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How Three Different Generations View Modern Day Technologies, Dylan Mcgraw

Senior Seminars

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How Technology Is Killing Privacy, John Alexander

Honors Projects

Privacy concerns seem to come up daily in the news these days, whether it be government spying through the NSA or people willingly giving information about themselves away on social media. It seems as if no one has any privacy anymore. As actor Will Smith said in a recent interview on the show ‘Vecherniy Urgant’, “I was very dumb when I was 14. See, no Twitter, no Facebook when I was 14. So I was dumb, but I was dumb in private.” His view is a common one – that people, especially young people, are being exposed to privacy risks …

Promoting Innovation, Matthew Sag, Spencer Weber Waller

Faculty Articles

This Essay proceeds as follows. We briefly introduce the concept of creative destruction and its place in Schumpeter’s work in Part II. In Part III we explain why a truly Schumpeterian competition policy demands more than a laissez faire approach. We explain why the law must preserve opportunities and incentives for creative destruction at all stages of innovation and we review four key policy areas of antitrust law from this innovation-focused perspective: unilateral conduct cases (Part III.A), cases at the intersection of IP and antitrust (Part III.B), Sherman Act section 1 cases (Part III.C), and merger policy (Part III.D). In …

นวัตกรรมแบบจำลองการบริหารจัดการหลักสูตรแบบบูรณาการสำหรับสถาบันอุดมศึกษาในประเทศไทย, ปราลี มณีรัตน์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การจัดการหลักสูตรของสถาบันอุดมศึกษา เป็นหน้าที่สำคัญอย่างยิ่งสำหรับการพัฒนาการเรียนการสอนของมหาวิทยาลัย ในปัจจุบันสำนักงานคณะกรรมการอุดมศึกษา (สกอ.) กำหนดกรอบมาตรฐานคุณวุฒิระดับอุดมศึกษาแห่งชาติ (Thailand Qualification Framework: TQF) ขึ้นมาบังคับใช้ แต่ไม่ได้อธิบายกระบวนงานจัดการหลักสูตรไว้อย่างชัดเจน มหาวิทยาลัยต่างๆ จึงดำเนินการโดยพัฒนาระบบบันทึกข้อมูลลงในแบบฟอร์มตามที่สกอ.กำหนดขึ้น เช่น มคอ 2 ถึง มคอ 7 อาจารย์ส่วนใหญ่ยังขาดความรู้และความเข้าใจในการบริหารจัดการหลักสูตร งานวิจัยนี้ได้สร้างนวัตกรรมแบบจำลองการบริหารจัดการหลักสูตรแบบบูรณาการสำหรับสถาบันอุดมศึกษาในประเทศไทย โดยใช้แนวคิดการจัดการกระบวนงานที่มีความสามารถ (Capability process) ของแบบจำลอง Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) ที่พัฒนาโดยสถาบันวิศวกรรมซอฟต์แวร์แห่งมหาวิทยาลัยคาร์เนกี เมลลอน เพื่อให้กระบวนงานจัดการหลักสูตรมีระดับความสามารถ (Capability level) ที่ระดับ 3 และมีหัวข้อปฏิบัติด้านจัดการที่จำเป็นครบถ้วนและสอดคล้องกับกรอบมาตรฐานคุณวุฒิระดับอุดมศึกษาแห่งชาติ การวิจัยนี้ใช้วิธีการเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลเชิงลึกด้วยการสัมภาษณ์ผู้เชี่ยวชาญมหาวิทยาลัยรัฐบาลและเอกชน จำนวน 12 คน เพื่อวิเคราะห์และสังเคราะห์กระบวนงานต่างๆ ที่เกี่ยวข้องการการบริหารจัดการหลักสูตรประกอบด้วย กระบวนงานแต่งตั้งคณะกรรมการ กระบวนงานวางแผนและจัดทำหลักสูตร กระบวนงานการสื่อสารหลักสูตร กระบวนงานรับนักศึกษา กระบวนงานวางแผนการสอนประจำปีการศึกษา กระบวนงานพัฒนาอาจารย์ กระบวนงานจัดการเรียนการสอน กระบวนงานสอนและรายงานผลการสอน และกระบวนงานรายงานผลการดำเนินงานของหลักสูตร ผลจากงานวิจัยนี้ ทำให้ได้กระบวนงานบริหารจัดการหลักสูตรที่มีคุณภาพและสามารถปรับปรุงกระบวนการสอนได้อย่างต่อเนื่อง ผลการยอมรับคู่มือและแบบจำลองต้นแบบให้อาจารย์ทดลองใช้ปฏิบัติงานจริง ยอมรับในระดับมากที่สุด เพื่อช่วยเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพและลดเวลาในการทำงาน

The Role Of Social Media In U.S. County Governments: The Strategic Value Of Operational Aimlessness, Barry A. Cumbie, Bandana Kar

Faculty Publications

This study investigates the influence of citizens' socio-economic characteristics on the presence of social media in county-level government. E-government is ostensibly citizen-driven and therefore variation in an area's demographics would likely impact a government's utilization of emerging technology, such as social media. Despite its transformative potential and widespread adoption, e-government development beyond basic stages has been sluggish. Social media is transforming the nature of interaction among individuals and organizations and has the potential to overcome some of the restrictive challenges of e-government. Understanding if, how, and to what end governments are harnessing social media will help make e-government a citizen-driven, …

Closing The Knowledge Gap Between Virtual Design And Product Manufacturing : Using 3d Printing For The Ninth Grade, Jeremiah D. Cooper

Graduate Research Papers

This action research investigates the impact of using 3D printing for a Technology Education course in a ninth grade classroom in general, and the effectiveness of students' ability to connect virtual design and manufacturing concepts in particular. There is a current gap in 3D printing research involving the link between designing products virtually using CADD software and the manufacturing processes necessary to create real life products. This action research attempts to fill the current research gap between computer-aided design and product manufacturing for ninth grade students.

Within the three weeks of this experimental design research, as a teacher who teaches …

The Business Of Creative Industries, Chong, Mark

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Creative industries worldwide are an important driver of economic growth and cultural influence. In addition to creating numerous jobs for the economy, creative industries can also shape public perception of countries, regions and cities (and hence place brand). Singapore, too, understands the potential for creative ideas to transform the economy. Among its more high-profile projects include attracting Lucasfilm and video gaming giant Ubisoft to set up base in the country.

A Systematic Review Of Social Networks Research In Information Systems: Building A Foundation For Exciting Future Research, Jinwei Cao, Kamile Asli Basoglu, Hong Sheng, Paul Benjamin Lowry

Business and Information Technology Faculty Research & Creative Works

Social networking applications such as blogs, instant messengers, podcasts, social networking websites (e.g., Renren in China, Vkontakte in Russia, Facebook), professional networking websites (e.g., LinkedIn), Twitter, and virtual worlds (e.g., Second Life) have become increasingly popular in the last few years. Because these applications have substantial implications for users, organizations, and society, social networks (SNs) have gained attention from information systems (IS) researchers and grown steadily as a research area since 2004 However, to organize the accumulated research and encourage researchers to examine new and pressing issues in SNs, available knowledge needs to be synthesized and research gaps need to …

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The Landwarnet School, The Army Learning Model, And Appreciative Inquiry: How Is A Centralized Training Organization Improved By Introducing Decentralization?, Lisa Jayne Stamper

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This exploratory, qualitative case study describes how a centralized training organization (LandWarNet School) was improved by introducing decentralization (Army Learning Model) toward “the best competitive position” or "sweet spot," defined by Brafman and Beckstrom (2006) as “enough decentralization for creativity, but sufficient structure and controls to ensure consistency” (pp. 189, 191). Any presence of the six chaordic elements of a decentralized organization, as described by Hock (1999), was also considered.

LandWarNet School (LWNS) trains approximately 6000 US Army Soldiers annually and is centrally organized. The new Army Learning Model (ALM) is a vision for a more decentralized training approach where …

A Web Personalization Artifact For Utility-Sensitive Review Analysis, Long Flory Mrs.

Theses and Dissertations

Online customer reviews are web content voluntarily posted by the users of a product (e.g. camera) or service (e.g. hotel) to express their opinions about the product or service. Online reviews are important resources for businesses and consumers. This dissertation focuses on the important consumer concern of review utility, i.e., the helpfulness or usefulness of online reviews to inform consumer purchase decisions. Review utility concerns consumers since not all online reviews are useful or helpful. And, the quantity of the online reviews of a product/service tends to be very large. Manual assessment of review utility is not only time consuming …

Connecting People And Ideas From Around The World: Global Innovation Platforms For Next-Generation Ecology And Beyond, P. Søgaard Jørgensen, F. Barraquand, V. Bonhomme, T. J. Curran, E. Cieraad, T. G. Ezard, L. Gherardi, R. A. Hayes, T. Poisot, R. Salguero-Gómez, Lucía Desoto, B. Swartz, J. M. Talbot, B. Wee, Naupaka B. Zimmerman

Biology Faculty Publications

We present a case for using Global Community Innovation Platforms (GCIPs), an approach to improve innovation and knowledge exchange in international scientific communities through a common and open online infrastructure. We highlight the value of GCIPs by focusing on recent efforts targeting the ecological sciences, where GCIPs are of high relevance given the urgent need for interdisciplinary, geographical, and cross-sector collaboration to cope with growing challenges to the environment as well as the scientific community itself. Amidst the emergence of new international institutions, organizations, and meetings, GCIPs provide a stable international infrastructure for rapid and long-term coordination that can be …

The Choice Of Technology And Equilibrium Wage Rigidity, Haiwen Zhou

Economics Faculty Publications

In this general equilibrium model, firms engage in oligopolistic competition and choose increasing returns technologies to maximize profits. Capital and labor are the two factors of production. The existence of efficiency wages leads to unemployment. The model is able to explain some interesting observations of the labor market. First, even though there is neither long-term labor contract nor costs of wage adjustment, wage rigidity is an equilibrium phenomenon: an increase in the exogenous job separation rate, the size of the population, the cost of exerting effort, and the probability that shirking is detected will not change the equilibrium wage rate. …

Easypaisa: Seizing The White Space And Business Model Innovation, Nasir Afghan

Business Review

EasyPaisa is a diversification case study written about two very different organizations, a Telco and Microfinance Bank, and how they merged to create a new business. This new business was providing Mobile Financial Services. Both Telenor (a Telco) and Tameer Bank (Microfinance bank) saw a business opportunity in branchless banking (business white space). They were committed to make this acquisition successful, where Telenor bought over 51%sharesof Tameer Bank. However, as per regulations, the branchless banking model is to be governed under a bank-led model. Therefore, the face of EasyPaisa has always been Tameer Bank which is expected to manage all …