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A South Carolinian Collegiate Guide For Applying To Military Officer Candidate School, Austin Hood

Senior Theses

The purpose of this guide is to help individuals who are interested in careers as officers in the U.S. military through acceptance and completion of Officer Candidate School for each of the respective branches of the military.

Specifically, this guide is designed for individuals who:

•Attend college or university in the state of South Carolina •Are set to graduate within 1-2 years •Have a strong interest in a challenging but rewarding career

Content Curation: Academic Outreach Opportunities Beyond The Institutional Repository, Crystal L. Renfro

Crystal L Renfro

Academic librarians and Archivists have been active ly involved with Data Curation and Digital Curation activities for many years, and institutional repositories for academic scholarship are well established.

Content Curation, on the other hand, serves a very different purpose in the academic research process, providing a way to create new value and organization from the current influx of information from the myrad of sources available to the contemporary researcher today. Join the author of the popular website Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians as she presents techniques and applications offering new avenues of scholarship and community building for research …

This Is How We Video It: Creating, Finding, And Implementing Videos In F2f, Online, And Hybrid Classes, Kim Read

Kim Read

Knowledge Mapping Tools: Visualizing Research, Crystal L. Renfro, Elisabeth Shields

Crystal L Renfro

Natural Gardening, Lisa Karen Miller

DLPS Faculty Publications

This presentation features methods of natural and organic gardening that preclude the use of harmful pesticides and herbicides.

Postgraduate Student Experience [Powerpoint Slides], Shelley Kinash

Professor Shelley Kinash

Simulations In Prisons, Kim Read

Kim Read

Stem Education Research: Useful Ideas For College Instructors Using Ballooning, Stacy A. Wenzel

2017 Academic High Altitude Conference

Stratospheric ballooning is a tool of enormous promise to help STEM college faculty foster highly engaged learning of science for a wide range of students at a wide range of institutions. High altitude ballooning offers a platform for investigating science and engineering across many fields. Ballooning has been used in courses and experiences for not just undergraduate science majors, but also all undergraduates—including future teachers who, in turn, are the key to improving K-12 science education. Technological advances are lowering the cost of and expertise levels required to make launches and analyze data.

Ballooning offers a context within which faculty …

Introducing Undergraduates To Open Access And The Power Of Collaboration Between Scholarly Communications And Instruction Librarians, Kristin Laughtin-Dunker, Annie Knight

Library Presentations, Posters, and Audiovisual Materials

Undergraduates are often left out of conversations surrounding open access. While they may not share the same concerns about publishing and prestige as faculty and graduate students, they do consume vast amounts of information, and thus can benefit just as much as those farther in their academic careers by knowing how to find, evaluate, and use open access resources. This presentation highlights a successful collaboration between the presenters in their respective roles as scholarly communications librarian and course developer to create and implement curriculum for a 3-unit information literacy course to teach undergraduate students about open access principles. Once the …

Meeting Patrons At The Point Of Need: Envisioning A Just-In-Time Repository For Oregon Libraries, Kim Read, Lori Wamsley

Kim Read

Speed Dating In History: Fostering Critical Thinking, Patricia L. Rieman

Patricia L Rieman

When students role-play, their learning is personalized (Joyce & Calhoun, 2014). Add the challenge of finding compatible partners, and students are fully engaged as they infer the connections between themselves and their “dates”. Mix in the final element of limiting the opportunity to interact with potentially compatible partners, and students must quickly determine importance, synthesize, and then verbalize the details of their personas. Additionally, students must analyze their partner’s message to identify connections to their own, infer hidden identities, and describe their cognitive processes. In this session on using speed-dating to teach history, all of these actions come together to …

The Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst: Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks, Charlotte Roh

Charlotte Roh

As part of Open Education Week, this presentation was part of a panel of practical examples of open education in action. It includes an overview of the Open Education Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as some of the expected and unexpected consequences. Open Ed Forum: Opening Minds, Sharing Knowledge

Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons Licensing, Charlotte Roh

Charlotte Roh

These are slides from a workshop on copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons licensing for the Open Ed Forum at UMass Boston. It is an introducton to these concepts for the higher education environment.

The Folklore Of Herbs, Lisa Karen Miller

DLPS Faculty Publications

Take a walk through the herb gardens of history and find out what our ancestors knew (and thought they knew) about herbs and their uses for medicine, beauty, and even love. The presentation compares ancient beliefs to current scientific evidence and reveals the places where they intersect.

Online Tutorials: Design, Development, And Pedagogy, Kim Read

Kim Read

No abstract provided.

What's In Your Institutional Repository?, Frances Rice, Nichole M. Rustad

Frances E. Rice

This session focuses on digital collections at the University of Dayton Libraries and how it has evolved from using a stand-alone digital asset management system (CONTENTdm) to a flexible, robust, open-access institutional repository solution hosted by Berkley Electronic Press (Bepress). We share our trials and errors from our first digitization initiatives that began in 2006, to the launch of our first digital collection using CONTENTdm in 2010, to the implementation of our IR, eCommons, in 2013. We demonstrate how we have transformed our IR into a digital platform that not only features faculty scholarship, but also highlights our special collections. …

Kouzes_Posner_Model The Way 1.Pptx, Rachel Flick, Jamie Baringer, Pierre Banks, Diane Conway, D. Christopher Scott

Rachel Flick