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One Size Does Not Fit All: Making Open Textbooks More Accessible, Judy Schmitt
One Size Does Not Fit All: Making Open Textbooks More Accessible, Judy Schmitt
Library Faculty Works
Presented at the 2021 Missouri A&OER Symposium
Oer Design: Creating Functional And Attractive Open Textbooks, Judy Schmitt
Oer Design: Creating Functional And Attractive Open Textbooks, Judy Schmitt
Library Faculty Works
Presented at the 2021 Missouri A&OER Symposium
Oer Design (Old), Judy Schmitt
Oer Design (Old), Judy Schmitt
Library Faculty Works
Full title: OER Design: Creating Functional Open Textbooks (That Don't Make Your Students' Eyes Bleed). CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
Creating Art Patterns With Math And Code, Boyan Kostadinov
Creating Art Patterns With Math And Code, Boyan Kostadinov
Publications and Research
The goal of this talk is to showcase some visualization projects that we developed for a 3-day Code in R summer program, designed to inspire the creative side of our STEM students by engaging them with computational projects that we developed with the purpose of mixing calculus level math and code to create complex geometric patterns. One of the goals of this program was to attract more minority and female students into applied math and computer science majors.
The projects are designed to be implemented using the high-level, open-source and free computational environment R, a popular software in industry for …
Teaching To Increase Diversity And Equity: Scholarship And Practice, Elizabeth Mccormack, Jennifer Spohrer, Esther Chiang, Jancy Munguia
Teaching To Increase Diversity And Equity: Scholarship And Practice, Elizabeth Mccormack, Jennifer Spohrer, Esther Chiang, Jancy Munguia
Blended Learning Research and Open Educational Resources
As our classrooms become more culturally and experientially diverse, what can we on our campuses do to ensure that all students have the opportunity to succeed? Many professional development opportunities aimed at helping faculty enhance their teaching practices often overlook the role of cultural competence in teaching and learning and fail to effectively integrate cultural sensitivity with high impact pedagogies. Factors such as race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status can have a significant impact on a student’s educational experiences. There is a growing body of research that identifies such issues and describes tested strategies for helping both faculty and students overcome …
Introductory Courses, Student Ethos, And Living The Life Of The Mind, Marshall W. Gregory
Introductory Courses, Student Ethos, And Living The Life Of The Mind, Marshall W. Gregory
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
In considering how curriculum and teaching influence education, it is revealing to note that most faculty members treat curriculum the way bankers treat investments. They generally spend much time, planning, and careful thought on curricular matters--reasoning here, analyzing there, relying on experience, and carefully considering both the long-term and short-term dividends of knowledge--but when it comes to teaching, many faculty members operate less like bankers and more like barnstormers, flying by the seat of their pants and guiding themselves primarily by instinct or by repeating whatever worked yesterday. Few teachers feel that they have either the intellectual or professional grasp …
Counselor Impact On College Choice, Charles G. Eberly, Richard G. Johnson, Norman R. Stewart
Counselor Impact On College Choice, Charles G. Eberly, Richard G. Johnson, Norman R. Stewart
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
Determines the school counselors' impact on students' college choice. Design of questionnaire used in the survey; Distribution of time when students planned for college education; Mean ratings of college choice factors by sex and race.