Extending educational planning discourse: A new strategic planning model     

Don Adams 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2000,1(1):31-45

To academic visionaries the new century appears to have an emerging environment characterized by increased complexity, uncertainty, unpredictability which, some have argued, render traditional notions of planning and management irrelevant. The expectations of management and planning scholars carry the implicit assumption that somehow individual capability and organizational capacities will rise to meet the enormous challenges of this new environment. In the light of this situation the purposes of this paper are: (1) to briefly examine the limitations and criticisms of traditional educational planning; (2) to outline the emerging concepts and processes which collectively form a new paradigm for strategic planning; (3) to discuss the new model within the context of changing national policy and planning environments and increased localization; (4) to review the limited results of empirical research related to more participatory planning models; and (5) to offer a critique of the assumptions and practicality of the new model in the process of planning and sustaining educational change in developing countries  相似文献   

Conceptions and Beliefs About “Good Teaching”: An integration of contrasting research areas     

Noel Entwistle  Don Skinner  Dorothy Entwistle  Sandra Orr 《高等教育研究与发展》2000,19(1):5-26

Previous research on conceptions of teaching comes from three distinct areas. The first is based on interviews with students and staff in higher education, the second involves the investigation of the conceptions and beliefs of schoolteachers, while the third derives from more general consideration of the nature of conceptions themselves. The empirical study reported here drew on these differing research areas to distinguish between beliefs and conceptions about good teaching and to explore their possible origins. The data came from student teachers, but the findings contribute to current thinking about conceptions of teaching in higher education. Bringing the empirical findings together with the three areas of previous research enables a more complete concept map to be drawn to summarise what may underlie the notion of “good teaching”.  相似文献   

Where are the quantum jumps in quality assurance?     

Don F. Westerheijden 《Higher Education》1999,38(2):233-254

The author reviews developments in publications on quality assurance of education in (European) higher education over the last decade. The metaphor of sub-atomic structure is used to order the literature in types ('shells') of similar publications, moving from those closely related with the practice of quality assurance methods to more theoretical publications. Some seminal publications are highlighted as 'quantum jumps'. The article ends by noting some recent trends in quality assurance at the system and institutional levels, as well as mentioning theoretically interesting developments, notably the emergence of neo-institutional approaches.  相似文献   

The Changing Corporate Mind: Organizations,Vision, Missions,Purposes, and Indicators on the Move Toward Societal Payoffs     

Roger Kaufman  Ryan Watkins  Melvin Stith  Don Triner 《Performance Improvement Quarterly》1998,11(3):32-44

Where are the world's organizations headed? What do they see as their primary destination and contribution? What do they commit to deliver and to whom? How rigorous are they in defining their destinations? What label do they use to describe statements of their intended future? To find the answers to these and other questions, we examined 26 of the leading organizations internationally as well as 60 leading organizations in the United States. Based on this sample of world organizations, we found indications that many organizations see some aspect of societal good as basic to their future, while many others regard their own organization's well-being as what is most important. We find no clear favorite for what organizations label their statements of purpose: most use “mission” while some use “vision,” and some use “values” or “philosophy.” Few of the organizations in our sample state their intended destination in measurable performance terms. From these data, we discuss the implications in terms of an increasing emphasis in the literature on organizations having to deliver outputs that contribute to external clients and society. We also note that purpose statements must be accompanied by appropriate actions to achieve those intentions. In addition, we discuss how this move toward socially-responsive organizations is impacting the role of the performance technologist.  相似文献   

Digital Government Information: The Challenges of Collaborative Preservation     

Bethany Latham 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2018,44(5):674-676

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Don E. Descy 《TechTrends》2003,47(2):2

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Editor’s notes     

Don E. Descy 《TechTrends》2003,47(5):2

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All aboard the internet     

Don E. Descy Ph.D. 《TechTrends》1995,40(5):9-11

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All abraod the internet     

Descy  Don E. 《TechTrends》2003,47(6):4-5

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All aboard the internet     

Don E. Descy 《TechTrends》1994,39(2):15-16

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