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Rules of Engagement: Developing the Online Tutor
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McGuigan, Aileen; Golden, Lucy – Research in Learning Technology, 2012
This paper considers professional development in a context that is familiar and problematic to teaching teams in tertiary education everywhere, that of delivering online programmes with an ever-decreasing complement of staff. The Teaching Qualification Further Education (TQFE) teaching team at University of Dundee confronted the reality of reduced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions, Educational Policy, Web Based Instruction
Re-Conceptualizing Professional Development of Teacher Educators in Post-Soviet Latvia
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Silova, Iveta; Moyer, Amy; Webster, Colin; McAllister, Suzanne – Professional Development in Education, 2010
During the first decade of post-socialist transformation in Eastern Europe, the majority of education reform projects focused on in-service teacher education. Governments, international agencies and non-governmental organizations prioritized various in-service teacher education programs to help teachers deal with rapid changes in schools. This has…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Branch Libraries in ARL Institutions. SPEC Kit 99.
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1983
In response to a May 1983 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) survey, 94 university library members (90% of this category of ARL membership) provided information and documents about current library branches, changes during the last 5 years, and current and planned automation activities. It was found that 63 respondents (68%) considered their…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Branch Libraries, Centralization, Decentralization
Library Instruction. SPEC Kit 17.
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1977
At the request of the Pennsylvania State University Library, the Office of Management Studies surveyed Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members requesting information and documentation illustrating the organization, nature, and level of the library instruction function at their institutions. A review of the responses from 64 of the 94 ARL…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Organization, Centralization, Decentralization
A Call for Different Styles of Data Management and Institutional Research: Centralized versus Decentralized Planning.
Bryson, Charles H.; Howard, Richard D. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1979
The planning processes at two universities are contrasted as they relate to styles of data management and institutional research required to support two different planning philosophies--centralized planning and decentralized planning. (Author/BH)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Centralization, College Planning
Stanford University.
CAUSE/EFFECT, 1979
The operations of the Stanford Center for Information Processing (SCIP) at Stanford University are described: SCIP manages most of the centralized computing facilities at the university. (BH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Centralization, College Administration, Computer Science
Access to Educational Opportunity in Rural Communities: Alternative Patterns of Delivering Vocational Education in Sparsely Populated Areas. Volume 4: The Interdistrict Cooperative Center: A Centralized Center.
Peterson, Roland L.; And Others – 1986
The centralized secondary center pattern of inter-school district cooperation is examined in this third of four case studies addressing access of rural students to vocational education. The report identifies essential features of this form of cooperation, details factors facilitating/impeding the operation/maintenance of the cooperative…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agricultural Education, Case Studies, Centralization
Surviving the Consolidation Crunch through the Use of a Mini Computer.
Clark, Donald W. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1978
Consolidation of Central Washington University's computing capability to an off-campus state service center and the use of mini computers on campus is discussed. The mini computer system is cost effective and provides an efficient on-line interactive student information system for the small and medium size institution. (BH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Centralization, Change Strategies, College Planning