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- Analysis of Management and Employee Job Satisfaction
- Article on an analysis of management and employee job satisfaction for gender, age group, length of time with the organization, and between management and non-management employees.
- Applying Technology to Online Counseling: Suggestions for the Beginning E-Therapist
- Article discussing research on applying technology to online counseling and suggestions for the beginning e-therapist.
- Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling
- Article reports on a trace-based assessment of approaches to learning used by middle school aged children who interacted with NASA Mars Mission science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) games in Whyville, an online game environment with 8 million registered young learners. Differences in approach to learning were found illustrating the potential value of the methodology to curriculum and game-based learning designers as well as other creators of online STEM content for pre-college youth.
- Assessment of ICT in Tertiary Education Applying Structural Equation Modeling and Rasch Model
- Article studies information and communication technology (ICT) in tertiary education. This article is part of the special collection: Educational Psychology & Counseling, Educational Psychology.
- A Bibliographic and Visual Exploration of the Historic Impact of Soft Systems Methodology on Academic Research and Theory
- This article produced descriptive narrative outcomes and data visualizations including information about top soft system methodology (SSM) authors, author citation impacts, common dissemination outlets for SSM work, and other relevant metrics commonly used to measure academic impact. The goal of this piece is to depict who, what, why, when, and where SSM had the greatest impact on research, systems thinking, and methodology after nearly 40 years of use, as we look towards its future as a methodological approach used to comprehend complex problem situations.
- Bot-teachers in hybrid massive open online courses (MOOCs): A post-humanist experience
- This article explores networked learning technologies and the development of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). The study examines and explains hybrid MOOCs and focuses on the use of bot-teachers within a post-humanist perspective. The research findings reveal that, while the use of bot-teachers is beneficial in terms of facilitating and increasing discourse/interaction, it is ineffective in providing other components of teaching presence. Yet ultimately, learners' positive behaviors indicate that bot-teachers hold promise as an educational tool.
- Campus Chaplains: Cult Training and Perceptions
- This article examines the perception of 43 college chaplains across the United States with regard to cult training and perceptions of college and university cult activity.
- Challenges for Educational Technologists in the 21st Century
- This article describes the challenges that 21st century educational technologists are, and will be addressing as they undertake the effective integration of new technologies into K-12 educational systems and learning environments.
- The Challenges of Training and Retraining Mature Learners
- Article discussing research on the aging process from physical, cognitive, and social and psychological perspectives, accommodations for age related changes, retraining mature learners, adaptations of the classroom environment, training technology issues, and successful corporate retraining programs to better prepare vocational educators for the workforce of the new millennium.
- Complex Adaptive Systems: Adapting and Managing Teams and Team Conflict
- This book chapter provides an overview of teams, complex adaptive systems, conflict stages, and conflict models, while also presenting adaptive leadership as a style that offers organizations with the capabilities of reacting to changing environments quickly.
- Complex Adaptive Team Systems (CATS)
- Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper introduces a new theoretical model utilizing Turner and Baker’s (2017) Team Emergence Leadership Development and Evaluation (TELDE) model as a tool to facilitate interactions imbedded in complex adaptive systems.
- Complex Adaptive Team Systems (CATS)
- Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation introduces a new theoretical model to facilitate interactions embedded in complex adaptive systems utilizing a Team Emergence Leadership Development and Evaluation model.
- Conceptualizing the emerging field of smart learning environments
- This article suggests that a convergence of advances and developments in epistemology, psychology, and technology provide a foundation for the planning and implementation of smart learning environments. It includes an approach for the evaluation of smart learning environments.
- Contrasting Perceptions of STEM Content and Careers
- This article presents a second year analysis of baseline attitudinal data gathered from a National Science Foundation Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers project concerning contrasts between the perceptions of practicing professionals and students toward science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and careers.
- Copyright and Fair Use: An Issue of Ethics in a Changing Learning Environment
- Article discussing copyright and fair use in regards to ethics in a changing learning environment.
- Creativity and Innovative Processes: Assemblages and Lines of Flight
- Article provides assemblage maps showing the elements related to creativity, innovation, and creativity and innovation. These assemblage maps highlight virtual and dynamic flight lines that represent potentially active components with varying intensity and direction, which provides a tool for managers and practitioners to identify potentialities for future predictions better.
- Cross-Cultural Training and Success Versus Failure of Expatriates
- Article discussing cross-cultural training and the success versus failure of expatriates.
- Cross-Sectional Studies of the Impacts of Background Sounds on Math and Language Performance
- Presented at the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation reports a series of seven studies examining the extent to which background sounds impact individuals' math and language task performance.
- Designing Learning for Sustainable Development: Digital Practices as Boundary Crossers and Predictors of Sustainable Lifestyles
- This article contains results from a survey among students of urban and spatial planning in Slovenia to inform teacher's approaches to teaching as an important driver of institutional change.
- The Development and Assessment of an Instrument for Measuring Mental Model Styles in Korea
- This article discusses a research study on the development and assessment of an instrument for measuring mental model styles in Korea.
- Digital Curation and Data Management Capacity Building: Curricula and Workforce
- Poster presented at the 2012 ALISE Annual Conference. This poster discusses digital curation and data management capacity building, as part of the iCAMP project.
- Distance learning during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining K-12 students’ and parents’ experiences and perspectives
- Article examines K-12 students and parents in the United States’ experiences and challenges during the sudden shift to distance learning during the COVID19 crisis. This article is part of the special issue: Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19.
- Educators', Administrators' and Students' Perceptions of Principles of Technology Programs in Pennsylvania
- This study assesses the Principles of Technology Applied Science high school courses taught in Pennsylvania.
- EDUsummIT: A Global Knowledge Building Community for Educational Researchers, Practitioners, and Policy Makers
- This paper reports findings of an evaluative study conducted at the conclusion of EDUsummIT 2015 to investigate the effectiveness and impact of EDUsummIT.
- The Effect of Multi-mode Stimuli of Feedforward and Eye Tracking on Metacognition— An Exploratory Study Using Digital Dictionaries
- Article presents a study employing multi-mode stimuli of learners’ eye movements and feedforward that aims to develop the effect of Stimulated Recall (SR) on activating learners’ metacognition in remote settings.
- The Effect of Stereoscopic Three-Dimensional Images on Vocabulary Learning
- Article describes study investigating the effect of stereoscopic three-dimensional (S3D) images on recall and retention of foreign language vocabulary.
- Emerging educational technologies: Tensions and synergy
- This article conducts a review of high level sources with regard to new and emerging technologies, including a critique using established principles pertaining to learning and instruction, and a recommended curriculum for advanced learning technologies
- Enhancing Assignment Completion in Academically Diverse Vocational Classes
- Article on enhancing assignment completion in academically diverse vocational classes.
- Ethical Challenges of Using Virtual Environments in the Assessment and Treatment of Psychopathological Disorders
- This article discusses ethical issues involved in the clinical use of novel technologies.
- Examining Scientific Literacy through New Media
- Article evaluates the impact of new media on scientific literacy. Content analysis with a coding scheme was performed on 42 filtered websites and 20 microblogs to analyze the role of new media in disseminating scientific knowledge. The results showed that the quality of science-oriented websites was higher than that of microblogs. Suggestions about how to improve the quality of science-oriented new media and how to develop students’ scientific literacy through new media are also discussed.
- An exploration of text mining of narrative reports of injury incidents to assess risk
- In this article, a topic model was explored using unsupervised machine learning to summarized free-text narrative reports of 77,215 injuries that occurred in coal mines in the USA between 2000 and 2015. Latent Dirichlet Allocation modeling processes identified six topics from the free-text data. The modeling success enjoyed in this exploratory effort suggests that additional topic mining of these injury text narratives is justified, especially using a broad set of covariates to explain variations in topic emphasis and for comparison of surface mining injuries with injuries occurring during site preparation for construction.
- Exploring Learner to Content Interaction as a Success Factor in Online Courses
- Article exploring learner to content interaction as a success factor in online courses.
- Factors Affecting Selection of Information Sources: A Study of Ramkhamhaeng University Regional Campuses Graduate Students
- Poster presented at the 2011 International iConference. This poster presents research conducted on students at Ramkhamhaeng University (RU).
- Five-Picture Charades: A Flexible Model for Technology Training in Digital Media Tools and Teaching Strategies
- This article presents Five-Picture Charades, an instructional activity designed to introduce preservice and in-service teachers to the technical and pedagogical uses of digital images in the classroom.
- A Fixed Effects Panel Data Model: Mathematics Achievement in the U.S.
- Article discussing a study on a fixed effects panel data model and mathematics achievement in the United States.
- From design to impact: a phenomenological study of HumanMOOC participants’ learning and implementation into practice
- Article investigates Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) impact on participants' actual practices.
- Future Directions for digital Literacy Fluency using Cognitive Flexibility Research: A Review of Selected Digital Literacy Paradigms and Theoretical Frameworks
- Article discusses how as learners engage, test, and apply new subject knowledge, they often expend their cognitive capacity on the technological tools designed to capture their learning progress and outcomes. The author's research explores the value of developing digital literacy to improve learners’ cognitive flexibility by decreasing technological cognitive load and increasing learning fluency.
- Game design for visually-impaired individuals: Creativity and innovation theories and sensory substitution devices influence on virtual and physical navigation skills
- This article examines the design elements of three virtual reality games for functionality and transferability to orientation and mobility education for visually impaired individuals.
- Gender Differences in 7th Grade Students' Interest in STEM after Participating in a Solenoid Instructional Unit
- Paper presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The research presented studies achievement scores and affinity towards STEM scores of male and female students after participating in a unit focused on understanding a solenoid.
- iCAMP: Building Digital Information Curation Curriculum [Poster]
- Poster presented at the 2012 International iConference. This poster discusses building digital information curation curriculum, as part of the iCAMP project.
- ICT in Higher Education: An Exploration of Practices in Malaysian Universities
- Article investigating the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education. To investigate this issue, the technology adoption and gratification (TAG) model was validated and used to examine Malaysian university teachers' adoption and gratification of ICT for teaching and research purposes and then used to investigate the moderating effect of universities in different regions. This paper confirms the utility of the TAG model for comparing teachers' adoption and gratification of ICT.
- The impact of high-immersion virtual reality on foreign language anxiety
- Authors of the article assert that public speaking, especially in a foreign language, is associated with increased anxiety. The authors found that VR technology had a positive effect on practicing public speaking in a foreign language, the research findings have practical implications for professionals and curriculum designers in various domains where public speaking skills are essential.
- Inclusivity Instead of Exclusivity: The Role of MOOCs for College Credit
- This book chapter reviews the extant model, programs, and available outcomes for the massive open online course (MOOC) credit acceptance process.
- Information Seeking, Information Sharing, and going mobile: Three bridges to informal learning
- This article introduces a new perspective on information behavior in Web 2.0 environments, including the role of mobile access in bridging formal to informal learning.
- Investigating the Screwdriver: 25 Years of Technology Change
- Article broadly discussing some of the technological changes in vocational education over the last 25 years, as well as strategies for implementation and planning in the new millennium.
- Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Turnover Intention of Career and Technical Education Health Science Teachers
- Article describes study which examines the relationships between job satisfaction, work engagement, and turnover intention of Career and Technical Education (CTE) health science teachers in the United States (US).
- The Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education
- This issue of the Journal for Vocational Special Needs focuses on the aging process and its effects on society and the workforce. Aging is the one experience that we all have in common. Individuals are expected to live longer in the future. Many will undoubtedly work beyond the traditional retirement age. This means that the composition of workers will be a blend of people, both young and old.
- Leadership in Career and Technical Education: Beginning the 21st Century
- Leadership in Career and Technical Education: Beginning the 21st Century is the third edited book published by the University Council of Workforce and Human Resource Education (UCWHRE), formerly the University Council of Vocational Education (UCVE). The previous books, Beyond Tradition: Preparing the Teachers of Tomorrow's Workforce (Hartley & Wentling, 1996) and Beyond Tradition: Preparing Human Resource Development Educators for Tomorrow's Workforce (Stewart & Hall, 1998) reported trends in their respective fields and also addressed issues that are perennial to workforce education. This publication is somewhat different in that it represents a collaborative effort among members of the UCWHRE, the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education and the National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education. This collaboration symbolizes efforts to link theory and research to practice and practice to theory and research.
- Learning Analytics and Learning Technologies
- Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper discusses the roles of learning analytics and learning management systems in instructional design.
- Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: A Mixed-Methods Twitter Study
- This article examines the design of a course that utilized the real-time information network Twitter to spark reflective thinking and communication based on classroom topics.