Climate change in the Tunisian cities: lessons learned and best practices

Lessons Learned From Lessons Learned: The Fit Between Online Education “Best Practices” and Small School Reality

Schools of all types and sizes are exploring the merits and facets of online learning approaches; but, the online delivery literature has focused on “best practices” generated primarily through the experiences of larger schools that are on the leading edge of this innovation. Small public schools, on the other hand, are faced with unique challenges in profiting from the advice of these first mo...

Incentive and Award-Fee Contracting: Lessons Learned and Best Practices

Best Practices and Lessons Learned of Stealth Assessment

Stealth assessment provides an innovative way to assess and ultimately support knowledge, skills, and other personal attributes within learning or gaming environments without disrupting students’ flow. In this paper, we briefly discuss two challenges we encountered during the development of stealth assessments in two past projects (i.e., utility issues related to log files and validation issues...

Developing a Scenario for Widespread Use: Best Practices, Lessons Learned

The ShakeOut Scenario is probably the most widely known and used earthquake scenario created to date. Much of the credit for its widespread dissemination and application lies with scenario development criteria that focused on the needs and involvement of end users and with a suite of products that tailored communication of the results to varied end users, who ranged from emergency managers to t...

Effective Practices and Lessons Learned

Chapters 4 through 7 described the current state of information technology (IT) security at 435 higher education institutions. In Chapter 8, we analyzed both quantitative and qualitative data to identify factors that appear to affect institutions’ security outcomes. In this chapter, we synthesize what lessons we have learned about the practice of IT security in higher education. A key advantage...