This paper examines the concept of performance support systems in university teaching. In four different studies a performance support system with education elements was built to support students while they learn and work on their assignments. Performance support systems originally originated from business and industry but seem to be very valuable in university settings (and therefore for HRD c...

An examination of the literature on managerial decision making provides insights for improving the design of Declslon Support Systems. Frequently, these systems are designed using one dominant decision making model; some ignore them altogether. This paper incorporates conflicting decision making constructs into an overall framework for designing Decision Support System and discusses the evoluti...

Organizations producing products based on technical standards are interested in the factors that influence a customers’ intention to adopt that product, and accordingly that standard. In general, standards-based products are expected to be affected by factors similar to those that affect ordinary innovations, as described in Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations with the addition of a few factors in...

This paper examines the phenomenon of Community Design. It is a radical phenomenon in that community members collectively grow their own community information infrastructures without the intervention of professionals typically associated with such endeavors. A recently initiated comparative study draws on ongoing, longitudinal research engagements with a small number of communities and has iden...

The purpose of this essay is to design a framework of a performance system which is subject to the characteristics of China high-tech enterprises. It is based on analyzing the principles and significance of the performance system of high-tech enterprises. The framework will promote the standardization management of high-tech enterprises of China.

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I am interested in what I refer to as collaborative Knowledge-Building Environments (KBEs).These are software environments for supporting the construction of knowledge by groups of people. I consider this to be a paradigmatic task of CSCL (computer supported collaborative learning) because I assume that the notion of collaborative learning that CSCL practitioners strive to support is a construc...

1. Sources of funding: Support for this research was received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. No industry funding of any kind was sought or received. McKitrick is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Guelph. His Senior Fellowship at the Fraser Institute is an unpaid position, and was completely unrelated to this project. Michaels contributed to ...