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The ALCA Solution provides a rich and powerful environment for collaboration and mutual support across a diverse set of learning communities, including universities, public and private school districts,
non-profit organizations, federal and state agencies, and otherprojects
aimed at improving educational outcomes. You can begin simply with one application and then build your ALCA Solution into a powerful combination of its many services.
The power of the ALCA Solution gives you the ability to use any one of these services or any combination thereof in an interrelated and dynamic package. Based on your needs and the
needs of your audiences, you can decide which combination of services to integrate, at a low cost and with little effort, as your expertise and needs evolve.
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Standards Service |
The ALCA Web Service can increase community involvement and support for your institution. Web services can also increased awareness of the products and services offered by your
institution. Using the ALCA Solution for Web Services, you can:
- Increase communication with students, faculty, and administration
- Provide a showcase for students' work samples
- Establish a powerful, low-cost, low-tech web presence for courses using ALCA's web tools and templates
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The ALCA Standards Service supports closer alignment of teaching and learning activities and resources with items measured on local, state and national assessments. Using the ALCA Solution for Standards Services, you can:
- Provide a searchable database of state and national standards
- Connect and align both curriculum and resources to the institution, state and national standards
- Document the connection between your institution's learning activities and state and national standards
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| Data Services |
Collaboration Service |
The ALCA Data Service saves you time, increases your ability to meet the needs of your stakeholders, and improves evaluation of your institution and its programs. Using the ALCA
Solution for Data Services, you can:
- Easily develop online forms and surveys for use in needs analysis and program evaluations or research studies
- Collect information in a timely manner
- Support analysis of data collected during audience surveys
- Provide easily accessible and usable repository for field notes, tacit knowledge, and reflections during research studies
- Store student collected data for easy comparison and analysis during collaborative projects
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The ALCA Collaboration Services support increased motivation and engagement of students and stakeholders, improved higher-level thinking skills and better solutions to problems. Using
the ALCA Solution for Collaboration Services, you can:
- Provide authentic audiences for student work through collaborative projects
- Conduct peer review, data analysis, and resource sharing.
- Allow master teachers to share their instructional knowledge and experience with others
- Remove barriers to collaboration among stakeholders by supporting any-time, any-where scheduling, communication, and resource sharing
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| Curriculum Services |
e-Learning Service |
The ALCA Curriculum Service supports online curriculum guides that are easily adaptable, a more coherent and rigorous curriculum, increased collaboration among faculty, improved
higher-level thinking skills, and a higher return on your investment in instructional technology. Using the ALCA Solution for Curriculum Services, you can:
- Provide a flexible system for curriculum development, alignment, and revision
- Provide a flexible system for shared development of curriculum among collaborating departments or universities
- Provide easy access to activities and curriculum for students at a distance
- Easily create activities that encourage data collection, analysis, and comparison
- Help professors use the Internet as a teaching tool
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The ALCA e-Learning Service provides powerful and flexible assessment strategies essential to address new acreditation standards. The solution provides unique options for student
interaction and development. Using the ALCA Solution for eLearning Services, you can:
- Develop and easily revise online courses and workshops
- Increase enrollment in courses through online delivery
- Increase options for delivery of professional development
- Provide just-in-time learning opportunities
- Conduct objective, rubric, and portfolio-based assessments
- Develop test bank resources
- Display program, student, and professional portfolios
- Increase peer review for student feedback.
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The ALCA Resource Service saves you time, increases efficiency, and can repurpose quality products within your institution. Using the ALCA Solution for Resource Services, you
can:
- Conduct virtual meetings
- Share solutions to common problems among collaborating partners
- Easily develop presentations, protocols, rubrics, and other resources to be shared
- Provide a virtual library of web pages, media, presentations,activities, procedures, and 12 other types of resources for use by all members of your learning community
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