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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cross-Cultural Training and Success Versus Failure of Expatriates
- Article discussing cross-cultural training and the success versus failure of expatriates.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Statistical assumptions of substantive analyses across the general linear model: a mini-review
- This article seeks to support researchers by concisely reviewing key statistical assumptions associated with substantive statistical tests across the general linear model. Additionally, the article reviews techniques to check for statistical assumptions and identifies remedies and problems if data do not meet the necessary assumptions.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Bringing the World to the Classroom through Videoconferencing and Project-based Learning
- Article describes a case study of a Texas-based school that implemented global projects to connect their students with many states and countries as a platform for integrating collaboration and communication skills, technology tools, and cultural diversity into an existing curriculum.
- 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.
- 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.
- Exploring the richness of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries
- This article reports results of a study that used an in-depth comparative content analysis to assess free-text and controlled vocabulary collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries in the European Union and the USA.
- Unveiling the Co-Word Structures Among Mobile Computing, Mobile Commerce and Mobile Application Research: A Science Mapping Analysis
- Article on the interplay over time among mobile computing, commerce and applications. The study performed is a co-word analysis for a corpus of 4821 SCI/SSCI indexed papers related to mobility in the Web of Science (WoS) database from 1995 to 2013. The emerging concepts demonstrated in the strategic diagrams and the associated co-word structures have implications for future research.
- Service learning in action: Integrating reflection to deepen the educational experience
- This article focuses on service learning projects (SLPs) sponsored by the University of North Texas College of Information. A constructivist learning environment perspective was applied to the potential for library science international service learning projects to provide a short term learning environment that introduces pedagogy, provides the opportunity to develop and apply new skills, energizes students to develop cultural competence, and develops reflective skills towards the pursuit of wisdom.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Representation of Recorded Knowledge and Extended Date/Time Format: A Case Study of the Digital Public Library of America
- This paper presents results of a study that analyzed representation of dates and time in one of the largest aggregators of digital content in the world -- the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The findings demonstrate both similarities and differences in date and time representation across DPLA content hub and service hub provider groups.
- 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.
- Value and Pricing of MOOCs
- This article reviews the potential for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to transform higher education delivery, accessibility, and costs.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- How does intrinsic and extrinsic motivation drive performance culture in organizations?
- Article reviews literature on the subject of employee motivation to determine whether intrinsic or extrinsic motivation is becoming the driving force of business.
- 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.
- Care, Communication, Support: Core for Designing Meaningful Online Collaborative Learning
- Article describes study seeking to identify emergent themes regarding higher education instructors’ perceptions concerning the provision of collaborative learning activities and opportunities in their online classroom.
- 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.
- 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.