What is Alignment

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Degree of shared understandings achieved among interacting agents. Learn more in: Modeling Human Resources in the Emergent Organization

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Indicates a similar philosophy or approach between programs, their curricula, and/or their policies. Learn more in: The Roles of Early Childhood Educators in Young Children's Transition to Primary School

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The level of correspondence between learning outcomes, instruction, and assessment. Learn more in: Aligning E-Assessment With Learning Outcomes

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The arrangement or position of different separate elements (strategies) in relation to each other. Learn more in: Only One Evolving Strategy

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The process of creating assessments that match the taxonomy of student learning outcomes at the course and program level. Learn more in: Redesigning Assessment: Transitioning From Measuring Immediate Knowledge to True Learning

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Critical course elements working together to ensure that learners achieve the desired outcomes. Learn more in: Instructional Design and Online Standards

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The connection between business strategy and IS strategy. Learn more in: Strategic Information Systems Planning

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The degree to which strategic or corporate goals are in harmony with security policies. Learn more in: Security Policies and Procedures

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The arrangement or position of different, separate elements (strategies) in relation to each other. Learn more in: One Organization, One Strategy

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Critical course elements working together to ensure that students achieve the desired learning outcomes. Learn more in: The Quality Matters Program

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The process of linking the high level performance goals of an organization with the more specific performance goals given to units, teams and individuals. Learn more in: Organizational Needs Analysis and Knowledge Management

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Relates to the arrangement of various elements (that belong together) that are place upon a screen/page of a multimedia document. The layout ought not to be chaotic but have some measure of order to enhance readability and visual understanding of whatever is presented. Learn more in: Faculty Feedback Regarding the Usability of Microsoft PowerPoint as a Multimedia Authoring Tool

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The documented relationship between an evaluation criterion to a competency, a competency to an outcome, or a competency to an external standard, that allows for accurate measurement of different levels of a curriculum. Learn more in: A Return to Doing: How Authentic Assessment Changes Higher Education

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How the reader is oriented to the tag. Learn more in: The Transport-Level Requirements of the Internet-Based Streaming

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The process of creating segment pairs in source and target languages used to create translation memory as a fundamental resource for computer-assisted translation and machine translation. Learn more in: Quality Assurance in Computer-Assisted Translation in Business Environments

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The connection between business strategy and IS strategy. Learn more in: Strategic Information Systems Planning

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The synchronization of student academic endeavors across learner group activities with learner output that culminates in a shared outcome. Learn more in: eService-Learning: Bridging Online Graduate Students' Sense of Belonging With Community Engagement

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An instructional design concept that encompasses the connection between course elements. Alignment within the design of a course means that the course content directly supports students doing well on course assessments, which provide evidence to the instructor that the student has achieved the course learning objectives. Online courses additionally consider alignment in terms of planned interaction and chosen technology. Learn more in: Collaborative Instructional Design Strategies in an Online Health Systems Pharmacy Degree Program