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Learning Analytics: The Impact of Digital Tools in Upper-Level and Graduate Courses 学习分析：数字工具对高年级和研究生课程的影响

The Pinnacle: A Journal by Scholar-Practitioners Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.61643/c47674

Connie Johnson, Debra Burrington, Karen O'Donnell, Joelle Wren

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The Pinnacle: A Journal by Scholar-Practitioners Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.61643/c998239

Joel Maloff

{"title":"Silicon Snake Oil Revisited","authors":"Joel Maloff","doi":"10.61643/c998239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61643/c998239","url":null,"abstract":"Clifford Stoll authored The Cuckoo’s Egg, chronicling one of the first detected cybersecurity threats using the Internet. In 1995 and updated in 1998, Stoll followed the success of that book with Silicon Snake Oil. Promoted as the first book to ask intelligent questions regarding where the Internet was heading, we can now look back after nearly thirty years to see what one sage was expecting and what actually happened. Some of Stoll’s concerns have proven correct, especially about the proliferation of social media. However, there are other statements that, in 2023, are downright amusing. Case in point: “I don’t believe that phone books, newspapers, magazines, or corner video stores will disappear as computer networks spread. Nor do I think that my telephone will merge with my computer, to become some sort of information appliance.” Well, Cliff got that one wrong. The first iPhone was released less than ten years after this prognostication was published. The Palm Pilot and Research in Motion’s Blackberry were even earlier. Here is another pearl that turned to dust: “I doubt our offices will be replaced by minions working at home. The lack of meetings and personal interaction isolates workers and reduces loyalty.” The concept of a global pandemic and the need for business continuity was not imagined. This article delves into a contrarian’s view of the promise and dangers of the Internet in the 1990s and compares those thoughts with the world of 2023.","PeriodicalId":517839,"journal":{"name":"The Pinnacle: A Journal by Scholar-Practitioners","volume":"35 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140403567","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}

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Improving the Climate of Organizational Work Units through Socially Constructed Performance Appraisals 通过社会构建绩效评估改善组织工作单位的氛围

The Pinnacle: A Journal by Scholar-Practitioners Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.61643/c35090

Joshua Burton, Michael Boyd

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Analysing Language-Based Cyber Threats: An Examination of Cybersecurity for Chinese Text 分析基于语言的网络威胁：对中文文本网络安全的研究

The Pinnacle: A Journal by Scholar-Practitioners Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.61643/c78533

Bruce Mills

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The New Role of Business Education in Society 商业教育在社会中的新角色

The Pinnacle: A Journal by Scholar-Practitioners Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.61643/c97424

Bruce Stetar, Catherine McBride, David Gliddon, Cynthia Solari

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Collaboration, Socialization, and Support: Accountability Partners in an Online Doctoral Learning Environment 合作、社交和支持：在线博士学习环境中的责任伙伴

The Pinnacle: A Journal by Scholar-Practitioners Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.61643/c30275

Susan Weese, Rae Denise Madison, Valise Godley, Tim Cassibry, Mistie Measeles, Marty Rush

{"title":"Collaboration, Socialization, and Support: Accountability Partners in an Online Doctoral Learning Environment","authors":"Susan Weese, Rae Denise Madison, Valise Godley, Tim Cassibry, Mistie Measeles, Marty Rush","doi":"10.61643/c30275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61643/c30275","url":null,"abstract":"Non-traditional doctoral students encounter numerous challenges seeking a doctoral degree in an online learning environment. Non-traditional online doctoral students tend to be working adults who are integrating their online doctoral studies with the existing challenges of work and family. Effective online accountability partners must work within a framework of virtual mentoring competencies for online doctoral students to successfully collaborate, communicate, and learn together. The qualitative exploratory study explored the experiences of successful online doctoral students at working with accountability partners during their doctoral journey. The research question guiding the study was: How can accountability partner relationships be effective for online doctoral students when almost no face-to-face and in-person interaction takes place? The three themes emerging from the study addressed the online doctoral student's need for (1) collaboration, (2) socialization, and (3) support from their accountability partners. Study participants emphasized the many characteristics of a successful accountability partner relationship, including bidirectional support, feedback, communication, encouragement, cooperation, and collaboration. The study findings aligned with existing literature and illustrated the many challenges faced by online doctoral students that their more traditional student counterparts studying in a more traditional brick-and mortar university environment do not encounter. Numerous practical implications and recommendations resulted from this study. The researchers created the Collaboration, Socialization, and Support (CSS) framework using the thematic analysis of the coded interview results. The CSS framework is a practical model for creating and maintaining successful accountability partner relationship between online doctoral students.","PeriodicalId":517839,"journal":{"name":"The Pinnacle: A Journal by Scholar-Practitioners","volume":"5 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140401296","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}

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A Comparative Study of the Accuracy of Turn-It-In’s Artificial Intelligence Detector in CTU Doctoral Assignments Turn-It-In 人工智能检测器在 CTU 博士作业中的准确性比较研究

The Pinnacle: A Journal by Scholar-Practitioners Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.61643/c15963

Charles Kost

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The Role of Healthcare Managers in Employee Retention: Do Workers Leave Organizations or Managers? 医疗保健管理者在留住员工方面的作用：员工是离开组织还是离开管理者？

The Pinnacle: A Journal by Scholar-Practitioners Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.61643/c15722

Souad Chakib

{"title":"The Role of Healthcare Managers in Employee Retention: Do Workers Leave Organizations or Managers?","authors":"Souad Chakib","doi":"10.61643/c15722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61643/c15722","url":null,"abstract":"Healthcare organizations have been facing employee retention challenges since before the Covid-19 pandemic. This latter has solely accelerated turnover rates. Healthcare managers and leaders need to take action to keep their talent while still delivering quality care. The purpose of this paper is to provide a literature review on the subject to examine the role of healthcare managers in employee retention. Understanding how managers influence staff retention is essential to monitoring turnover rates and designing effective strategies for retaining skilled and talented healthcare employees. The findings of this review indicated that healthcare employees who were satisfied with the behavior of their managers were committed to their organization and more likely to remain employed for a long period. Communication, autonomy, respect and recognition, and training and development were significant predictors of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and staff retention. Improving staff retention strategies is critical to improving the quality of care, reducing healthcare costs, and achieving growth and success. The review concluded that healthcare managers play a crucial role in employee retention. Further exploration of the employee retention challenge is required to better understand this multifaceted area of human resource management.","PeriodicalId":517839,"journal":{"name":"The Pinnacle: A Journal by Scholar-Practitioners","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140286292","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}

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