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Irresistable: How An Ir (Institutional Repository) Can Improve Library Collections While Preserving The Past, Monica Brooks, David Evans, Tim Tamminga, Jingping Zhang, Gretchen Beach, Nat Debruin, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Paris E. Webb Oct 2013

Irresistable: How An Ir (Institutional Repository) Can Improve Library Collections While Preserving The Past, Monica Brooks, David Evans, Tim Tamminga, Jingping Zhang, Gretchen Beach, Nat Debruin, Larry Sheret, Thomas L. Walker Ii, Paris E. Webb

Larry Sheret

Marshall University’s IR team will discuss the creation, progress, and benefits of the Marshall Digital Scholar, an online institutional repository. There will be time for libraries, large and small, to ask questions about digital collecting and digital projects.


Assessing Student And Employer Satisfaction In A Liberal Arts/Engineering Bachelor Of Arts Degree, Michael Haungs Jun 2013

Assessing Student And Employer Satisfaction In A Liberal Arts/Engineering Bachelor Of Arts Degree, Michael Haungs

Michael Haungs

No abstract provided.


Moving Physical Education Beyond The Gymnasium: Creating Activity Permissible Classrooms, John R. Kilbourne Apr 2013

Moving Physical Education Beyond The Gymnasium: Creating Activity Permissible Classrooms, John R. Kilbourne

John R. Kilbourne

As school leaders charged with promoting healthy and active lifestyles, physical education professionals can extend their expertise to school classrooms by helping to facilitate the creation of more active and engaging teaching and learning areas. These teaching and learning areas include such moving innovations as exercise stability balls as chairs, fixed-height stand-up desks, Steelcase Node chairs, and Steelcase buoy chairs.


Beyond Chocolates & Roses: Community, Love And Commitment After The Kimani Gray Shooting, Toby S. Jenkins Mar 2013

Beyond Chocolates & Roses: Community, Love And Commitment After The Kimani Gray Shooting, Toby S. Jenkins

Toby S Jenkins

No abstract provided.


The Metabo Towel, John Kilbourne Feb 2013

The Metabo Towel, John Kilbourne

John R. Kilbourne

Concerned about the rising rates of obesity and increasing health care costs in Japan, the government passed a law that requires local governments and companies to measure the waistlines of Japanese residents between the ages of 40 and 74 (56 million waistlines, 44% of the population of Japan). Those exceeding the government limits (Established by the Japanese International Diabetes Foundation), 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women, will be given diet and exercise advice. If, after three months of intervention residents fail to lose weight, they will be steered toward further re-education programs. Local governments and companies who …


Naar Een Pluriform Juridisch Onderwijs, Jan M. Smits Jan 2013

Naar Een Pluriform Juridisch Onderwijs, Jan M. Smits

Jan M Smits

In deze bijdrage worden drie mogelijke modellen van juridisch onderwijs verkend: Europees/internationaal onderwijs, 'legal engineering' en 'law college.' Bepleit wordt meer pluriformiteit in het juridisch onderwijs en daarmee dat universiteiten een keuze dienen te maken voor één van deze modellen.


Activity Permissible Classrooms: The Next Revolution In Teaching & Learning, John R. Kilbourne Dec 2012

Activity Permissible Classrooms: The Next Revolution In Teaching & Learning, John R. Kilbourne

John R. Kilbourne

For more than twenty years I have been teaching college and university lecture/discussion courses in the typical classroom setting. The classrooms have usually consisted of thirty to forty chairs with fixed attached desks organized in neat rows, all facing front. There was little opportunity to alter the configuration because of the confined space, time, and the other classes that preceded and followed mine. In the fall of 2008 this all changed when I began to restructure my teaching space to be a more activity permissible classroom.