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Bridging Researchers’ Active Data Storage Needs, Matt Schultz Oct 2015

Bridging Researchers’ Active Data Storage Needs, Matt Schultz

Matt Schultz

The 2015 Midwest Data Librarian Symposium was the inaugural launch of this now widely-attended un-conference series. Attendees were encouraged to submit lightning presentations on local developments in the area of data management support from within their Libraries. This brief presentation highlighted early work undertaken to develop a checklist that my role as Metadata & Digital Curation could make use of to navigate faculty researcher questions that arise when considering where to store and maintain research data during active stages of any given sponsored research project.

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Evaluating A Linked-Courses Learning Community For Development Majors, Amber Settle, John Lalor, Theresa Steinbach Sep 2015

Evaluating A Linked-Courses Learning Community For Development Majors, Amber Settle, John Lalor, Theresa Steinbach

Amber Settle

Despite a rebound in enrollments, men of color and women remain underrepresented in computing. The literature indicates that student-student interaction and affinity for the computing major are important factors for retention of underrepresented groups in computing, and learning communities connect students with each other and faculty to improve collaboration, interaction, enthusiasm. Despite their long history and promise for addressing retention, computing-focused learning communities remain rare. Here we present an evaluation of a linked-courses learning community for men of color and women majoring in a development-focused area of computing. We measure student attitudes and affinity for their major via a survey …

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Learning To Learn: Embedding Peer Support As A Core Learning Skill At Third Level, Philip Russell Jun 2015

Learning To Learn: Embedding Peer Support As A Core Learning Skill At Third Level, Philip Russell

Philip Russell

This paper presents an overview of the Peer Learning Support Programme which has been developed by Mechanical Engineering staff and librarians at the Institute of Technology Tallaght in support of the Institute's Learning to Learn at Third Level module.

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