Steven Rathgeb Smith, the executive director of the American Political Science Association, outlines the history and future of academic associations in the United States.
Define the cooperative form of business organization
Identify the characteristics that make the cooperative form of business unique from other forms of business.
Explain why cooperatives are popular among farmers.
Describe the user benefits, responsibilities, roles and transactions.
Understand the primary purpose of cooperatives
Aligning to Improve Outcomes: The Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes
A presentation from a symposium at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Diabetes Translation's (DDT) 34th annual Diabetes Translation Conference on April 11-14, 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
What is YPN? Why did NAR start a YPN? What does YPN do for it's members and why would someone want to join? This presentation answers these questions and more!
Define the cooperative form of business organization
Identify the characteristics that make the cooperative form of business unique from other forms of business.
Explain why cooperatives are popular among farmers.
Describe the user benefits, responsibilities, roles and transactions.
Understand the primary purpose of cooperatives
Aligning to Improve Outcomes: The Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes
A presentation from a symposium at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Diabetes Translation's (DDT) 34th annual Diabetes Translation Conference on April 11-14, 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
What is YPN? Why did NAR start a YPN? What does YPN do for it's members and why would someone want to join? This presentation answers these questions and more!
OP3: Alliance for Innovation-Transforming Local Government Conference: June 1...Fairfax County
On June 1, 2011, The Fairfax County Office of Public Private Partnerships (op3) presented the "Alliance for Innovation" at the Transforming Local Government Converence.
From Publication to the Public Expanding your research beyond academiaSAGE Publishing
What are the benefits – expected and unexpected — of translating your research for the general public?
• How do you pitch your research story to the media?
• When writing for the media or the public, how do you frame the topic to be explored so it is relevant outside of the research community?
Hear Maria Balinska, Editor of The Conversation US, previously of BBC London, and a 2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard (need we say more?) address these questions in this one-hour webinar. She also presents some success stories from other researchers as well as one place to start for you and your colleagues – The Conversation US, an independent, non-profit media organization that publishes news analysis and commentary written by academics and edited by journalists aimed at the general public. (In other words, a team of professional editors who work with scholars like yourselves to apply their expertise to topical issues and to unlock their cutting edge research, all at no cost to you.)
How are publishers are working to ensure that content is discoverable and working in the format that users want it to, across platform types, content types and disciplines?
SAGE’s Martha Sedgwick was part of a panel at ALPSP 2014, that sought to address what effect discovery services are having on content usage and debated with librarians and providers the common pitfalls, how to address them and the expectations that each user group has around their impact.
Top Ten Developments in Qualitative Evaluation Over the Last DecadeSAGE Publishing
Drawing on more than 40 years of experience conducting applied social science research and program evaluation, SAGE author Michael Quinn Patton has written some of the most comprehensive and systematic texts on qualitative research and evaluation methods, inquiry frameworks, and analysis options available today. In this Webinar, Michael presents his “Top Ten Developments in Qualitative Evaluation Over the Last Decade” and discusses how we can look ahead to other challenges and opportunities using these fundamental building blocks.
Successful Qualitative Research: Don't get too comfortable!SAGE Publishing
In this presentation, Dr. Kristi Jackson of Queri, encourages qualitative researchers to observe what “closeness” and “distance” mean in everyday life, and to apply these observations to the analysis of qualitative data. She also provides practical suggestions about where, when, and how qualitative researchers might play with these ideas to move beyond comfortable interpretations to compelling ones. Kristi draws on 20 years of expertise in Qualitative Data Analysis Software (QDAS), although her presentation is appropriate for researchers regardless of whether or not they use such software. Attendees will leave with concrete tips about how to achieve closeness and distance in their own qualitative research (as they collect, handle, analyze and report their data), regardless of the theories and methodologies employed (e.g., discourse analysis, evaluation research, grounded theory, ethnography).
How has the rapid evolution of digital tools and information access changed the reference landscape? What will reference look like in 2, 5, and 10 years?
On Wednesday, March 19, the Special Library Association held a free SAGE-Sponsored SLA PartnerTalk Webinar featuring Elisabeth Leonard, Market Research Analyst for SAGE. The webinar unveiled the results of a SAGE study in North American special and academic libraries about numerous high-impact factors and challenges facing the information industry.
What’s the Big Deal with Open Access? Traditional Publishing Houses and OA” –...SAGE Publishing
LundOnline is a two day seminar aimed at college and university librarians and teachers in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. Melissa Holden, Open Access Business Developer, SAGE, attended this year. The following is her presentation.
How did science get so political, and what does science itself tell us about how research is accepted (or not) in a politicized landscape? Questions like those were the basis of the much-heralded March edition of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, co-edited by Elizabeth Suhay and James N. Druckman.
Piggybacking off the success of that issue, Social Science Spaces and the AAPSS are hosting a webinar on May 14 at 9 a.m. Eastern that features Suhay, assistant professor of Government at the School of Public Affairs at American University and two of the authors in that special edition -- Dan M. Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and a professor of psychology at Yale Law School, and Francis X. Shen, McKnight Land-Grant Professor and associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota -- discussing the nexus of science, politics and law. The webinar is free and will include ample time for questions from the audience.
We are taught that science is an objective arbiter, separating fact from fiction. With this in mind, we might expect that when a majority of scientists state their belief in an empirical phenomenon—say, that human activities are contributing to climate change, or that humans evolved from lower life forms—that well-educated nonscientists would follow suit. Yet, given current politicized debates over climate change and evolution (and vaccines, and GMOs, and other scientific subjects), we know this is not the truth.
Again thinking of science as an objective arbiter, we might expect that science employed in the service of legal proceedings and lawmaking would be an uncontroversial affair, with experts converging in their interpretation of academic studies and those studies’ implications to the case or policy before them. Yet, here too reality is far from our idealized expectation, as legal professionals, policymakers, and ordinary citizens (in their roles as jurors and voters) frequently disagree over how laboratory findings translate into law and legislation.
Make no mistake: Science is our best bet for understanding the world around us and for crafting many legal decisions and much legislation. Yet, nonscientists don’t always consume science responsibly, sometimes refusing to accept scientific consensus, sometimes stretching the implications of novel areas of scientific study past their breaking point, sometimes “spinning” the outcomes of scientific studies in support of a desired political or legal outcome. In this webinar, we try to make sense of these biases in public understanding of science as well as in the application of science to law and public policy and recommend ways to overcome them.
Librarians and publishers are paying increasing attention to the information experiences of today’s emerging scholars – but what is the underlying value in understanding the researcher experience (or RX)? What have we learned about how readers discover the content we disseminate? What impacts do these lessons have on the resources and services we provide? What does user-centered decision making mean for how we enable discoverability of academic content?
Moderated by SAGE’s Lettie Conrad, this presentation features Rebecca Blakiston, User Experience Librarian at the University of Arizona Libraries, and Rachael Cohen, Discovery User Experience Librarian in the Discovery & Research Services department at the Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries – two librarians who have conducted RX studies and made improvements to their libraries based on their findings.
Does the idea of answering a data or statistics question make you break out in a cold sweat? Never fear! Listen to experienced data librarians Jen Darragh and Hailey Mooney discuss their vetted approach to answering whatever questions come your way in the webinar “Data for the Non-Data Librarian.” Learn about the difference between data and statistics, search strategies, and tips for finding local area data—a consistent data FAQ. They will share real questions from their desk to help you gain insight on how to leverage both free and paid resources.
OP3: Alliance for Innovation-Transforming Local Government Conference: June 1...Fairfax County
On June 1, 2011, The Fairfax County Office of Public Private Partnerships (op3) presented the "Alliance for Innovation" at the Transforming Local Government Converence.
From Publication to the Public Expanding your research beyond academiaSAGE Publishing
What are the benefits – expected and unexpected — of translating your research for the general public?
• How do you pitch your research story to the media?
• When writing for the media or the public, how do you frame the topic to be explored so it is relevant outside of the research community?
Hear Maria Balinska, Editor of The Conversation US, previously of BBC London, and a 2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard (need we say more?) address these questions in this one-hour webinar. She also presents some success stories from other researchers as well as one place to start for you and your colleagues – The Conversation US, an independent, non-profit media organization that publishes news analysis and commentary written by academics and edited by journalists aimed at the general public. (In other words, a team of professional editors who work with scholars like yourselves to apply their expertise to topical issues and to unlock their cutting edge research, all at no cost to you.)
How are publishers are working to ensure that content is discoverable and working in the format that users want it to, across platform types, content types and disciplines?
SAGE’s Martha Sedgwick was part of a panel at ALPSP 2014, that sought to address what effect discovery services are having on content usage and debated with librarians and providers the common pitfalls, how to address them and the expectations that each user group has around their impact.
Top Ten Developments in Qualitative Evaluation Over the Last DecadeSAGE Publishing
Drawing on more than 40 years of experience conducting applied social science research and program evaluation, SAGE author Michael Quinn Patton has written some of the most comprehensive and systematic texts on qualitative research and evaluation methods, inquiry frameworks, and analysis options available today. In this Webinar, Michael presents his “Top Ten Developments in Qualitative Evaluation Over the Last Decade” and discusses how we can look ahead to other challenges and opportunities using these fundamental building blocks.
Successful Qualitative Research: Don't get too comfortable!SAGE Publishing
In this presentation, Dr. Kristi Jackson of Queri, encourages qualitative researchers to observe what “closeness” and “distance” mean in everyday life, and to apply these observations to the analysis of qualitative data. She also provides practical suggestions about where, when, and how qualitative researchers might play with these ideas to move beyond comfortable interpretations to compelling ones. Kristi draws on 20 years of expertise in Qualitative Data Analysis Software (QDAS), although her presentation is appropriate for researchers regardless of whether or not they use such software. Attendees will leave with concrete tips about how to achieve closeness and distance in their own qualitative research (as they collect, handle, analyze and report their data), regardless of the theories and methodologies employed (e.g., discourse analysis, evaluation research, grounded theory, ethnography).
How has the rapid evolution of digital tools and information access changed the reference landscape? What will reference look like in 2, 5, and 10 years?
On Wednesday, March 19, the Special Library Association held a free SAGE-Sponsored SLA PartnerTalk Webinar featuring Elisabeth Leonard, Market Research Analyst for SAGE. The webinar unveiled the results of a SAGE study in North American special and academic libraries about numerous high-impact factors and challenges facing the information industry.
What’s the Big Deal with Open Access? Traditional Publishing Houses and OA” –...SAGE Publishing
LundOnline is a two day seminar aimed at college and university librarians and teachers in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. Melissa Holden, Open Access Business Developer, SAGE, attended this year. The following is her presentation.
How did science get so political, and what does science itself tell us about how research is accepted (or not) in a politicized landscape? Questions like those were the basis of the much-heralded March edition of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, co-edited by Elizabeth Suhay and James N. Druckman.
Piggybacking off the success of that issue, Social Science Spaces and the AAPSS are hosting a webinar on May 14 at 9 a.m. Eastern that features Suhay, assistant professor of Government at the School of Public Affairs at American University and two of the authors in that special edition -- Dan M. Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and a professor of psychology at Yale Law School, and Francis X. Shen, McKnight Land-Grant Professor and associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota -- discussing the nexus of science, politics and law. The webinar is free and will include ample time for questions from the audience.
We are taught that science is an objective arbiter, separating fact from fiction. With this in mind, we might expect that when a majority of scientists state their belief in an empirical phenomenon—say, that human activities are contributing to climate change, or that humans evolved from lower life forms—that well-educated nonscientists would follow suit. Yet, given current politicized debates over climate change and evolution (and vaccines, and GMOs, and other scientific subjects), we know this is not the truth.
Again thinking of science as an objective arbiter, we might expect that science employed in the service of legal proceedings and lawmaking would be an uncontroversial affair, with experts converging in their interpretation of academic studies and those studies’ implications to the case or policy before them. Yet, here too reality is far from our idealized expectation, as legal professionals, policymakers, and ordinary citizens (in their roles as jurors and voters) frequently disagree over how laboratory findings translate into law and legislation.
Make no mistake: Science is our best bet for understanding the world around us and for crafting many legal decisions and much legislation. Yet, nonscientists don’t always consume science responsibly, sometimes refusing to accept scientific consensus, sometimes stretching the implications of novel areas of scientific study past their breaking point, sometimes “spinning” the outcomes of scientific studies in support of a desired political or legal outcome. In this webinar, we try to make sense of these biases in public understanding of science as well as in the application of science to law and public policy and recommend ways to overcome them.
Librarians and publishers are paying increasing attention to the information experiences of today’s emerging scholars – but what is the underlying value in understanding the researcher experience (or RX)? What have we learned about how readers discover the content we disseminate? What impacts do these lessons have on the resources and services we provide? What does user-centered decision making mean for how we enable discoverability of academic content?
Moderated by SAGE’s Lettie Conrad, this presentation features Rebecca Blakiston, User Experience Librarian at the University of Arizona Libraries, and Rachael Cohen, Discovery User Experience Librarian in the Discovery & Research Services department at the Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries – two librarians who have conducted RX studies and made improvements to their libraries based on their findings.
Does the idea of answering a data or statistics question make you break out in a cold sweat? Never fear! Listen to experienced data librarians Jen Darragh and Hailey Mooney discuss their vetted approach to answering whatever questions come your way in the webinar “Data for the Non-Data Librarian.” Learn about the difference between data and statistics, search strategies, and tips for finding local area data—a consistent data FAQ. They will share real questions from their desk to help you gain insight on how to leverage both free and paid resources.
Building Capacity for Innovation and Systems Change: Innovation Fellowship Pr...The Rockefeller Foundation
Achieving The Rockefeller Foundation’s goals to build resilience and advance inclusive economies requires moving beyond traditional approaches to problem-solving. New ways
of thinking and working are needed in order to have impact at scale. The Rockefeller
Foundation Global Fellowship Program on Social Innovation was designed to enable
leaders to innovate in order to address the underlying causes of complex social and
environmental challenges. With two successive cohorts of Fellowships now complete and
a third underway, the timing is right to reflect on what the Foundation is learning about
building individual and institutional capacity to innovate and drive systems change.
How can membership organisations be fit for purpose online - white paperDeeson Group
We ask membership organisations if they are fit for purpose online. Are they moving towards transactional websites which help members connect with the organisation and other members?
Over the past decade, the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning has served as the research and evaluation partner in more than a dozen foundation-supported efforts to improve college access and success outcomes, not just within individual programs, but also at a community level. In this workshop, the presenters will: a) present lessons learned from these community-level efforts; and b) guide participants in using a systems lens to identify how and where they fit in their local college access and completion system.
Researching Community PartnershipsCase Study Scenario You.docxfathwaitewalter
Researching Community Partnerships
Case Study Scenario:
You have been hired by XYZ University as a consultant. They want you to evaluate an organization to see if a service learning opportunity would benefit future students and the community. Your initial recommendation is due in week 5 and will be based on the research you collect in your first four assignments.
WEEK 2 ASSIGNMENT:
Last week you introduced your social issue and an organization where future students might perform service learning. Your task this week is to expand your research to community partnerships and volunteerism within the organization. XYZ University has required you to find at least three peer-reviewed articles in the EBSCO library to support your research this week.
EBSCO Quick Guide
. You will turn in a 2-3 pages paper following APA guidelines. Click here for the web version of the
APA sample paper
. Click here for a downloadable version of the
APA sample paper
.
PAPER REQUIREMENTS:
Complete the following steps.
Step 1: Introduction
Introduce the topic of service learning and community partnerships. What are the benefits for students and the community when partnering in service learning opportunities? Describe some challenges students might face as service-learners in the community. Introduce your organization as a potential community partner. Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section. Citation tutorial
Step 2: Community Partnerships
What other partnerships (companies, businesses, organizations, universities, etc.) does the organization have? What are the benefits of these partnerships? What are past partnerships that the organization no longer maintains? Why were these partnerships ended? What additional partnerships should the organization have and why? Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.
Step 3: Volunteers
Discuss how the organization uses volunteers. What are the benefits to volunteers and the community when volunteers give their time to the organization? Describe the difference between volunteering and performing service learning at the organization. Describe the benefits of service learning for the student and community beyond the service performed at the organization. Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.
Step 4: Conclusion
- Provide a Summary the organization's partnerships and how they use volunteers. Summarize the difference between volunteering and service learning. Conclude with a summary of the benefits and challenges of service learning for students and the community at this organization. Provide at least one citation from a peer-reviewed article to support your claims in this section.
Step 5: References
On a separate reference page, list all the references you have cited in your paper to support your claims
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I co-developed and presented this slideshow to administrators at UNC-Chapel Hill while serving as COO of SEEDS in the fall of 2007. It outlined the strategic goals of our student-led social entrepreneurship organization, and specified the ways in which we hoped to enlist help from UNC\'s administration.
As nonprofits consider the problem of program sustainability and capacity building; volunteers are a part of the answer. Effective organizations seek to engage volunteers in a variety of roles and responsibilities. This presentation provides information organizations can use as they seek to implement a volunteer program. This information will be helpful for organizations with current programs as ongoing review and revision is a part of effective volunteer management.
The presentation was from a fringe event at Evolve 2014: the annual event for the voluntary sector in London on Monday 16 June 2014.
Steve Coole (Stategic Support Unit Manager) discusses supporting organisations to address change.
Find out more about the Evolve Conference from NCVO: http://www.ncvo.org.uk/training-and-events/evolve-conference
In Spring 2013, we are on the precipice of dramatic, disruptive change in the health field that offers an unprecedented opportunity and challenge to transform health care and population health.
We know that traditional public health approaches along with more and better health care are not enough to improve health outcomes, equity, and cost. We must also:
- implement sustainable, fundamental "upstream" changes that address the root causes of disease and disability; and
- transform the way we deliver health care to ensure access to quality, affordable health care for all.
Enjoy this Bright Spot presentation from Sana Chehimi of the Prevention Institute, which was presented at the 2013 Annual Leadership Conference, co-sponsored by the Center for Health Leadership (CHL) and the California Pacific Public Health Training Center (CALPACT) at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health.
To learn more about this event, please visit:
http://calpact.org/index.php/en/events/leadership-conference
Learn more about CALPACT:
http://calpact.org/
Learn more about the CHL:
http://chl.berkeley.edu/
Data Visualisation - A Game of Decisions with Andy KirkSAGE Publishing
These are the slides from Andy Kirk's webinar 'Data Visualisation - A Game of Decisions'. In the webinar Andy argues that the essence of effective data visualisation design is good decision-making. It is about knowing your options and understanding how to make your choices. By deconstructing the decisions demonstrated through case study examples, Andy illustrates the many little elements that make up the design anatomy of any data visualisation work. The aim of this session is to try demystify the challenges of developing capabilities in this area. Watch the webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVkXbQOzKNs&feature=youtu.be
Publishing Innovations in the Age of Big DataSAGE Publishing
Ziyad Marar, President, Global Publishing at SAGE, gives the opening keynote at London Info International on how the rise of big data and new technology is transforming the nature of social research
Advancing Methodologies: A Conversation with John CreswelSAGE Publishing
In this presentation, best-selling author and professor John W. Creswell addresses the future of research design, qualitative research, and mixed methods research.
5 ways to take your entrepreunership teaching to the next levelSAGE Publishing
Heidi M. Neck from the world-renowned Babson Entrepreneurship program give lively discussion on how to enhance your entrepreneurship courses. A SAGE author, Heidi talks about different ways to bring your entrepreneurship teaching to the next level with five simple, yet powerful tips.
With big data research all the rage, how are librarians being asked to engage with data? As big data research takes off across Business, Science, and the Humanities, librarians need to understand big data and the issues around its storage and curation. How can it be made accessible? What tools and resources are required to use and analyze big data? In this webinar, panelists Caroline Muglia and Jill Parchuck share how big data is being used on their campuses and how they, as librarians, are supporting the sourcing and storage of this data.
Social Science in the Age of Trump: What We'd Like to See SAGE Publishing
This webinar, hosted by Wendy A. Naus, director of the Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) discussed what a new president and Congress means for US government funding for social science and what researchers, students, teachers, and the public can do to support the social sciences.
SAGE's Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences (QASS) Series has served countless students, instructors, and researchers in learning cutting-edge quantitative techniques. This collection of 175 brief volumes, the first of which published in 1976, address advanced quantitative topics including Regression, Models, Data Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, Experimental Design, Factor Analysis, Measurement, ANOVA, Survey Data, and more. A hallmark of the Series has always been its affordability – each book is $22.
We are thrilled to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first publication in this innovative series, known to many as the “Little Green Books.” We invite you to browse some facts from the books and series as a whole
Teaching Statistics to People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics: Tips for Over...SAGE Publishing
In this presentation, bestselling author Neil J. Salkind discusses strategies that you can implement to reduce statistics anxiety in your students. Using his 30+ years of teaching experience, Neil covers some of the topics that students struggle with most, including correlation, understanding hypotheses, and significance (including z-scores and t-tests).
Librarians use surveys to measure user behavior, gather information on the resources patrons are looking for, and for feedback on library services.
In this presentation, survey research expert Lesley Andres, Professor, Department of Education, University of British Columbia, outlines her top tips for creating and deploying effective surveys. View the slides to see her best practices for phrasing questions, offering answer choices, and minimizing bias.
5 Tips for Teaching Introduction to Mass Communication: Engaging Students Liv...SAGE Publishing
What are the challenges of teaching mass communication and keeping students engaged?
In this presentation, SAGE Publishing author Ralph E. Hanson discusses:
-class activities that help reach students from a variety of backgrounds and varying levels of media literacy
-adapting the wide range of social media tools for use in the classroom
presenting yourself on social media
-best practices for interacting with students online
using social media as a tool for communication and applying it to current events
Battling bannings: Authors discuss intellectual freedom and the freedom to readSAGE Publishing
What’s it like to be the author of a banned or challenged book? How do authors respond in these situations and how can librarians support them and the freedom to read? In honor of Banned Books Week, three authors address these questions and more during a free webinar. Moderated by Vicky Baker, Deputy Editor of Index on Censorship magazine, and presented in partnership by SAGE Publishing and the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, the webinar includes perspectives from:
Jessica Herthel, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a co-author of I Am Jazz, a children’s picture book about a transgender girl
Christine Baldacchino, a former early childhood educator, and the author of the widely-acclaimed book Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, and author of The Hindus: An Alternative History; and On Hinduism, which portrays the history of Hinduism outside of mainstream perspectives
Entrants were asked to submit a photo that demonstrated how their libraries were staying ahead of the curve and finding new ways to be more innovative and involved in their communities. These are the top six photos submitted!
Researching Researchers: Developing Evidence-Based Strategy for Improved Disc...SAGE Publishing
Leading libraries, publishers, and vendors regularly study the practices and needs of academics and students, in order to serve them better. This presentation addresses today’s search behaviors, emerging discovery forms, and access challenges, reviewing strategies for improving discovery and access that result from this research.
Search, Serendipity & the Researcher ExperienceSAGE Publishing
When considering researchers’ information-seeking needs, we often focus on search, such as optimizations for Google-type library search. But what about unplanned instances of discovery?
Through a study of undergraduate students and faculty, this presentation summarizes common researcher experiences with methods of serendipitous discovery within the scholarly community.
Libraries and Local Businesses: Best practices for supporting your entreprene...SAGE Publishing
Many public libraries across the US have become invaluable resources to growing small businesses and hopeful entrepreneurs in local communities. In this one-hour webinar, Nicolette Warisse Sosulski, business librarian for the Portage (Mich.) District Library and recipient of the 2011 Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship, shares her expertise as an active supporter of local business growth. For example:
• What standing resources and events does she provide at her library and how were they put together?
• What has she and others at Portage Library done to market these resources to the community?
• How does she manage expectations for those who walk in and look to the library for all of their answers?
• What else has she learned from her experiences supporting small businesses?
The presentation was followed by a lively Q&A.
Washington, D.C. and Social and Behavioral Science: The Picture for 2016 SAGE Publishing
What does 2016 hold for federally funded research into the social and behavioral sciences? Will we see new attempts to politically filter what constitutes valuable science? How will legislative calls for transparency, relevancy and open access affect you?
Michael Todd, the editor of SAGE Publishing’s Social Science Space website, and Mark Vieth, senior vice president of the Washington lobbying firm CRD Associates, tackle these and other questions in a first of a series of webinars looking at federal support and use of social and behavioral science. Vieth, a longtime staffer in the House of Representatives, is the coordinator of a national Social and Behavioral Science coalition fighting to keep all science reviewed by scientists and funded properly.
This conversation takes place shortly after the release of the White House budget proposal, always the starting point for appropriations decisions in the U.S. Congress.
This webinar series is sponsored by Social Science Space and SAGE Publishing.
Teaching Educational Research Methods: Making it Real & Relevant for StudentsSAGE Publishing
In this webinar, Dr. Craig A. Mertler talks about the challenges of teaching research methods as well as strategies for making the course relevant for students. Dr. Mertler discusses:
• the importance of the course and how to approach the topic with students
• instructor challenges around teaching the course to a variety of students with different backgrounds and levels of experience
• strategies for putting material in context, teaching difficult parts of the research process, and using applied projects inside and outside the classroom
Finding Common Ground: Bringing Methods and Analysis into ContextSAGE Publishing
In this exciting presentation, award-winning instructor, advisor and author Dr. Gregory J. Privitera discusses the benefits of addressing the common ground in methods and statistics in your course. Watching this webinar, viewers will learn how identifying the overlap in the language of methodology and the language of statistics can deepen students’ understanding of the entire research process. Viewers will also enjoy Greg’s passion for facilitating quality instruction and seeing behavior as a science.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and InclusionTechSoup
Let’s explore the intersection of technology and equity in the final session of our DEI series. Discover how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be used to support and enhance your nonprofit's DEI initiatives. Participants will gain insights into practical AI applications and get tips for leveraging technology to advance their DEI goals.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
The simplified electron and muon model, Oscillating Spacetime: The Foundation...RitikBhardwaj56
Discover the Simplified Electron and Muon Model: A New Wave-Based Approach to Understanding Particles delves into a groundbreaking theory that presents electrons and muons as rotating soliton waves within oscillating spacetime. Geared towards students, researchers, and science buffs, this book breaks down complex ideas into simple explanations. It covers topics such as electron waves, temporal dynamics, and the implications of this model on particle physics. With clear illustrations and easy-to-follow explanations, readers will gain a new outlook on the universe's fundamental nature.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Delivering Micro-Credentials in Technical and Vocational Education and TrainingAG2 Design
Explore how micro-credentials are transforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with this comprehensive slide deck. Discover what micro-credentials are, their importance in TVET, the advantages they offer, and the insights from industry experts. Additionally, learn about the top software applications available for creating and managing micro-credentials. This presentation also includes valuable resources and a discussion on the future of these specialised certifications.
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2. The Growth of Academic
Associations
Academic associations, including the large
disciplinary associations, prospered in the post-
World War II period due to rising federal and
foundation funding of higher education, the
increase in faculty, and the steady proliferation of
journals.
These associations also had a monopoly since
potential members of these associations, such as
the American Political Science
Association, needed to join the association in
order to attend the conference and receive the
association journals.
3. Changing Context of Academic
Associations
More competition: In the last 25 years, many
new and specialized academic associations
have been created. Many of these
associations have grown rapidly, attracting
individuals who were previously members of
the large disciplinary associations.
Stagnation in faculty salaries: More difficult
for potential members to afford association
dues.
Growth of Adjunct Faculty: Fewer regular
rank faculty has led to a smaller pool of
potential association members.
4. The Changing Context of
Academic Associations
Higher membership fees: Associations have
been forced to raise fees, due to rising
expenses and in some associations declines
in membership.
Declines in federal funding of the social
sciences: This shift has led to fewer research
projects and more competition for remaining
research funding. This funding reduction in
turn means that association members have
less funding to join and participate in
association activities.
5. The Changing Context of
Academic Associations
Incentives to attend the annual conference
are changing
Constraints on faculty travel budgets
More competition for space on the conference
program, especially the large disciplinary
associations.
The rise of citation indexes, impact factors and
other evaluation techniques means that
participation at the annual research conference is
less essential for promotion and advancement.
Rising conference fees and related expenses.
6. The Changing Context of
Academic Associations
Challenges to Association Revenue
Threats to royalty income from journals. Movement
toward open source publishing and funding
constraints from libraries has placed pressure on the
income of publishers.
Limited individual philanthropy. Members are inclined
to give to specific projects such as awards rather than
the association operating budget.
Shift in foundation priorities. Foundations have turned
their attention to more applied projects such as early
childhood education, economic development. Limited
funding for association infrastructure support.
7. The Changing Context of
Academic Associations
Challenges to Association Revenue
Stagnation in membership and conference fee
revenue
Limited earned income potential. Most academic
associations do not have products or services
that they can easily translate into a substantial
earned income stream, except for the conference
and their journals.
Modest endowments. Most academic
associations do not have substantial
endowments.
Undercapitalization. Many associations do not
8. What Should Academic Associations
Do?
Rethink the Value Proposition for Membership.
Innovation in programming and operations.
Organizational adaptability. Ability to quickly and flexibly
respond to emergent trends and developments.
Collaboration. Need to work closely with external
stakeholders and other associations in support of
organizational goals and priorities.
A networked organization. Create new networks within the
organization and externally.
Diversity and inclusiveness. Increasing diversity of
association membership requires
Create a learning organization. Associations need to
promote an environment that promotes new ideas and
learning in support of association programs and member
services.
9. Strategies and Next Steps
A different connection of the association to
members
Association website as the portal to important
content and benefits. A cutting edge website is
critical to delivering value to members, especially
with the explosion in social media.
New approach to member benefits. Associations
need to think carefully about the benefits
available for membership and use different
benefits strategically in support of increased value
to members.
10. Strategies and Next Steps
A different connection of the association to
members
Conference is not a one-time event. Association
need to leverage the content at the conference for
the benefit of members. Examples include
videotaping conference presentations and posting
on association websites.
Innovation in conference format. Associations
should offer varied formats and approaches at
their conferences. New approaches to engaging
members in the conference need to be explored.
11. Strategies and Next Steps
Advocacy and Public Engagement
Advocacy needs to connect with the ongoing
concerns of members
Partner with other associations in support of
association goals and priorities
Associations should advocate not only for their
own priorities but more broad-based concerns
related to higher education
Need to think broadly about advocacy and public
engagement. Associations should offer a bridge
between individuals members and policymakers
and support the public engagement activities of
members.
12. Strategies and Next Steps
Regular surveys of the members
Governance structure is critical. Associations
need to ensure that their governance structure
allows proper accountability, flexibility and the
ability of the board to engage in strategic
planning and ongoing governance.
Current strategic plan to guide the association
and its programming.
13. Acknowledgements
A previous version of this presentation was
given at a panel on academic associations at
the Southern Political Science Association
meeting, January 2014, in New Orleans. The
author gratefully acknowledges the helpful
feedback of fellow panel members and the
audience. In addition, the author would like to
thank Putnam Barber, Pat Dobel, Rob
Hauck, Barbara Walthall, and the staff of
Cambridge University Press for feedback on
earlier versions of this presentation.