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A Systematic Review For Identifying Instructional Design Strategies And Principles In Extended Massive Open Online Courses (Xmoocs), Jingrui Jiang

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Extended massive open online courses (xMOOCs), which follow traditional university learning models, have become a popular platform for structured learning over the past few years. Despite this popularity, xMOOCs are generally poorly designed, which has caused dramatic drop-out rates; therefore, they require extensive revision using instructional design strategies and principles. Hence, the purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic review of empirical studies that present best practices in the instructional design of xMOOCs and inductively identify effective instructional principles with the aim of improving the effectiveness of xMOOC instruction. We used the Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, and Study …

Digital Storytelling As Community Practices By Early Childhood Teacher Candidates, Ting Yuan

Open Educational Resources

This OER course unit is designed as part of an undergraduate literacy methods course. The unit will highlight teacher candidates’ digital storytelling practices and their development of teachable lesson plans and tutorials for local primary grade classrooms.

Covid-19_Umaine News_Media Talks With Administrators, Students For Return To Campus Coverage, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

WVll (Channel 7) talked with Robert Dana, University of Maine dean of students, and John Volin, UMaine executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, in reporting on move-in day on campus, and the conclusion of the week-long celebration of student research and creativity.

The Minimum Effective Training Dose Required For 1rm Strength In Powerlifters, Patroklos Androulakis-Korakakis, Nick Michalopoulos, James P. Fisher, Justin Keogh, Jeremy P. Loenneke, Eric Helms, Milo Wolf, Greg Nuckols, James Steele

Faculty and Student Publications

The aim of this multi-experiment paper was to explore the concept of the minimum effective training dose (METD) required to increase 1-repetition-maximum (1RM) strength in powerlifting (PL) athletes. The METD refers to the least amount of training required to elicit meaningful increases in 1RM strength. A series of five studies utilising mixed methods, were conducted using PL athletes & coaches of all levels in an attempt to better understand the METD for 1RM strength. The studies of this multi-experiment paper are: an interview study with elite PL athletes and highly experienced PL coaches (n = 28), an interview and survey …

The Echo: August 30, 2021, Taylor University

2021-2022 (Volume 109)

Taylor welcomes freshmen to campus — University plans for ‘back to normal’ operations — What we wish we knew our freshman years — Student’s summer filled with French pastries, foreign policy — New friends seek new adventures together — New opinions editors value diversity of thought and opinion — Mingo talks new job, Taylor football — Taylor Athletics continues select pandemic restrictions

School Of Performing Arts Division Of Music Graduate Student Handbook, 2021, University Of Maine School Of Performing Arts, University Of Maine Graduate School

General University of Maine Publications

The central mission of the Division of Music in the School of Performing Arts is to provide for the education of undergraduate and graduate students majoring in music, as well as that of interested students from the University at large. Through the integration of academics and performance, the division furthers the knowledge and appreciation of music on campus, throughout the state, in the region, and beyond.

Eds 709 Syllabus Fall 2021, Harriet Fayne

Open Educational Resources

This is a syllabus for EDS 709, a course focused on curriculum and instruction for candidates in Childhood Special Education. Of special note is the "renewable" assignment (write a contextually sensitive decodable or read-aloud children's book that can be used in your classroom).

2021 August 30 - Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, Faculty Senate, East Tennessee State University

Faculty Senate Agendas and Minutes

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Preview : Women's Soccer At The Citadel, Georgia Southern University

Athletics News

• PREVIEW : Women's Soccer at The Citadel

Game Preview: Eagles Set To Open Season Against Gardner-Webb, Georgia Southern University

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• GAME PREVIEW: Eagles Set to Open Season Against Gardner-Webb

Men’S Basketball Signs Amar Augillard, Georgia Southern University

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• Men’s Basketball Signs Amar Augillard

Hail Southern Live Debuts Thursday Night, Georgia Southern University

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• Hail Southern Live Debuts Thursday Night

Georgia Southern Announces Kick Times For Home Football Games, Georgia Southern University

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• Georgia Southern Announces Kick Times for Home Football Games

Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week

• 1. Face coverings available for free on our campuses
• 2. COVID-19 vaccines are safe, effective, free and available on campus
• 3. Reminder signage now available for download
• 4. Reminder that mental health resources are available for employees and students
• 5. Accurate vaccine information is critical and can help stop common myths and rumors.

2021-08-30 Sga Executive Board Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Student Government Association.

Student Government Association Records

Meeting minutes of the Student Government Association Executive Board from August 30, 2021.

Integrating School Makerspaces Into The English Language Arts Curriculum, Lou Lahana

Middle Grades Review

School Makerspaces have shown great potential to foster powerful learning outcomes for students, including the enhancement of creative problem-solving abilities, the nurturing of “soft skills” such as grit and leadership, as well as deep STEAM knowledge development. Within the school context, however, little attention has been given to how Makerspaces can promote social activism. Students hold passionate views on issues, such as homelessness, e-cigarette smoking, domestic violence, plastic pollution, and street harassment. How can Makerspaces provide an environment that promotes personal learning and self-expression so that these passions take form as social activism?

This practitioner perspective details the implementation of …

Principles Of Personalized Pathways For Sustainability Education: Educate, Act, Connect, And Communicate, Don Taylor, Kevin Hunt

Middle Grades Review

Two educators describe how the model of Educate, Act, Connect, and Communicate can be utilized to address 21st century issues that concern middle grades students. The authors developed the model while using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) to address global and local issues at two different middle schools. At Main Street Middle School, where Author One teaches, students work on the Green Team to delve deeply into the scientific and social impact of decreasing the school’s waste footprint and developing a re-use, reduce, and recycle ethos at the school. At Author Two’s school, Central Middle School, students create …

Student Agency Through Negotiated Practice, Meg O’Donnell

Middle Grades Review

Using the James Beane’s democratic approach, this article describes how a middle grades team support students to choose topics within broad themes and learning pathways that suit their interests, skills, and needs as individuals. Using a series of instructional structures, the facilitators encourage students to engage in research, thoughtful discussions, courageous conversations, and carefully constructed writing processes, while also emphasizing curiosity, critical thinking, relationship development, and social activism. Within a standards-based learning environment the author walks the reader through a process which allows students to generate questions they want to investigate. Once students have generated their common questions, they review …

Using A Social Justice Lens To Connect The Past With The Present In A Personalized Learning Environment, Kyle Chadburn, Andrea Gratton

Middle Grades Review

This practitioner perspective describes how middle grades units are developed and revised in response to student needs to engage students in social justice work while maintaining a safe and respectful classroom culture. In order for students to understand the world around them, they need to develop context by studying the past. There is no better way to enable students to do this in a personalized learning environment than to explore both the past and present through the lens of social justice. Broad, thematic units, such as “Revolution,” “Race in America,” or “Societal Monsters” allow teachers to ensure that students are …

Channeling John Dewey: What Would Vermont's Philosopher Of Democracy Have To Say About Personalized Learning?, Kathleen R. Kesson Dr.

Middle Grades Review

In John Dewey’s educational framework, the process and product are inseparable; achieving democratic ends cannot result from undemocratic means. For him, the full humanization of people depended not upon externally imposed curriculum and management systems, but rather on responding to the intrinsic needs, interests, and powers of the individual to be educated. The trend in many states on personalized learning, flexible pathways, and proficiency-based assessment, provides a foundation for transforming the conventional system of education, with its standardization, testing, and grading towards Dewey’s vision of a more socially just, inclusive, and (small d) democratic system.

So, what might Dewey have …

Personalized Learning For Social Justice: From Theory To Practice, James F. Nagle, Penny Bishop

Middle Grades Review

No abstract provided.

First Things First: Black Women Situating Identity In The First-Year Faculty Experience, Nakia M. Gray-Nicolas, Angel Miles Nash

Education Faculty Articles and Research

The first year in the education professoriate is an ineluctably critical time to establish a pathway for long-term professional success mirroring a scholar’s commitment to positively influencing students, schools, and communities. For Black women, the distinguished dual marginalization that they endure based on race and gender creates challenges and opportunities during that important start to their career. Through Black feminist thought and portraiture’s intentional blurring of art, life, and scientific boundaries, two Black women tenure track faculty use their ‘pens as weapons’ to explicate the first-year professional experiences. They draw on their narratives and that of three other Black women …

Montoya's Hat Trick, Nemtsov's Brace Sends Eagles Past Bucs, 5-1, Georgia Southern University

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• Montoya's Hat Trick, Nemtsov's Brace Sends Eagles Past Bucs, 5-1

Cybersecurity Newsletter, April 2021, Ums Information Technology Services

General University of Maine Publications

No abstract provided.

Eagles Fall To No. 18 Charlotte On Sunday, Georgia Southern University

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• Eagles Fall to No. 18 Charlotte on Sunday

Understanding The Relationship Between Resources In Institutional Characteristics And Student Mobilization In Higher Education Institutions, Michael R. Carhart

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

In 2015, a national student organization called the Black Liberation Collective, composed of local student organizations at multiple institutions, initiated, led protests, and issued demands to institutions across the United States. The student organizations that mobilized occurred at institutions with more resources including higher endowments, tuition, and faculty wages. This study used cross-sectional data on 4-year public and private not-for-profit institutions from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to investigate the institutional characteristics that predict student organizations that protested. Evidence indicates that institutions that are more selective and have larger enrollment sizes with higher percentages of undergraduate Black students and …

Accreditation: Interior Design, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Interior Design Program Faculty & Staff, Accreditation Commission Of The Council For Interior Design Accreditation

Academic Program Reviews

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Preview: Women's Soccer At Charleston Southern, Georgia Southern University

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• PREVIEW: Women's Soccer at Charleston Southern

Volleyball Wins Bash In The Boro, Georgia Southern University

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• Volleyball Wins Bash in the Boro

Preview: Eagles Head To Queen City For Showdown Against No. 18 Charlotte, Georgia Southern University

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• PREVIEW: Eagles Head to Queen City for Showdown against No. 18 Charlotte