Leadership and Distance Education in Higher Education: A US perspective Sonja A. Irlbeck University of Minnesota Abstract The premise of this article is that while in the US understanding is growing about the technologies and strategies needed for effective distance education in an online environment, leadership efforts remain weak. The article describes leadership for distance education, historical perspectives of leading distance education, and how the Internet has directly changed distance
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Oral Presentation WGU JYC1 Task 1 Hello my name is Hugh Leonard and this is an Oral presentation done for WGU YJT Task 2 and the title of the presentation is Title of presentation: Social Environments and The Effects on Businesses Presentation topic : Social Environments Thesis Statement: Various research has suggested that the social environment of a business is integral aspect as to whether that business is a failure or a success because of a positive environment with positive reinforcement
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Horizontal Analysis Horizontal analysis is one of the two main ways to analysis the financial statements of a business. This analysis provides a year to year look at the financial performance of the business being evaluated. The spreadsheet that is attached provides a horizontal analysis of years 6, 7,and 8 for the balance sheet and income statement for Competitive Bikes and Two Wheel Racing.The horizontal analysis can take into account either the dollar amount of the changes over theyears or the
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Wgu Community Health Task 1 Community Health Assessment Szt Task 1 Community Description This city of Port Orange is located in Central Florida, in Volusia County. Dr Milton Hawks arrived during what was actually the second wave of settlers to explore what is now known as Port Orange. He is also credited with giving the settlement its name. It was incorporated April 26th of 1867. As of the U.S. census there were 56,048 residents of the growing city. The city’s total area is 28.7 square
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Competency Models: A Review of the Literature and The Role of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Pilots and Demonstration Team Division of Research and Evaluation Office of Policy Development and Research Employment and Training Administration U. S. Department of Labor January 29, 2008 Michelle R. Ennis Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Heidi M. Casta, Division Director, Research and Evaluation, and Jonathan Simonetta, Team Leader, Pilots and Demonstrations, for
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Memo TO: John Doe – Supervisor FROM: Jennifer Crawford Date: May 20, 2015 Re: WGU GHT1 Task 1 There are three types of costs when quality considerations are made, appraisal costs, prevention costs, and failure costs. Failure costs also include external failure and internal failure. A detailed explaination is included below: Appraisal costs are costs that the company incurs to ensure qaulity or uncover defects. This includes but is not limited to costs such as testing equipment, inspections
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C156 Advanced Information Management– Task 1 A2. Analysis of Technology Two organizations migrating to a common health information system would need a system that meets current regulatory requirements, meets the needs of the combined organization and their practice environment. The implementation of a common health information system would require an interdisciplinary group of forward thinking innovators, and an interoperable electronic medical record system that includes
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Shayla Mercer WGU Texas EET 4 Task 1: 602.3.5-01 I will introduce the graphic organizer for sequencing of events in a story to a second grade class. I will show the class the graphic organizer by using an overhead copy to display so the students can get familiar with how it looks. I will explain to the students we will use this graphic organizer to show what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of a story. I will tell the students that the graphic organizer is a good tool to help us
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Task 2 Leslie Carlson WGU Themes in U.S. and World History GKE1 August 30, 2014 Task 2 Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a Catholic Monk and German patriot who challenged the Catholic Church and brought about significant social and political change. He was a powerful individual that changed the course of history without politics or government affiliation (Wilson, 2007, p. 34). Luther believed that anyone who possessed a bible should be able to read it and guide his own religion. He thought
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Managing Organizations and Leading People, C200 Task 1 Managing Organizations and Leading People Evangeline Klingbeil 262608 WGU C200 Task 1 Emerson is a global technology and engineering solutions company that has been providing diversified and innovative solutions to customers for the last 125 years , as of 2015, employ more than 111,000 people . They are solution providers for industrial, commercial and consumer markets through its 5 business units. Those business units
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