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- Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked Distance Education and Community Learning Networks linked by a Library of Cultureby a Library of Culture by a Library of Culture by a Library of Cultureby a Library of Culture by a Library of Culture by a Library of Culture by a Library of Cultureby a Library of Cultureby a Library of Cultureby a Library of Culture Introduction Governments and businesses today are spending vast amounts of money on distance learning across countries and cultures (Flannery, & Shattuck, 2006). In the U.S. between 2007 and 2008, graduate school applications jumped 5%, and for the first time ever U.S. college enrollments beat out their international counterparts in student enrollments (Clay, 2010). If you walk down any main street and ask people to define education the answers received can be very different from each other. For example, “Education is a means to an end for me so I’ll get recognized and get ahead when I get out of college” (W. Stern, personal communication, February 3, 2010). “Education is certified potential that will allow me to pursue my interests and separate me from those who chose not invest in themselves in the same way” (T. Blake, personal communication, February 3, 2010). “Education is something that I am doing because my parents expect me too” (E. Walsh, personal communication, February 3, 2010). For this paper education will be defined as any act or experience that creates a reference point and has an influential affect on the mind, body, spirit, or physical ability of an individual. While everyone can agree that education is important without a shared definition of what education represents to individuals and the institutions that people will come to embody, it is almost impossible to recognize if the education received is effective or appropriate for individuals to be competitive locally, across the nation, or around the globe until it is too late (Banach, 1995). When referring to education on a large scale it can be linked to globalization itself. Information can be conceptualized no different than commodities that are bought, sold, traded, and even hoarded away Running head: Distance Education Linked by Culture 3 3 around the globe every minute of the day. Yet even as lifelong learners we cannot be students in school forever and the pace of innovation does not slow when we get our diplomas. Community learning networks (CLNs) are under utilized by universities, governments, and business to work with communities and allow them to become a democratic voice for services and their products. CLNs can be used to more strongly support individuals before, during, and after their learning experiences while filling the gaps between academic and professional engagements (Skrzeszewski, 1999). (1)
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- Distance education could begin to provide learning profiles with student transcripts that would demonstrate an individual’s strengths and weaknesses that would be organized through Gardner’s MI theory (linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and existential) to display their accomplishments and establish common and advanced skill sets. In using Gardner’s MI theory for global distance learning students can recognize themselves as potentially intelligent in a number of ways instead of either being smart or dumb (Moran, Kornhaber, & Gardner, 2006). Community learning networks (CLNs) could be utilized and supported by universities, governments, and business to work with communities and allow them to become a democratic voice for themselves, quality of life, and their education. CLNs could be used to support individuals before, during, and after their learning experiences while filling the gaps between academic and professional engagements (Skrzeszewski, 1999). In establishing a global library of culture that is part of distance education we would be opening the door to have our everyday world be a resource and a learning Running head: Distance Education Linked by Culture 17 17 experience. Every person having something of value to contribute and every situation there would be an opportunity to better ourselves. If distance education can utilize CLNS effectively they will empower people to speak up about conditions and standards in their communities. This is important because it encourages individuals to have a voice and communicate not only what their experience is in relating to education, industry, or daily needs, but it starts a motivated culture that will bring more people into CLNs to learn and share. If distance education is to thrive in a global scale it has the best chance of being embraced by creating a library of human, social, cultural, behavior, and experience to draw upon for curriculum development so the voices of all people will be assured that they have a valued position in the global environment (Rooney, 2005). In this way individuals from every community will have a stake in others and will be able to share and mentor each other before, during, and after they get a diploma or degree. I believe that if distance education can do this effectively it will quickly grow and transform the world we live in. (1)
- Distance learning as it is today is unprepared to go into a global environment and fully engage students who come from minority traditions and diverse cultural conditions. Students need educational experiences that will allow them to engage all of their intelligences, and explore information in multiple ways so that a curriculum is meaningful, personalized (culturally appropriate), and relevant to the desires and needs of the students (Özdemir, Güneysu, & Tekkaya, 2006). In every society there will be different individuals and communities that require different environments for education, and as education has increasingly become a prized social concept that demonstrates increased earning potential and a higher standard of living for individuals, more people want it (McIver, & Rachell, 2002). It is not uncommon for individuals who are suffering from inequality to feel they have a lack of community support and no voice to advocate for them. The potential for culture clashes and discrimination can cause disruptions and setbacks when culture or a particular population itself is negatively targeted (Erickson, Mattaini, & McGuire, 2004). The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) lists statistics on education from every country as a percent of their GDP. The United States surprisingly spends less on its citizens per GDP then Mexico, South Africa, Malaysia, Kenya, Cuba, and Yemen, just to name a few (CIA, 2010). This is clearly demonstrated through the majority of youth in the United States that have shown a lack of cultural literacy and ethnocentrism on numerous surveys. For example, in spite of extensive media coverage on the war on terror and military battles against the Taliban in Afghanistan after 9/11 nearly 90% of young Americans ages 18–24 are unable to locate Afghanistan on a map. And 63% of those individuals were unable to find Iraq (Carano, 2009). Many people don’t realize that they’ve acquired an ingrained sense of ethnocentrism when it comes to their own culture. Ethnocentric views look often positively towards the culture an individual grows up with as normal and views other cultures negatively or inferior. This Running head: Distance Education Linked by Culture 6 6 prejudiced view can give a harmful and inaccurate view of the world while effectively cutting them off from any individual that they perceive different (Johnson, 2008). (1)
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Exploring The Relationship Between Facebook, Face-To-Face And Intercultural Communication, Rebecca Schaefer
Exploring The Relationship Between Facebook, Face-To-Face And Intercultural Communication, Rebecca Schaefer
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
My Capstone Experience/Thesis project seeks to explore and examine the effects of Facebook on communication between American and international students. The use of social media as a means to communicate with others is increasing at an amazing rate. Facebook has become my generation’s favorite way to communicate with friends and family and “to Facebook” has unofficially become a verb that many college students will use. While social media, such as Facebook and Linked-In, may encourage American college students to communicate with international students beyond the classroom and campus, it seems that Facebook is on the way to becoming a substitute …
Experiential Interior Design: Branding Entertainment And Nightlife For The Postmodern Young Urban Professional, Niccole S. Skomal
Experiential Interior Design: Branding Entertainment And Nightlife For The Postmodern Young Urban Professional, Niccole S. Skomal
Architecture Masters of Science Program: Theses
Past study on Interior Design has been primarily looked at through the lenses of aesthetics and functionality. Only recently have scholars begun to see the influence marketing, in the form of branding, can have on the Interior Design process in targeting specific lifestyle groups. The purpose of this research is to understand the fabric of the postmodern Young Urban Professional lifestyle as a marketing tool for branding and designing services in the form of entertainment and nightlife. With an increasing lack of community and social connectedness in today’s postmodern society, Young Urban Professionals tend to consume entertainment and nightlife as …
Workplace Harassment: The Social Costs Of Bullying, Andra Gumbus, Bridget M. Lyons
Workplace Harassment: The Social Costs Of Bullying, Andra Gumbus, Bridget M. Lyons
WCBT Faculty Publications
Most research on workplace bullying uses survey results to understand working conditions, target and bully characteristics, and results of bullying situations. This study uses content analysis to determine themes emerging from a writing assignment that asks students to respond to questions about workplace bullying. The intent of the research is to enable bullying targets to better understand the situation, to help managers to learn how to mitigate possible bullying situations, and to assist witnesses to better react to workplace incidents.
Establishing A Gifted & Talented Center Within The Uri Honors Program, Joseph A. Santiago
Establishing A Gifted & Talented Center Within The Uri Honors Program, Joseph A. Santiago
Student Affairs Digital Community Development
Objective: To establish a Gifted and Talented Program that is linked with the Honors Department at URI to attract, support, and challenge individuals on the Kingston Campus. This program would work as Living Learning Community with students who elect to be live on campus together and give an opportunity for students living off campus to work collaboratively in a creative and supportive environment beyond the classroom. The targeted population for this program would be those individuals coming in from high schools and/or from other University programs.
Re-Imagining The Digitalcommons Collections At The University Of Rhode Island: Innovative Approaches Using Technology To Advance The Student Experience, Joseph A. Santiago
Re-Imagining The Digitalcommons Collections At The University Of Rhode Island: Innovative Approaches Using Technology To Advance The Student Experience, Joseph A. Santiago
Student Affairs Digital Community Development
Proposal Application for 2012 Innovative Approaches Using Technology to Advance the Student Experience. This proposal outlines a plan to utilize the DigitalCommons Collection as a unifying platform that can be the vehicle for community scholarship, creativity, and outreach. This article communicates a strategy to connect the URI community through multiple points of access and create a blended environment in which all people may share and learn from each other.
A rough draft of the proposal has been included demonstrating a slightly different interface and the beginnings of the writing process.
'You're Lying To Jesus!': Humor And Play In A Discussion About Homelessness, L. David Ritchie
'You're Lying To Jesus!': Humor And Play In A Discussion About Homelessness, L. David Ritchie
Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations
This study applies recent theories about humor to a sample of talk among a group of young adults about the issues and problems associated with homelessness. In this conversation, participants demonstrate a pattern of joking and language play that expresses a complex and ambivalent set of attitudes and feelings toward homelessness and toward the homeless as both outcasts and refugees from conventional society. Humor is used both to express complex responses to homelessness and as a tool for managing the tone and direction of the conversation. The results demonstrate how the identification of patterns of joking and wordplay can provide …
Engaging Your Campus In Utilizing Institutional Repositories, Marianne A. Buehler
Engaging Your Campus In Utilizing Institutional Repositories, Marianne A. Buehler
Library Faculty Presentations
Essentials of IR Success
- Institutional repository (IR) best practices: engagement with administrators, faculty, staff, and students
- Acquisition of research scholarship, publications, theses/dissertations, and other research objects
- Successful marketing strategies, best practices for garnering IR content, and developing open access mandates
Communicatively Forming Developed Adoptive Identity: Explicating The Association Between Parental Communication, Developed Adoptive Identity, And Adoptee Adjustment, Colleen Colaner
Department of Communication Studies: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Adoptive families are inherently discursive, with communication acting as the lifeblood connecting the child to his or her adoptive parents. Adoptive families rely upon communication to create and maintain their relational bond. Communication is also the basis of our understanding of self as our identities are rooted in social interaction. Identity development for the adoptees is a unique process in which adoptees construct both a cohesive definition of the self and an understanding of what it means to be an adopted person. In the current study, I examined the communicative pathways through which adoptive identities are formed. I specifically focused …
Staying Genuine And Creating Connections: Networking And Involvement For Introverts, Kiyomi D. Deards
Staying Genuine And Creating Connections: Networking And Involvement For Introverts, Kiyomi D. Deards
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
Introversion, often thought of as a negative attribute, can be a tool to build strong personal connections. How can introverts create and maintain professional networks without feeling fake or insincere? How can introverts balance solitude with interpersonal interactions? What are myths about introverts and how can we combat them?
How New Librarians Used Branding And Outreach To Create Communities Of Practice, Kiyomi D. Deards
How New Librarians Used Branding And Outreach To Create Communities Of Practice, Kiyomi D. Deards
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
Want to get involved and make a difference? Come learn how one librarian got involved and used branding and outreach to promote and increase membership in their professional service organization, and developed their personal community of practice. Find out how you can get involved professionally. Learn how you can define and promote a unique brand for a professional group or yourself, and see how getting involved can exponentially increase your professional network while serving others.
Distance Education And Community Learning Networks Linked By A Library Of Culture, Joseph A. Santiago
Distance Education And Community Learning Networks Linked By A Library Of Culture, Joseph A. Santiago
Student Affairs Digital Community Development
Humans are relational beings with their modeled behavior as practical examples of cultural routines that they hear, see, read, and assemble on their own from communal pieces of information to answer the needs of their everyday lives (Bandura, & Jeffrey, 1973). Yet few researchers have looked at the differing synthesis of culture and generally assume that others share similar ideas/values that lead to particular events and worldviews (Lillard, p.5 1998). Informational and cultural contact zones can be created to support CLNs, universities, and individuals in a variety of roles to encourage their interactions so they might design, and challenge the …
Exploring Touch As A Positive Workplace Behavior, Bryan Fuller, Marcia J. Simmering, Laura E. Marler, Susie S. Cox, Rebecca J. Bennett, Robin A. Cheramie
Exploring Touch As A Positive Workplace Behavior, Bryan Fuller, Marcia J. Simmering, Laura E. Marler, Susie S. Cox, Rebecca J. Bennett, Robin A. Cheramie
Faculty and Research Publications
Whereas most research has focused on the negative aspects of touch in the workplace (i.e. sexual harassment), this study focuses upon the positive use of touch. In an effort to explain individual differences in the use of workplace touch, three sequential studies are used to introduce the concepts of workplace touch self-efficacy and workplace touch initiation anxiety. In Study 1 we develop scales to assess the constructs. Study 2 provides an initial examination of the construct validity of the measures developed in Study 1. Results of Study 3 indicate that supervisor reports of touch self-efficacy and physiological touch anxiety are …
Smart Health For Autism In Northwest Ohio Survey Summary [Slides], Louisa Ha, Lynne Elizabeth Hewitt, Linell Weinberg
Smart Health For Autism In Northwest Ohio Survey Summary [Slides], Louisa Ha, Lynne Elizabeth Hewitt, Linell Weinberg
School of Media and Communication Faculty Publications
Slides from a presentation given by Louisa Ha, Lynne Hewitt and Linell Weinberg in 2011.
Common Ground Or Killing Quicksand?, David M. Richman
Common Ground Or Killing Quicksand?, David M. Richman
The University Dialogue
No abstract provided.
Labor Pains In The Academy, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.
Labor Pains In The Academy, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.
Faculty Publications
This piece offers autoethnographic reflections on crossroads to which many academics come: whether to seek (or postpone or avoid) parenthood and when. The author deeply explores the personal (her own trajectories from daughter and sister to potential mother and from graduate student to full professor) in order to reflect on structural constraints associated with graduate education, the academic job market, and institutional policies and politics.