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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Training Older Workers: Implications for HRD/HPT Professionals
- Article discussing training older workers and implications for human resource development (HRD) and human performance technology (HPT).
- Utilization of Technology-Enhanced Delphi Techniques
- This article discusses the Delphi consensus-building technique. Also discussed are the Delphi Technique's history, the process, and some advantages and disadvantages found in the literature. Finally, this article examines a technology-enhanced version of the process.
- 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.
- Virtual Libraries: A Service-Based Approach for Virtual Libraries
- Article discussing a service-based approach for virtual libraries and the provision of services to patrons and other users built upon the collective personnel, information, and technological resources that constitute the library.
- The Metadata Education and Research Information Commons (MERIC): A Collaborative Teaching and Research Initiative
- Article dicsussing the Metadata Education and Research Information Commons (MERIC), a collaborative teaching and research initiative.
- Photography Changes Our Environmental Awareness
- This article is part of a series by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative called Click! Photography Changes Everything. This article discusses how photography and increased visibility can bridge the gap between the natural world and human interaction.
- Book Jacket as Access Mechanism: An Attribute Rich Resource for Functional Access to Academic Books
- Article discussing book jackets as access mechanisms. Models of document searching and book jacket design are discussed in relation to the individual scholarly searcher and new modes of document searching.
- Reconstructing Bellour: Automating the Semiotic Analysis of Film
- This article discusses automating the semiotic analysis of film, including visual representation, search and retrieval, and ways of seeing.
- Contextual Metadata in Digital Aggregations: Application of Collection-Level Subject Metadata and its Role in User Interactions and Information Retrieval
- Article discussing a study of contextual metadata in digital aggregations. Results of this study prove importance of provision of collection-level metadata in general and subject metadata in particular to enhance user experiences and information retrieval in digital libraries.
- Miles to go before we sleep: education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information
- Article discussing a philosophy of educating health information professionals in a rapidly changing health care and information environment.
- Quality Health Information on the Internet: Developing a Diabetes Pathfinder for the Chinese Population
- A Web-based bilingual diabetes information pathfinder was created to help the Chinese population access quality health information on the Internet as part of a collaborative outreach project in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
- A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation
- Article discussing a preliminary evaluation study of metadata records machine translation. This study evaluates freely available machine translation (MT) services' performance in translating metadata records.
- Metadata Records Translation: The Case of The Portal to Texas History
- Article on metadata records translation and a study of The Portal to Texas History.
- Cross-language search: The case of Google Language Tools
- Article on cross-language searching and a case study of Google Language Tools, especially its cross-language search service.
- Collaboration and Crowdsourcing: The Cases of Multilingual Digital Libraries
- Article discussing research on collaboration and crowdsourcing. The purpose of the study is to understand existing multilingual digital libraries and to suggest strategies for building and sustaining multilingual digital libraries.
- Examining MARC Records as Artifacts That Reflect Metadata Utilization Decisions
- Article examining MARC records as artifacts that reflect metadata utilization decisions.
- 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.
- The Subject of Learning and Performance
- This editorial article discusses the inaugural issue of the Learning and Performance Quarterly (LPQ) open access journal. This editorial offers a welcome and introduction to the first issue.
- Leadership, Training, Mentoring, and Instructional Design
- Editorial article for the second issue of Learning and Performance Quarterly. In this piece, the author describes the second issue and the overall focus on leadership, training, mentoring and instructional design.
- Cross-Cultural Training and Success Versus Failure of Expatriates
- Article discussing cross-cultural training and the success versus failure of expatriates.
- 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.
- Competencies Required for Digital Curation: An Analysis of Job Advertisements
- Article discussing competencies required for digital curation. The results of the analysis show that digital curation jobs are characterized by a complex interplay of various skills and knowledge. The findings of this study present emerging requirements for a qualified workforce in the field of digital curation.
- "Genomics and Translational Medicine for Information Professionals:" an innovative course to educate the next generation of librarians
- This article discusses an innovative course to educate the next generation of librarians and meet the demands of the changing health information environment.
- Modeling Utilization of Planned Information Technology
- Article from the proceedings of the 1998 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium. This article discusses modeling utilization of planned information technology.
- Building a Framework of Metadata Change to Support Knowledge Management
- Article defining ways that metadata records might change (addition, deletion, or modification) and describing a study to evaluate multiple versions of selected records in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections to observe the types and frequency of various changes.
- Developing a Theory in Academic Research: A Review of Experts' Advice
- This article provides a literature review on definitions and characteristics of theory development.
- Information Seeking Behavior of Clergy: The Research, The Results, and the Future
- This article reviews the information seeking behaviors of clergy.
- Seeking Information in Circles: The Application of Chatman's Life in the Round Theory to the Information Small World of Catholic Clergy in Northern Nigeria
- This article explores Dr. Elfreda Chatman's concept of "small world" as applied to the information seeking behaviors of Catholic clergy in Northern Nigeria.
- Examining the Progression of Mobile Technologies and Their Applications to Learning Environment: Implications for M-Learning in Africa
- This article provides a literature review regarding mobile technology used for mobile learning in Africa.
- Sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior as risk factors for human papillomavirus infection in Saudi Arabia
- This article seeks to determine the prevalence and the sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior risk factors for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in a hospital-based cohort of women in Saudi Arabia.
- 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.
- Value and Pricing of MOOCs
- This article reviews the potential for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to transform higher education delivery, accessibility, and costs.
- Tools to support interpreting multiple regression in the face of multicollilnearity
- This article argues that rather than using one technique to investigate regression results, researchers should consider multiple indices to understand the contributions that predictors make not only to a regression model, but to each other as well.
- 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.
- Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment for 21st Century Learning
- This article is based on the deliberations of the Assessment Working Group at EDUsummIT 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. All of the members of Thematic Working Group 5 (TWG5) have contributed to this synthesis of potentials, concerns and issues with regard to the role of technology in assessment as, for and of learning in the 21st century.
- Developing an Empirically-Based Framework of Metadata Change and Exploring Relation Between Metadata Change and Metadata Quality in Marc Library Metadata
- This paper from International Conference on Knowledge Management, ICKM 2016 conference proceedings seeks to test and refine the metadata change framework initially developed for characterizing the change in digital library metadata, in the study of traditional library metadata.
- 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