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Creating An Open Access Course Reserves (When An Oa Textbook Isn't Enough), Jessica Bell

SJSU Open Access Conference

The search for alternatives to high priced textbooks endures. The librarians at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, with the help of an IMLS Sparks! Ignition grant, decided to jump into the fray by creating the Open Access Course Reserves. It is a publicly available, curated repository that provides ready-made reading lists of free, copyright compliant (open access when possible), educational materials. The materials are selected to match typical syllabi and textbook contents and organized by discipline and course. The goal of the project is to create a place for faculty of any higher education course from anywhere in the …

Embedding Affordable Learning Solutions Into The Academic Senate, Aline Soules

SJSU Open Access Conference

Embedding the Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) into the Academic Senate provides a forum and a platform for promoting ALS to and with faculty. At Cal State East Bay, ALS is now a Subcommittee of the Committee on Instruction and Curriculum (CIC) with representation from key constituencies, including a faculty representative from each College and the Library. Recommendations and suggestions can now be routed through CIC to the full Senate. The brief lightning round presentation will explain the process of creating the subcommittee and describe the benefits and challenges the Subcommittee has experienced to date.

Cuny Academic Works Workshop: Increase The Reach Of Your Research, Megan Wacha, Jill Cirasella

Events

This slideshow was presented at an Open Access Week event hosted by the LACUNY Professional Development Committee. It introduces the CUNY Academic Works repository and reviews concepts about copyright and authors' rights.

Environmental Justice, Kathleen Braden

Day of Common Learning

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From Good To Groaning, Mike Langford, Eric Long

Day of Common Learning

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Moral Thinking, Fast And Slow, Margaret Brown, Jared Wymer

Day of Common Learning

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Human Trafficking, Grace Lane, Elena Raney, Nathan Bennett, Suzi Spooner, Sandy Mortinson, Carol Mcfarland

Day of Common Learning

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A Woman's Place Is In The House, The Senate, And The Boardroom: Do Women Make A Difference In Positions Of Power?, Ruth Ediger, Denise Daniels

Day of Common Learning

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Applying For Iacuc Review, Frank R. Moore, Paula Smithka

Office of Research Integrity Workshops and Forums

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Open Your Research Without Opening Your Wallet, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Open Access Week at Gettysburg College

Open scholarship promotes sharing and collaboration, increases readership, and amplifies impact. It is gaining traction as institutions, professional associations, and funding agencies encourage or require broad sharing of research results. Yet many authors believe that the only way to open their work is to pay publishers thousands of dollars for the privilege. Luckily for us, that just isn’t the case. Come hear about a range of ways to open your research without paying for the privilege!

Lunch provided.

(Limited seating, RSVP to [email protected])

Page Library: Open For Collaboration, Haiying Qian

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Presentation given to the Lincoln University faculty during 2015 International Open Access Week about Open Access Movement, Copyright and Fair Use, Scholarly Communications and Blue Tiger Commons Repository.

Implementing Model Curriculum Standards, Jose A. Villavicencio

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

The recently published Standards for Learning World Languages guide teachers and students to teach and learn a foreign language of choice in ways that prepares them for life and career plans. The problem is that the Standards added the post secondary. It now includes elementary, middle, high school, and college in the progress indicators and achievable student learning outcomes. It is necessary to review the teaching and learning at the college level because this plan is meant to encourage school systems to consider a long-term sequential approach, comparable to math, science, and language arts, to permit learners the opportunity to …

Ocean Acoustics And The Environment, Michael D. Vera

Interdisciplinary Investigations

Sound in the ocean can travel for long distances, particularly at relatively low frequencies. Electromagnetic waves, such as visible light or radar signals, are strongly damped in the marine environment.

Man-made sounds in the ocean can therefore be both a useful probe of the environment and an environmental concern. Since the speed of sound in water depends on the temperature, long-range transmissions can be used as a way to measure the average temperature of a large region of the ocean.

This type of data is extremely useful in studying climate, both in short-term weather prediction and in long-term assessment of …

Collection Workflows And Communication Strategies For Small And Mid-Sized Academic Libraries, Judi Guzzy

Library Papers and Presentations

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I Want All The Words! How Gestalt Principles And Plain Language Can Help You Become An Effective Document Designer, Jennifer M. Turner, Jessica Schomberg

Library Services Publications

Librarians across library types and departments frequently provide training materials to each other, library technicians, and student workers. For these materials to be effective, they must contain accurate information and should also follow guidelines for usable document design. Good design makes documents easier to use, helps documents stand out from other pieces of information, and lends credibility to document creators. A few simple tips, such as following Gestalt principles and using plain language, can improve document usability. The presenters will demonstrate how making these and other changes will improve the accessibility and functionality of library training materials. They will also …

Copyright Considerations For Undergraduate Research, Sarah A. Norris

Florida Statewide Symposium: Best Practices in Undergraduate Research

Considerations of copyright, fair use, and intellectual property are at the core of undergraduate research, particularly as undergraduate students showcase their scholarship and creative activity in a variety of mediums – from poster presentations to digital repositories. This presentation will explore such considerations by highlighting current trends in copyright and intellectual property, as well as exploring hot topics surrounding copyright and fair use. The presentation will also discuss alternatives to traditional copyright options, such as creative commons licenses and open access publishing.

Whom Do We Serve: Addressing Diversity & Inclusion In Undergraduate Research, Kimberly Reid, Latika Young

Florida Statewide Symposium: Best Practices in Undergraduate Research

The diversity of the student body is not fully represented in undergraduate research and related high-impact practices. This session will provide an overview of how Florida State University’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement is striving to be inclusive, through campus partnerships, outreach, funding, and individualized support. It will also include a brief discussion of a case study being conducted on the participation of underrepresented students in its Global Scholars program. The session will embody the interactive spirit so come prepared to share and learn!

First-Generation Students And Advising, Kimberly A. Murphy

Center for Faculty Enrichment

First-Generation Students and Advising – Friday 10/2 8:30-9:30am in Wilson Center

For first-generation students, going to college is uncharted territory. Many first-generation college students turn to their academic advisors for the support needed to succeed in college. In this session, we will share foundational information about first-generation students and an overview of common challenges facing these students. In addition, we will develop strategies and tools that can be used in your advising work with first-generation students.

Open Access And Irs: Educating And Empowering The Campus Community, Adam N. Hess

Library Faculty Scholarship

With the trend moving toward universities developing their own institutional repositories (IRs), the need to educate and empower the campus to embrace this new space for publishing research has grown exponentially. This session will provide a background on open access and IRs, including the many benefits and complex issues, as well as an overview of the scholarly communication crisis and the importance of authors’ rights education. The session will go on to provide practical examples and guidance from several pilot projects launched at Arcadia University that emphasized open access education and participation.

Advising Strategies That Increase Online And Post-Traditional Student Persistence, Glynis Bradfield

School of Distance Education Faculty Publications

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Spiritual Direction & Soul Care: Embracing God’S Presence In Your Practice (Aacc World Conference 2015), John C. Thomas

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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The Core 4 Assessment Test Bank: One Stop Shopping For Information Literacy Assessment!, Rachel Cooke, Jenna Enomoto, Kim Reycraft, Steve Rokusek, Heather Snapp

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

In Fall 2013, academic librarians at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) set out to develop their own instructional assessment test bank to evaluate library program effectiveness, improve the student learning experience and determine if library services were effectively developing information literacy skills in learners. Using the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (2000) adopted by ACRL in conjunction with their own information literacy plan, they focused on four critical competency areas: information access points, search tool selection, library website utilization, and classification schemes.

This panel presentation provides an overview of the challenges and successes they experienced in creating and …

Partnering With Teaching Faculty To Incorporate The Framework For Information Literacy For Higher Education, Tami Robinson

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Whitworth University Library developed Library Instruction/ Information Literacy Objectives based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education that we have been using for the past decade. Endorsed, in 2008 by the Library & Information Resources Committee, comprised of teaching faculty, these objectives are aimed at specific learning outcomes for the First Year Seminar, writing composition, and discipline specific courses. The progression of information literacy skills reflected in these objectives begins at the basic introductory level, then moves on to basic research skills, and finally to complex discipline specific research skills. Faculty buy-in has been sporadic and uneven …

Confident Or Not: How Students Explain Their Confidence Regarding Research Abilities, Andrea Brooks

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

The affective dimension of learning considers emotions, feelings, and attitudes as a student makes sense of a subject. In several studies surrounding the information search process, Carol Kuhlthau (1991) emphasized the importance of feelings when students take on a research project, including their confidence. Confidence is one trait that has been used to measure affective learning connected with information literacy abilities. Quantitative analysis has shown student confidence levels do increase after library instruction (Rimland, 2013). However, high confidence does not necessarily indicate ability, and less competent students may even have an inflated sense of their information literacy skills (Gross and …

Symmetry Provides A Turing-Type Test For 3d Vision, Zygmunt Pizlo

Dawn or Doom Conference

The question of whether computers and robots will ever be able to think as well as we do has occupied researchers working in Artificial Intelligence for more than 50 years, ever since Alan Turing (1950) proposed his behavioral test. In this test, a computer tries to imitate a human being’s use of natural language in a conversation carried on via a teletype machine. The human participant in this exchange is required to decide whether he is conversing with another human being or with a computer. This test has been criticized by Searle (1980), who pointed out that similar behaviors, in …

On Feeding The 10 Billion, Patricia Boling

Dawn or Doom Conference

It is commonplace to encounter people close to agriculture in Indiana worrying about how we will produce enough food to feed the projected 10 billion people who will inhabit the earth by 2050. But the assumption that Indiana needs to become even more productive and figure out how to turn out even more of what it does best, corn and soy beans, begs the question, what kind of food are we producing, and how will producing more of it benefit a rapidly increasing world population? We Hoosiers are incredibly productive, but our agricultural output is used primarily to create animal …

Stars Presentation For Faculty Senate, Lee Dotson, Sarah Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation given to UCF Faculty Senate on September 24, 2015 by Lee Dotson, Digital Initiatives Librarian, and Sarah Norris, Scholarly Communciation Librarian. The presentation introduces STARS (Showcase for Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship, UCF's institutional digital repository hosted by Digital Commons, with examples of content that faculty and students can submit. UCF's Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship exists to publicize, disseminate, and provide ready access to works by, for, and about the University of Central Florida. The Libraries' scholarly communication services are also highlighted.

A Machine Learning Approach To Post-Market Surveillance Of Medical Devices, Jonathan Bates, Shu-Xia Li, Craig Parzynski, Ronald Coifman, Harlan Krumholz, Joseph Ross

Yale Day of Data

Post-market surveillance is a collection of processes and activities used by product manufacturers and regulators, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to monitor the safety and effectiveness of medical devices once they are available for use “on the market”. These activities are designed to generate information to identify poorly performing devices and other safety problems, accurately characterize real-world device performance and clinical outcomes, and facilitate the development of new devices, or new uses for existing devices. Typically, a device is monitored by comparing adverse events in the exposed population to a matched unexposed population. This research considers …

Getting In Our Heads: A Collaborative Approach To Recording The Performer's Perspective, Nick A. Ciraldo, Bobby Ciraldo, Jonathan P. Pluskota, Paul S. Linden

Interdisciplinary Investigations

The performer, who relies on her highly trained ears and a sophisticated set of values that she has cultivated over years of experience, produces the exact sounds that she wants to hear on her instrument; however, she is the only one who really hears them.

The audience member, on the other hand, is more of a passive participant, receiving sound instead of making it, and it reaches him after it travels many feet in a large space that is usually filled with all sorts of obstacles, from chairs to walls to other people.

So, what if you could hear what …

Signature Work And The Core Curriculum, Brian P. Katz

Center for Faculty Enrichment

Signature Work and the Core Curriculum - Thursday 9/10 4:30-5:30pm in the Wilson Center

What is the goal of a Liberal Arts education? The college's Mission is to prepare students for meaningful lives of service and leadership in a diverse and changing world, and the notion of "Vocation" asks students to seek the intersection of their skills, their interests, and the needs of their communities during and after college. On the national stage, the AAC&U is advocating for ALL students to have access to "Signature Work", in which they pose and explore problems important to themselves and the world. …