Productivity and funding issues
Definition of productivity: continued survival of information |
Definition of productivity: cost per hour of faculty production of publication |
BT: Definition of productivity: cost per hour of instruction per student |
BT: Definition of productivity: cost per unit of learning per student |
Definition of productivity: cost per unit of learning in community? |
Funding for research hours |
BT: Funding for hours of instruction |
Funding for specific degree outcomes (that is, not necessarily number of course hours, but degree completed) |
BT/MH: Funding for learning outcomes that combine research and teaching |
Funding for learning environments and outcomes growing out of culture change |
External constituency determines everything, but in a strictly hierarchical structure |
There used to be church support, but it now exists in name only with little financial consequence |
Church constituencies support institutions financially and in name, but with no real stake in outcomes |
Church constitutencies play a role in learning and definition of outcomes through contextualized practicuums and strategic planning |
Lines between church and academic institution and congregation are deeply messy and structured along the lines of Web 2.0 formats, they are interpenetrating and inter-dependent |
Academic guilds are irrelevant, except insofar as they offer occasions to highlight church teaching |
Academic guilds are the primary source of content, structure of methodology, run competitively and along lines of producing expertise |
Academic guilds continue to structure degree and course frameworks, but they are experiencing some contestation of knowlede from other communities |
Academic guilds are source of important networking and shared collaboration, but also only one of several producers of knowledge |
Academic guilds are only as relevant as their participation in learning cultures |
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