Has the metaphor of ‘learning journey’ any value in the analysis of research data on access‚ retention and ‘drop-out’ in higher education? Paul Armstrong‚ Researcher‚ RANLHE Project Since the earliest times the act of travelling‚ of proceeding from one place to another‚ has been seen as a natural metaphor for learning‚ for the acquisition of experience and knowledge. (Bishop C. Hunt Jr.‚ ‘Travel Metaphors and the Problem of Knowledge’‚ Modern Language Studies‚ vol. 6‚ no. 1‚ Spring‚ 1976‚ p.44) What’s
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differing ideologies of economic systems‚ slavery‚ and the role of the government. The fundamental ideologies of the North and South were constant‚ although the focus shifted over time. The members of the First Party System‚ the Jeffersonians and the Industrialists‚ conflicted over economic systems that were unique to the North and South. The Southern
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The following proposal is for the implementation of Active Directory within the Riordan Manufacturing organization which includes plants in Michigan‚ Georgia‚ China and Headquarters in California. In the implementation of Active Directory‚ Riordan’s old domain will be replaced with Windows 2003 servers acting as domain controllers and running Active Directory Services at each of the above plants. This allows the network administrators at each Riordan plant to actively manage network resources. This
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American law enforcement organizations is hierarchal and it is a bureaucratic structure adopting ways of the military. The quasi-military structure found in police departments will emphasize the importance of specializations in task‚ duties‚ objectives‚ and responsibilities. Each level in the chain of command has specific authority and tasks to carry out. Historically speaking‚ Peel’s principles of a professional police organization can be seen in today’s philosophy of community-oriented policing
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Fractals in Healthcare Organizations In this week’s discussion board we were asked to apply the concept of fractals to organizations‚ groups‚ and teams. A fractal as explained by Gialamas‚ Pelonis‚ and Medeiros (2014)‚ “is a rough or fragmented geometric space that can be split into parts‚ -or neighborhoods – each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole.” More simply put fractals are much like a head of broccoli where each individual floret greatly resembles the whole
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Why were managed care organizations initially hesitant to use data mining applications? One of the biggest hesitations would have to be cost to build an implement such a system. The technique depends on an organization having "clean" data to analyze‚ which requires data being scrubbed and moved to data warehouses. Many payers lack the money and manpower to build and maintain these warehouses. (Kongstvedt‚ P.‚ Capagemini). In addition‚ internal politics and the numerous constituencies within a
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Nonprofit Organization Revenue Tammy L. Blackmon BSHS/373 March 17‚ 2014 Rinku Bhattacharya Nonprofit Organization Revenue American SID’S Institute is a nonprofit organization that helps keep the fight to end what was once known as crib death. The meaning of crib death was and still is when a baby falls asleep and slips away during the night/morning/afternoon‚ today we call crib death Sid’s. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is a much broader term to use when relating it to children
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FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT OF THE COURSE GSS 111 [USE OF ENGLISH] TOPIC THE NIGERIAN POLITICAL CLASS AND VALUE SYSTEM: A CRITIQUE WRITTEN BY MBA UCHECHUKWU EMEA EBI
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Due to grow awareness globally in importance of asset protection and coverage to minimize losses or impacts on firms‚ War & Political Risk was formed. It consists of four cost centers which are Kidnap & Ransom‚ Political Risk‚ Product Recall and Trade Credit. Each of the cost centers has different coverage‚ exposure‚ business interest‚ task processing and etcetera depending on client base and needs. We as support team understand this situation and work closely with our London colleagues especially
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The Western wander organization (PM) approach requires the use of PM development and also PM regards/feelings. This examination is stressed over the comprehensible social impediments for Chinese endeavors to use the PM approach. The composition review reveals the four social limits of the Instructing of the Mean‚ Strong Request‚ Family Insight‚ and Administrator Presentation. By then‚ through a survey review at Yunnan district‚ this examination gives some correct evidence about the genuine status
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