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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...

Open Judiciary Worldwide: Best Practices and Lessons Learnt

Despite its origins, openness in the judiciary has expanded beyond transparency and, therefore, beyond the common law open justice principle. Several initiatives worldwide are echoing this trend and a new term, open judiciary, is arising as a way to address openness in the justice field. This chapter gives an overview of open judiciary initiatives worldwide, focusing on some of the most success...

Best Practice in Participatory Modelling: Lessons from SimWeb

In recent years, there have been many attempts to simulate social systems which take the perspectives of the systems’ stakeholders into account. SimWeb is one such attempt. At the same time, various guidelines have emanated from the literature that outline how such a simulation should be carried out and so it is only natural to investigate how SimWeb’s experience squares with this outline. As i...

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

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...