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Look What We've Got For You! – Promoting Library Collections, Viola Voß, Göran Hamrin Jul 2021

Look What We've Got For You! – Promoting Library Collections, Viola Voß, Göran Hamrin

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Librarians spend a lot of time and thought on the question "what to buy for the library?" to meet the users’ needs as best as possible. But what happens once a book or a database or a journal has made it onto the (virtual) shelf? How do users learn about new acquisitions or interesting holdings? In this talk we take a tour across collection-marketing activities by academic or research libraries, highlighting some successful examples and collecting ideas for reuse. Method: We scouted the internet presence of all IATUL member libraries, taking into account their websites and, if available, their web …

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The Rise Of Creative Class In Library: A Chinese Perspective, Lingdan Song Jul 2021

The Rise Of Creative Class In Library: A Chinese Perspective, Lingdan Song

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Library has responded to the rapid change of social development by expanding its role from a physical place of collections to a space supporting the creative process. Florida proposed 3T (technology, talent and tolerance) to be key factors triggering creativity for a region. Based on this theory, this paper elaborates on the academic library as “creative center” who offers attractions for the patrons by exploring specific examples in China, concluding the Chinese library advancing innovation from these three dimensions. Automatic Mapping System between DDC and CLC, Academic Resource Map, the people-oriented atmosphere and activity fostering creativity, like the maker spaces, …

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University Libraries As Active Agents For Change. The Bitviews Project: How University Librarians Can Turn All Journals Green And Clear The Path To Open Science, Manifredi M.A. La Manna Jul 2021

University Libraries As Active Agents For Change. The Bitviews Project: How University Librarians Can Turn All Journals Green And Clear The Path To Open Science, Manifredi M.A. La Manna

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

There can be no open science without Open Access (OA). This paper is a call to arms to individual University librarians to make a decisive move towards open access. The short-term objective of OA is defined as the immediate, cost-free, online access to the content of all peer reviewed scientific, medical, and scholarly articles. This amounts to unrestricted access to the author’s approved manuscripts (AAMs) deposited in institutional and other repositories. Even in the current academic publishing ecosystem, largely directed and managed by a few oligopolistic commercial publishers, 80% of peer reviewed articles can be deposited as AAMs, but only …

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Evaluation And Analysis Of Open Access Electronic Resources In Higher Education Libraries In Portugal, Jose Carlos De Carvalho, Maria Joao Amante, Maria Angeles Zulueta Jul 2021

Evaluation And Analysis Of Open Access Electronic Resources In Higher Education Libraries In Portugal, Jose Carlos De Carvalho, Maria Joao Amante, Maria Angeles Zulueta

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In this work, it is given public knowledge of a model that was built along the research carried out, with a view to evaluate the information resources in Open Access (OA) and present the results obtained by its application on a comparative study at the level of Higher Education Libraries (universities and polytechnics, public and private) in Portugal, more exactly concerning the Online Public Access Catalogs (OPAC) and Institutional Repositories (IR). For the construction of this model and its application to the Higher Education Libraries in Portugal, 3 dimensions with 9 indicators each were designed, in a total of 27, …

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Face‐To‐Face With The New: Libraries Readiness And Perspectives Towards The Changing Service Environment, Christine M. Abrigo, Efren M. Torres Jr. Jul 2021

Face‐To‐Face With The New: Libraries Readiness And Perspectives Towards The Changing Service Environment, Christine M. Abrigo, Efren M. Torres Jr.

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The new normal has changed the nature of work and services, and a library's readiness, considering these abrupt but mandatory changes, has challenged, and influenced their response to meet the demands of the new service environment. This paper seeks to explore how the library management in academic and school institutions has been adapting to this change, how their priorities have shifted in reinventing their action plans and innovative library responses, to ensure meeting new expectations to support the perceived needs of their communities, especially in the next normal future. It specifically probes into managing change in charting strategic plans, upper …

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Designing Strategies And Actions To Support Open Science: Building Capacity In A Higher Education Institution, Carlos Lopes, Maria Luz Antunes, Tatiana Sanches Jul 2021

Designing Strategies And Actions To Support Open Science: Building Capacity In A Higher Education Institution, Carlos Lopes, Maria Luz Antunes, Tatiana Sanches

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Introduction: The access of information to new learning devices, the ability to interconnect with libraries and repositories without barriers of time or space, and the way in which information is processed and made available highlight the urgency of reflection and access to the production and dissemination of scientific production by its stakeholders. To address these issues, academic institutions, together with their libraries, can devise and develop strategies that enable them to make fuller use of these resources, assisting them to interact with the Open Science movement with greater autonomy and effectiveness. Aim of the study: A curricular proposal for a …

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Universities As Open Knowledge Institutions: Sharing Vital Research, Katie Wilson, Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, Richard Hosking, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Rebecca N. Handcock, Alkim Ozaygen, Aniek Roelofs Jul 2021

Universities As Open Knowledge Institutions: Sharing Vital Research, Katie Wilson, Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, Richard Hosking, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Rebecca N. Handcock, Alkim Ozaygen, Aniek Roelofs

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Universities are key creators of knowledge. Ensuring that research outputs are not inaccessible behind paywalls, and that research data can be interrogated and built upon is central to efforts to improve the effectiveness of global research landscapes. Mandating and promoting open science and open access (OA) for published research outputs and sharing research data are important elements of building a vibrant open knowledge system, but there are additional benefits. Supporting diversity within knowledge-making institutions; enabling collaboration between universities and communities; addressing inequalities in access to knowledge resources and opportunities for contributing to knowledge making are also important. New tools are …

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An Introduction To The University Of Otago Library Capability Framework And What Its Data Reveals About The Capabilities Required By Researcher-Facing Librarians Delivering Inside-Out Services., Shiobhan Smith Jul 2021

An Introduction To The University Of Otago Library Capability Framework And What Its Data Reveals About The Capabilities Required By Researcher-Facing Librarians Delivering Inside-Out Services., Shiobhan Smith

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Lorcan Dempsey has coined the term “inside-out” to describe how academic libraries are increasingly supporting the processes of research at their institutions (Dempsey, 2016). Digital scholarship, changes in scholarly communication practices, advancing technology, and the growing use of bibliometrics for research evaluation, are fuelling the evolution of library research support services. Researcher-facing librarians are increasingly being required to upskill and engage with the research process at deeper, more technical, levels. In 2019 a project commenced at the University of Otago Library to gather information about the knowledge, skills, abilities and attributes of researcher-facing librarians performing inside-out tasks. Various job descriptions …

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International Visibility Of Thesis And Dissertations From Ulisboa Through The Institutional Repositories: Gateway For Open Science, Tatiana Sanches, Luiza Baptista Melo, Silvia Costa Lopes, Susanna Oliveira Henriques Jul 2021

International Visibility Of Thesis And Dissertations From Ulisboa Through The Institutional Repositories: Gateway For Open Science, Tatiana Sanches, Luiza Baptista Melo, Silvia Costa Lopes, Susanna Oliveira Henriques

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Institutional repositories of universities are initiatives that integrate the concept of Open Science, enhancing the free circulation of academic and scientific production. The current University of Lisbon (ULisboa) results from the fusion of the former University of Lisbon and Technical University of Lisbon, in 2013. Currently, ULisboa comprises 18 schools. Since the fusion, University of Lisbon still has two independent institutional repositories based on DSpace – the Repositório.UL and the UTL Repository. Focused on the collection of theses and dissertations, the aim of the following study is to look at the scientific production of ULisboa and analyse the international visibility …

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Library And Faculty Partnering To Increase Open Access Publishing Among Researchers, Cristina Sousa Lopes, Teresa Oliveira Ramos, Palmira Seixas, Luis Miguel Costa, Ana Freitas Jul 2021

Library And Faculty Partnering To Increase Open Access Publishing Among Researchers, Cristina Sousa Lopes, Teresa Oliveira Ramos, Palmira Seixas, Luis Miguel Costa, Ana Freitas

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper aims to describe the collaboration of FEUP’s Library with faculty in the course unit “Publishing and Scientific Writing” for third-cycle students. It contributed to U.Porto Journal of Engineering, a new open-access journal of the Faculty of Engineering, indexed in DOAJ, OpenAIRE and Scopus. This study also reports the course unit’s lifecycle from its design, development and implementation as a face-to-face format until its present evolution to an online offer. Throughout the last decades, academic libraries have reinforced their educational role as active partners in teaching, learning and research activities within their institutions. In this course, FEUP’s Library is …

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Re-Imagine The Spaces At Research Libraries During The Most Challenging Times, Shali Zhang Jul 2021

Re-Imagine The Spaces At Research Libraries During The Most Challenging Times, Shali Zhang

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Research libraries in U.S. have continued looking for new ways to use library spaces to support the needs of learning, teaching, and research, with rapidly changing information technologies and high expectations for dynamic learning environment. Students and faculty look for research libraries to enable their collaboration, innovation, and explorations. The enhanced library space often features contemporary architectural and aesthetical design, at convenient locations, with concept of facilitating formal and informal learning, easy access to collections, technologies, supporting services, and flexible furniture arrangements to support a variety of learning activities. Since early spring 2020, library personnel at Auburn University in the …

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Collections And Intersections: A Facilitated Library Collection In Action, Heather Mcmullen Jul 2021

Collections And Intersections: A Facilitated Library Collection In Action, Heather Mcmullen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Over the last several years, Queen’s University Library has undertaken numerous collections initiatives in response to space and financial imperatives, increases in new academic programs and the launch of a shared library services platform. Further, the library has placed an increased emphasis on inclusive collections and Indigenous voices. These collections initiatives are examined within the frameworks of facilitated and collaborative collections, regional, national and North American partnerships and consortia, and intersections with shared print, access, resource sharing, digitization and preservation.

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Fostering Innovation In The Library's Experiential Studio, C. Jeffrey Belliston Jul 2021

Fostering Innovation In The Library's Experiential Studio, C. Jeffrey Belliston

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The paper focuses on the Harold B. Lee Library’s Experiential Studio, which is an interdisciplinary design space where students, faculty, and librarians from multiple colleges and departments can work together on solving compelling social problems. Many courses taught in the studio have employed design thinking processes to foster innovation and the studio itself is a product of design thinking with the most recent iteration having opened in January 2020. Some courses taught in the space since its inception in 2014 have been community collaborations—some local, some national, and some international. A local collaboration included working with the Lee Library to …

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Librarians As Research Partners On Interdisciplinary Research Teams, Kineret Ben Knaan, Kelly Miller Jul 2021

Librarians As Research Partners On Interdisciplinary Research Teams, Kineret Ben Knaan, Kelly Miller

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

There is a growing body of literature focusing on the changing roles of librarians within an academic setting. Re-conceptualizing the ways in which librarians add value to institutional research entails new ways of assessing their contributions, supporting them in the process of change, and providing them with ongoing professional development and training opportunities. In this paper, we reflect on the experiences of University of Miami (UM) librarians as experimental members of research teams funded through the University’s Laboratory for Integrative Knowledge (U-LINK), a strategic initiative to advance interdisciplinary research that addresses societal problems. Over the last three years, U-LINK librarians …

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The Materials Curation Inventory Toolkit: Interviewer's Manual, Megan Sapp-Nelson, Jake Carlson, D. S. Brandt, Christie Sahley, Donna L. Ferullo, Linda J. Mason, Hanzi Xie Jul 2021

The Materials Curation Inventory Toolkit: Interviewer's Manual, Megan Sapp-Nelson, Jake Carlson, D. S. Brandt, Christie Sahley, Donna L. Ferullo, Linda J. Mason, Hanzi Xie

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The Interviewer’s Manual provides the framework for the interview. It contains text and questions to be read to the participating researcher over the course of the interview. It is meant to be used in conjunction with the Interview Worksheet.

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The Materials Curation Inventory Toolkit: Interview Worksheet, Megan Sapp-Nelson, Jake Carlson, D. S. Brandt, Christie Sahley, Donna L. Ferullo, Linda J. Mason, Hanzi Xie Jul 2021

The Materials Curation Inventory Toolkit: Interview Worksheet, Megan Sapp-Nelson, Jake Carlson, D. S. Brandt, Christie Sahley, Donna L. Ferullo, Linda J. Mason, Hanzi Xie

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

This worksheet is designed to elicit the information necessary to develop an inventory of materials produced by a particular research project and targeted for curation. This worksheet is meant to be filled out as a part of the interview.

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Data Analytics For Humanities And Historical Analysis, Henry Wu Jul 2021

Data Analytics For Humanities And Historical Analysis, Henry Wu

Discovery Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research Internship

Historical text and images feed the complex narrative we view history with today. In some cases, references to recurring situations in the form of a diary or a series of maps can become quantifiable data in the form of a visual record. Analytics can be performed on maps of military campaigns tracking the movement of troops over time, a form of time series data, and on casualty lists recording the when, where and from which individual soldiers fell in battle. Our project utilizes primary data from maps and casualty reports concerning World War II battles, specifically from the Eastern Front, …

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Assessing Intuition Used Among Undergraduate Engineering Technology And Engineering Students, Melissa Cai Shi, Therese M. Azevedo, Anne M. Lucietto Jul 2021

Assessing Intuition Used Among Undergraduate Engineering Technology And Engineering Students, Melissa Cai Shi, Therese M. Azevedo, Anne M. Lucietto

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Intuition plays an essential role in decision-making and is independent of an analytical way of thinking that is considered a gut feeling. Individuals can shape their intuition, and each field of study develops a variety of skills and trains students for a way of thinking needed for that specific area. A focus on undergraduate engineering technology students and comparing them to undergraduate engineering students allows this study to examine the types of intuition used by these two groups. The Types of Intuition Scale (TIntS), an established, validated instrument, which categorizes intuition into inferential, affective, holistic abstract, and holistic big picture …

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Tourism And The Climate Crisis: A Travelers' Guide To Low Carbon, Madison Mcconnell, Jonathon Day Jul 2021

Tourism And The Climate Crisis: A Travelers' Guide To Low Carbon, Madison Mcconnell, Jonathon Day

Tourism Insights

This report provides recommendations for reducing your carbon footprint while travelling

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Bioinspired Fabrication Of Reconfigurable Elastomeric Cementitious Structures Using Self-Healing Mechanical Adhesives Interfaces, Vanessa Restrepo, Ramses V. Martinez Jul 2021

Bioinspired Fabrication Of Reconfigurable Elastomeric Cementitious Structures Using Self-Healing Mechanical Adhesives Interfaces, Vanessa Restrepo, Ramses V. Martinez

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund

Modern construction technologies are in high demand of new highly customizable and easy-to-assemble structural materials with enhanced mechanical performance and the capability to self-repair autonomously. This article describes the simple and cost-effective manufacturing of Self-Healing Elastomeric/Cementitious/Mechanical Adhesive Structures (SECMAS). SECMAS are comprised of cementitious bricks joined by mechanical adhesive interfaces and organized in nacre-inspired, brick-and-mortar structures. This scalable staggered design provides SECMAS with the capability to concentrate the formation and propagation of cracks along the mechanical adhesive interfaces, which efficiently distribute loading forces and accommodate deformation. The periodic distribution of elastomeric reinforcing layers inside the SECMAS facilitates its elastic self-recovery …

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Sustainable Tourism Challenges: Change Management - Teton County, Katelyn Larrabee, Jonathon Day Jul 2021

Sustainable Tourism Challenges: Change Management - Teton County, Katelyn Larrabee, Jonathon Day

Tourism Insights

This report examines Teton County's change management activities in support of sustainable tourism.

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Minority Graduates In Engineering Technology: Trends In Choice Of Major, Yury Alexandrovich Kuleshov, Emily Rada, Anne M. Lucietto Jul 2021

Minority Graduates In Engineering Technology: Trends In Choice Of Major, Yury Alexandrovich Kuleshov, Emily Rada, Anne M. Lucietto

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

The paper presents a demographic analysis of college graduates in engineering technology (ET). The paper intends to investigate the graduates’ background, population, and choice of major. Graduates in ET are a much smaller population than those found in other Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs. Little publishing exists about who they are and how long it took to pursue their degree while examining other available demographic data. The delineation of this paper does not include computer science and computer technology programs. Several opinions exist about who these students are, where they come from, and what interests them. The paper …

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Exploring Young Women’S Interest In Fluid Power With Workshop Experiences, Anne M. Lucietto, Jennifer D. Moss, Jose M. Garcia, John H. Lumkes Jul 2021

Exploring Young Women’S Interest In Fluid Power With Workshop Experiences, Anne M. Lucietto, Jennifer D. Moss, Jose M. Garcia, John H. Lumkes

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Fluid power is not an engineering topic usually presented to students in grades K-12. However undergraduate students in various programs are required to learn this concept. Evidence exists that indicates college students are more easily engaged when fluid power has been introduced earlier in their schooling. Thus, a variety of organizations are beginning work toward providing programs to creatively present the topic to younger students. After an examination of existing literature, we found minimal evidence of this type of work having been carried out and reported on. This study examines data from workshops designed to introduce fluid power to middle …

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Sustainable Tourism Challenges: Systems Change - Slovenia Tourism's Green Scheme, Hannah Bromm, Jonathon Day Jul 2021

Sustainable Tourism Challenges: Systems Change - Slovenia Tourism's Green Scheme, Hannah Bromm, Jonathon Day

Tourism Insights

The report addresses ways that Slovenia has encouraged the adoption of sustainable tourism practices

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Sustainable Tourism Challenges: Getting Started - Sustainable Supply Change Management, Jonathon Day Jul 2021

Sustainable Tourism Challenges: Getting Started - Sustainable Supply Change Management, Jonathon Day

Tourism Insights

Introduction to sustainable supply chain management in tourism.

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Women And Bipoc In Aerospace: Where Did They Come From And How Did They Get Here?, Tracy L. Yother, Anne M. Lucietto, Geanie Umberger, Mary E. Johnson Jul 2021

Women And Bipoc In Aerospace: Where Did They Come From And How Did They Get Here?, Tracy L. Yother, Anne M. Lucietto, Geanie Umberger, Mary E. Johnson

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

The low number of women and black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) compared to their population, is well-documented in engineering, engineering technology, and other STEM fields. Through this and ancillary documentation there is agreement that increasing the numbers of women and other minorities in these areas will enhance productivity and the breadth of new innovation. Many efforts have been made to increase the number of women and BIPOC in STEM fields. The result of those efforts has been disappointing as they have resulted in minimal growth in engineering and virtual stagnation in other areas of STEM. The aviation and …

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Study Of Organizational Knowledge Retention Practices In The Utilities, Eric G. Barnfather Jr., Kelly A. Mcfall, Anne M. Lucietto Jul 2021

Study Of Organizational Knowledge Retention Practices In The Utilities, Eric G. Barnfather Jr., Kelly A. Mcfall, Anne M. Lucietto

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

One key to the successful and long-term survival of an organization involves knowledge capture and retention. The knowledge may include company secrets, lessons learned, and hard-earned best-practices that are lost, forgotten, or disorganized in the event of staff loss or early retirement. In the United States, the aging workforce poses a specific difficulty vis a vie utility workers. Many are quickly approaching retirement and operations staff are heavily impacted by this movement. Properly capturing and retaining employee’s tacit knowledge is a labor-intensive task as it is usually transferred through personal observation with demonstration, mentors, apprenticeships, or on-the-job training. Consequently, articulating …

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The Development Of Techie Times, Brian D. Tedeschi, Julia K. Miller, Anne M. Lucietto, Nancy L. Denton Jul 2021

The Development Of Techie Times, Brian D. Tedeschi, Julia K. Miller, Anne M. Lucietto, Nancy L. Denton

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

Summer 2020 provided the motivation and opportunity to move summer outreach programs into the virtual world. Faculty and students in the Purdue University School of Engineering Technology moved face-to-face programs into a middle school program called Techie Times. This program was designed to provide students with an organized platform occurring just before the school year started, allowing them to learn at home, working with family, or independently. The program was designed to take place nonconsecutively over eight days, covering five various STEM topics. Some of these activities were already a part of the middle school curriculum; others were not. That …

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Academic And Industry Collaboration: A Literature Review, Anne M. Lucietto, Diane L. Peters, Meher Rusi Taleyarkhan, Shelly Tan Jul 2021

Academic And Industry Collaboration: A Literature Review, Anne M. Lucietto, Diane L. Peters, Meher Rusi Taleyarkhan, Shelly Tan

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

As part of a larger project determining best practices for establishing and maintaining effective, sustainable, collaborative relationships between academic and industry professionals, this review will outline the available materials and, conversely, the multiple gaps that exist regarding course content, methods of teaching, and practical experience relating to preparation for careers in engineering and engineering technology. Currently, there is no clear agreement on which principles and practices best enable industrial partners and academic institutions to establish and maintain mutually-beneficial partnerships. In fact, there is no clear definition in the literature of what a mutually-beneficial partnership entails, across the full range of …

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Active Experiential Learning At A Distance, Zach Schreiber, Robert J. Herrick, Anne M. Lucietto Jul 2021

Active Experiential Learning At A Distance, Zach Schreiber, Robert J. Herrick, Anne M. Lucietto

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

E-learning became the mode of instruction for students worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instruction was forced onto numerous online platforms quickly, some seamlessly and some not. For those not well versed in online education, the move of all forms of education, including hands-on, laboratory experiential learning, deprived students of new experiences, skills, and knowledge due to a lack of provisions to perform remotely. Uncertain of the pandemic’s duration as well as the future of hands-on education, these authors investigated new technology, equipment, and experiments that would provide a hands-on laboratory experience performed by students at a distance. In response to …

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