scholarly journals Orchestrating learning analytics (OrLA): Supporting inter-stakeholder communication about adoption of learning analytics at the classroom level

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis P. Prieto ◽  
María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana ◽  
Roberto Martínez-Maldonado ◽  
Yannis Dimitriadis ◽  
Dragan Gašević
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Knowledge Gaps ◽  
Everyday Classroom ◽  
Stakeholder Communication ◽  
Classroom Level ◽  
Classroom Orchestration

Despite the recent surge of interest in learning analytics (LA), their adoption in everyday classroom practice is still slow. Knowledge gaps and lack of inter-stakeholder communication (particularly with educational practitioners) have been posited as critical factors for previous LA adoption failures. Yet, what issues should researchers, practitioners and other actors communicate about, when considering the adoption of an LA innovation in a particular context? We reviewed and synthesised existing literature on four focus areas related to LA, their adoption, implications for practice, and more general factors that have emerged as crucial when studying everyday classroom adoption of technologies (i.e., classroom orchestration). This synthesis resulted in two conversational frameworks and an inter-stakeholder communication tool. These can be used to guide and support conversations and decision-making about the adoption of LA innovations. We illustrate their usefulness with examples of use in ongoing LA adoption processes in Australia, Spain and Estonia.

scholarly journals Orchestrating Learning Analytics (OrLA): supporting the adoption of learning analytics at the practitioner level

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis P. Prieto ◽  
María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana ◽  
Roberto Martínez-Maldonado ◽  
Yannis Dimitriadis ◽  
Dragan Gasevic
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Educational Technology ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Knowledge Gaps ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Stakeholder Communication ◽  
Classroom Level

Despite the recent surge of research in learning analytics (LA), its adoption still is a slow and complex process. Previous research has identified the knowledge gaps and communication among different stakeholders (especially, at the practitioner level) as critical factors for successful adoption of LA innovations. This paper aims to address these issues through the recognition that limited adoption at the practitioner level is not particular to LA technology. Under the label “orchestration”, educational technology researchers have tried to refocus their work to emphasize the classroom-level constraints faced in everyday educational activities, in order to favor adoption. In this paper, we review both the learning analytics and orchestration literature to elicit the main aspects to consider in inter-stakeholder communication about the adoption of LA at the practitioner level. As a result of this review, we propose conceptual frameworks organizing these issues, and tools to support inter-stakeholder communication about LA adoption. We also provide examples that illustrate how researchers and practitioners are using these frameworks and tools to focus communication and decision-making during the adoption of LA innovations in Australia, Spain and Estonia.

scholarly journals Critical Factors In Data Governance For Learning Analytics

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noureddine Elouazizi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Governance Models ◽  
Context Of Learning ◽  
Modeling Data ◽  
High Level

This paper identifies some of the main challenges of data governance modeling in the context of learning analytics for higher education institutions, and discusses the critical factors for designing data governance models for learning analytics. It identifies three fundamental common challenges that cut across any learning analytics data governance model, viz., the ownership of the learning analytics data sets, its interpretation and the enacting of decision-making on the basis of this learning analytics data. It also proposes a set of high-level requirements that are necessary for modeling data governance for learning analytics.  

scholarly journals Evaluating Critical Factors Influencing the Reliability of Emergency Logistics Systems Using Multiple-Attribute Decision Making

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Jiang ◽  
Yixin Wang ◽  
Chao Liu ◽  
Yi-Chung Hu ◽  
Jingci Xie
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Multiple Attribute Decision Making ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Logistics System ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Emergency Logistics ◽  
Multiple Attribute ◽  
Coordination System

The infectious disease COVID-19 has swept across the world in 2020, and it continues to cause massive losses of life and severe economic problems in all countries. Providing emergency supplies such as protective medical equipment and materials required to secure people’s livelihood is thus currently prioritized by governments. Establishing a reliable emergency logistics system is critical in this regard. This paper used the Delphi method to design a formal decision structure to assess emergency logistics system reliability (ELSR) by obtaining a consensus from a panel of experts. Assessing ELSR is a typical multiple-attribute decision making (MADM) problem, and the related MADM methods are usually on the basis of symmetry principles. A hybrid MADM model, called the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL)-based Analytical Network Process (D-ANP), was developed to identify the critical factors influencing ELSR. An analysis of empirical evidence showed that the emergency logistics command and coordination system and the emergency material supply system play important roles in ELSR, while the emergency logistics transportation and distribution system and the emergency information system are not so important. This conclusion is different from previous research about traditional disaster emergency logistics. Moreover, the cause–effect relationships among the key factors indicated that the system of command and coordination for emergency logistics and the supply system for emergency materials should be improved. Accordingly, effective suggestions for emergency logistics services for epidemic prevention are provided in this paper. The main contributions of this paper are (1) establishing a comprehensive and systematic evaluating index of ELSR for epidemic prevention; (2) employing a kind of structured, namely D-ANP, to identify the critical factors with non-commensurable and conflicting (competing) characteristics; and (3) comparing the differences of reliable criteria between the emergency logistics of epidemic prevention and the traditional disaster emergency logistics.

Naturalistic Decision Making in High Performance Team Sport Coaching

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Harvey ◽  
John William Baird Lyle ◽  
Bob Muir
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Naturalistic Decision Making ◽  
Problem Framing ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
Suitable Framework ◽  
And Training

A defining element of coaching expertise is characterised by the coach’s ability to make decisions. Recent literature has explored the potential of Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) as a useful framework for research into coaches’ in situ decision making behaviour. The purpose of this paper was to investigate whether the NDM paradigm offered a valid mechanism for exploring three high performance coaches’ decision-making behaviour in competition and training settings. The approach comprised three phases: 1) existing literature was synthesised to develop a conceptual framework of decision-making cues to guide and shape the exploration of empirical data; 2) data were generated from stimulated recall procedures to populate the framework; 3) existing theory was combined with empirical evidence to generate a set of concepts that offer explanations for the coaches’ decision-making behaviour. Findings revealed that NDM offered a suitable framework to apply to coaches’ decision-making behaviour. This behaviour was guided by the emergence of a slow, interactive script that evolves through a process of pattern recognition and/or problem framing. This revealed ‘key attractors’ that formed the initial catalyst and the potential necessity for the coach to make a decision through the breaching of a ‘threshold’. These were the critical factors for coaches’ interventions.

Wise Agents & Organisational Moral Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iznan Tarip
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Moral Learning ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Functional Relevance ◽  
Learning Forward

The processes of strategic change, undertaken from time to time by organisations so as to maintain its functional relevance and effectiveness, are often conflict-ridden. This is in large part due to the nature of the human agency. Humans bring not only rationality into the decision-making processes, but also their inherent dispositions: intuitions, biases, emotions, and so on. In order to understand the factors that cause conflict in the processes of strategic change, this paper employs al-Ghazali’s concept of the ‘purification of the heart’, and ‘organisational moral learning’. An analytical framework is constructed using these two concepts to illustrate the interplay between contextual organisational configurations, the wider socio-environmental forces, and the human agents’ potentials and powers. This paper proposes some strategies that may help to drive ‘organisational moral learning’ forward, and conversely, hinder ‘organisational immoral learning’ from taking root. Ultimately, it is human agents –­ or rather, wise human agents – who are the critical factors for maintaining and/or transforming themselves and their surroundings.

It may help you to know. . .": The early phase qualitative development of a rheumatoid arthritis goal elicitation tool

2021 ◽  
pp. jrheum.201615
Author(s):  
Julie Kahler ◽  
Ginnifer Mastarone ◽  
Rachel Matsumoto ◽  
Danielle ZuZero ◽  
Jacob Dougherty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Treatment Guidelines ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Clinic Visit ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
Patient Goals

Objective Treatment guidelines for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) include a patient-centered approach and shared decision making which includes a discussion of patient goals. We describe the iterative early development of a structured goal elicitation tool to facilitate goal communication for persons with RA and their clinicians. Methods Tool development occurred in three phases: 1) clinician feedback on the initial prototype during a communication training session; 2) semi-structured interviews with RA patients; and 3) community stakeholder feedback on elements of the goal elicitation tool in a group setting and electronically. Feedback was dynamically incorporated into the tool. Results Clinicians (n=15) and patients (n=10) provided feedback on the tool prototypes. Clinicians preferred a shorter tool de-emphasizing goals outside of their perceived treatment domain or available resources, highlighted the benefits of the tool to facilitate conversation but raised concern regarding current constraints of the clinic visit. Patients endorsed the utility of such a tool to support agenda setting and prepare for a visit. Clinicians, patients, and community stakeholders reported the tool was useful but identified barriers to implementation that the tool could itself resolve. Conclusion A goal elicitation tool for persons with RA and their clinicians was iteratively developed with feedback from multiple stakeholders. The tool can provide a structured way to communicate patient goals within a clinic visit and help overcome reported barriers, such as time constraints. Incorporating a structured communication tool to enhance goal communication and foster shared decision making may lead to improved outcomes and higher quality care in RA.

The Follow-Up of an Extensive Portfolio

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Eduardo Modica ◽  
Marcelo Ramos Martins ◽  
Roque Rabechini ◽  
Edison Martins Braun
Keyword(s):  
No Value ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Logistics Company ◽  
Oil Sector ◽  
The One ◽  
Project Life

The speed of the changes that have occurred in the world have forced organizations to adapt themselves and offer new products to the consumers in increasingly shorter timeframes, or risk being overtaken by the competition. The cycle of project life is being reduced, making the management increasingly complex both for the projects and portfolios of projects. Included in this scenario are companies from the oil sector that act to develop management systems that manage to aggregate greater chances of success for its projects as well as the capacity to manage multiple projects simultaneously. The concept of success itself is controversial, because on the one hand it is one of the most researched topics, on the other there is still no consensus among those interested. It becomes necessary then to understand the concept of success for projects, and to establish ways of measuring it, and try to identify the critical factors of success and the critical factors of failure, so that organizations can manage their own projects adequately. Companies with extensive project portfolios confront greater challenges, because they have to develop efficient methodologies to manage and maintain their portfolios, in addition to having to develop competences to accompany the management of multiple projects, identifying possible corrective actions for the deviations identified in time. One efficient manner of pro-actively controlling extensive portfolios of projects being executed simultaneously at different geographical locations is the utilization of a tool via web that integrates all the management activities. This tool must have as a basic premise its utility for the work of the management team, and not only be a communication tool, since in this case it would call for an effort by the management team that adds no value to the project. This article has the objective of showing the results of research carried out to identify how Transpetro, the largest logistics company in South America, which operates a fleet of 55 ships with transport capacity of 2.9 million deadweight tons, 7,033 km of oil pipelines and 3,600 km of gas pipelines, 20 land-based terminals and 26 water-based terminals, controls its engineering projects, directing its efforts in an attempt to achieve greater chances of success so as to comply with its strategic planning.

scholarly journals Methodology of Integration for Competitive Technical Intelligence with Blue Ocean Strategy: Application to an exotic fruit

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisela Rodríguez Salvador ◽  
Manuel Alejandro Bautista Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The State ◽  
Anacardium Occidentale ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
The South ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Technical Intelligence ◽  
New Business ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
The University

This article presents a new methodology that integrates Competitive Technical Intelligence with Blue Ocean Strategy. We explore new business niches taking advantage of the synergy that both areas offer, developing a model based on cyclic interactions through a process developed in two stages: Understanding opportunity that arise from idea formulation to decision making and strategic development. The validity of our approach (first stage) was observed in the evaluation of an exotic fruit, Anacardium Occidentale, in the South of the State of Veracruz, Mexico with the support of the university ITESM, Campus Monterrey. We identified critical factors for success, opportunities and threats. Results confirm the attractiveness of this crop.

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