Development of effective learning environments in an efficient manner is the goal of instructional development. The process of instructional development in highly complex learning situations requires that instructional technologists be competent in three basic core knowledge areas. This article defines the competency requirements for instructional technologists. Competency in the areas of educa...

In agile software development projects, customer representatives (CRs) are assigned by their business departments to work alongside the information systems development (ISD) for the duration of an agile project. Ideally, a CR should be co-located with the ISD team. The full article describes a competency model for effective CRs developed by the authors following interviews with agile developmen...

<i>The United Nation (UN) lists ending poverty in all its forms as the number one prerogative among seventeen sustainable development goals. One organization that is seeking to make an impact on those who live Heifer International, a global nonprofit based States, whose mission “to end world hunger and while caring for Earth.” By using Values-Based Holistic Community Development, has help...

It is common for Australian university academics to be critical of competency-based education systems. The values that underpin a competency-based approach and those on which traditional university education have been based are often seen to be at odds. A focus on the development of prescribed workplace skills is seen by many academics to be inconsistent with a focus on the general development ...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the current state of health sciences libraries' provision of culturally competent services to support health professions education and patient care and examined factors associated with cultural competency in relation to library services and professional development. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study. Data were collected with a survey questionnaire that...

My paper discusses system consequence, which is a central idea in the project to lift the theory of information flow to the general level of universal logic and the theory of institutions. At the same time, it uses ideas from information flow to extend the theory of institutions. ICCS 2009, 26–31 July 2009 System Consequence Table of

—This paper presents an approach based on semantic annotation of CVs and job offers for automating recruitment on the web. The main idea consists on modeling formally the semantic content of these documents in term of their acquirements (case of a CV) or requirements (case of a job offer) using a shared ontology between recruiters and job seekers. The domain ontology built is inspired from the ...

Using a theoretical cultural competency model, the effectiveness of a cultural competency learning assignment was examined to determine: 1) students' cultural competency levels as reflected through the assignment, and 2) the effectiveness of the assignment as a cultural competency learning activity. Third-year family medicine clerkship students completed a required project to research and refle...