As more institutions of higher education confront budget cuts and financial crisis, open source Learning Management Systems become increasingly attractive, providing cost effective and efficient alternatives to commercial Learning Management Systems. This interpretive case study investigates the implementation and adoption of an open source based LMS at an university located in California. The ...

The Tele-Lab IT Security project aims at specifying and implementing a web-based, intelligent tutoring system that allows computer science students, system administrators, and end users to get familiar with the basics of IT security. It provides a powerful, real-life working environment in which users can develop and practice solutions for problems of their every-day work with only little suppo...

This study examined beliefs about the delivery of medical abortion services and current roles of 76 providers of methotrexate-induced abortion. The sample included physicians, midlevel professionals, administrators, and counselors/other medical staff. Over 75% of participants believed that, given proper training and emergency backup, physicians and midlevel clinicians alike could provide medica...

We implemented an intergenerational (IG) summer program at a colocated site for 2 consecutive summers to maximize continuity and enhance sustainability. We incorporated multiple methods to represent the views of key program stakeholders, including staff and administrators, parents who attended the program, and facilitators’ reports of the experiences of child and adult participants. We generate...

The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the transition period of graduate nurses. A phenomenological research approach was used to explore the lived experiences of graduate nurses during their first year of employment. Content analysis resulted in five thematic areas identified as indicators of a positive transition experience. The findings of this study provide information for staff...

Welcome to Michigan State University. It is our hope that your life at MSU will be fulfilling and successful, now and in the future. To enable you to begin the process of learning the lay of the land at MSU, we have created this orientation website designed specifically for New Administrators, including new Executive Managers, Deans, Associate and Assistant Deans, Department Chairs, and School ...

Every perioperative department could benefit from having an information system that facilitates managerial function and improves efficiency in the OR. The Patient Advancement Monitoring System-Surgical implemented in a hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, is one such a system that uses radio-frequency identification technology for tracking perioperative care of patients along workflow checkpoints. This ...

There is general agreement in this country on the principle of contributory old-age and survivors insurance. There has been less general agreement on questions relating to the level of contributions and the timing of any changes in present contribution rates. The following article by the former Staff Director of the Advisory Council on Social Security to the Senate Finance Committee presents on...

Learning communities, i.e. school boards, administrators, curriculum designers, teachers and support staff, try to respond to the public's desire for learning involving digital document technology and to their own beliefs and intuitions about appropriate roles for that technology in learning. They are deluged with digital possibilities. We studied one school's experience of changing and expandi...

This paper attempts to investigate critical success factors affecting enterprise resource planning systems implementation in a university. This research hypothesizes that each job type (administrators, technical staff, and end-users) has a different perspective in the systems implementation in a university. The ANOVA model is employed for the hypothesis testing. Statistical results show the uni...