ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Mobile Device Intervention for Student Support Services in Distance Education Context--FRAME Model Perspective
Author: Kumar, Lalita S.
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Intervention,Distance Education,Medicine,Teaching Methods,Academic Support Services,Handheld Devices,Learning Processes,Foreign Countries,Questionnaires,Interviews,Medical Education,Models,Student Experience,Student Attitudes,Opinions,Participant Satisfaction,Program Effectiveness

This paper reports the findings of a study conducted to analyse the effect of mobile device intervention for student support services and to gauge its use for enhancing teaching--learning process as a future study in the context of offer of Distance Education programmes. The study was conducted with the learners of the coveted Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Cardiology programme of Indira Gandhi National Open University. In order to illustrate the issues involved primarily in student support services and the mobile learning as a future course of action, it is proposed to apply the Koole's FRAME model. Questionnaire and interview methods are used to obtain a feedback. The findings are discussed and future direction of study is also indicated. (Contains 2 figures and 4 tables.)
Methodology for Design of Web-Based Laparoscopy e-Training System
Author: Borissova, Daniela
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Internet,Student Costs,Web Based Instruction,Surgery,Technological Advancement,Virtual Classrooms,Simulated Environment,Information Technology,Computer Mediated Communication,Electronic Learning,Information Systems,Computer Software,Instructional Design,Medical Education

The Web-based e-learning can benefit from the modern multimedia tools combined with network capabilities to overcome traditional education. The objective of this paper is focused on e-training system development to improve performance of theoretical knowledge and providing ample opportunity for practical attainment of manual skills in virtual environment. A conceptual design Web-based medical information system including an e-training methodology and a model of content relations is described. The system helps the practitioners to keep up to date with the latest scientific breakthroughs and state-of-the-art laparoscopy techniques. The developed prototype of Web-based medical information system for laparoscopy e-training is illustrated. (Contains 4 figures.)
Private Cost of Education: A Comparative Study of Distance and Campus-Based University Students in Nigeria
Author: Olakulehin, Felix K.
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Distance Education,Conventional Instruction,Comparative Analysis,College Students,Open Universities,Statistical Analysis,Computer Science,English Curriculum,Student Costs,Higher Education,Cost Effectiveness

This paper examines the comparative private costs of distance and conventional (classroom-based) university students in Nigeria. A total of 200 subjects comprising students registered for the B.Sc. Computer Science and B.A. English Studies programmes at the University of Lagos, Nigeria and the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) were randomly selected as samples for this study. Structured oral interview was also used to collect information from tutors and facilitators as well as counsellors at the NOUN study centres. Two hypotheses were drawn from the statement of the problem using  simple percentage statistical analysis to determine whether or not there are private costs borne by higher education students in Nigeria. The study sought to establish which of the two modes of education demands a higher or lesser private investment from students in participating in higher education. Findings reveal that significant private costs  learners generally incur both at the pre-entry as well as during the course of their studies for higher education in Nigeria generally. It was also found that the private costs for students studying through education via the distance learning mode (like NOUN) were significantly lower than those involved in pursuing university education via the conventional education mode such as the University of Lagos. The paper concludes by advocating for greater emphasis on open and distance learning methods for university education and training in Nigeria and other developing countries. It also recommends that funding agencies and scholarship granting organizations would reach a larger number of interested grantees by exploring the distance learning approach, whose costs are generally lower and which requires a much lower private contribution from learners. (Contains 4 tables.)
Music to the Ears: Orchestrating Successful Leadership Change
Author: Loy, Darcy
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Leadership,Administrative Change,Facilities Management,Planning,Personnel Selection,Organizational Communication

In music, transition can be "a progression from one key to another in a piece of music." Michael Watkins, author of "The First 90 Days" states, "Transitions are periods of opportunity, a chance to start afresh and to make needed changes in an organization." For those who are in the facilities world, transition can often refer to a change of leadership; which more often than not results in a change in vision, perspective, leadership styles, and practices. Not all perceive leadership transition in a positive light. Some team members view the prospect of change as being a negative and daunting concept and would rather change not take place. As effective facilities leaders it is their responsibility to provide their employees, as well as the incoming leader, with the information and support necessary for a successful leadership change. They need to communicate the whys, whos, and whats of the change. Communicating vital information and answering the many questions that will arise are imperative to successful leadership transition. (Contains 5 notes.)
Defining Leadership When You Are the New Leader
Author: Klumas, Lawrence J.
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Leadership,Goal Orientation,Supervision,Facilities Management,Trust (Psychology),Leadership Role

Too often a facilities organization lacks leadership. There are many reasons, but most of these involve the person in charge--the director, or another office above the organization, or those who hire the foregoing. Too often they are qualified technically or professionally in some specific area, but they lack the primary ingredients, experience and vision! Leadership means knowing who you are (the experience component) and where you are going and how to get there (the vision component). It is important to give coworkers something to remember immediately. The authors have developed an answer to the question of "What is it coworkers would like to hear?" Simply put, they want direction. That direction has three components: (1) who they are; (2) where they are going; and (3) how they are going to get there. In this article, the authors explain these three components. These three areas establish credibility and begin the building of trust, the binding ingredient of leadership. Leadership prepares and guides performance on the stage where the individual and organization can succeed.
Utilizing Interns in Facilities Management
Author: Judkins, Clarissa
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Personnel Selection,Facilities Management,Ethics,Standards,Employment Interviews,Leadership,Internship Programs,Supervision,Undergraduate Study

Facilities management is rapidly changing and developing from a position an individual stumbles into--or work one's way up through--to a discipline and vocation all of its own. There is a need for a collaborative strategy among leaders in practice, education, and research to share knowledge and experience and to establish professional and ethical standards. In organizations, this involves developing systems and developing people--to nurture leaders, improve quality, and develop the knowledge and skills base--to secure the future. As the number of retirees continues to increase and budgets continue to decrease, many facility managers are looking for ways to optimize their staff without losing quality or production. One recommended solution is to hire an intern. While hiring an intern offers many benefits to a company, it also brings responsibility and a commitment on the part of the organization. Student internships provide the student with significant professional opportunities to hone skills and to develop an understanding and appreciation for organizational culture. This article describes the process of hiring and utilizing interns in facilities management. (Contains 1 figure.)
Critical Community Building: Beyond Belonging
Author: Bettez, Silvia Cristina
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Justice,Critical Theory,Listening Skills,Communities of Practice,Group Discussion,Critical Thinking,Change Strategies,Nonverbal Communication,Reflection,Community,Cultural Differences,Context Effect,Accountability

In this paper, the author talks about community building and the power of active listening. Active listening is a particular kind of listening that requires conscious effort; it is a type of listening that some rarely practice and sometimes is virtually absent from classroom interactions. Thus active listening itself may be deceptively simple until one considers what it entails. The author focuses on these four goals: (1) to encourage one to think of the time one has as an opportunity for community building; (2) to disrupt conventional notions of building community and introduce the concept of critical community building by highlighting various definitions of community; (3) to provide strategies for building critical communities; and (4) to inspire people to continue discussions about community building and ideally take actions toward building critical communities in their lives. The author argues that it is important for social justice educators to promote "critical" communities. The term critical is derived from progressive forms of critical theory. She contends that critical communities are essential to sustaining social justice efforts. (Contains 10 notes.)
Connecting Social Disorganization Theory to African-American Outcomes to Explain the Achievement Gap
Author: Madyun, Na'im H.
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Achievement Gap,African Americans,Social Theories,Racial Differences,Educational History,Poverty,At Risk Students,Violence,Crime,Social Influences,Neighborhoods,Family Structure,Racial Composition,Dropout Rate,Family Influence,Peer Influence,Academic Achievement

African-American student achievement outcomes have been and continue to be a critical concern for education researchers. Much of the framing of African-American student outcomes centers on what is known as achievement gaps that exist between African-American and White students. Unfortunately, these gaps have remained roughly the same since the 1950s (Roach, 2001) due, partly, to a lack of attention to what Milner (2007) called "unseen dangers" in education research. Unseen dangers, according to Milner are those implicit, hidden, and oftentimes not properly identified factors that are essential to understand when researchers study populations of color and problems that they face such as issues around the achievement gap and outcomes of African Americans. Social disorganization theory, a theory developed in the sociological and criminology literature, can help education researchers address important unseen dangers in studying African-American outcomes and achievement gaps. In this article, the author addresses the following question: How can social disorganization theory explain African-American outcomes and the Achievement Gap by uncovering unseen dangers? Before explaining how social disorganization theory can assist researchers in explaining African-American outcomes and achievement in education, the author addresses what he means by the achievement gap and provides an argument for its existence. This will make clearer both the areas for both potential dangers for education researchers and applications of social disorganization theory towards uncovering those dangers.
Are the Walls of Injustice Tumbling Down?
Author: Peterson, Rochelle R.
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Multicultural Education,Civil Rights,Foundations of Education,Theory Practice Relationship,Educational Change,Cultural Pluralism,Social Justice,Social Change,Teacher Education Programs,Racial Bias,Consciousness Raising,Cultural Awareness,Teacher Competencies

The discussion of multicultural education in teacher preparation dates back several decades. "The historical roots of multicultural education lie in the civil rights movements of various historically oppressed groups" (Gorski, 1999, p.1). As communities of color resisted institutional racism, schools became one of the sites of struggle. Thus, the concept of multicultural education is a response rooted in reforming education for liberation. However, according to Nieto and Bode (2008) many courses are not translating into culturally competent teaching. Although the authors believe it is very complex to find the "magic" in providing teachers and pre-service teachers with the tools to engage in multicultural education as practice, they do believe that they can offer a piece in the mosaic that may bring one a step closer to producing culturally competent teachers. Just like most reform ideas in education, multicultural education is defined differently from one city or town to the next, from one school to the next, and even from one teacher to the next. The authors aim to provide a glimpse into some of the classrooms and future classrooms by highlighting the learning experiences of teachers and future teachers. They focus on their teaching and learning experience from one specific course that they teach at the same university. Both of them teach a graduate level foundations course entitled "Cultural Foundations of Education," offered in a department of education. Although they teach the course separately, they collaborate on the planning of the course and have reflected together on their experiences teaching this course. They draw on student discussion and assignments from the Spring of 2007 through the Spring of 2009 to highlight the students' experiences and to exemplify the connection between theory and practice.
Bridging the Gap of Teacher Education about Child Abuse
Author: Sinanan, Allison N.
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Financial Problems,Substance Abuse,Family Violence,Child Abuse,Teacher Responsibility,Teacher Role,Individual Characteristics,Family Characteristics,Age Differences,Gender Differences,Disabilities,Housing,Income,At Risk Students,Racial Differences

School personnel, particularly educators and school psychologists, are a first line of defense in protecting children from abuse. Teachers play an important role in the detection and reporting of child abuse. The relationship established between teachers and their students can facilitate the identification of child abuse. By virtue of their work, they have ongoing contact with children, thus placing them in a unique position to detect signs of child abuse. While school professionals are in a unique position to identify and report child abuse, much of the current literature indicates that school personnel, particularly educators, seriously underreport suspected cases of child maltreatment. This study was designed to examine which child characteristics (i.e., gender, age, race, prior victim of abuse, and disability) and which family risk factors (i.e., domestic violence, inadequate housing, financial problems, and substance abuse) are related to physical abuse reporting of educational personnel. The significance of this research is its focus on teachers, a large profession of mandated reporters, who report a large percentage of cases known to CPS, but who have had a problematic relationship with CPS. The unique contribution of this study was its efforts to understand child physical abuse recurrence by cases with index reports of physical abuse and adding the interaction term of type of reporters with all of the hypothesized predictors. Implications for teacher preparation, practice, and future research are presented. (Contains 1 table.)
What Research Administrators Need to Know about Researcher Development: Towards a New Conceptual Model
Author: Evans, Linda
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Research Administration,Researchers,Professional Development,Intellectual Development,Behavior,Attitudes,Change,Models

Located within the recently emerged field of researcher development, this article represents an attempt to make a key theoretical contribution to its knowledge base through a conceptual analysis. It presents as propositional knowledge an original theoretical model of the componential structure of researcher development, as interpreted and defined stipulatively by the author. Three key components are identified: behavioural development, attitudinal development, and intellectual development. Each of these is further deconstructed to reveal its sub-components, of which eleven in total are identified, including: processual change; perceptual change; analytical change; and comprehensive change. Drawing upon examples of qualitative data found in the literature, as well as her own experience, the author demonstrates the model's potential as an analytical framework for enhancing our understanding of what researcher development is and how it occurs. This knowledge is invaluable to university research administrators. In particular, it is important that research administrators recognise the width of researcher development: much more than changing observable behaviour and increasing productivity and output, it also involves changing viewpoints, mindsets and perceptions, and increasing intellectual capacity. (Contains 2 figures.)
Towards Sustainable Research Capacity Development and Research Ownership for Academic Institutes in Developing Countries: The Malawian Research Support Centre Model
Author: Gomo, Exnevia
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Developing Nations,Foreign Countries,Developed Nations,Employment Opportunities,Brain Drain,Capacity Building,Scientific Research,Models,Standards,Income,Training,Sustainability,Research Administration,Universities

In lesser-developed African countries, the lack of institutionalised support for research, combined with limited career opportunities and poor remuneration, have contributed to weak research infrastructure and capacity, and a continuing brain drain to developed countries. Malawi's Research Support Centre (RSC) model is novel in that it provides a comprehensive framework for capacity building that includes the traditional components of individual skills building while developing institutional capacity to support and stimulate the research enterprise. The model also features a strong emphasis on developing a culture for sustained good research practice through adopting international research standards. Further, the RSC provides a strong element of self reliance through continued training and income generation, thus ensuring sustainability of activities. The Malawi experience suggests that the model is achieving its intended goal of sustainable research capacity development, and may be applicable to other developing countries with similar challenges. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)
Case Study: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior as Interventions to Increase Sponsored Project Proposal Submissions from Liberal Arts Faculty
Author: Hartmann, Anita
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Program Proposals,Research Administration,College Faculty,Liberal Arts,Behavior Theories,Behavior Modification,Case Studies

In the current economic climate, many colleges and universities face similar challenges: the need to increase external sponsorship for research activities and the need to benefit from additional indirect cost recovery. Preparing funding proposals for submission to sponsors is a faculty behavior that can be modified by applying behavioral theory to develop and institute interventions for shaping the desired behavior. The Theory of Planned Behavior readily lends itself to research management methods and techniques that target critical factors influencing intentional behavior. This case study explains the theoretical rationale for the behavioral interventions instituted, describes the measures and methods, and reports on the successes achieved over 10 years. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.)
Conscious Efforts to End Unconscious Bias: Why Women Leave Academic Research
Author: Easterly, Debra M.
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Gender Discrimination,STEM Education,Biological Sciences,Information Science,Computer Science,Engineering,Earth Science,Mathematics,Physical Sciences,Women Faculty,Females,College Faculty,Career Development,Competition,Writing for Publication,Tenure,Evaluation Methods,Research Administration,Research,Gender Bias

Issues surrounding gender discrimination have been addressed over the past 40 years with various pieces of legislation and federal policies that have made such discrimination illegal. The number of women in higher education as students and faculty has steadily increased since the 1950s, though only in certain disciplines and in the lower faculty ranks, especially in many of the STEM disciplines (defined by the National Science Foundation as Biological Sciences; Computer and Information Science and Engineering; Engineering; Geosciences; Mathematics and Physical Sciences; Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences; and Education and Human Resources). Why is this? This article reviews the literature regarding one possible reason for this exception: unconscious bias or gender schemas. Possible solutions are presented that can help overcome the bias experienced and perceived by female faculty in institutions of higher education in the United States.
Assessing the Academic Medical Center as a Supportive Learning Community
Author: Gannon, Sam C.
Date: 2011-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Medical Education,Hospitals,Higher Education,Organizational Culture,Adjustment (to Environment),Lifelong Learning,Research Administration,Administrator Role,Administrator Responsibility,Administrator Attitudes,Administrator Evaluation

Academic medical centers are well-known for their emphasis on teaching, research and public service; however, like most large, bureaucratic organizations, they oftentimes suffer from an inability to learn as an organization. The role of the research administrator in the academic medical center has grown over time as the profession itself has become more important in the management of the research enterprise. The field of research administration within academic medical centers has grown to encompass a wide variety of responsibilities, including making sense of complicated rules, systems and processes in the administration of sponsored research, as well as managing the burden of regulatory compliance with applicable laws, contracts, institutional policies and sponsor guidelines. Keeping abreast of the complicated and fluctuating laws, guidelines, administrative processes and systems, and means of compliance is complicated even for the experienced research professional. This problem is compounded by struggles to foster the sharing of knowledge to new employees. Using an existing assessment tool, 121 research administrators at a large, private academic medical center were surveyed to define their perception of the academic medical center as a learning community (both collectively and by department type, gender and tenure) and to identify gaps in knowledge sharing, idea development, ability to learn from mistakes and reflective thinking. (Contains 7 tables.)