scholarly journals Improving Workforce Readiness Skills Among Community College Adult Learners Through New Technologies:

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-53
Author(s):  
Sara Haviland ◽  
Steven Robbins ◽  
Vinetha Belur ◽  
Gernissia Cherfrere ◽  
David Klieger
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Career Technical Education ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Workforce Readiness ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Behavioral Skills ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Economic Vitality ◽  
Training Success

Employers report struggles to find work-ready candidates who possess a desired combination of job-specific technical, general math and reading, and social and behavioral skills. Community colleges are ideally situated to address these shortages, delivering a trained local labor force and often collaborating directly with employers and regional development boards to ensure the employability of their students and the economic vitality of their regions. One tactic to address these shortages is to introduce trainings geared directly toward soft and basic skill development. This paper presents case studies of two schools that use technology-enhanced trainings to incorporate work-readiness skill trainings in career technical education programs that are (1) flexible and learner-centric due to technology-enhanced delivery, and (2) use evidence-based assessment and intervention strategies to promote soft skill and literacy expectations. The trainings were provided by a non-profit education research and measurement company, which served as developer and research partner for the community colleges. Results demonstrate adult learner satisfaction and commitment with these blended learning and mobile technology solutions. Factors that facilitate training success, which include securing student buy-in and developing collaborative partnerships, are discussed.

Advisory Committees and Partnerships in the Permian Basin

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
Julie Neal
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
Workforce Education ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Permian Basin ◽  
Advisory Committees ◽  
Program Success ◽  
Development Officers ◽  
Informal Setting ◽  
Industry Professionals

This chapter benefits various individuals and organizations, including community colleges and programs leading to higher education and the workforce. Community colleges, workforce programs, business, and industry utilize advisory committees. Whether they meet in a formal or an informal setting, the benefit of their input is critical to program success. The workforce is strategic and innovative when it uses collaborative partnerships to provide individuals in communities with training and retraining to compete in a changing workforce. This information helps institutions use advisory committees to the fullest to bring about negotiations and partnerships to advance skills for workers. This chapter focuses on the role of advisory committees in workforce education. Those who can benefit from the information presented include committee development officers, business/industry professionals, administrators, and workforce-education specialists. The collaborative nature of the partnerships within workforce-education programs creates opportunities to benefit professionals in a variety of specializations.

scholarly journals The Socio-technical Balanced Scorecard for Assessing a Public University

2010 ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Ramanjit Singh ◽  
Trevor Wood-Harper
Keyword(s):  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public University ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
For Profit Organizations

The socio-technical theory is concerned with humanistic welfare paradigm. The socio-technical principles aim to improve redundant jobs and thereby benefit human work lives. Hence, jobs are enriched using flexible work methods, empowerment strategies and new technologies. Balanced scorecard is a framework that measures whether the firm is meeting its objectives in terms of vision and strategy. It assesses four perspectives: financial, customer, internal business processes and innovation & learning. Even though the balanced scorecard has proven to be beneficial in the for-profit organizations of the past, most non-profit organizations were unable to utilize the balanced scorecard. The original configuration of balanced scorecard placed financial goals on the top of the hierarchy and since maximizing shareholder wealth is not the main objective for most non-profit organizations, it was not widely applied by these organizations. Since non-profit organizations usually operate to maximize the well-being of the society, socio-technical work design principles may receive a greater acceptance in these organizations than in for-profit organizations. Thus, a socio-technical balanced scorecard for the non-profit organizations will be formulated with an emphasis on employee perspective and a public university wide assessment will be proposed.

scholarly journals Training Challenges for Effectively Implementing a Technology Clinical Trial: A Snapshot From PRISM 2.0

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 308-308
Author(s):  
Tracy Mitzner ◽  
Kara Cohen ◽  
Jerad Moxley ◽  
Wendy Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Intervention Studies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Computer Control ◽  
Cognitive Engagement ◽  
Tablet Computer ◽  
Technology Intervention ◽  
Training Success ◽  
Drop Outs

Abstract Technology interventions can only be adequately assessed for efficacy if participants are adequately trained to use the technology. Only then can an evaluation be made about whether the technology intervention affects the outcome of interest. In the PRISM study, our goal was to teach inexperienced older adults to use either a tablet computer (control) or the PRISM 2.0 system. In this presentation we will discuss the training processes we used for both groups (e.g., segmenting sessions, providing homework, observations), to enable us to evaluate the relative benefits of PRISM for social connectedness. We will describe the training challenges and the need for assessors to be able to troubleshoot technology issues. We will evaluate individual differences in training success and drop-outs to provide insights for other technology intervention studies. Understanding these individual differences can provide guidance for the deployment of new technologies that may benefit health, social interaction, or cognitive engagement.

The News Media

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.W. Anderson ◽  
Leonard Downie ◽  
Michael Schudson
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Advocacy Journalism ◽  
The Way

The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in exposing scandals, and has even been alleged to influence international policy. The past several years have seen the newspaper industry in a state of crisis, with Twitter and Facebook ushering in the rise of citizen journalism and a deprofessionalization of the industry, plummeting readership and revenue, and municipal and regional papers shuttering or being absorbed into corporate behemoths. Now billionaires, most with no journalism experience but lots of power and strong views, are stepping in to purchase newspapers, both large and small. This addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know® series looks at the past, present and future of journalism, considering how the development of the industry has shaped the present and how we can expect the future to roll out. It addresses a wide range of questions, from whether objectivity was only a conceit of late twentieth century reporting, largely behind us now; how digital technology has disrupted journalism; whether newspapers are already dead to the role of non-profit journalism; the meaning of “transparency” in reporting; the way that private interests and governments have created their own advocacy journalism; whether social media is changing journalism; the new social rules of old media outlets; how franchised media is addressing the problem of disappearing local papers; and the rise of citizen journalism and hacker journalism. It will even look at the ways in which new technologies potentially threaten to replace journalists.

Wired for Change?

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Shefali Virkar
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
State Government ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The State ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Tax Collection ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Information And Communication

The recent global diffusion of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) has raised expectations for technological change to support socio-economic progress and political reform in the developing as well as the developed world. Much as been written about e-government within a growing stream of literature on ICT for development, generating countervailing perspectives where optimistic, technocratic approaches are countered by far more sceptical standpoints on technological innovation. In seeking to bridge existing gaps in the literature, this article critically examines the role of Information and Communication Technologies in governmental reform processes for development through the presentation of a case study based in the Indian State of Karnataka. The study focuses on a collaboration between the state government of Karnataka and the eGovernments Foundation (a non-profit private sector organisation) between 2002 and 2011, designed to reform existing methods of property tax collection through the establishment of a networked online tax collection system across the municipalities of 56 towns and cities within the state. Through a combination of both qualitative and quantitative data, this paper analyses the interactions between new technologies and changing information flows within the complexities of public administration reform of the given context and, in doing so, examines the interplay of local and external factors and relationships and their role in shaping the implementation of the project at hand.

Wired for Change?

2016 ◽  
pp. 791-815
Author(s):  
Shefali Virkar
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
State Government ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The State ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Tax Collection ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Information And Communication

The recent global diffusion of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) has raised expectations for technological change to support socio-economic progress and political reform in the developing as well as the developed world. Much as been written about e-government within a growing stream of literature on ICT for development, generating countervailing perspectives where optimistic, technocratic approaches are countered by far more sceptical standpoints on technological innovation. In seeking to bridge existing gaps in the literature, this article critically examines the role of Information and Communication Technologies in governmental reform processes for development through the presentation of a case study based in the Indian State of Karnataka. The study focuses on a collaboration between the state government of Karnataka and the eGovernments Foundation (a non-profit private sector organisation) between 2002 and 2011, designed to reform existing methods of property tax collection through the establishment of a networked online tax collection system across the municipalities of 56 towns and cities within the state. Through a combination of both qualitative and quantitative data, this paper analyses the interactions between new technologies and changing information flows within the complexities of public administration reform of the given context and, in doing so, examines the interplay of local and external factors and relationships and their role in shaping the implementation of the project at hand.

Quale rete sviluppare per superare la crisi del welfare sanitario: la probabile risposta di Achille Ardigň

2009 ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Ivo Colozzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Health Service ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Private Profit

- Ardigo's interest for the topic of the opportunities offered by the development of information communication technologies in the field of health services is referred to the question of the overcoming of the crisis of "transation" between welfare system and life's worlds. Moruzzi, who has developed Ardigo's approach on this topic, writes that Internet may be the link between micro and macro if it will be able to differentiate itself by the national health service and to create, thanks to the development of new technologies, a new cooperation between public and private (profit and non profit) actors at the service of the sick person (subsidiarity). In the Introduction to Moruzzi's book, instead, Ardigň says that the development of the social networks of care is more important than the development of new technologies.Keywords: development, welfare system, health service, technologies, social networks, Ardigň.Parole chiave: sviluppo, sistema di welfare, servizio sanitario, tecnologie, reti sociali, Ardigň.

Higher Education and the Public, Private and Non-Profit Sectors

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron W. Hughey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World

Institutions of higher education throughout the world are increasingly aware of the importance of working more systematically and productively with community and business leaders in order to create better local economies and, ultimately better societies. This article presents an overview of how colleges and universities can assist with the identification and implementation of specific strategies for enhancing the economic development of the regions in which they are located. Also included is a discussion of the emerging advantages associated with developing these kinds of collaborative partnerships, as well as a brief overview of the major approaches to regional economic development.

scholarly journals Financial Data Processing in Big Data Platforms

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-546
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Financial Data ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Small Organizations ◽  
Source Component ◽  
Forecast Models ◽  
Cloud Technologies

Today’s digital society generates more and more data on a daily basis in all areas of human activities, especially in the financial sector. Such data can be collected, stored, processed, and analyzed, providing serious analytical opportunities for the end users. A lot of such systems are implemented and work using cloud technologies, which have a number of advantages, but they use a pay-per-use model and thus are not very suitable for medium and small organizations, non-profit and academic institutions. In this paper, a system, capable of fetching, storing, and processing big data is proposed and tested with financial data. It uses an open-source component-based approach and can be custom-built and implemented in national universities or centers of competence/excellence. That can present unique opportunities to researchers and developers to use and work with Big data on economic and financial problems, to investigate dependencies, use large simulation and forecast models and analyze results, using the new technologies and Big data provided by them.

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