This paper investigates the correlation between the quality of instructional design and learning outcomes for early childhood students in the online synchronous cyber classroom. Today’s generation of e-learners has access to highly engaging and well-designed multi-media synchronous classrooms. However little data exists on what constitutes ‘good practice’ in instructional design for online sync...

In this paper, we present a case of implementing new technology. New technologies are often described or introduced to teachers and administrators in terms of their ideal use. Such accounts of “best practices” often fail to specify the conditions that contributed to success in a particular context. We describe the initial steps in a journey towards best practices, discussing the implementation ...

Institutes of higher education face a number of distinct challenges when onboarding new employees. After all, a single college or university can hire thousands of new employees each year, across multiple departments, campuses, and even countries. When considering the different types of positions, including professors, administrative professionals, and maintenance personnel, as well as full-time...

E-learning will not inevitably cause a revolution of the traditional university. On the contrary, it is not clear whether multimedia and network technology will find its place in the university to the profit of the students. We discuss various methods and techniques and propose best practices, which can succeed under the specific conditions of a traditional university.

MindTestTM guidelines help tune standardized test processes to a specific testing engagement. These guidelines aim at improved productivity of the tester. They apply a 360-degree view to continuous improvement, resulting in greater efficiency, higher quality, and lower cost. Mindtree has defined this methodology based on best practices established through testing thousands of applications and s...

The paper at hand discusses the applicability of knowledge scorecards and intellectual capital management for monitoring and steering of knowledgedriven organizations based upon a best practice project at the Austrian Defence Academy (in particular the School for Atomic, Biological and Chemical Defence). Within this project a model-driven approach based upon the PROMOTE® methodology has been im...