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Engaging The Disengaged: Implementing A No-Tech Policy After Years Of Adding Tech To The Classroom, Keith Quesenberry Jun 2022

Engaging The Disengaged: Implementing A No-Tech Policy After Years Of Adding Tech To The Classroom, Keith Quesenberry

Business Educator Scholarship

After a decade of adding technology to the classroom, students asking for a laptop ban sent me on a journey of discovery. After a literature review of existing research and a semester of a no-tech policy, I found less tech, not more increases student engagement and learning. Despite more than a dozen studies over the last decade detailing the negative learning effects of laptops in the classroom, the majority of faculty believe that laptop use in class increases learning. I highlight the research findings, explain my experience with the new policy, and provide suggestions on how to attempt your own. …


Current Trends In Communication Graduate Degrees: Survey Of Communications, Advertising, Pr, And Imc Graduate Programs, Keith A. Quesenberry, Michael K. Coolsen, Kristen Wilkerson Jan 2015

Current Trends In Communication Graduate Degrees: Survey Of Communications, Advertising, Pr, And Imc Graduate Programs, Keith A. Quesenberry, Michael K. Coolsen, Kristen Wilkerson

Business Educator Scholarship

© AEJMC 2015. A survey of 61 master’s degree advertising programs reveals significant trends in program titles, curriculum design, course delivery, and students served. The results provide insight for current and planned master’s degree programs as research predicts a continued increase in demand for master’s education over the next decade. Survey results are compared against overall education trends such as the growth of nontraditional students, increase in online education delivery, and the increase of for profit universities.


New Media Technology: Oppression In The Modern World, Shauna Nefos Dec 2003

New Media Technology: Oppression In The Modern World, Shauna Nefos

Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate

New media technology is now present everywhere in our society. This technology has a large impact on individuals with and without access to it. In the following paper, I will discuss issues of access and new media technology from history to present day. This is an effort to combine both of my majors - Sociology and Communications - into a work which could easily be expanded upon for graduate studies. By briefly reviewing the history of new media technology as well as historically outlining minority group oppression in the United States, correlations will be suggested between the development of technology …


Information Exchange In Personnel Selection Decisions, Jennifer Dose Mar 2003

Information Exchange In Personnel Selection Decisions, Jennifer Dose

Business Educator Scholarship

Personnel selection decisions often involve group decisions in which individual group members do not share all the available information about candidates. Serial interviews are one example of this situation. Although serial interview techniques are commonly used to select employees, the selection literature has not extensively investigated serial interviewing, especially the process of coming to a selection decision as a group at the conclusion of the process. The information exchange literature is used to shed light on this process. Results showed that groups often failed to exchange sufficient information to come to the correct decision, discussed a higher proportion of negative …