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Bot-teachers in hybrid massive open online courses (MOOCs): A post-humanist experience

Description: 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… more
Date: July 20, 2018
Creator: Bozkurt, Aras; Kilgore, Whitney & Crosslin, Matt
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Complex Adaptive Systems: Adapting and Managing Teams and Team Conflict

Description: 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.
Date: August 1, 2018
Creator: Turner, John; Baker, Rose M. & Morris, Mark
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Designing Learning for Sustainable Development: Digital Practices as Boundary Crossers and Predictors of Sustainable Lifestyles

Description: 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.
Date: June 15, 2018
Creator: Starcic, Andreja Istenic; Terlevic, Maja; Lin, Lin & Lebenicnik, Maja
Partner: UNT College of Information
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An exploration of text mining of narrative reports of injury incidents to assess risk

Description: 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 variatio… more
Date: December 14, 2018
Creator: Passmore, David L.; Chae, Chungil; Kustikova, Yulia; Baker, Rose M. & Yim, Jeong-Ha
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Game design for visually-impaired individuals: Creativity and innovation theories and sensory substitution devices influence on virtual and physical navigation skills

Description: This article examines the design elements of three virtual reality games for functionality and transferability to orientation and mobility education for visually impaired individuals.
Date: October 23, 2018
Creator: Baker, Rose M.; Ramos, Karina & Turner, John
Partner: UNT College of Information
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The Relationship between Administrative Intensity and Student Retention and Success: A Three-Year Study

Description: This article describes a secondary data analysis study linking the internal organizational elements of administrative intensity to institutional results as evidenced by higher education student retention and graduation rates.
Date: September 22, 2018
Creator: Romine, Kerry; Baker, Rose M. & Romine, Karla A.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Rethinking Learning in a Digital Age: Outcomes from EDUsummIT 2017

Description: This article presents the scholarly articles that were written after the 2017 EDUsummIT, based on discussions within the Thematic Working Groups during the meeting itself. The article also present the Call to Action that was consolidated from the closing statements of the nine EDUsummIT 2017 Thematic Working Groups.
Date: August 3, 2018
Creator: Voogt, Joke & Knezek, Gerald
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Smartphones, Smart Teens

Description: Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Deborah Cockerham presents her research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
Date: November 17, 2018
Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Cockerham, Debbie
Partner: UNT College of Information
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