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Adaptive learning: toward an intentional model for learning process guidance based on learner’s motivation

Description: Article describes how, the goal of ITS is to support learning content, activities, and resources, adapted to the specific needs of the individual learner and influenced by learner’s motivation. This research proposes an intentional model that adopts Map formalism to support personalized learning guidance by considering learner’s motivation.
Date: December 5, 2022
Creator: Bayounes, Walid; Saâdi, Bayoudh Ines & Kinshuk
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Application of Big Data Analytics in Precision Medicine: Lesson for Ethiopia

Description: Precision medicine is an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that considers individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. Big data analytics (BDA) using cutting-edge technologies helps to design models that can diagnose, treat and predict diseases. In Ethiopia, healthcare service delivery faces many challenges specifically in relation to prescribing the right medicine to the right patient at the right time. Thus, patients face challenges ranging… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Woldemariam, Misganaw Tadesse & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling

Description: Article reports on a trace-based assessment of approaches to learning used by middle school aged children who interacted with NASA Mars Mission science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) games in Whyville, an online game environment with 8 million registered young learners. Differences in approach to learning were found illustrating the potential value of the methodology to curriculum and game-based learning designers as well as other creators of online STEM content for pre-college… more
Date: September 5, 2022
Creator: Knezek, Gerald; Gibson, David; Christensen, Rhonda; Trevisan, Ottavia & Carter, Morgan
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communications: Open Access

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This document highlighted one of the panels and the panelists argue that open access to scholarly knowledge productio… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Fourie, Ina; Rorissa, Abebe; Ford, Angela & Assefa, Shimelis
Partner: UNT College of Information

A Comparative Analysis of Data Literacy Competency Frameworks

Description: Poster on a comparative analysis of data literacy competency frameworks. Seven competency frameworks were selected for in-depth analysis, and the results are compiled in a table. This work is part of an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant. It was presented at the 2022 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference held October 24-26, 2022.
Date: October 25, 2022
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun & Berka, Catrina
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Comparison of glide path and pathfiles in canal preparation by cone-beam computed tomography: An original research

Description: This article is a study describing the canal transportation of the different file systems in various combinations of the “Glide path (Gp)” by cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT).
Date: July 13, 2022
Creator: Uppalapati, Vishwaja; Chhaparwal, Amit; Ahmed, Siddiq; Shariff, Suhail; Pallewar, Abhijit Mallesham; Mustafa, Mohammed et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Creativity and Innovative Processes: Assemblages and Lines of Flight

Description: 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.
Date: September 26, 2022
Creator: Turner, John R.; Baker, Rose M. & Thurlow, Nigel
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Future Directions for digital Literacy Fluency using Cognitive Flexibility Research: A Review of Selected Digital Literacy Paradigms and Theoretical Frameworks

Description: Article discusses how as learners engage, test, and apply new subject knowledge, they often expend their cognitive capacity on the technological tools designed to capture their learning progress and outcomes. The author's research explores the value of developing digital literacy to improve learners’ cognitive flexibility by decreasing technological cognitive load and increasing learning fluency.
Date: November 21, 2022
Creator: Caton, Amy; Bradshaw-Ward, Danita; Kinshuk & Savenye, Wilhelmina
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Increasing Information Certainty for Post-Traumatic Growth

Description: Trauma, and its associated effects, can be conceptualized as a period of information uncertainty. The natural psychological response to trauma is a period of post-traumatic stress. Trauma occurs when an existing knowledge base has been challenged. Any event that challenges important components of an individual’s assumptive world is said to be traumatic. This post-traumatic period is akin to many theories and concepts in information science including uncertainty reduction, Everyday Life Informat… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Bank, Nicole & Allen, Jeff M., 1968-
Partner: UNT College of Information
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An Interactive Web-Based Dashboard to Examine Trending Topics: Application to Financial Journals

Description: Understanding trends is helpful to identify future behaviors in the field, and the roles of people, places, and institutions in setting those trends. Although traditional clustering strategies can group articles into topics, these techniques do not focus on topics over limited timescales; additionally, even when articles are grouped, the generated results are extensive and difficult to navigate. To address these concerns, we create an interactive dashboard that helps an expert in the field to b… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Phan, Ngoc; Madali, Nayana Pampapura; Behpour, Sahar & Xiao, Ting
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Metadata Practices of Academic Libraries in Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar: Current State, Risks, and Perspectives for Knowledge Management

Description: Developing, implementing, and managing metadata is crucial to successful knowledge management, and academic libraries have traditionally played a central role in these activities. The Arabian Gulf countries are underrepresented in the existing research into library metadata practices. This exploratory study used semi-structured interviews of metadata managers at 8 universities with the goal of developing understanding of the current state of metadata practices, including descriptive cataloging,… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Aljalahmah, Saleh
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Prediction of Concrete Bridge Deck Condition Ratting Based on Climate Data in Addition to Bridge Data: Five States as a Case Study

Description: Evaluating the impact of learning from climate data, in addition to bridge data, on the performance of concrete deck condition rating prediction is critical for identifying the right data needed to enhance bridge maintenance decision making. Few studies have considered such an evaluation and utilized a small size of samples that prevent revealing the knowledge hidden within the big size of data. Although, such evaluation over big data seems quite necessary, class imbalance problem makes it chal… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Fard, Fariba
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Research Teams: Fostering Scholarship and Practice

Description: This workshop is presented by members of a University of North Texas research team. First, the team will overview their experience as members of the research team and share experience in areas such as trust formation, team roles, productivity, work-life balance, faculty-students interaction, peer and faculty mentorship, dissertation preparation, and job seeking. Second, the workshop will discuss and brainstorm how this format can be implemented for organizations both with faculty-student teams … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Allen, Jeff M., 1968-; Khader, Malak; Njeri, Millicent & Rosellini, Amy
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Sense-Making: Panel of Discovery

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This document highlighted one of the panels that provide an overview of the different methodologies and theories of s… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Turner, John; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Allen, Jeff M., 1968- & Snowden, Dave
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Social Media and People Perception of Global Warming During Critical Environmental Events: the Impact of Misinformation through the Lens of Social Noise

Description: Global warming is the term used to describe critical environmental issues and concerns. Social media such as Twitter provides a platform for people to share information, exchange ideas, and express their opinions about current and timely issues. This study utilized contextual analysis to analyze data collected from Twitter for the hashtag "global warming" during the period 2010 & 2011. Using sentiment analysis and topic modeling, the study aimed first at assessing people's perception towards gl… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Madali, Nayana Pampapura; Alsaid, Manar & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Stock2Vec: An Embedding to Improve Predictive Models for Companies

Description: Building predictive models for companies often relies on inference using historical data of companies in the same industry sector. However, companies are similar across a variety of dimensions that should be leveraged in relevant prediction problems. This is particularly true for large, complex organizations which may not be well defined by a single industry and have no clear peers. To enable prediction using company information across a variety of dimensions, we create an embedding of company … more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Yi, Ziruo; Xiao, Ting; Kaz-Onyeakazi, Ijeoma; Ratnam, Cheran; Medeiros, Theophilus; Nelson, Phillip et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Student Data Literacy Needs in Community Colleges: Perceptions of Librarians, Students, and Faculty

Description: Grant narrative for the grant, "Students Data Literacy Needs in Community Colleges: Perspectives of Libraries, Students and Faculty." The University of North Texas will conduct an 18-month planning project to examine the current perspectives of community college librarians, faculty, and students regarding data literacy; identify the data literacy competencies needed for community college students; and develop data literacy action plans for community college libraries to assist community college… more
Date: 2022
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun; Hong, Lingzi & Evans, Sarah
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Assistive Technology Services

Description: 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.
Date: 2022
Creator: Edyburn, Dave & Howard, Erin L.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Using Data Visualization Tools to Mitigate the Influx of Information in Organizations

Description: Considerable research has been conducted on the topic of information overload using different approaches, from marketing and customer demand to information technologies and sciences, and even among mental health professionals. In business the critical question is how does information overload impact processes, operations, and profitability, and how can data visualization help to solve issues with data management and consumption in organizations. The ability to quickly and effectively process in… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Using existing metadata standards and tools for a digital language archive: a balancing act

Description: Article discusses how building a digital language archive requires a number of steps to ensure collecting, describing, preserving and providing access to language data in effective and efficient ways. This paper introduces the reader to the background of this project and discusses some of the areas important for representing language materials where both University of North Texas Libraries (UNTL) metadata and CoRSAL metadata practices were adapted to better fit the needs of intended audiences.
Date: June 16, 2022
Creator: Burke, Mary; Tarver, Hannah; Phillips, Mark Edward & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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