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Institutions of higher education now rely on social media platforms (e.g., Twitter, Facebook,

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forecast to have a value of $19,224.3 million, an increase of 266.8% since 2016. Category

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Research has shown that sophisticated ePortfolio practice can advance student success,

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market for new graduate nurses in health care, the development and use of an ePortfolio can

be an essential tool for the application and interview process. The purpose of this paper is to

report the use of ePortfolio presentations in a course at Indiana University, Bloomington

campus. The implementation of an ePortfolio for seniors grew out of the previous practice of

students displaying their work in a three-ring binder. As technology progressed the portfolio

presentation practice grew into the use of a digital portfolio template, and then more recently,

the ePortfolio emerged and was implemented through the online course management system

offered by the university. Students were asked to write a reflection about their assignments, and

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private purposes. However, although they understand that their students also use it for learning

purposes, and instructors sense the potential of social media in teaching, they mostly refrain

from doing so due to various barriers. In response, an openly accessible trilingual Social Media

Toolkit was developed which analyzes the teaching scenario with several questions, before

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approach in the pilots was limited, participants who adopted the approach reported collecting

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professional standards-focused portfolio of teaching competency. In concluding that current

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faculty to respond to this challenge, the paper proposes three critical conditions to revitalize a

stalled ePortfolio program and prepare for an increasingly demanding future. In sharing this
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to the professional portfolio challenge in an environment of increasing regulation.

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Federal Cloud Computing: The Definitive Guide for Cloud Service Providers, Second Edition

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government, including the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, Cloud Computing Standards,

Security and Privacy, and Security Automation. You will learn the basics of the NIST risk

management framework (RMF) with a specific focus on cloud computing environments, all

aspects of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) process, and

steps for cost-effectively implementing the Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process, as

well as strategies for implementing Continuous Monitoring, enabling the Cloud Service Provider

to address the FedRAMP requirement on an ongoing basis. This updated edition will cover the

latest changes to FedRAMP program, including clarifying guidance on the paths for Cloud

Service Providers to achieve FedRAMP compliance, an expanded discussion of the new

FedRAMP Security Control, which is based on the NIST SP 800-53 Revision 4, and maintaining

FedRAMP compliance through Continuous Monitoring. Further, a new chapter has been added

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common understanding of the federal requirements as they apply to cloud computing. Offers a

targeted and cost-effective approach for applying the National Institute of Standards and

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technical perspectives of the Federal Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process that speaks

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Introduction In recent years, the increased use of electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) has seen the

enhancement of the affordances these programs provide. No longer confined to the role of

"evidence repository." In addition to providing a useful repository for learning products,

ePortfolios provide enhanced opportunities for the development of advanced learning skills. It

can be argued, however, that ePortfolios are not being implemented effectively towards fulfilling

this important function. This paper presents an investigation of an ePortfolio environment that

scaffolded the learning of pre-service teachers. The environment was embedded within the

PebblePad platform and utilized the Blog function to provide students with activities that were

designed to enhance and support the skills and dispositions required to undertake action

research. Prompts were provided to students to scaffold the completion of an action research

project and provide additional activities that supported the enhancement of reflective thinking.

The research study utilized an eLearning Lifecycle that provided a cyclic framework of review

and implementation. The purpose of this model was to identify design principles for future

iterations of ePortfolio-based learning environments. Findings suggest that the prompts and the

ePortfolio environment were effective in scaffolding students' reflective thinking. Additionally,

design principles are suggested to ensure this research has both practical and theoretical

significance for implementation in similar environments.

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This paper reports the findings of a project that investigated uses of electronic portfolios

(ePortfolios) in the creative and performing arts at four Australian universities and raises four

significant areas for discussion: engaging technologies as an ongoing requirement of planning,

 delivery and evaluation of teaching and learning in higher education; ePortfolios and their

implications for curriculum planning; the influence of ePortfolios on learning, self-awareness and

reflection; and differences in ePortfolio expectations and uses between the varying

specializations of music study in higher education. Identifying marked differences between the

four higher education institutions in this project and their applications of ePortfolio work, our

discussion supports the hypothesis that ePortfolios cannot be applied generically across the

arts; rather the ePortfolio requires qualification in expectations, roles, applications and

theorizations. The paper makes recommendations for higher arts educators and highlights

some of the strategies that heighten the development of professional practice and related

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Cloud computing services are finding rapid adoption as organizations seek cost reduction,

technical expertise, flexibility, and adaptable mechanisms to attain advantages in fast-moving

business environments. The related considerations of governance, audit, and assurance of

cloud computing services might be inadvertently overlooked in a rush to adopt these cloud

services. This paper focuses on cloud computing governance and audit issues by presenting

research questions informed by both practice and research. A cloud computing ecosystem is

presented and an IT Governance framework (Wilkin and Chenhall 2010) is referenced as a

means to structure research questions. Key issues of risk, security, monitoring, control, and

compliance should be considered early in the cloud services decision process. The tight

coupling of intercompany operations between the cloud client and cloud provider(s) forms an

interdependent, operationally coupled ecosystem. Planned governance is needed to achieve a

well-governed, functional, and secure cloud computing environment. The audit role is
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externally with a cloud service provider that may use other cloud service providers.

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Just as websites morphed from digital brochures into versatile multimedia portals, electronic

portfolios have evolved from information repositories to robust tools for showcasing student

learning.

Warren, C. (2016). Social media and outbound ticket sales. Journal of Applied Sport

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This paper examines current implementation of social media strategies by ticket salespeople. A

sample of 126 ticket sales professionals across professional, collegiate, and minor league sport

responded to a survey measuring social media usage rates across a variety of platforms, social

media use throughout the sales process, and sales performance. Results indicate that overall

ticket salespeople are not incorporating social media into their regular sales initiatives.

However, top performing sales professionals do tend to use social media more regularly than

baseline ticket sales representatives when approaching and discovering the needs of their

customers. Given the rise of social media as a business-to-business communication medium,

ticket sales managers should consider incorporating more training and empowering their

salesforces to leverage social media to facilitate greater sales success.

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Social media has gained great attention in today's society as an important tool for people to

share their views, feelings and emotions at a faster pace. Not only the general society but the

professional institutions too have been impacted by its usage whether for their recognition,

branding or establishment in the market. The present paper focuses on the role of social media

communication by educational institutions in this digitized world and shows how it is a double-

edged sword.

Younas, M., Ghani, I., Jawawi, D. N. A., & Khan, M. M. (2016). A framework for agile development in

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Distributed agile software development faces difficulties for instance lack of visibility across

development and delivery processes, complex and disjointed development processes, inability

to capitalize on business opportunities, lack of communication agility between disconnected

owners, development teams, and users or clients. However, these difficulties are solved with

the help of cloud computing services. This study proposes a framework to provide a skeletal or

structural environment for distributed agile software development in cloud computing

environment. The framework guide towards the best tooling to deliver a consistent, automated,

governed, and unified agile software development process with reduced technical debt, and

minimized project backlog. In addition to this, the study highlights the benefits of cloud

computing in agile software development.