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2009 Winter Commencement, Nova Southeastern University Dec 2009

2009 Winter Commencement, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


Swinging Bridge - December 10, 2009, Michelle Canales Dec 2009

Swinging Bridge - December 10, 2009, Michelle Canales

Student Newspapers & Magazines

No abstract provided.


Swinging Bridge - November 19, 2009, Tim Mackie Nov 2009

Swinging Bridge - November 19, 2009, Tim Mackie

Student Newspapers & Magazines

No abstract provided.


Swinging Bridge - November 5, 2009, Tim Mackie Nov 2009

Swinging Bridge - November 5, 2009, Tim Mackie

Student Newspapers & Magazines

No abstract provided.


Minnesota Tuning Project: Biology And Graphic Design, Kristi L. Kremers, Krista M. Soria, Lynn D. Akey Nov 2009

Minnesota Tuning Project: Biology And Graphic Design, Kristi L. Kremers, Krista M. Soria, Lynn D. Akey

Academic Affairs Publications

Within the tuning methodology, a key step is the utilization of a consultative survey. The objectives established in the Bologna process for the tuning survey “include gleaning current perspectives on the diversity of practice and commonality of knowledge across borders and traditions, and seeking a simple and accessible language to create a scaffolding on which the various degrees can work in comfort and trust” (Adelman, 2009, p. 49). The Minnesota tuning surveys sought the consultation of previous graduates, current students, employers of graduates, and academic faculty for each of the disciplines involved in tuning.


Openness, Dynamic Specialization, And The Disaggregated Future Of Higher Education, John L. Hilton Iii, David Wiley Nov 2009

Openness, Dynamic Specialization, And The Disaggregated Future Of Higher Education, John L. Hilton Iii, David Wiley

Faculty Publications

Openness is a fundamental value underlying significant changes in society and is a prerequisite to changes institutions of higher education need to make in order to remain relevant to the society in which they exist. There are a number of ways institutions can be more open, including programs of open sharing of educational materials. Individual faculty can also choose to be more open without waiting for institutional programs. Increasing degrees of openness in society coupled with innovations in business strategy like dynamic specialization are enabling radical experiments in higher education and exerting increasing competitive pressure on conventional higher education institutions. …


Openness, Dynamic Specialization, And The Disaggregated Future Of Higher Education, John Hilton Iii, David Wiley Nov 2009

Openness, Dynamic Specialization, And The Disaggregated Future Of Higher Education, John Hilton Iii, David Wiley

Faculty Publications

Openness is a fundamental value underlying significant changes in society and is a prerequisite to changes institutions of higher education need to make in order to remain relevant to the society in which they exist. There are a number of ways institutions can be more open, including programs of open sharing of educational materials. Individual faculty can also choose to be more open without waiting for institutional programs. Increasing degrees of openness in society coupled with innovations in business strategy like dynamic specialization are enabling radical experiments in higher education and exerting increasing competitive pressure on conventional higher education institutions. …


Why & How Instructors Grade Participation In, Susan L. Rogers Oct 2009

Why & How Instructors Grade Participation In, Susan L. Rogers

NERA Conference Proceedings 2009

Although active engagement and participation in college courses has been shown to lead to increased learning (Weaver & Qi, 2005), instructors often struggle to get their students to participate more in class. This issue is sometimes addressed by including "participation" in grading criteria. The current study investigates this convention by identifying current instructor attitudes and practices towards grading student participation in undergraduate classrooms. To this end, a survey has been created and piloted amongst university instructors of varying disciplines. Data is presented in the context of current literature, and relationships between attitudes and practices in grading participation will be explored.


Integrating Upper Level Content With Introductory Material For Better Learning, With An Example From Mineralogy, Charles W. Carrigan, Priscilla Field Skalac Oct 2009

Integrating Upper Level Content With Introductory Material For Better Learning, With An Example From Mineralogy, Charles W. Carrigan, Priscilla Field Skalac

Faculty Scholarship – Geology

At the start of upper-level courses, many students have difficulty with advanced material that requires a base knowledge of essential concepts in geology and supporting disciplines, along with critical thinking skills. Students have difficulty in 1) recalling introductory course material and connecting it to deeper content, and 2) integrating concepts from supporting courses. We advocate incorporating a broadening concept review into upper level courses. Emphasis is on mastery of introductory material needed to acquire advanced concepts that follow.


What Color Is Your Paratext?, Geoffrey Bilder, Andrée J. Rathemacher Oct 2009

What Color Is Your Paratext?, Geoffrey Bilder, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

In the final vision session of the 2009 NASIG Annual Conference, Geoffrey Bilder from CrossRef discussed the problem of how to identify trustworthy scholarly information on the Internet. This problem is exacerbated by readers’ growing distrust of intermediaries such as publishers and librarians, by the fact that the Internet lacks the traditions that have developed in scholarly communication to ensure trust, and by the sheer amount of information now readily available. Paratext is understood as anything outside of a text that sets expectations about that text. In the past, paratext, for example a publisher logo, provided important clues as to …


Swinging Bridge - October 15, 2009, Tim Mackie Oct 2009

Swinging Bridge - October 15, 2009, Tim Mackie

Student Newspapers & Magazines

No abstract provided.


Flarr Pages: Volume 2, Pages 44-68, Foreign Language Association Of The Red River Oct 2009

Flarr Pages: Volume 2, Pages 44-68, Foreign Language Association Of The Red River

FLARR Pages

FLARR Pages is the journal of The Foreign Language Association of the Red River of the North, an organization consisting of regional public school and private school faculty as well as faculty from Minnesota State University Bemidji, Concordia College, Minnesota State University Moorhead, North Dakota State University, the University of Minnesota Morris, the University of North Dakota, and the University of Winnipeg.


Management Initiatives To Ensure Quality Teaching, Frank Mcmahon Oct 2009

Management Initiatives To Ensure Quality Teaching, Frank Mcmahon

Presentations

No abstract provided.


Changing Higher Education Learning With Web 2.0 And Open Education Citation, Annotation, And Thematic Coding Appendices, Heather Leary, M. Harrison Fitt, David Wiley Oct 2009

Changing Higher Education Learning With Web 2.0 And Open Education Citation, Annotation, And Thematic Coding Appendices, Heather Leary, M. Harrison Fitt, David Wiley

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Research

Appendices of citations, annotations and themes for research conducted on four websites: Delicious, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook.


Swinging Bridge - October 1, 2009, Tim Mackie Oct 2009

Swinging Bridge - October 1, 2009, Tim Mackie

Student Newspapers & Magazines

No abstract provided.


Swinging Bridge - September 17, 2009, Tim Mackie Sep 2009

Swinging Bridge - September 17, 2009, Tim Mackie

Student Newspapers & Magazines

No abstract provided.


Gen Ed Steering Committee 2009-2010, Uno Office Of Academic And Student Affairs Sep 2009

Gen Ed Steering Committee 2009-2010, Uno Office Of Academic And Student Affairs

Student Learning

Welcome to the UNO General Education website. Currently, General Education is one of three UNO AQIP (Academic Quality Improvement Project) Action Projects. UNO follows the AQIP http://www.aqip.org/ process or path for its institutional accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission/North Central Association.


Where Next?: Mapping And Understanding The Post First Degree Destinations Of Mature Disadvantaged Students In Three Higher Education Institutions, Aidan Kenny, Andrew Loxley, Ted Fleming, Fergal Finnegan Sep 2009

Where Next?: Mapping And Understanding The Post First Degree Destinations Of Mature Disadvantaged Students In Three Higher Education Institutions, Aidan Kenny, Andrew Loxley, Ted Fleming, Fergal Finnegan

Conference papers

Executive summary (draft for An Pobal conference 24/Sept/09,). The study explored the post first-degree destinations (employment, postgraduate education or otherwise) of students designated as being ‘mature disadvantaged’ in three Irish higher education institutions: NUI Maynooth, Trinity College Dublin and Technological University of Dublin. This research attempts to fill a noticeable gap in the ‘access story’ which firmly supports the entry of mature disadvantaged students to HE and has devised a range creative, innovative and targeted measures to enable matures students to stay the course but has rarely looked at how these students view HE or what happens after graduation. This …


Western Kentucky University Convocation 2009, Gary A. Ransdell Aug 2009

Western Kentucky University Convocation 2009, Gary A. Ransdell

Presidential Speeches

No abstract provided.


Nerche Updates, Volume 5, Issue 2, New England Resource Center For Higher Education At The University Of Massachusetts Boston Jul 2009

Nerche Updates, Volume 5, Issue 2, New England Resource Center For Higher Education At The University Of Massachusetts Boston

NERCHE Bulletin

No abstract provided.


The Specter Of ‘Spirituality’—On The (In)Utility Of An Analytical Category, Chad M. Bauman Jul 2009

The Specter Of ‘Spirituality’—On The (In)Utility Of An Analytical Category, Chad M. Bauman

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

I would like to make it clear that nothing in this article should be taken as a comment, one way or another, on the question of whether "spirituality" deserves a place in higher education. I consider that issue a distinct one, though no doubt in some ways related to the one I am addressing here, particularly since many of those authors who write about spirituality do so in order to argue for greater institutional and classroom attention to the spiritual lives of college students.


Fuzzy But Not Warm: On The (Continuing) Descriptive And Analytical Inutility Of ‘Spirituality', Chad M. Bauman, Gene Gallagher, Davina Lopez Jul 2009

Fuzzy But Not Warm: On The (Continuing) Descriptive And Analytical Inutility Of ‘Spirituality', Chad M. Bauman, Gene Gallagher, Davina Lopez

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In her response, Nadine Pence helpfully turns the conversation towards actual practices in teaching and the array of practical decisions that have to be made in the classroom and on campuses when it comes to addressing "Big Questions" and students' aspirations and interior lives. Several dimensions of her argument are worth amplification.


Volume 12, No. 3 (July 2009), Office Of Alumni Relations, Bryant University Jul 2009

Volume 12, No. 3 (July 2009), Office Of Alumni Relations, Bryant University

Bryant University Alumni Bulletin (2004-)

No abstract provided.


2009 Commencement - Graduate - Abraham S. Fischler School Of Education, Nova Southeastern University Jun 2009

2009 Commencement - Graduate - Abraham S. Fischler School Of Education, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


The Dynamics Of Human Capital And The World Of Work: Towards A Common Market In Contemporary Tertiary Education, Aidan Kenny Jun 2009

The Dynamics Of Human Capital And The World Of Work: Towards A Common Market In Contemporary Tertiary Education, Aidan Kenny

Articles

The drive for the so-called ‘knowledge society’, and the expected competitive advantage envisioned, has led to ‘power elites’ and vested interests applying pressure on nation states to develop and implement policies that push the balance of national education systems towards the economic imperative and away from the social good. This social inquiry will describe items, strategies and objectives relating to the pursuit of the current higher education change policy agendas, as expressed in key Irish policy documents. The inquiry concentrates on the new ‘world of work’ and the dynamic association with ‘human capital’ in particular the relationship between macro change …


Community Engagement As Social Innovation, Ellen Hazelkorn Jun 2009

Community Engagement As Social Innovation, Ellen Hazelkorn

Books/Book chapters

No abstract provided.


Archway Commencement Issue, May 2009 May 2009

Archway Commencement Issue, May 2009

Archway (1946-2020)

No abstract provided.


Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 16, 2009 May 2009

Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 16, 2009

Bryant University Commencements

Commencement Exercises Program, May 16, 2009.


Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 14, 2009 May 2009

Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 14, 2009

Bryant University Commencements

Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 16, 2009.


2009 Commencement - Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University May 2009

2009 Commencement - Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.