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Post-Implementation Success Factors for Enterprise Resource Planning Student Administration Systems in Higher Education Institutions
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Sullivan, Linda; Bozeman, William – College and University, 2010
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems can represent one of the largest investments of human and financial resources by a higher education institution. They also bring a significant process reengineering aspect to the institution and the associated implementation project through the integration of compiled industry best practices into the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Environment, Program Implementation, Formative Evaluation
Education for Sustainable Development Networks, Potential and Challenge: A Critical Reflection on the Formation of the Caribbean Regional Network
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Down, Lorna; Nurse, Henderson – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2007
In this paper we seek to reflect critically on the process of establishing a Caribbean Network for the reorientation of teacher education to address sustainability. We begin by addressing the origin and purpose/value of the network. As a sub-network of the UNITWIN/UNESCO International Network for the Reorientation of Teacher Education to Address…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Network Analysis, Communication Research, Regional Programs
Limitations of Systems Analysis
Hartley, Harry J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1969
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Costs, Educational Planning, Educational Problems
Managing Training of Military Units: Development of a Management Information System.
Atwood, Nancy K.; Hiller, Jack H. – 1986
An automated management information system was developed for planning and scheduling unit training in a U.S. Army infantry division. The primary goal of the project was to test the feasibility of the concept for a computer-based management information system. Specific objectives were to integrate information on personnel, training, and logistics…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Formative Evaluation, Management Information Systems
Redesigning Accountability Systems for Education. CPRE Policy Briefs. RB-38
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Fuhrman, Susan H. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2003
To assist in the redesign of accountability systems, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) and the Center for Research on Evaluation, Student Standards, and Testing (CRESST) sought to assemble knowledge from new research on emerging accountability systems. A book, "Redesigning Accountability Systems for Education," edited by Susan…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Quality, Quality Control, Systems Analysis
Technology and the Quest for Academic Productivity
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Green, Kenneth C. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2004
Colleges, like corporations, spend millions each year on information technology products and services to support academic programs and administrative services. A good deal of these dollars were not part of institutional budgets not long ago. In this context, textbook economics suggest that colleges and universities should be "more productive"…
Descriptors: Metric System, Value Judgment, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
Systems Reform in the Jobs Initiative: Lessons from Using the Framework for Labor Market Systems Reform.
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Plastrik, Peter – 2001
Since the mid-1990s, job-training and employment programs for low-income people have begun to emphasize not only program development and implementation, but also reform of the "system" of labor market, employers, training providers, and helping agencies. In 1995, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which launched the Jobs Initiative in 6…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods