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- Technology in Secondary Career and Technical Education: Issues for the New Millennium
- Article discussing the use of technology in the secondary career and technical education classroom and the number of issues concerned with efficacy of career and technical education.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Training Employees With Disabilities: Strategies from Corporate Training
- Article discussing strategies used by corporate trainers to effectively teach populations with disabilities in their corporate workplace.
- Strategic Planning of Technology for Education: A Beginning Framework
- Article discussing strategic planning of technology for education and a beginning framework for future technology implementation in school districts.
- 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.
- Enhancing Assignment Completion in Academically Diverse Vocational Classes
- Article on enhancing assignment completion in academically diverse vocational classes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Retrospective Pretest: A Practical Technique For Professional Development Evaluation
- This article discusses the field test of an instrument incorporating a retrospective pretest to determine whether it could reliably be used as an evaluation tool for a professional development conference.
- 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.
- Longitudinal analysis of cognitive constructs fostered by STEM activities for middle school students
- This article studies whether the changes found to occur pre- to post intervention in students' cognitive structures continued to persist two years later.
- Learning and teaching as communicative actions: Improving historical knowledge and cognition through Second Life avatar role play
- This article examines a higher education history course where virtual role play was implemented as an assignment.
- [Review] Collaborate: The Art of We
- This article reviews the book "Collaborate: The Art of We," by Dan Sanker, published in 2012.
- [Review] Social Media for Educators: Strategies and Best Practices
- This article reviews the book "Social Media for Educators: Strategies and Best Practices," by Tanya Joosten and published in 2012.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cross-Cultural Training and Success Versus Failure of Expatriates
- Article discussing cross-cultural training and the success versus failure of expatriates.
- 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.
- Retrospective Pretest: A Practical Technique for Professional Development Evaluation
- Article discussing a research study to field test an instrument incorporating a retrospective pretest to determine whether it could reliably be used as an evaluation tool for a professional development conference.
- Multiteam systems in an agile environment: a realist systematic review
- Article describes a collaborate study between University of North Texas and Toyota Connected focusing on how to structure and manage multiteam systems (MTSs).
- 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
- Paradigm Shift Toward Digital Neuropsychology and High-Dimensional Neuropsychological Assessments: Review
- Article reviews opportunities for novel brain-behavior characterizations. Emphasis is placed on the increasing concern of neuropsychology with these topics and the need for development in these areas to maintain relevance as a scientific discipline and advance scientific developments.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Multi-Institutional Partnerships for Higher Education in Africa: A Case Study of Assumptions of International Academic Collaboration
- This article examines the expectations, dynamics, and intricacies of academic partnerships and the reality of African academic institutions.
- Using the mTSES to Evaluate and Optimize mLearning Professional Development
- This article reports on the findings from the analysis of data collected using the Mobile Teacher's Sense of Efficacy Scale survey instrument, from an open course about mobile learning called Instructional Design for Mobile Learning that took place from May 4 through June 6, 2015.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A New Multiteam System (MTS) Effectiveness Model
- The article focuses on a systematic review of current team effectiveness frameworks and models. A narrative-based method for theorizing was utilized to develop a new MTS team effectiveness framework. This research contributes to the MTS literature by providing a new formula for team effectiveness at both the team level (team effectiveness formula) and the MTS level (MTS team effectiveness formula).
- Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Assistive Technology Services
- This article is an introduction to the special issue Assistive Technology Services During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic, which was created to provide a historical record of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of assistive technology services in schools.
- 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.
- Resident Assistant Training: A Southwestern Perspective
- Article discussing a study on the similarities and differences in public and private institutions training of resident assistants in the southwest United States.
- 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.
- A Review of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education from 2010 to 2020
- This article provides a content analysis of studies from 2010 to 2020 aiming to disclose how artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied to the education sector and explore the potential research trends and challenges of AI in education. The content analysis shows that the research questions can be classified into development layer (classification, matching, recommendation, and deep learning), application layer (feedback, reasoning, and adaptive learning), and integration layer (affection computing, role-playing, immersive learning, and gamification).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Literature overlaps and gaps between the fields of knowledge management and humans resource development
- Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation describes a study of literature on the multidisciplinary processes, models, and theories common to both Knowledge Management and Human Resource Development.
- The Life Between Big Data Log Events: Learners' Strategies to Overcome Challenges in MOOCs
- This article discusses a study in which 92 MOOC learners were interviewed to better understand their worlds, investigate possible mechanisms of student attrition, and extend conversations about the use of big data in education.