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A comprehensive, explicit, universal model of a US higher education institution
A DATABASE OF RELATIONSHIPS between the components of the institution that encompasses hierarchies, ontologies, dependencies, functional connections, flow direction, etc.
A single location and integrated interface for institutional research, modeling, and performance monitoring
A sophisticated search engine that can find information based on content, type, applied tags, and connectors (Reports)
Adopting institutions
Aggregate critical metrics in metric dashboards
Aggregating information with types and tags
An intuitive visual interface to complex information
Any browser on any device
Arrange thoughts by
Authoring content
Broad user community (reference use only)
Browser based read or write access
Business capability component analysis
Client based read only access to a local copy of SKM by downloading a file
Color / Icon-coded schemas for tracking processes or status
Color coordination within sets, between types and tags, and between types and links
Community blog
Community group forums
Community released versions of SKM from file share on HelloCommunity.net
Comprehensive detailed curricular map of all academic programs, courses, and their interdependencies
Contact information for individual contributors
Create a to-do list for the concept map
Create flags / bookmarks
Data copying / backup
Detailed process architecture and documentation
Drop down menus of types and tags with embedded hierarchical schemas
Dynamic search as you create new thoughts
Each client and the server all have complete local copies of the database
Enables access to any web site from within SKM.
Expandable and collapsible branches
Explicit documentation of the administrative, human, committee, and campus structure
Facebook-like community features
Follow rationalized connections from the macro to the micro level
Helps user find the most appropriate scale
Higher Ed institutions tagged with Carnegie classifications
Identify lagging and leading metrics for use in predictive analytics
Import / export of database components in multiple formats
Information organized and interconnected using knowledge management principles
Intuitive exploration
Knowledge sharing
Links to community recommended products and services
Makes it easier to return to previously selected thoughts.
Metrics that have been refined at other institutions or are nationally normed
Multi-account synchronous authoring access (requires tier 2 subscription)
Multi-author non-synchronous authoring on file share (not officially supported)
Multi-author synchronous editing on TheBrain server
Multiple institutional users each with TheBrain client installed
Multiple tabs and windows
Past thoughts / Navigation history
Pinned thoughts
Planning and change management
Portal functionality and systems integration - Links to all back end systems that support a browser interface
Provides a model for preparing a strategic planning process
Provides metrics to monitor student recruitment and retention
Recommended articles summarized by HELLO Community members
Reverse lookup
Rubrics
Scheduling / Calendaring
Search
Services and their architecture
Shared contributions to the core database
Shared perspective analyses
Shared practice models
Simple text search
Single account authoring access (requires tier 1 subscription)
Single author multiple synchronous clients
SKM access, downloading, and updating
SKM thoughts hyperlinked to institutional back-end data data systems to provide in-context views
Tag based user instructions
TheBrain client on Administrator's desktop
TheBrain client on user desktop
TheBrain.com
Web browser on any device
Jumps
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