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Content Curation: Academic Outreach Opportunities Beyond The Institutional Repository, Crystal L. Renfro

Crystal L Renfro

Academic librarians and Archivists have been active ly involved with Data Curation and Digital Curation activities for many years, and institutional repositories for academic scholarship are well established.

Content Curation, on the other hand, serves a very different purpose in the academic research process, providing a way to create new value and organization from the current influx of information from the myrad of sources available to the contemporary researcher today. Join the author of the popular website Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians as she presents techniques and applications offering new avenues of scholarship and community building for research …

Knowledge Mapping Tools: Visualizing Research, Crystal L. Renfro, Elisabeth Shields

Crystal L Renfro

What Are They Learning? Assessing Theatre/Dance Performance Experiences, Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Meg Schriffen

Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Ph.D.

The model of assessment will demonstrate how to align the assessment of production activity with learning goals set by accrediting bodies, the institution, the department, and the specific program. This alignment insures that measurement of student learning is standardized across the students’ entire experience in the program (courses, performances, rehearsals, technical preparations, etc.) Examples of indirect and direct measurement instruments will be presented.

Enhancing Classroom Communication And Collaboration Via Web-Based Technologies, Amanda J. Rockinson-Szapkiw, Richard J. Silvey

Richard Justin Silvey

No abstract provided.

Assessing And Aligning Learning Outcomes From Mission To Individual Assignments, Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Juliette Shelley, Morenga Hunt

Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Ph.D.

Explanation of the alignment of a degree program's curriculum with program goals and SLOs for assessment purposes.

Open Culture At The Heart Of The University: Libraries As Multicommons, Anna K. Gold

Anna K. Gold

The university library can be reconceptualized as a powerful engine for open culture. A generative and regenerative center that naturally brings disciplines, cultures, and generations together, the university library can expand its role in open culture far beyond sharing institutionally-produced research and data through open repositories. Drawing on the experience of a public polytechnic university, this presentation documents the emergence of a university library as a system of open culture programs and as a place where a speeding culture can stop to dialogue, think, and create: generating collective interactive learning; fostering collaboration with open data; cultivating open conversations and learning …

Csr Responsibility Or Opportunity? (2013), David Cooke

David Cooke

Corporate / not-for-profit partnerships are changing to reflect the return on investment and benefits for the corporation when engaging in these partnerships.

Farther Faster, Stuart Wasilowski

Stuart Wasilowski

No abstract provided.

Transformational Leadership, Stuart M. Wasilowski

Stuart Wasilowski

Transformational leaders look for potential motives in followers. The leader seeks to address higher level needs, and engages the full person of the follower (Stewart, 2006 p. 4). The result of this leadership is a mutual relationship The result converts followers to leaders and leaders into moral agents (Stewart, 2006).

Breaking Down Barriers To Empower Alliances, Stuart Wasilowski

Stuart Wasilowski

No abstract provided.

The Culture Of Assessment & Assessment Quality, Steven M. Culver

Steven M Culver

No abstract provided.

Doing Assessment, Not Just Talking About It, Steven M. Culver

Steven M Culver

No abstract provided.