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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Student, School, Parent Connectedness, and School Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Saudi Arabia
This article investigates select school behaviors, including school absenteeism, engaging in fights, and discipline for misconduct at school as well as their association with the school environment, school and home connectedness.
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.
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.
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.
Research-Informed Strategies to Address Educational Challenges Ina Digitally Networked World
This article provides the background and aim of EDUSummiIT, the Third International Summit on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, with an overview of the contents of this special issue.
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.
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.
A Multilevel System of Quality Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching Indicators
This paper elaborates and extends the work of the EDUsummIT 2015 Thematic Working Group 7 by proposing a set of indicators on quality Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching.
Technology Enhanced Instruction: An Example of English Language Learning in the Context of Peace
This study reveals the impact of learning through technology in the English language.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Classifying Semantic Clause Types: Modeling Context and Genre Characteristics with Recurrent Neural Networks and Attention
This paper introduces an attention mechanism that pinpoints relevant context not only for the current instance, but also for the larger context.
Semantic Clause Types and Modality as Features for Argument Analysis
This article investigates the role of semantic clause types and modality in argumentative texts.
A Mobile Context-Aware Medical Training System for the Reduction of Pathogen Transmission
This article proposes the creation and evaluation of an AI based context-aware mobile learning system designed to provide real-time training and support for medical cleaning staff.
Reproducible Research in Linguistics: A Position Statement on Data Citation and Attribution in Our Field
This article is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues.
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.
Insights Into the Factors Influencing Student Motivation in Augmented Reality Learning Experiences in Vocational Education and Training
This article attempts to identify some of the components that positively affect student motivation in mobile augmented reality (AR) learning experiences to contribute to the design and development of motivational AR learning experiences for the Vocational Education and Training (VET) level of education.
Evolutionary Path of Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction among Chinese Elderly: A Perspective of Data Visualization
This article investigates how the influence and importance of factors associated with life satisfaction in the elderly have changed during these years.
The Relationship between Administrative Intensity and Student Retention and Success: A Three-Year Study
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.
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.
Framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications in vocational education and training
This article introduces and evaluates a framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications.
Rethinking Learning in a Digital Age: Outcomes from EDUsummIT 2017
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.
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.
Complexity Theory: An Overview with Potential Applications for the Social Sciences
This article differentiates between general systems theory (GST) and complexity theory, as well as identifies advantages for the social sciences in incorporating complexity theory as a formal theory. Complexity theory is expanded upon and identified as providing a new perspective and a new method of theorizing that can be practiced by disciplines within the social sciences.
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).
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