Monica Bulger, K. Almeroth, R. Mayer, Dorothy M. Chun, Allan Knight, Heather Collins
{"title":"Effects of Instructor Engagement on Student Use of a Course Management System","authors":"Monica Bulger, K. Almeroth, R. Mayer, Dorothy M. Chun, Allan Knight, Heather Collins","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1859284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1859284","url":null,"abstract":"College campuses are rapidly adopting Course Management Systems (CMS) such as Moodle and Sakai for undergraduate instruction. These online support systems offer the potential to extend student-instructor interaction beyond the classroom, yet little is known about the effects of instructor engagement on student use.This study evaluates the extent to which instructor use of a CMS affects student use and whether increased student use results in improved academic performance. Participants in two intact courses taught by the same instructor used course resources available on Moodle during an academic quarter. Levels of online course support provided by the instructor were compared with levels of student use. Levels of student use were then compared with academic performance. In this study, we hypothesize that instructor engagement with a CMS affects how students use the system and that this use relates to academic performance.","PeriodicalId":400873,"journal":{"name":"Microeconomics: Information","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131332531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information Field Time Use - Expertise for the Commitee for the Improvement of the Informational Infrastructure between Science and Statistics","authors":"J. Merz","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1409934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1409934","url":null,"abstract":"Information domain time use: This is the topic of this expert opinion for thecommisssion to improve the informational infrastructure between sciences andstatistics, which is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research(BMBF). Following a given structure the content encompasses: supplier ofinformation, data situation, employer of data production, financing, law foundation,data protection rules, information dissemination, availability of individual records aswell as recommendations.","PeriodicalId":400873,"journal":{"name":"Microeconomics: Information","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130287794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complexity, HRD and Organisation Development: Towards a Viable Systems Approach to Learning, Development and Change","authors":"P. Iles, M. Yolles","doi":"10.4324/9780203410158-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203410158-9","url":null,"abstract":"Systems thinking and organisation development (OD) are increasingly recognised as core foundations of contemporary HRD. However, most current thinking in OD is based on outdated, simplistic systems models incapable of dealing adequately with complexity, and so cannot as constituted contribute to HRD's ability to respond to complexity. The paper discusses the challenges complexity and complexity theories pose to HRD, especially to current models of 'strategic' HRD, and goes on to critique current thinking in OD, especially its conceptualisations of power, politics and transformational change. It then develops a viable systems model of HRD as more able to manage and respond to complexity.","PeriodicalId":400873,"journal":{"name":"Microeconomics: Information","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121514022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fuzzy Expert System for Solving Real-Option Decision Processes","authors":"C. Magni, Giovanni Mastroleo, G. Facchinetti","doi":"10.25102/fer.2001.02.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25102/fer.2001.02.04","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new approach to real options. The current options-based models have provided new insights into capital-budgeting decisions. Unfortunately they are not widely used by corporate managers and practitioners as they are formally complex, rather difficult to understand and rest on strong implicit assumptions that considerably limit their scope of application. We propose a possible alternative by using a fuzzy expert system, on the basis of Mastroleo, Facchinetti and Magni (2001). We draw up a decision tree with multiple uncertain variables affecting the value of an investment opportunity, consisting of a defer option, a growth option, an abandonment option. Some simulations are conducted to test the economic soundness of the model as well as its consistency with the current models in the literature. A rather refined study can be accomplished by showing how inputs and outputs of the model interrelate one another.","PeriodicalId":400873,"journal":{"name":"Microeconomics: Information","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131347090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}