Identification of Key Issues in Adopting a Web 2.0 E-Portfolio Strategy

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary F. McKenna ◽  
Mark H. Stansfield
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Information Need ◽  
Portfolio Strategy ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Key Issues

The purpose of the paper is to identify key issues relating to best practice and sustainability in Web 2.0 as an e-Learning strategy for supporting e-portfolios in Higher Education. A practical guidelines framework was developed for best practices, which can be justified by the lack of available frameworks in the e-Learning literature. A literature search was undertaken covering publications dated from 2000 to 2009 to ascertain the level of progress made on tackling issues on implementing Web 2.0 as an e-Learning campus wide educational strategy. The findings show that the recent adoption of e-Learning and Web 2.0 initiatives has been marred by lack of research into the issues associated with long term strategy, implementation, best practice frameworks and solutions. The paper fulfils an identified information need and offers practical help to institutions implementing an e-portfolio Web 2.0 initiative.

Clearing the Air: Avoiding Conflicts of Interest Within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-81
Author(s):  
Brook M R Dambacher ◽  
Matthew T Stilwell ◽  
Jeffrey S McGee
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
United Nations Framework Convention ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The United Nations

Abstract Conflicts of interest (COIs) have the capacity to undermine the integrity and legitimacy of decision-making in international legal fora. The issue of COIs has recently become a contentious issue within the international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Despite an emerging debate on COIs, key issues regarding engagement with certain non-state actors, and the reforms that could be implemented in response, remain to be systematically addressed. This article therefore examines best practice for addressing COIs in international fora to see how this might inform management of the issue within the UNFCCC. We find that protecting the integrity and legitimacy of the UNFCCC will likely require its Conference of the Parties to clearly define COIs and to adopt a process for their management. This reform will bring the UNFCCC into line with best practices in global governance and improve prospects for more effective international law on climate change.

Guiding Principles for Identifying and Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses

2011 ◽  
pp. 147-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Stansfield ◽  
Thomas Connolly
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Virtual Campus ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Level Model ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Executive Agency ◽  
Different Levels

This chapter will outline a set of guiding principles underpinning key issues in the promotion of best practice in virtual campuses. The work was conducted as part of the “Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses” (PBP-VC) project that is aimed at identifying underlying issues and examples of best practice in providing a better understanding into virtual campus development and sustainability. The PBP-VC project was a two year European Commission Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) co-financed project running from March 2007 to February 2009. The PBP-VC project team have worked with key stakeholders from virtual campus projects across Europe and globally in identifying and exploring key issues relating to best practice. The importance of developing a practical set of guiding principles for identifying, evaluating and promoting best practice in virtual campuses and e-learning can be demonstrated by the significant number of high profile e-learning and virtual campus failures that have occurred over the last decade both within Europe and globally at great financial cost. This chapter will highlight key enablers and inhibitors to success, provide a description of the different elements comprising the guiding principles in the promotion of best practice, as well as describing a tentative four level model aimed at illustrating different levels of virtual campus maturity in the achievement of sustainability and organisational transformation.

scholarly journals Beyond the Yellow Brick Road: mobile Web 2.0 informing a new institutional e-learning strategy

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Donald Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Social Constructivist ◽  
Pedagogical Change ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
E Learning

This paper overviews how mobile Web 2.0 has been instrumental in facilitating pedagogical change and informing an institution’s new e-learning strategy that focuses upon social constructivist pedagogies.

scholarly journals Evidence-based Recommendations to Inform Best Practices for LGBTQ Older Adults in Long-term Care Settings

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 851-851
Author(s):  
Katherine Fasullo ◽  
Erik McIntosh ◽  
Todd Ruppar ◽  
Sarah Ailey ◽  
Susan Buchholz
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Guideline Development ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Facilities

Abstract Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) older adults are more likely to live alone and have less familial support, which disproportionately contributes to a reliance on long-term care facilities as they age. Best-practice guidelines supported by scholarly literature to care for LGBTQ older adults in long-term care settings do not exist. This review synthesizes literature about LGBTQ older adults in long-term care facilities and provides recommendations for best practice guideline development. Four electronic databases were searched in June 2019 for studies conducted between 2000 – 2019 related to caring for LGBTQ older adults in long-term care settings. An integrative literature review was completed on the twenty eligible studies. Findings showed that LGBTQ participants fear discrimination in long-term care leading to the invisibility of their identities. They recognize a need for increased staff training and the importance of community networks and facility preferences. Long-term care staff have mixed experiences with inclusive practices and complex views of LGBTQ older adults. They experience training deficits and have a need for more expansive training modalities. The recommendations offered by both LGBTQ participants and long-term care staff are to revise policies and forms as well as provide widespread training and education. LGBTQ participants recommend that their unique identities be recognized within long-term care while long-term care staff recommend leadership involvement to change culture and practice. This review provides evidence-based recommendations to promote equitable healthcare to the LGBTQ older adult population and calls to attention the need for long-term care settings to uniformly follow best-practices.

Higher Education and Web 2.0

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-127
Author(s):  
Pedro Isaias ◽  
Paula Miranda ◽  
Sara Pífano
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Online Learning Environments ◽  
E Learning

The abundance of evidence of Web 2.0's value in educational settings has provided both educators and researchers with prized information about the application of a panoply of technologies. The experience that this evidence portrays can be used to meaningfully direct teachers in their own ventures of Web 2.0 implementation. In online learning environments, any collaboration between the students must occur with the support of technology, so it is fundamental that technology functions as an enabler, maximizing the opportunities that online settings offer, and that students can tap into those technologies to enhance their learning experience. This chapter focuses on the implementation of Web 2.0 within higher education from the viewpoint of e-learning experts. It reports on the findings of on online questionnaire that examined both the barriers and the best practices of implementation and that was applied internationally among researchers and teachers in the higher education sector.

Building a B-Learning Strategy

2011 ◽  
pp. 437-457
Author(s):  
Paula Peres ◽  
Pedro Pimenta
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
E Learning

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the wide literature review made on computer mediated learning. Online Education system may include models and methodologies based on learning theories that support individual styles and contexts. The use of e-learning environment is limited only by the creativity. If we just decide for providing online contents, even if they are well constructed, at long term it may become uninteresting and based only on theory. We cannot state that e-learning has either more or less quality than traditional learning. E-learning quality depends on the instruction design and on the students engagement. In this review of literature, the authors combine different points of view. A theoretical model that emerged from the inquiry made will be showed and may support the integration of technologies, in order to enhance the learning.

The Tour de France: corporate sponsorships and doping accusations

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Blumrodt ◽  
Philip J. Kitchen
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sporting Event ◽  
Brand Reputation ◽  
Tour De France ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Brand Heritage

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is show how sponsors in a major sponsored event may react when facing a potential doping affair. The Tour de France cycling competition is a premier global sporting event – broadcast worldwide – and thus attracts very significant sponsorship. Cycling teams are named after their team sponsors. Recent global news has, however, shown that there are doping scandals involved in this event which impact both teams and team sponsors. When a doping scandal occurs in a team, the sponsors have to react rapidly and expeditiously to protect their brand reputation. Design/methodology/approach – To ascertain potential reactions, team sponsors are interviewed in depth and their reactions to a doping affair assessed. The sponsors represent different brands and their commitment as team sponsors also varies. Findings – Research shows that sponsors react similarly when a doping scandal occurs in their team and adopt similar communication strategies in that situation. While best practice is apparent, doping policies put into place by sponsors nevertheless differ. These practices are more than just preventative in nature, i.e. they anticipate and try to prevent doping affairs. Practical implications – The teams and sponsors are engaged in a long-term relationship to build brand heritage. Undoubtedly, doping is taken very seriously, as consequences can be severe. In this sense, the sport, the teams and the sponsors share the same vision and objectives. Originality/value – Team sponsors reactions while facing a potential doping affair have not yet been assessed. Best practices become visible which might serve as guidelines in other global sporting events, also generating significant sponsorships.

scholarly journals Beyond the Yellow Brick Road: mobile Web 2.0 informing a new institutional e-learning strategy

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas D. Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Intentional Community ◽  
Pedagogical Change ◽  
Practice Model ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Selection Of

Mobile learning (m-learning) has moved beyond the realms of fantasy to become a viable platform for contextual learning that bridges formal and informal learning environments. This paper overviews how mobile Web 2.0 has been instrumental in facilitating pedagogical change and informing an institution’s new e-learning strategy that focuses upon social constructivist pedagogies. The project developedan intentional community of practice model for supporting new technology integration, pedagogical development, and institutional change. Beginning with a small selection of early adopter trials, the results of the research are now informinga wider integration of wireless mobile computing.

Closing the change management gap

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 168-175
Author(s):  
Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Sustainable Change ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Strategy

Purpose Change has always been hard. But now, change is becoming a constant. Defining change – identifying the new strategy, business model or process the organization needs to retain market share – is difficult enough. Leading the organization through change is even harder. The purpose of this paper is to use a combination of survey and case studies to measure organizations’ change maturity and provide guidance on how organizations can move from check-the-box approaches to ones that drive behavioral shifts. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on the combination of a broadcast survey and series of best practice case studies. Findings And while organizations have made strides in committing resources and planning for change, they continue to struggle with long-term, sustainable change. But what really creates sustainable change? Sustainable change means moving beyond “check-the-box” efforts – focused on the execution of communication plans and project milestones. Instead, organizations should bolster their efforts with a focus on leading, not just communicating, the change and engaging staff cooperatively to drive new behaviors. Originality/value This paper focuses on best practices that do more than require check-the-box adherence to a series of change activities and methodologies.

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