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Uncertainty Distribution of Air Infiltration Rates of Thai Detached Homes for Energy Model
Creators: name: Daranee Jareemit
Publisher: name: Thammasat Printing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: Air Infiltration,Detached Home,Ventilation Rate,Multi-zone Airflow Modeling,Energy Model

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 12, 2
สภาพแวดล้อมเชิงความร้อนฤดูร้อนและความรู้สึกสบายภายใต้ร่มเงาภายนอกอาคารและกึ่งภายนอกอาคารสำาหรับการอยู่อาศัยในเขตเมืองเชียงใหม่
Creators: name: มานัส ศรีวณิช
name: สุดารัตน์ อุทธารัตน์
Publisher: name: Thammasat Printing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: การสำารวจความรู้สึกเชิงความร้อน,ดัชนีความสบายเชิงความร้อน,อุณหภูมิสมดุลทางสรีรวิทยา,เขตอากาศร้อนชื้น,พื้นที่ภายนอกอาคารและกึ่งภายนอกอาคาร

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 12, 2
ประสิทธิภาพการเข้าถึงโครงข่ายสัญจรอย่างเป็นมิตรกับสิ่งแวดล้อมโดยทางจักรยานและทางเดินเท้าในแนวทางมหาวิทยาลัยสีเขียวมหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้ จังหวัดเชียงใหม
Creators: name: ลักษณา สัมมานิธิ
Publisher: name: Thammasat Printing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: ประสิทธิภาพการเข้าถึง,โครงข่ายสัญจร,ทางจักรยานและทางเดินเท้า,มหาวิทยาลัยสีเขียว,สเปซ ซินแทกซ

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 12, 2
แนวทางการลดผลกระทบในการพัฒนาระบบโครงข่ายไฟฟ้าด้วยการมีส่วนร่วมของประชาชน
Creators: name: ภาวิณี เอี่ยมตระกูล
name: ภูริเชษฐ์ กฤตยานุกูล
name: ทัตเทพ หนูสุข
Publisher: name: Thammasat Printing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: ระบบโครงข่ายไฟฟ้า,การมีส่วนร่วมของประชาชน,การลดผลกระทบ

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 12, 2
Triggering Processes And Star Formation In Agn: Multi-Wavelength Matters
Creators: name: Ellison, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Active Galactic Nuclei

description: AGN can be selected via an array of multi-wavelength diagnostics, spanning the X-ray and optical, to the mid-IR and radio.  Many studies of AGN and host galaxy properties focus on samples selected in only one of these domains. However, AGN selected at different wavelengths can exhibit very different properties, such that understanding the "big picture" requires a simultaneous multi-wavelength approach. In this talk, I will present a homogeneous analysis of 3 large samples of z~0 AGN, selected in the radio, mid-IR and optical in order to address the following two questions: what are the triggering mechanisms of AGN accretion, and what are the star formation rates of the host galaxies?  Thanks to the combination of multi-wavelength data, large samples, and homogeneous treatment, it is possible to distinguish different triggering mechanisms (e.g. mergers vs. secular) contributing to different AGN samples, and clearly measure differences in their relative star formation rates.
Teaching as a Creative and Learning Process
Creators: name: Nord, Julia Ann
name: Samaras, Anastasia
name: Ericson, Rebecca
name: Ikonomidou, Vasiliki
name: Rytikova, Ioulia
name: Sachs, Robert
name: Schwebach, James Reid
name: Nelson, Jill
name: Gerasimova, Dasha
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: mindfulness, evidence-based practices; reflective practice;

description: The Teaching Inquiry Group (TIG) is a team of six faculty members from STEM disciplines who are conducting research about their teaching. The group met through AY 15-16, and was mentored by an expert in self-study methodology from the Graduate School of Education. TIG meetings have focused on the self-study of interactive teaching including, self-study as a research method, developing a topic for self-study, self-study research questions, and identifying â€œcritical friends groupsâ€. The group facilitates critical reflection by maintaining an open dialogue; this enables them to think about teaching in ways that go beyond the subject area. The end-goal of the group is to improve their professional development on teaching and learning, not only for themselves, but also for the students they teach. Dissemination includes group and individual presentations at conferences, followed by write ups of the studies and publication in their respective educational research journals

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The session will include an overview of the process and then the six faculty group members will describe parts of the process that affected them greatly. Discipline fields included astronomy, bioengineering, biology, geology, information sciences and technology, and mathematics.Â  At the end of the session, participants will be aware of the importance of taking time to reflect, reframe and respond to their practice, and foster genuine educational change for themselves and their students.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
“Personalized Learning: Lessons Taken from Healthcare."
Creators: name: Brown, Steve
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: self-regulated learning; creativity; teaching online; digital pedagogy

description: Both education and healthcare are going through rapid changes in their delivery.   Adapting the concepts from the TED talk, “Health care should be a team sport”, by Eric Dishman, this presentation focuses on his bold and creative ideas in reinventing healthcare and applies them to education.  Adapting Dishman’s concepts would lead to a world of “learning anywhere; learning networking; and learning customization”, with a focused role of the responsible student at the center.   The learning technologies of today can make this a reality.


Participants can use these concepts and will be shown practical steps to integrate these strategies in to their own courses, and/or reflect upon and shape their own teaching philosophy.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Innovative Resources and Reflections on Writing Instruction at Mason
Creators: name: Polk, Tom
name: Chambers, Emily
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: student writing; pedagogy

description: Reflecting this yearâ€™s conference proposal guidelines to highlight creative and reflective learning across the disciplines, the presenters seek to reflect upon the wealth of writing instruction available at Mason.Â  Drawing on an innovative, yearlong review of Writing Intensive (WI) course syllabi by Masonâ€™s Writing Across the Curriculum program, the presenters wish to highlight their findings from evaluating 109 of the most recent WI course syllabi.Â  Further, the presenters wish to share writing assignments and syllabi from a proposed bank of the same, a digitized record of these rich resources.

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The presenters examined syllabi using Masonâ€™s Writing Across the Curriculumâ€™s course criteria, and they wish to present their main findings. This course evaluation highlights the tremendous innovation on George Masonâ€™s campus and the possibility for further conversation about writing instruction. Instructors across multiple fields will be able to re-invigorate their writing instruction using these rich resources, even if they do not teach WI courses.Â  The presenters propose that this presentation and associated resources will foreshadow future innovations in writing instruction.Â Â
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Teaching in a World of Ubiquitous Data Access
Creators: name: Ericson, Rebecca
name: Goldman, Jonathan
name: Kelly, T. Mills
name: Muir, Star
name: Reagle, Colin
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: digital generation; distance learning; contextual learning; skills acquisition

description: Todayâ€™s students are â€œdigital nativesâ€, having grown up with ready access to the internet and thus to a world of information. Do we still expect our students to memorize facts and formulae in this new era or should we be exploring new ways to prepare them for their chosen professions and to function in our participatory democracy? What should be taught â€“ dates, names, workplace skills, ways of thinking, learning skills â€“ and how? And how can we better assess that learning? A panel of four faculty members, representing the sciences, history, communication, and engineering, will discuss how their teaching and assessment methodologies have changed in response to technological advances affecting students. Our panel will also discuss the traits of the â€œdigital nativeâ€ and how their learning interactions might be different than earlier student cohorts. Effects on distance learning will also be addressed. After brief presentations by each panelist, attendees will be invited to ask questions and/or contribute to the learning process.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Other Matters: Karen Barad's Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability
Creators: name: Basile, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materialism
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Deconstruction
subject: Physics
subject: Feminist theory
subject: Science--Study and teaching
subject: Technology--Study and teaching

description: Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and other related) fields, which posits her work as an advance over the history of “representationalism” and “social constructivism.” In turn, this one-sided materialism produces a skewed reading of the quantum mechanical phenomena with which she engages. Her attempt to create an ontological (not epistemological) interpretation of quantum mechanics proves deconstructible. Instead, a science of undecidability or science of quant à helps us to understand debates among scientists and philosophers over the completeness or incompleteness of quantum mechanics and its epistemological or ontological status – by demonstrating that these questions will necessarily remain unresolved.
Cultivating Creative and Engaged Learners Through Strengths-Based Approaches
Creators: name: Lucas, Nance
name: Schwartzstein, Linda
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: active learning; experiential learning; active learning classrooms; well-being; mindfulness; digital tools; evidence-based practices; student engagement; reflective practice

description: Mason instructional faculty have the opportunity to use a Gallup self-discovery assessment, StrengthsFinder, free to Mason faculty, staff and students, that has been proven to enhance student engagement in and outside the classroom (Lopez, S. J., & Louis, M. C., 2009). Â The strengths-based educational approach and applications can be applied universally across all disciplines and fields, enhancing studentsâ€™ learning and engagement. Â Once a student understands their top 5 talents, instructors can create and use a wide variety of activities and assignments to engage the students in reflective learning.Â  This interactive session will feature best practices using strengths-based approaches and the StrengthsFinder assessment from instructional faculty in various academic colleges.Â  Participants will explore the various ways they can integrate strengths in academic courses.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Establishing a Learning Community with an Online Orientation
Creators: name: Balzano, Anne-Marie
name: Kuo, Ying-Ying
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: learning community, technology-enhanced tools, graduate student mentoring

description: Students new to distance education need to be prepared for learning in a fully online environment. While many undergraduate and graduate programs offer face-to-face orientation sessions to welcome new students and introduce them to general requirements, the sessions are often short, optional, and focus mainly on policies and procedures. Students entering a fully online degree program have a unique set of questions and concerns, including hardware/software requirements, building relationships with their professors, and creating a sense of community among their peers. Â In order to address the needs of their distance-learning students, the Education Leadership program designed a five-day interactive orientation on Blackboard for new online cohorts. This orientation module not only cultivates creative and reflective learners, but also utilizes technology-enhanced tools and strategies to establish a cohesive learning community. The orientation includes daily components such as community building activities and opportunities to practice using Blackboard features, as well as a summative, guided reflection. The EDLE online orientation was offered in 2015/2016 for two cohorts totaling 44 students. An overwhelming majority reported feeling more prepared to begin the program, comfortable with using the required technology, and engaged with their colleagues and professors. More importantly, evidence shows that students in 2015/2016 who participated in the orientation performed better in group activities and demonstrated high levels of engagement in their courses, compared to students in 2014 who did not have access to the orientation. Faculty attending this session will learn how to design an effective and innovative orientation module for an entire program or how to use the techniques illustrated in a single course setting.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Virtual Space: Palestinians Negotiate a Lost Homeland in Film
Creators: name: Nashef, Hania
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Memory--Study and teaching
subject: Middle East--Palestine
subject: Area studies
subject: Virtual reality
subject: Motion pictures

description: In his seminal study, Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation, Eyal Weizman argues how the Israeli occupation has forced a new imagined space to emerge, which is at once confining to the Palestinians and increases their sense of marginalization and loss. Changing the landscape through imposing architecture construction is a way to appropriate and erase a past. Moreover, overbearing edifices, checkpoints and enforced enclosures, culminating in the apartheid wall, have aborted any possibility of a homeland to come into being. Palestinians had to look elsewhere to keep the memory of the lost homeland alive. Film is one medium that has helped in shaping the lost homeland, albeit virtually, preserving the little that remains. In this chapter, I would like to discuss a number of films, namely by Palestinian directors Hany Abu-Assad, Suha Arraf and Elia Suleiman, who use film to allow a virtual homeland to come into being, a possible world that even though fictitious or imaginary-reconstructed is modally realistic as an unactualised possibility.
Monitoraggio dell'inquinamento organico nelle acque superficiali (Escherichia coli e coliformi fecali): affidabilità di un metodo semplificato per la Citizen Science
Creators: name: Di Grazia, Francesco
name: Gumiero, Bruna
name: Conti, A.
name: Jedrusiak, A. K.
name: Girolamini, L.
name: Mazzotta, M.
name: Loiselle, S. A.
name: Cristino, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Citizen Science Italia
Citizen Science

description: L’inquinamento microbiologico di origini antropiche (ad es. perdite scolmatori o scarichi fognari) è tra le principali cause di alterazione della qualità dei corsi d’acqua che comporta dei rischi anche per la salute umana. Escherichia coli è uno dei principali indicatori di inquinamento fecale nelle acque. Individuare i siti più contaminati è importante per la gestione del corpo idrico e per definire il suo stato di balneabilità. Considerando la loro enorme estensione, gli ecosistemi di acqua dolce richiedono una enorme quantità di dati spaziali e temporali, non sempre facili da reperire, nonostante la loro fondamentale rilevanza sociale e la complessità della loro governance. La citizen science (CS) consente la partecipazione di cittadini volontari formati alla ricerca scientifica che può svolgere un ruolo chiave nell'aumento della raccolta dati e nella partecipazione del pubblico alla gestione della risorsa idrica. Nonostante le crescenti esperienze di CS, questi approcci sono stati poco utilizzati per monitorare l’inquinamento organico. Lo scopo principale di questo progetto è stato quello di creare una collaborazione virtuosa tra cittadini, autorità locali e ricercatori al fine di analizzare l'impatto degli scolmatori fognari sulle acque dolci. Dal 2018 è stato avviato il monitoraggio dell’inquinamento microbiologico dell’acqua (E. coli e coliformi fecali). L’analisi spaziale e temporale condotta nei corsi d’acqua monitorati ha mostrato elevate concentrazioni di E. coli e coliformi fecali soprattutto durante la stagione autunnale. Abbiamo confrontando il metodo di coltura batterica standard e un metodo semplificato per la CS nel bacino del fiume Idice e sul fiume Tevere. Abbiamo validato il kit da utilizzare per le attività di CS e l'intero metodo semplificato utilizzabile dai cittadini coinvolti nelle attività di monitoraggio microbiologico per valutare l'impatto degli scolmatori sull'inquinamento fecale.
title: Placemaking and Identity: An Examination of Men-Who-Have-Sex-With-Men in Public
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: MSM
subject: Heteronormativity as contradiction
subject: Institutional heteronormativity
subject: Public space
subject: Reframing of logics

description: In the United States, public life is regulated and dominated by heteronormativity, which in turns pushes out and oppresses individuals that live non-heterosexual lives. One such marginalized group is Men-Who-Have-Sex-With-Men (MSM) who are, often, heterosexual men who engage in same-sex relations. MSM can engage in homosexual acts with one another without questioning their heterosexual identity. In this thesis, I explore this seeming contradiction by analyzing Seeker.com, a website utilized by MSM to find others with whom to engage in public sex. I offer possible explanations for these men's ability to engage non-heteronormative acts while also maintaining their position in the heterosexists public. I then show the ways MSM, through their use of public space, reframe logics passed to them through the heteronormative experience to create a counter public space. My hope is that by examining MSM's unique positionality, we may see the multitude of ways that groups and individuals reframe themselves in public places while also challenging heteronormative social spaces.
title: Letter Fluency Games
Creators: name: Gunter, Jock
Publisher: name: Center for International Education, UMass Amherst
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: literacy and math education
subject: Simple learning games

description: The Ecuador Non-Formal Education Project is a joint project of the Ministry of Education in Ecuador and the University of Massachusetts, Center for International Education, funded under the auspices of the United States Agency for International Development. Spanish version: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cie_techrpts/30/
description: Summary: Letter Fluency games are simple, inexpensive devices designed to offer practice in the component skills necessary for literacy. In this note a variety of fluency techniques are discussed.
title: Mob Violence in Prerevolutionary Norfolk, Virginia
Creators: name: Smyth, Edward A.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1975

description: This study examines mob violence in pre-Revolutionary Norfolk, Virginia. Four chronologically distinct mob incidents are considered: the Arundel riot of 1762, the Stamp Act riot of 1766, the impressment riot of 1767, and the smallpox riots of 1768-1769. Emphasis is placed on the identification of mob participants and the motives for their involvement. Quantitative methods are used to assess the degree of participation by influential Norfolk residents in mass violence.

Statistical evidence reveals that an unusually large number of rioters were influential Norfolkians. Motivation for their participation is attributed to English Parliamentary decrees and the growing economic and political influence of the Scots that threatened the security of the established Americans.
The Dust Covering Factor In Agn
Creators: name: Stalevski, Marko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Active Galactic Nuclei

description: We undertook a critical investigation of a common estimator of the dust covering factor in active galactic nuclei (AGN). The infrared radiation emitted by the obscuring dusty structure ("the dusty torus") is nothing but a reprocessed fraction of the accretion disk emission, so the ratio of their luminosities (L_torus /L_AGN) should correspond to the fraction of the AGN sky obscured by dust. Using state-of-the-art Monte Carlo radiative transfer code, we calculated a grid of spectral energy distributions (SEDs) emitted by the clumpy two-phase dusty structure. Using this grid of SEDs, we studied the relation between L_torus /L_AGN and the dust covering factor for different parameters of the torus. We found that in case of type 1 AGNs, due to the torus anisotropy, L_torus/L AGN underestimate low covering factors and overestimate high covering factors. In type 2 AGNs covering factors are always underestimated. Our results provide a novel easy-to-use method to account for anisotropy and obtain correct covering factors. Using two samples from the literature, we demonstrated the importance of these effects for inferring the obscured AGN fraction. We found that after the anisotropy is properly accounted for, the dust covering factors show very weak dependence on L_AGN, with values in the range of approx. 0.6 − 0.7. Our results suggest a higher fraction of obscured AGNs at high luminosities than those found by X-ray surveys. We discuss the possible causes of this discrepancy and demonstrate that it is partially due to the presence of a Compton-thick AGN population, which is missed by X-ray surveys, but not by infrared.
Reducing Paper Consumption at St. Mary's College of Maryland
Creators: name: Whiteis, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: St. Mary's College of Maryland -- Environmental aspects
subject: Paper -- Environmental aspects

description: In attempts to decrease resource consumption at St. Mary's College, I am trying to lessen paper usage on campus. In order to accomplish this I will be encouraging students and professors alike to use Blackboard in order to reduce printing assignments. I will also be placing signs around computers and printers encouraging students to reduce the margins on the pages they print and reminding them to print correctly the first time. Lastly, a group of students from this class will be providing a procurement plan to administration which will include purchasing double sided printers and more environmentally friendly paper.
Teaching the Beats: Ted Joans Black and Beat of a Kind and Time
Creators: name: Tsuruta, Dorothy Randall
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Political participation

description: This article in process for a book on Teaching The Beats , places Ted Joans willingly within the context of Beat Generation cultural narcissm, and the forms it takes, specifically  misogony, and racism, while himself a victim of Beat luminaries travesty and his own travesty.
Investigating Students’ Use of Lecture Videos: Learning Analytics vs. Self-Evaluation Surveys
Creators: name: Kuo, Ying-Ying
name: Luo, Judy
name: Brielmaier, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: survey study; learning analytics; learning behaviors

description: This presentation examines students’ use of lecture videos through two approaches -- (1) students’ real usages of lecture videos as collected from Blackboard, a learning management system which can track students’ activities and store every click in its backend database or in the web server log file, and (2) a self-evaluation of students’ study strategies in the course survey at the end of the semester.   This study was conducted in a fully online psychology course taught in Fall 2014, Summer 2015, and Fall 2015. The course included 76 streaming lecture videos ranging from 3.5 to 30 minutes. A comparison between these two sets of data was examined and discussed in this presentation.


The preliminary analysis revealed that most students’ study strategies reported on the survey were consistent with their real usages on the Blackboard course site.  However, survey data could not explain which lecture videos students had watched and how frequently students watched videos. Learning analytics can support instructors in understanding how students used videos, when they watched, and which videos were watched most.  The data also implied that students’ final grades and learning satisfaction associated with their usage of lecture videos.  As compared to survey data, the evidence indicated that learning analytics can give more detailed and accurate descriptions about students’ learning behaviors. This presentation will share the limitations of either method.

This presentation will benefit both undergraduate and graduate courses whose instructors plan to use surveys or learning analytics to understand their students’ learning behaviors and study strategies.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
The Role of Peer Review Activity on Graduate Student Learning Experiences
Creators: name: Gewa, Constance
name: Kuo, Ying-Ying
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: Peer review, student writing, reflective writing

description: The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate how a term paper peer review activity enhanced studentsâ€™ collaboration and promoted their critical thinking skills. This study was conducted in a fully online graduate course, which was first offered in the Summer 2014 semester. Students were required to take the course as part of the Masters of Science in Global Health and Masters of Public Health programs. The course was offered via the Blackboard platform and utilized multiple strategies to enhance student participation. The course was designed in a modular format with course activities including individual watching streaming lecture videos, discussion blogs, journal article reviews and presentations in video delivery, synchronous case study in Blackboard Collaborate sessions, and term paper writing. The term paper peer review activity was added in the Summer 2015 semester. The purpose of the peer review activity was for students to learn from your peers' feedback as they work towards completing their term paper. Expected learning outcomes for the peer review were that students would become competent in scientificÂ writing. Studentsâ€™ feedback indicated their appreciation of the support from team members. Preliminary analysis indicated that students became more reflective during the writing process and a better quality of term paper was shown in their final grades. Faculty in either undergraduate or graduate program will learn the design of peer review and how it promotes studentsâ€™ interaction and support in a group setting in online environments.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Creating the Research and Innovation Ecosystem
Creators: name: Olson, Stephanie
name: Rytikova, Ioulia
name: Winston, Thomas
name: Boicu, Mihai
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: STEM education; research experiences for undergraduates; graduate student mentoring; peer teaching; peer assessment

description: Studies have found compelling evidence indicating the importance of mentoring in promoting the development of a scholar in higher education. Often it is viewed as a relationship between professors and graduate students or junior faculty members. It also assumes professors' influence on students' development through the courses they teach. The topic has been studied thoroughly but it still raises some concerns. As practice indicates, tenure-track/tenured professorsÂ mostly teach advanced courses, and term/adjunct instructors, who generallyÂ do not have extensive research experience, focus on undergraduate education. This creates a gap in how research and teaching are viewed and approached at different levels, and may have a negative impact on studentsâ€™ success if they choose to pursue their education at a higher level.Â TheÂ Personalized Learning in Applied IT (PLAIT) laboratory offers a comprehensive approachÂ byÂ promoting a nourishing research environment in which professors (adjunct, term, tenure-track, tenured) and students at all levels are empowered in an innovative research ecosystem by participating in a wide variety of synergic research activities.Â This session gives an opportunity to PLAIT members to present their roles in the research process, describe how it helps them grow as a scholar, and discuss this replicable model.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Ted Joans in White Beat Context
Creators: name: Tsuruta, Dorothy Randall
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human rights
subject: Literature
subject: Women's studies
subject: Women--Sexual behavior
subject: Blacks--Study and teaching
subject: Beat literature

description: "Ted Joans in White Beat Context" explores Joans as a Black man escaped from souther racial atrocities to northern self- acclimation in white Beat culture-, accepting them uncritically as the fit worked for him--his own narcism and the forms it took--, even as he was never embraced as an equal among the luminaries..
Re-Imagine Texts, Highlight Identity
Creators: name: Hudson, Seth Andrew
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: student writing, digital story, creativity

description: Discussing the topic through experiences in the game writing and narrative design classroom, this talk addresses the effectiveness of incorporating multimedia projects into the revision process.Â  Seeking revision techniques that embraced the best practices of the writing classroom while attempting to extend the work outside of class, the speaker augmented a traditional assignment with an audiovisual revision introduced after an initial text draft.Â  Challenging students to re-imagine alphabetical texts as digital stories requires reflection to express their ideas in novel ways that engage a specific audience.Â  The digital story revision also encourages students to highlight their individual personalities through their choices in voice and content delivery beyondÂ the traditional syntax and tone of writing. Regardless of the specific content, students can more easily disseminate their work via video hosting sites and social media AND potential employers via a web portfolio.Â  Additionally, this practice allows for a more practical and meaningful alternative to classroom presentations while developing skills in familiar software. The speaker will present a practical framework for implementing this technique into a course, how to avoid various pitfalls, and highlight some student successes.

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Takeaway: Instructors will find that this method is equally useful in online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses; utilizes technology familiar to almost all faculty and student; allows students to be creative and imaginative in addressing any topic; and provides skills that will help students and faculty in almost any future venture in the classroom.
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Using Quizzes to Improve Exam Scores
Creators: name: McElroy, Patrick
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: This session will begin with an overview of the testing effect, i.e., the phenomena of retrieval having a positive effect on long-term memory, the testing effect has been demonstrated in a variety of different classroom settings across a range of disciplines. Multiple studies have found that quizzing generally improves long-term retention, and this effect can be enhanced by different quiz formats. Specifically, fill-in-the-blank quizzes result in higher multiple-choice exam scores than multiple-choice quizzes on the same material (examples include McDaniel, Anderson, Derbish, and Morrissette, 2007; Birenbaum, 2007; and Roediger & Marsh, 2005). We will then report on research weâ€™ve conducted at George Mason University on the effect of an intermediate quiz type â€“ fill-in with word bank. The session will continue with a discussion of possible new directions for the current study. The session will conclude with a discussion of the ways instructors from multiple disciplines can incorporate quizzes into their own classes to help their students retain and recall information more effectively.

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Birenbaum, M. (2007). Assessment and instruction preferences and their relationship with test anxiety and learning strategies. Higher Education, 53(6), 749-768.

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McDaniel, M.A., Anderson, J.L., Derbish, M.H., & Morrisette, N. (2007). Testing the testing effect in the classroom. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 19(405), 494-513.

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Roediger III, H.L., & Marsh, E.J. (2005). The Positive and Negative Consequences of Multiple-Choice Testing. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 31(5), 1155-1159.

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description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
title: How Deep Is Blood
Creators: name: Covalcine, Todd
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Coming of age
subject: Ohio River
subject: Clay Bell
subject: Cincinnati
subject: 1935

description: Set along the Ohio River in the mid-1930’s, this short novel concerns itself with Clay Bell and his family as they lose their mother, their father, and ultimately the family farm to acts of God and human folly.
Teaching and Collaborating via Video Conference
Creators: name: Sanders, Christina
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: Our office manages videoconference and TelePresence technology for George Mason University as well as several options for desktop conferencing that are interoperable with our room systems. Currently we are using these different technologies as a means for teaching courses collaboratively with other universities both nationally and internationally, for students who are located across the different Mason campuses, for faculty who are living abroad, and research collaboration with external entities.

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  CVT would like to host a compact session and participate in the poster session. We would explain the technology, how it is being used at Mason to advance opportunities for our faculty and students and have a faculty member present to discuss their experience.

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  This technology is an excellent tool in Masonâ€™s mission to be a â€œuniversity for the world.â€ Our technology affords the faculty and students a creative solution to connect with institutions and organizations on a global level and collaborate in ways they were not previously able to.Â

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description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Expanding the non-Took-side in Bilbo, for victory, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit
Creators: name: McEvoy-Halston, Patrick
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
subject: Literature--Study and teaching
subject: Fantasy literature

description: I think the thing that must seem most curious about this adventure to slay a dragon and reclaim a homeland and its treasure, is how the hell could adding a burglar be adding the decisive factor?  What's the trick?  For there must be one, since the dragon has only gotten larger and more deadly as the years have gone by.  Peter Jackson changes things so that a burglar is needed because someone small and stealthy needs to enter Smaug’s lair to perhaps snatch one especially bright, one especially brilliant jewel—the Arkenstone—ostensibly readily noticeable even given its being accompanied by countless lesser delights.  With that stone Thorin will earn control over seven kingdoms of dwarves, and with their might the dragon would finally look to be overmatched.  In the book, it develops into a situation where, regarding the fighting and the killing the dragon, they decide that a frontal attack of just themselves is their best bet, even as they agree that even the best armor hasn't a chance against Smaug.
Learning Through Teaching: An Online Setting
Creators: name: Zoltek, Stanley
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: teaching online; active learning; student engagement; peer teaching;

description: A powerful way for students to master a subject is to engage them in teaching it to someone. This is especially true for mastering concepts in mathematics. In a traditional classroom we can give markers to students and send them to the whiteboard to solve problems. In an online course the electronic whiteboard is not quite as friendly. Though recent innovations make it possible to "write mathematics" on the online electronic whiteboard, the process is quite time-consuming.
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In our online pre-calculus course we supply a student with a PDF file containing the solution to a problem and ask the student to create a YouTube video in which they play the role of instructor. They are required to explain the steps involved in solving the problem and why each particular step "makes sense." We then provide a critique of their video and require them, if needed, to supply a revised video. The revised videos are made available online for the entire class.
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In our poster session we present three student videos, the corresponding instructor feedback, and the revised videos.
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description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Course Management Strategies for First Time Online Instructors
Creators: name: Biggs, Regina
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: online learning; teacher presence; student engagement

description: The presentation examines the practice of teacher presence from studentsâ€™ perspectives.Â  It is based upon a comparison of student feedback from the first and second fully online deliveries of a required course entitled, Education Law.Â  While a review of the literature reveals that teacher presence is created through degrees of active engagement, instructors new to online teaching may misinterpret learnersâ€™ perceptions of what constitutes an acceptable degree of presence. Student feedback, from the first delivery, suggested the expectation for teacher presence was higher because the course design featured a number of collaborative, project based learning activities. Instructional planning that gives balanced attention to content mastery and course management by reframing the functions of the instructorâ€™s role will assure that learnersâ€™ enthusiasm and engagement are not casualties of the context. A review of the course evaluations from the Summer 2015 semester revealed that an intentional contemplation of communication variables including timing, interpersonal and inter-group messaging must be purposefully planned to minimize the potential for confusion.Â  This suggests changes for the Summer 2016 semester, including the use of proactive course management strategies to increase student satisfaction, facilitate the display of metacognition, and extend creative problem solving skills to authentic applications.Â  Faculty will learn about how the initiation of these changes in course management impact studentsâ€™ perceptions of teacher presence.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Using Predictive Analytics in Teaching and Advising:  Promising Practices and Practical Considerations
Creators: name: Klein, Carrie
name: Lester, Jaime
name: Rangwala, Huzefa
name: Johri, Aditya
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: learning analytics; educational big data; education technolog tools; instructional design; learning analytics; educational big data; digital tools; pedagogy; assessment;

description: Higher education institutions are facing increasing pressure to provide evidence of student learning; teaching pedagogical best practices are moving to an increasingly individualized and student-focused learning model; and innovative technologies are allowing for greater mining of student data. Within this environment, learning and advising management systems, based on educational big data, or learning analytics, are being developed to better measure, analyze, report and predict data related to student learning, retention and completion. These learning analytics-informed systems have the potential to generate new insight into courses and student learning by creating responsive feedback mechanisms that can shape data-informed decision making as it relates to teaching, learning and advising. Despite the benefits of using learning analytics-informed learning and advising management systems, there are barriers and challenges related to broad adoption and use of innovations like these systems in higher education.

In the summer of 2015, we conducted an instrumental case study to learn more about the technological, institutional, and individual factors related to adoption and use of learning analytics-informed educational technology tools on campus.Â  In this short lightning talk, we will present the findings from the studyâ€™s focus group interviews and observations.Â  Further, we will share promising practices and practical considerations related to use of learning analytics tools to measure and predict academic performance.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
Positive Student Response to Engaging Lecture Videos with Embedded Activities Implemented in Hybrid Online Course, Biostatistics for Biology Majors
Creators: name: Kester, Marieke Elise
Publisher: name: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings
Year: 2016
Subjects: online course development; hybrid courses; student engagement; active learning; teaching online; STEM education; education technology; distance learning; lecture videos

description: Lecture videos were developed for use in a hybrid online section of Biostatistics for Biology Majors (BIOL214-DL) piloted during the spring 2016 semester. Lecture videos were based on recordings of the face-to-face lecture course completed with the help of GMU TV in a classroom fitted with 5 cameras including one on the document camera to record course materials. During fall 2015, 22 class sessions were recorded. Video editing software was used to cut original 75 minute videos into shorter chunks by topic. Activities were added as still PowerPoint slides to present the activity, followed by a slide reading â€œDid you really try the activityâ€ followed by a video explanation of the correct answer. Final videos were on average 13.5 Â± 0.73 (SEM) minutes and ranged from 3 to 21 minutes. Videos had an average of 2.62 Â± 0.27 (SEM) activities. In a mid-term assessment completed by 18 students, 44% â€œStrongly agreedâ€ that the embedded activities helped them learn class material, 44% â€œAgreedâ€ and the other 11% responded â€œNeither Agree nor Disagreeâ€. Sixty one percent of students ranked lecture activities in the top two â€œaspects of the course that are helpful to your learningâ€. Current challenges of embedding lecture video activities will be discussed along with future solutions offered by Kaltura media.
description: Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings, Vol 8 (2016): Cultivating Creative and Reflective Learners
title: Unpacking Twaweza's Theory of Social Change: Citizen Agency, Information, Accountability, and Basic Services
Creators: name: Miller, Ethan
name: Hartwell, Ash
name: Rossman, Gretchen
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
subject: International and Comparative Education

description: Any reference to or quotation from this document must include the following citation: Miller, E., Hartwell, A. S., & Rossman, G. B. (2010). Unpacking Twaweza’s Theory of Social Change: Citizen Agency, Information, Accountability, and Basic Services: Critical Issues and Questions. Amherst, MA: Center for International Education. Contact author: Gretchen B. Rossman, gretchen@educ.umass.edu. This document was supported through the Twaweza Monitoring & Evaluation contract between the Center for International Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Twaweza/Hivos Foundation, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The ideas within are the authors; no official endorsement should be inferred.
description: The purpose of this paper is to define the key concepts – and links between them – of Twaweza’s Theory of Social Change. These are the notions of citizen-driven change, citizen agency, information, monitoring and accountability, and basic services. The analysis shows ambiguities and, at times, conflicting working definitions in Twaweza’s use of these terms in its major public documents. We then integrate relevant scholarship to elaborate these central ideas and to pose questions that Twaweza may engage with in the spirit of its claims to be a “learning organization.”
Qun xian yao yu zuan ji [volume 04]
群仙要語纂集 [第四冊]
Creators: name: Dong, Hanchun
name: 董漢醇
Publisher: name: [China] : Heng'an
Year: 2017

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Edition: [Ke ben]
Robust Transitivity in Hamiltonian Dynamics
Creators: name: Nassiri, Meysam
name: Pujals, Enrique R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37D30, 37J40 (Primary) 53Dxx, 70Fxx, 70Hxx (Secondary)

description: A goal of this work is to study the dynamics in the complement of KAM tori with focus on non-local robust transitivity. We introduce $C^r$ open sets ($r=1, 2, ..., \infty$) of symplectic diffeomorphisms and Hamiltonian systems, exhibiting "large" robustly transitive sets. We show that the $C^\infty$ closure of such open sets contains a variety of systems, including so-called a priori unstable integrable systems. In addition, the existence of ergodic measures with large support is obtained for all those systems. A main ingredient of the proof is a combination of studying minimal dynamics of symplectic iterated function systems and a new tool in Hamiltonian dynamics which we call symplectic blender.
description: 52 pages, 3 figures