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Creating a Comprehensive Dashboard for Strategic Planning: Inception to Implementation
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| Jennifer Reeves, Nova Southeastern University, jennreev@nova.edu
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| Barbara Packer-Muti, Nova Southeastern University, packerb@nova.edu
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| Candace Lacey, Nova Southeastern University, lacey@nova.edu
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| Abstract:
This session will illustrate how a large, non-profit university conceptualized and created a comprehensive Dashboard to house various data points across the university. Nova Southeastern University (NSU) has 14 different academic colleges awarding undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. The University Provost was interested in creating a tool that would assist central administration with strategic planning. He envisioned this tool as a single source of data that would incorporate multiple data sources throughout the university. These sources would include enrollments, Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) benchmarks, constituent engagement scores, academic program review, assessment of student learning outcomes, accreditation, budget and financial information, and success rates. A small research team was charged with visioning and creating a tool that would incorporate these data. The result was a comprehensive online dashboard. The presentation will discuss the design and implementation of this project including a demonstration of a sample dashboard.
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Listserv Activity as an Indicator of Vitality and Growth in International Community of Practice Networks
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| Presenter(s):
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| Stacey Friedman, Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education & Research, staceyfmail@gmail.com
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| Page Morahan, Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research, pmorahan@faimer.org
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| Williams Burdick, Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research, wburdick@faimer.org
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| Deborah Diserens, Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education & Research, ddiserens@faimer.org
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| Avinash Supe, Georgia State Medical College, avisupe@gmail.com
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| Tejinder Singh, Christian Medical College, cmcl.faimer@gmail.com
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| Thomas Chacko, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, drthomasvchacko@gmail.com
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| Eliana Amaral, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, amaraleli@gmail.com
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| Henry Campos, Universidade Federal do Ceará, camposh2002@yahoo.com.br
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| Vanessa Burch, University of Cape Town, vanessa.burch@uct.ac.za
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| Gboyega Ogunbanjo, University of Limpopo, gao@intekom.co.za
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Listservs are a common mode for communication among individuals with shared interests. Listserv activity data can provide useful insight into extent of sustained engagement, growth, and vitality of online communities over time. Utility of findings is enhanced by analyses aligned with program structure/goals and contextual interpretation of data. Planning for listserv data storage, retrieval, and analysis resources is critical.
The FAIMER Institutes consist of six fellowship programs for health professions faculty from developing regions of the world. Listservs (one per program) are central, serving as the primary conduit for distance learning and forums for collaboration, social support, and information-sharing among program graduates, current Fellows, and program faculty. Examples of listserv analyses include trajectories of activity and engagement over time, homo/heterogeneity of poster population, production function, and listserv cross-posting. Qualitative data, including both content of posts and user perceptions of the listserv, can offer a useful complement to listserv activity data.
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Public Comprehension of Published Data: Technology to the Rescue?
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| Paul Lorton Jr, University of San Francisco, lorton@usfca.edu
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There is a need for the public to monitor the efficacy of what the public funds. This certainly was the view in 1989 when the voters of California passed Proposition 98 – the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act.
Since the passage of Proposition 98, every public K-12 school in California has published and distributed a School Accountability Report Card (SARC) as hard copy sent home to the parents and, as the revised law compelled, made available on the internet.
Did the use of this technology (i.e., the internet and the infrastructure it requires) realize its purpose – to inform?
What information transmitted via the technology and how easily can it be used? From this mandate, does the public know how its schools are performing and can it make informed judgments about directions and support to be given to its public schools?
This presentation is focused on answering these questions.
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