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Working Together: The Public Records Webinar Series, Robert L. Moore

STEMPS Faculty Publications

Key Takeways:

* Faculty and instructional designers working together can create more effective online courses that leverage technology efficiently to reach the target audience.

* The instructional support team was part of the initial conversations planning the webinar series at the UNC School of Government, which led to the formulation of a webinar theme that reflected the content as opposed to imposing a design theme afterwards.

* Advanced planning and coordination among faculty and staff, and the thematic marketing plan provided at the outset, enabled the production of a uniform package of information in a high-quality format.

Corporate Governance And Organizational Survival Under Punctuational Change: The Case Of China's Burgeoning Banking Industry, 1897-1927, Sunny Li Sun, Yanli Zhang

Department of Management Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

How do different corporate governance structures fare under conditions of fundamental environmental transformations? Treating governance structure as a knowledge distribution mechanism embedded in institutional frameworks, the paper aims to propose that the efficiency of this knowledge diffusing process will increase organizational survival under a punctuational change. Using the case of Chinese banking industry during 1897-1927, a period of rapid technological, economic, and regulatory shifts. Money shops (qianzhuang) with decentralized, open and extended governance structure were better able to adapt to rapid changes in the environment and had a higher survival chance than ticket stores (piaohao) with centralized, closed and internalized …

Libraries In The Time Of Moocs, Curtis L. Kendrick, Irene Gashurov

Library Scholarship

MOOCs give librarians new opportunities to help shape the conversation about changes in higher education and to guide administrators, faculty, and students through these changes. To assume this role, librarians must understand the MOOCs landscape. Numerous stakeholders will have an interest in the massive intellectual property that ultimately resides in libraries' owned and licensed digital repositories. Studying and adopting technologies to manage and monitor MOOC usage of library resources will be essential to controlling access and tightening Internet safeguards.

The Collegian (2013-11-04), Cleiri Quezada

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 66, No. 11

Clemson Trustees Minutes, 2013 November 4-5, Clemson University Board Of Trustees

Minutes

Minutes: Meeting of the Clemson University Board of Trustees. Ballroom C, Madren Center, Clemson, SC. 9:00 a.m.

Journalism Faculty Member Named Oxford's Pr Professional Of The Year, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Robin Street recognized for career and teaching achievements

Migration Of An E-Learning Model To The Cloud N. Ganesan ©, Nanda Ganesan

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

An e-learning model consisting of a course website and multimedia learning modules was developed and implemented initially on a traditional computing platform at a higher learning institution. With the emerging concept of cloud computing, the possibility of using cloud computing resources such as Google Apps, YouTube and SkyDrive to redesign and deploy the e-learning model in the cloud was explored. It was found that the cloud computing resources offered unprecedented opportunity and flexibility to migrate the course website to the cloud and to expand the outreach of the multimedia modules. This paper discusses the migration of the e-learning portal from …

An Investigation Of Features And Security In Mobile Banking Strategy, Huei Lee, Yu Zhang, Kuo Lane Chen

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

The primary purpose of the article is to study the mobile banking strategies used by financial institutions with the secondary purpose to study the willingness of the financial institutions in providing mobile banking. Just several years ago, financial institutions began to face technological challenges including whether to adopt mobile banking services. The survey results reported in this article showed that credit unions were more likely to provide mobile banking services, but commercial banks tended to offer more comprehensive mobile service features than credit unions. In addition, large financial institutions tended to provide better security and security descriptions on the customer …

Agile Method Tailoring In A Cmmi Level 5 Organization, Julian M. Bass, Ian K. Allison, Udayan Banerjee

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

We investigate the use and tailoring of agile methods in a highly disciplined CMMI Level 5 organization. We explore gaps between traditional agile practices and those required for enhanced levels of governance required by CMMI appraisal. We conducted a case study with recorded interviews from practitioners at NIIT Technology Ltd. The interviews were iteratively analysed and coded. Our findings show that agile methods must be supplemented with pre-sprint planning, evidence recording, project metrics, team self-organization, process standardization, and process base-lining to support the CMMI appraisal. There are challenges around Agile compliance with CMMI Level 4 processes and misconceptions about agile …

A New Asset Type: Digital Assets, Alp Toygar, C.E. Taipe Rohm Jr., Jake Zhu

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

Is there a need for a new “asset” type? What are “digital materials?” Can digital materials be designated as “Digital Assets?” What is the driven source of the “Digital Asset?” Is the “Digital Asset” concept mature enough to be defined as a new asset type? For example, under what name or ownership should we regard all social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.), online photo albums(Flickr, Picasa etc.), blogs, domain names, websites, email accounts, smart phones or any information stored in the cloud or computers? In reality, digital images, photos, documents, audio and video files should be considered “assets” because …

State V. Scott Amicus Brief 2 Dckt. 40789

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

The Eastern Echo, November 4, 2013, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Online Forums As A Customer Service Tool For Consumer Products, Kaveepan Lertwachara, Gregg Erickson

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

In this study, we capture communication activities on 14 online forums that are implemented primarily to provide customer service for consumers of mobile phones and MP3 players. We perform a large scale analysis to investigate the social nature and the effectiveness of using online forums as a customer service tool. Unlike previous studies, our research examines a complete archive of the actual communication activities on online forums that are publicly available to general consumers. Our comparative and social network analysis allows us to compare the structural differences among these social networks.

Is Security Realistic In Cloud Computing?, S. Srinivasan

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

Cloud computing is rapidly emerging as an attractive IT option for businesses. As a concept cloud computing is well received because of the benefits it offers but many users are not clear about the scope of security in cloud computing. Many surveys point out that security in the cloud remains the top concern for many businesses in their decision making consideration in spite of the cost advantages it offers. In order to identify the security concerns we analyzed over 50 research articles and industry white papers published over the past five years. In this paper we focus on the question …

The Free Press Vol 45 Issue 8, 11-04-2013, Kirsten Sylvain

Free Press, The

How much do you know about Tuesday’s election?--Students look closer at the Direction Package--Know your rights!--Students discuss pros and cons of campus life

2010 British General Election Leader Evaluations: Replicating Electoral Focus Group Research, Kristi Winters, Edzia Carvalho

The Qualitative Report

This research replicates and expands upon the qualitative electoral research of Winters and Campbell by using data from focus groups conducted in Essex, England to coincide with three leadership debates during the 2010 British general election. The Qualitative Election Study of Britain (QES Britain) broadly replicated Winters and Campbell’s research design but includes innovations in data collection to more accurately capture assessments. This innovation means the data coding are based entirely on the evaluations of the participants. In our analysis we innovate in the way we display each leader’s unique evaluation structure. To capture the salience and direction of leadership …

Exploring Education Students’ Reflexivity Through The Arts And Sharing My “Bricolage” Dilemmas, Janet C. Richards

The Qualitative Report

As part of course requirements, 16 education students in a master’s cohort tutored groups of elementary children (the same groups throughout the semester) in an after - school writing program that emphasized an ethos of care. The education students had never taught children and consequently had difficulties reflecting about their lessons through weekly e - mail communication. As the course instructor I had a hunch innovative artistic processes might unleash and heighten the education students’ abilities as reflective practitioners . Therefore, I asked them to explore their pedagogy through the arts. Concurrently, I engaged in arts - based educational research …

The Parthenon, November 4, 2013, Bishop Nash

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, is published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly Thursday during the summer. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

November 4, 2013, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

The Bg News November 04, 2013, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 04, 2013. Volume 93-Issue 31.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, November 3, 2013, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2013

No abstract provided.

Bluffton Linguistics Alum Addresses Being Muslim In Post 911 America, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Featuring Kayla Massie, Soprano, Kayla Massie

All Performances

No abstract provided.

The Development Of It And Telnet And Its Impact In Business Security (Non Security), Musa Tahiraj

UBT International Conference

During the years, the people are more hungry for faster doing processes and works. There always is high possibility for loss business and markets by different attacks in different layers. In this paper is presented which are the challenges faced with information security on businesses during the rapid development IT and Telnet. This challenge requires stable technology, the standard platform and especially policies and rules for implementation security steps through those rapid changes in technology. In the paper are presented some of statistical review about the causes of information damage, which are advantages and weaknesses using new information technology. At …

Comparison Of Emotion Evaluation Perception Using Human Voice Signals Of Robots And Humans, Vesna Kirandziska, Nevena Ackovska

UBT International Conference

Emotion perception is the process of perceiving other people’s emotions. It can be based on their facial expression, movement, voice and other biosignals people emit. The evaluation of human’s emotion is one characteristic of emotions. One of the research areas in Robotics is adapting humanistic behavior in robots. Today many robots are constructed. Some of them can even perceive emotions. In this paper a custom built emotion aware robot that perceives emotion evaluation is used to investigate the similarity and differences of the robot's and human's emotion perception. Voice signals from real human were recorded and the information for the …

Analogy In Elements: Breaking The National Identity, Kujtim Elezi, Nuran Saliu

UBT International Conference

The first aim of this paper is to present the after W.W.II temptation of the Macedonian authors to identify national elements that is Macedonian elements in houses build in Macedonia. After identifying them, the same elements (now national) will be used to declare the national heritage in Macedonian houses. Secondly, we would like to compare the same elements found as Macedonian with other places, like Turkey (involving Bursa, Istanbul and other cities), to see if they really are different as those from houses in Turkey, or there is a similarity between them.

A Investment Preliminary Study For The Distribution Of Internet, In The Rural Areas Of Kosovo, Jusuf Oarkaxhija, Tamara Luarasi

UBT International Conference

According to daily reports, the income from internet services is getting lower each year. Landline phone services are running at a loss, whereas mobile phone services are getting too mainstream and the only bright spot holding together cable operators (ISP) in positive balance is the income from broadband services (Fast internet, IPTV). Broadband technology is a term that defines multiple methods of information distribution through internet at great speed. Some of the broadband technologies are: optic fiber, coaxial cable, DSL, Wireless, mobile broadband, and satellite connection. The ultimat e goal of any broadband service provider is being able to provide …

The Impact Of New Alternative Telecommunication Services On The Strategy Of Traditional Telecom Providers In Kosovo, Florian Nuqi, Krenare Pireva, George Efstathiadis

UBT International Conference

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of new alternative telecommunication services (voip, skype, facebook and twitter) to the strategy of traditional telecom providers in Kosovo from the both areas of social media and telecommunication industry. Telecommunication industry is considered as the most dynamic industry in terms of technology and services. The last decade has been the evolution of new technologies and services that changed not only the world but also the meaning of our voice and messages to the world. Comparing with last decade’s communication tools and prices, today we have enormous number of commun …

The Importance Of Audience Statistics In Pay Television Market, Aurora Binjaku, Hysen Binjaku

UBT International Conference

Pay digital televisions are private companies which offer a number of television channels in a single package against a price, by all means they do not offer only television service but high technology. The platform’s objective is to maximize their profits by rising the earnings and sales of the offered subscriptions. For this reason it is necessary for them to know to whom they are offering the service and how it is used. They have to do what in media is known as audience measurement. This is what this paper is about. First, we give an answer to the question: …

Discovering Ict Tools Resources On Web To Support The Child Development, Eva Cipi

UBT International Conference

This work summarizes the findings of a research effort undertaken to understand the links between child mental health and the uses of Information and Communication Technologies ICT. It is based on research conducted in the web aiming to identify the powerful role of ICT& multimedia tools on educational development process of yang people. Bringing a lot of web resources, this work aim to promote new methodologies on making easier the overall education process on schools. The research involves three stages starting from a short survey of children health across specific educational stages. Then we analyze and suggest specific conditions to …