4, 1041–1059. GROUP LEARNING JEANNE M. WILSON The College of William & Mary PAUL S. GOODMAN Carnegie Mellon University MATTHEW A. CRONIN George Mason University We clarify the construct of group learning, encouraging new directions for research. Definitions of group learning vary considerably across studies, making it difficult to systematically accumulate evidence. To reconcile disparate approaches, we first present a set of features for distinguishing group learning from other concepts. We then develop a framework for understanding group learning that focuses on learning’s basic processes at the group level of analysis: sharing, storage, and retrieval. By doing so, we define the construct space, identify gaps in current treatments of group learning, and illuminate new possibilities for measurement. • In an eight-person product development team, one member from Engineering learns a new method for three-dimensional graphing and starts using it in her rough product designs. As a result, the team’s development costs decrease. • Based on its experience with the Love Me cybervirus, a national internet security team agrees that, in the future, the team should wait to send out alerts until it has a tested fix to recommend. Seven weeks later, when the Me Too bug strikes, the team delays sending out an alert for an extra four hours while it develops a patch. This response is roundly criticized in the internet security community. ...
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...14:81–95 DOI 10.1007/s10209-014-0348-1 LONG PAPER Technology acceptance model: a literature review from 1986 to 2013 ´ ´ Nikola Marangunic • Andrina Granic Published online: 16 February 2014 Ó Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract With the ever-increasing development of technology and its integration into users’ private and professional life, a decision regarding its acceptance or rejection still remains an open question. A respectable amount of work dealing with the technology acceptance model (TAM), from its first appearance more than a quarter of a century ago, clearly indicates a popularity of the model in the field of technology acceptance. Originated in the psychological theory of reasoned action and theory of planned behavior, TAM has evolved to become a key model in understanding predictors of human behavior toward potential acceptance or rejection of the technology. The main aim of the paper is to provide an up-to-date, wellresearched resource of past and current references to TAMrelated literature and to identify possible directions for future TAM research. The paper presents a comprehensive concept-centric literature review of the TAM, from 1986 onwards. According to a designed methodology, 85 scientific publications have been selected and classified according to their aim and content into three categories such as (i) TAM literature reviews, (ii) development and extension of TAM, and (iii) modification and application of TAM. Despite...
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...emphasis on upholding personal integrity, academic scholarship, and development of campus leaders. Recent concerns, however, assert that the drinking behaviors of members of Greek organizations are antithetical to the mission of their universities. Objective: The author's purpose in this review was to systematically examine scientific literature addressing the effect of Greek affiliation on alcohol-related beliefs and behaviors. The internal and external influences affecting Greek members' alcohol-related beliefs and behaviors are organized into a frame-work of various health behavior theories, based on the ecological perspective's levels of influence.Results: Results provide a broad perspective into the individual characteristics, social peer network, and environmental aspects influencing alcohol-related behavior among Greek members. Findings suggest that Greek members comprise a subgroup that consumes alcohol in greater quantities, underscores and misperceives the risks of alcohol abuse, and emulates a social environment and culture in which drinking alcohol is a key part of life. Problem drinking during the college years is a significant public health concern. The goal of the current review was to examine the primary psychosocial factors that predict problem drinking in college students. Variables examined included demographic variables, personality, drinking history, alcohol expectancies, drinking motives, stress and coping, activity involvement, and peer and family influence...
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...DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION ON SECURITY BASED TAM IN E-LEARNING : EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS Abstract: Software organizations and educational institutions rely heavily upon e-learning technologies nowadays. There is a requirement to know how numerous interventions can influence the recognized determinants of IT design, acceptance and usage. The statistical meta-analysis of several prototypes, particularly the technology acceptance model (TAM) studies have shown that it is a valid and robust model that has been very widely used, but which hypothetically has broader applicability. Though TAM has been considered to be one of the most widely used models in Information Systems and Technology, however, it is imperfect. There have been numerous researches...
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...Knowledge Management. Contemporary Trends and Issues ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING Povilas Brilius Baifoteka Ltd, Lithuania, povilas@baifoteka.com Abstract: Organizational Learning (OL) is recognized to have established itself as a discipline. However, it remains unclear what it is primarily focused onto – practical problem solving or theoretical descriptive analysis. Due to largely fragmented literature, sometimes interweaving concepts and a variety of attitudes, practitioners find it difficult to easily apply this field, meantime theorists call for more comprehensive understanding of OL. This article focuses on contemporary trends in OL research. It argues and unveils that current OL investigation has made a shift towards holistic and integrative approach in which individual has more powers to make a decision. Article illustrates such contemporary shift of mind by (a) summarizing most important literature in the field (b) providing examples of latest research in OL area. For a smoother analysis, author builds and applies working framework of dichotomies between concepts (dialectical approach). Keywords: organizational learning, contemporary trends, holism. JEL Classification: D800, D830 1. Introduction During the last 50-60 years Organizational Learning (OL) has undoubtedly established itself as a discipline – a number of concepts have been constructed and applied theoretically, numerous schools with distinct models have emerged. However, a question may be posed – to what...
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...INTRODUCTION: The article chosen for the critical review is “ERP Training with a web-based electronic learning system: The flow theory perspective” by: Duke Hyun Choi, Jeoungkun Kim, Soung Hie Kim. The article built strengths from the limitations of previous studies. Based from their range of literatures, they have found a gap in the information delivery system which is the lack of theoretical background. Then, exploration and validation of relationships with its key concepts. Through these boundaries the authors evidently stated their objectives. First, to present flow theory as a theoretical foundation in e-learning domain. Second, assess what student perceptive factors are significant to the key constructs: flow (holistic experience) and attitude towards the learning outcome. Third, develop a comprehensive theoretical framework that can be practiced in the e-learning field. After empirically explored with the help of survey questionnaire answered by the students of the ERP training program supported by Ministry of Korea, the antecedents that revealed directly (learner interface and content) and indirectly (interaction, instructor attitude towards students, instructor technical competence) influence the mediating variables thus affect mastery in ERP usage. Results suggested the inclusion of flow experience as new theoretical background and flow theory as a “promising theoretical foundation”. The article was structured logically and comprehensively. For example, in describing...
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