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Big Data Infrastructure at the Crossroads: Support Needs and Challenges for Universities. Research Report
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Ruediger, Dylan – ITHAKA S+R, 2021
Ithaka S+R's Research Support Services program's most recent project, "Supporting Big Data Research," focused specifically on the rapidly emerging use of big data in research across disciplines and fields. As part of this study, they partnered with librarians from more than 20 colleges and universities, who then conducted over 200…
Descriptors: Colleges, Universities, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Using Social Networks to Enhance Teaching and Learning Experiences in Higher Learning Institutions
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Balakrishnan, Vimala – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2014
The paper first explores the factors that affect the use of social networks to enhance teaching and learning experiences among students and lecturers, using structured questionnaires prepared based on the Push-Pull-Mooring framework. A total of 455 students and lecturers from higher learning institutions in Malaysia participated in this study.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Questionnaires, College Students
7 Secrets of Lasting Relationships!
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Fredette, Michelle – Campus Technology, 2013
Do a web search on the phrase "CRM sucks" and one will find scores of articles, webinars, and blog rants dedicated to the theme. Indeed, if one uses constituent relationship management (CRM) software, one is probably familiar with the litany of complaints. But this is not the time to give up. After all, this is one relationship that really needs…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Web 2.0 Technologies
Website Interface Design: Similarity and Differences between Saudi Arabian and United States University Websites
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Alyahya, Dalia Mohammed – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The expansion of the Internet and online learning around the globe makes it more important to understand the differences in website design among cultures. Furthermore, the members of educational institutions around the world rely on the Internet more than ever before in a variety of aspects. Also, web design differs from culture to culture. Saudi…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Web Sites, Cultural Differences
Enhancing the Student Experience through Service Design: The University of Derby Approach
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Baranova, Polina; Morrison, Sue; Mutton, Jean – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2011
The student experience in higher education is firmly placed at the top of the strategic agenda for the majority of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK at present. In the current climate of public cuts, universities increasingly have to strike a delicate balance between cost efficiencies and delivery of the high-quality university…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Administration, Student Experience, Learning Experience
The LE Club Project: A Synergy of Systems for the "Learning Environment."
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Joy, Finbarr – Electronic Library, 1996
Examines distance learning delivery by the LE (Learning Environment) Club project, a collaboration between several Further Education colleges and Fretwell-Downing, a library automation company. The project integrates computer-supported learning with library automation systems, and addresses issues of user interface metaphors; tracking and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Libraries, Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction