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Teacher Beliefs About Educational Software Now And In The Future: A Delphi Study, Diana Leigh Williams

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent current educational software was meeting the needs of teachers in integrating technology into the curriculum as well as what changes needed to occur in educational software to make it more effective; A Delphi method was used to gather data. This process was used to help build a consensus among a homogeneous group of participants through a series of queries and surveys in order for the participants to refine their judgements; This study found five overarching themes: (a) instructional design issues, (b) curriculum, (c) materials, (d) cost, and (e) meeting …

Adoption, Diffusion, And Optimal Uses Of Computer Technologies For Instruction In Higher Education: A Case Study Of A Midwest College, Alan Craig Hueth

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Giesler

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

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The Species Problem, Don Ugent

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

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So You're Not A Natural Resources Major: Teaching A General Studies Course Focused On Forest History, Gary B. Blank

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

When compared to our undergraduate majors, students taking environmental courses to fulfill general education (or general studies) requirements have different knowledge bases, different interest levels, and different motivations for studying natural resources topics. Unlike foresters or wildlife managers or environmental scientists, typical business management, psychology, or accounting students are not inclined to memorize scientific names of X number of tree species or learn how to calculate hard mast yields per acre or care how to precipitate organic compounds from a sample solution. So how and what can we teach these students? How do these differences affect choices of appropriate teaching …

Sage On Stage Is Not Sustainable: Participatory Pedagogy For A Change, Roger Boshier

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

At the cusp of the 21st century natural resource educators face a bewildering variety of crises and contradictions. First, tomorrow does not replicate today, let alone yesterday. So not much is achieved by maintenance learning-the learning of fixed rules for recurring patterns. Secondly, learners are apt to behave like consumers and can secure access to education without having to endure the indignities of tyrannical teachers, capricious requirements, lectures or other manifestations of a "transportation model" of education. Thirdly, there is doubt about the extent to which "progress" can be wrought from the calm certitudes of "tested knowledge" and "objective" science. …

Principles Of Wildlife Conservation-Testing Distance Delivery Methodologies, W. Daniel Edge, John Loegering, Penelope Diebel

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

In conjunction with faculty at Oregon State University, we developed a distance education course in two phases. During Phase I, conducted Spring of 1996, we used Oregon ED-NET (a simulcast satellite education system) to reach 143 students at 14 sites in Oregon. In the second phase, we offered the course nation-wide in a video format Spring term 1997 and enrolled 92 students at 13 sites. We will offer the video course again during Winter term 1998 following an expanded marketing plan. Our objectives in this paper are to present (1) course design and production information; (2) our experiences with satellite …

Writing And Fisheries And Wildlife Management: Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations, Shari L. Dann, Jeff Charnley

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Often students disassociate courses which are in their core university requirements- such as writing- from the courses they take for their major. Yet, increasing demands within resource management professions require graduates competent in writing and in using Internet technologies for research and publishing. Thus, there is the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration between the university units responsible for teaching writing and the units providing education for resource professionals. With this need in mind, a unique partnership was formed at Michigan State University between the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife (FW) and American Thought and Language (ATL)- the unit charged with teaching …

New Ideas For Teaching Natural Resource Management: From The Long-Term Realities Of National Forest Management, John Fedkiw

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Research and study of 90 years of managing multiple uses on national forests has revealed three new ideas or understandings about the nature of forest management (Fedkiw 1997a). The first idea is a new definition that describes the task of forest management and the role of forest managers. The second emphasizes the critical, continuous role of the learning experience that accompanies resource management and its relationship to both the adaptive and holistic ecological approaches to resource management. The third establishes that forest management has been on a pathway toward a holistic ecological approach from the beginning of American forestry. It …

Natural Resource Management - The Creation Of A New Interdisciplinary Major At The University Of Delaware, Steven E. Hastings, Karen Roth Aniunas

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

The College of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Delaware has an excellent faculty and physical facility well positioned to educate students for managing the world's natural resources (air, land, water, pants, animals, etc.) into the next century. The college offers a variety of traditional, discipline specific undergraduate majors in five academic departments. A faculty committee worked for more than two years to formulate a new major with an interdisciplinary approach. The result is a new major, Natural Resource Management, which began admitting freshman students in the Fall of 1997. This paper will discuss the creation of the Natural Resource …

Teaching Natural Resources 101 As Managing For Social Values And Human-Ecosystem Relationships, James J. Kennedy

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

From the beginning lecture in their Principles of Natural Resource Management course, College of Natural Resources students at Utah State University (e.g., wildlife/fisheries managers, foresters, geographers, rangeland managers or environmental studies majors) are taught that they will not just manage for ecosystems and not just for people, but for valued relationships between the two (Brunson and Kennedy 1995, Koch and Kennedy 1991). These people-ecosystem relationships generate social values that are communicated to managers by interrelated economic, sociocultural and political/legal systems for society living and (to a lesser extent) for generations of humans and other life-forms yet to be born. How …

Education's Role In Sustainable Development: Uganda's Kibale National Park, R. J. Lilieholm, K. B. Paul, T. L. Sharik, R. Loether

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Kibale National Park (KNP), located in western Uganda, offers a rich diversity of tropical flora and fauna. The Park’s mid-altitude, moist tropical forest supports 11 of Uganda’s 20 non-human primate species, some of which occur in very high densities. The region around KNP is home to seven national parks and numerous protected areas. Located within KNP is the Makerere University Biological Field Station (MUBFS), with an extensive 25-year research history and a mandate to assist KNP in protecting the ecosystems of the region through management-relevant research. While KNP and MUBFS have received much visibility within Uganda, East Africa and the …

Ethics Primer For University Students Intending To Become Natural Resources Managers And Administrators, Richard J. Mcneil

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Natural resources managers and administrators frequently face problems which have ethical dimensions. This paper is intended to help students learn how to become more comfortable and sophisticated with ethical aspects of their management studies, to learn to include ethical tool more in their decision making, and consequently to become better prepared to manage resources later placed in their care. Many of us realize that ethical questions are fundamental to our work. Most of us feel that we have an adequate understanding of and ability to distinguish between "right" and "wrong" behaviors. But we are unable to discuss ethical ideas fluently …

Developing Computer Courseware For Forest Management, Marc E. Mcdill

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Computers are an important tool for managing forests, and they can be used to help teach forestry students about forest management. This paper describes a project to develop computer-based learning models that will be integrated in a comprehensive courseware package suitable for teaching an entire undergraduate forest management course. The forest management courseware will supplement a traditional textbook and take advantage of the things that can be done better with a computer-based approach. While the computer is not likely to rival the textbook in the areas of depth and portability, it can provide an interactive medium to relieve some of …

Student Authoring, Editing And Electronic Publishing, Aaron N. Moen, Spencer R. Hall, Thomas N. Moen

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Millions of term papers have been written by college seniors who will be writing reports and publications as part of their professional responsibilities soon after graduation. While most term papers are graded and returned to student authors, a former student shared the observation that "nothing less than an 'A' is acceptable on the job." Writing assignments can be made more meaningful by giving student authors responsibility for their writing similar to those professionals have; their work will be edited, read and used by others. Student papers were first published on the Department's Cooperative Learning Center (CLC) local area network in …

Kenya Model: Development And Implementation Of An Overseas Study Course On African Wildlife Ecology And Management, Kelly F. Millenbah, Henry Campa Iii, Scott R. Winterstein, Perez M. Olindo, Chiaki Nakamura

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

The brochure declares: "What better place to study a diversity of wildlife species and ecosystems than Kenya's spectacular National Parks and Conservation Areas?" Enticing! Exhilarating! A once in a life time experience! African Wildlife Ecology and Management in Kenya is an intensive two and a half week overseas study program offered by Michigan State University's (MSU) Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Through this hands-on experience, students apply wildlife management principles to issues in Kenya's National Parks and Conservation Areas. Planning and coordination of this course requires a year's worth of thoughtful preparation in order to provide students with a dynamic …

Promoting The Scholarship Of Teaching: Results Of A Workshop On Enhancing Education In Wildlife Conservation, Mark R. Ryan, Henry Campa

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

We describe the justification, format, and assessment of a workshop "Enhancing Education in Wildlife Ecology, Conservation, Management: An Exchange of Ideas" facilitated at the Wildlife Society's Fourth Annual Conference. The workshop was designed to meet the professional development needs of college and university wildlife educators. Over 80 participants from academic and agency backgrounds attended a keynote address and breakout sessions to discuss pedagogical techniques and approaches to teaching specific wildlife course content. Breakout sessions on active learning in large classrooms, constructed controversies, and using writing in the classroom were identified by most participants as most important. The diverse backgrounds of …

Utah State University's Academic Program In Wildlife Damage Management, Michael R. Conover, Jack Berryman

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Wildlife damage management is the buffer between wild animals and people. This field attempts to enhance human-wildlife relations by resolving conflicts between humans and wildlife and increasing the positive values of wildlife. In 1990, Utah State University realized that its students’ education in this area was lacking and created an academic program in wildlife damage management with the support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services. Two years later, USU’s program expanded and became the Jack H. Berryman Institute for Wildlife Damage Management which is part of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and …

Interstate Educational Programs: Are We Ready?, Weldon S. Sleight

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

During the past 15 years, Utah State University and other institutions have vigorously investigated the possibility of sharing educational resources across state lines. This concept, while very important to higher education's future, has not been fully realized. The most obvious barriers have been lack of financial resources and working models. This paper outlines models and procedures that could benefit institutions in the development of cooperative degrees.

The Extent And Condition Of Us Coral Reefs, Steven Miller, Steven Miller, Michael Crosby

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

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The Occurrence Of Pcbs And Chlorinated Pesticide Contaminants In Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus) In A Resident Community: Comparison With Age, Gender And Birth Order, Kathleen M. Kuss

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

Tissue samples from twenty bottlenose dolphins from a stable, residential community of coastal dolphins in the western Gulf of Mexico were analyzed for toxic PCB congeners and chlorinated pesticides. The tissues analyzed (blubber and melon) were from known individuals in a long-term (27⁺ y) study that stranded and were recovered for necropsy. Substantial demographic data were available on these individuals and utilized in the analysis of maternal transfer of organochlorines to young.

The male dolphins in this study were shown to accumulate organochlorine contaminants with age. In female dolphins the organochlorine levels were found to decline with age. These …

Full Issue, Number 4, Winter 1998, The Congregational And Synodical Mission Unit, The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America

Intersections

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Maybe Plato Was Right, Richard Ylvisaker

Intersections

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The Skeptical Theologians' Dictionary, Spencer Porter, Carl Skrade

Intersections

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Rancho Rosa De Castilla: Hispanic Continuity In Greater East Los Angeles, John R. Chávez

History Faculty Publications

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The Wyoming Criminal Code Revisited: Reflections After Fifteen Years, Theodore E. Lauer

Land & Water Law Review

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The Voice, Winter 1998: Volume 44, Issue 2, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Students Strengthen Computer Services; From the President; New Course Decodes Television; Bread for the World Feeds Need for Action; Club Teaches, Learns Through Spectrum of Activities; Dordt Default Rates Lowest in State; Andreas Foundation Endows Scholarship; Old President's House to Become Alumni Guest House; Dordt Programmers Top Local Contest, Place Eleventh in Region; Hugging Linguists Embrace Twenty-Five Years; Dordt Placement Rate Stays Above Ninety-Eight Percent for the Fifth Year in a Row; AMOR Doubles Its Presence in Central America; Dordt Students Will Have Good Showing in Iowa Salon; Students Earn Scholarships in ECHO Conferences; ASC Shifts to Different Model of …

A Physiologic Function For P-Glycoprotein (Mdr-1) During The Migration Of Dendritic Cells From Skin Via Afferent Lymphatic Vessels, Gwendalyn J. Randolph, Sylvia Beaulieu, Melissa Pope

Publications

P-glycoprotein (MDR-1) is a well-known transporter that mediates efflux of chemotherapeutic agents from the intracellular milieu and thereby contributes to drug resistance. MDR-1 also is expressed by nonmalignant cells, including leukocytes, but physiologic functions for MDR-1 are poorly defined. Using an initial screening assay that included >100 mAbs, we observed that neutralizing mAbs MRKI6, UIC2, and 4E3 against MDR-1 specifically and potently blocked basal-to-apical transendothelial migration of mononuclear phagocytes, a process that may mimic their migration into lymphatic vessels. Antagonists of MDR-1 then were used in a model of authentic lymphatic clearance. In this model, antigen-presenting dendritic cells (DC) migrate …

Identification And Characterization Of Mlp1p And Mlp2p : Molecular Components Of Filaments Localized At The Interface Between The Nuclear Pore Complex And Nuclear Interior, Caterina Strambio-De-Castillia

Student Theses and Dissertations

In eukaryotic cells the segregation of the genome in a closed organelle requires an efficient mechanism to ensure the constant exchange of material between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) provide the only known sites for exchange of material across the nuclear envelope (NE). A wealth of evidence has accumulated throughout the years that strongly suggest that the NPCs are structurally linked to the nuclear interior. It has long been proposed that this structural continuity is essential for the efficient exchange of material between the nuclear interior and the cytoplasm. Unfortunately, the understanding of the molecular basis …

Commensal Rodents: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, B. C. West

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.