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Allied Program Areas and Specializations within LIS: UNT Experience

Description: This presentation was presented as part of a panel on "The Benefits and Challenges of Allied Programs and Specializations in LIS Units" as part of the opening plenary panel at the 2018 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference. This presentation discusses the rewards and challenges of Library and Information Science (LIS) programs, with a detailed overview of LIS programs offered at the University of North Texas.
Date: February 7, 2018
Creator: Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Barriers to Active Participation in VCoPs of a Brazilian Public Sector Company

Description: Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation describes the research undertaken in a Brazilian company of the public services sector with the objective to identify the reasons why participants of virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) do not actively participate in their communities.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Costa Ribeiro, Nara Viana; Watanabe Wilbert, Julieta K.; Aparecida Dandolini, Gertrudes & Artur de Souza, João
Partner: UNT College of Information
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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

Building Agency within the Agency and in the Community: Improving Web Access to Public Health Data in New York City

Description: Poster for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This poster catalogues the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's redevelopment efforts to understand users and reimagine uses for its public use data.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Marcial, Laura; Quattrone, Wes; Affrunti, Megan; Hinterland, Kinjia; Laufenberg, Jeff; Duparc, Martin et al.
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

Creating a Knowledge-Sharing Culture Using the Implementation of a Digital Asset Management System: A Case Study

Description: Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation examines the process the Institute for Functional Medicine took to implement a digital asset system and the increased focus on a knowledge sharing culture.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Leuchter, Jane
Partner: UNT College of Information

Critical Evaluation of and Proposed Corrections for Knowledge Management Maturity Models

Description: Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Managment. This presentation reports on a comprehensive root cause analysis exercise of deficiencies in knowledge management maturity models.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Bedford, Denise A. D.; Testa, Dean; Kollinger, Justin & Pierre, Shaqueta
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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The Faculty It Liaison Program

Description: Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This handout accompanies a workshop describing a faculty IT liaison program that uses the Bonded Design methodology to encourage interaction and communication between faculty members and information technology professionals.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Nesset, Valerie; Bible, J. Brice & Deakin, Daniel
Partner: UNT College of Information

The Faculty It Liaison Program: Using Participatory Design to Build Possibilities With Technology

Description: Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation describes a faculty IT liaison program that uses the Bonded Design methodology to encourage interaction and communication between faculty members and information technology professionals.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Nesset, Valerie; Bible, J. Brice & Deakin, Daniel
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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