The 21st century is nearly two decades old, and the faculty ranks at our educational institutions remain sparsely diverse. While educational institutions are continually being challenged to increase the diversity of their faculty, progress is slow. This essay offers a perspective on the importance of diversity in our educational institutions as well as on the traditional metrics that our instit...

In developing nations where distance education is viewed with great interest, cloud computing provides a necessary solution in creating a 21st century educational environment. Cloud computing facilitates the use of open source in educational institutions in the online learning environment where the social web or software can be used to network institutions, libraries, and students in their home...

This paper describes a reengineering project undertaken by a comprehensive university’s extended education department. The project involved a transition from a decentralized workplace dominated by Macintosh personal computers to an IBM PC/clone-based client/server environment. Lessons learned during the decision making and platform conversion stages of the project are emphasized. These lessons ...

Education today is becoming completely associated with the Information Technology on the content delivery, communication and collaboration. The need for servers, storage and software are highly demanding in the universities, colleges and schools. Cloud Computing is an Internet based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information, are provided to computers and devices on-demand, l...

For the past couple of years entrepreneurship development is considered as the priority area in the development policy in many countries, especially in India. The young entrepreneurs are engaged in varied form of small and medium scale enterprises ranging from paper to electronics, engineering to electrical, textile to metal and pipe industry, construction to food processing, education to handi...

As an interdisciplinary discipline, data mining (DM) is popular in education area especially when examining students’ learning performances. It focuses on analyzing educational related data to develop models for improving learners’ learning experiences and enhancing institutional effectiveness. Therefore, DM does help education institutions provide highquality education for its learners. Applyi...

KSU's results from the 2004 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) contained strong and substantial evidence of the assurance of learning in the university's undergraduate educational experience. The overall educational experience at KSU was highly rated by first-year and senior students. Findings affirmed high levels of assurance of learning in the fundamental learning outcomes of Genera...

The diffusion of innovation (DOI) is critical for any organization and especially nowadays for higher education institutions (HEIs) in the light of vast pressure of emerging educational technologies as well as of the demand of economy and society. DOI takes into account the initial and the implementation phase. The conceptual model of DOI in higher education (HE), where e-learning is considered...

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of an innovative professional educational approach on clinicians' confidence and ability to make institutional improvements in pediatric palliative care. DESIGN Evaluation to assess impact of educational intervention on participants and participant institutions. SETTING Retreats lasting 2.5 days. PARTICIPANTS Physicians, nurses, psychosocial staff, and be...