Banks, Karen Lee (2017). Identifying Online Graduate Learners' Perceived Barriers to Their Academic Success Utilizing a Delphi Study. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Northcentral University. Nontraditional online adult graduate students ages 25 and older have unique challenges toward achieving their academic goals as compared to younger learners. These older graduate students usually already have families, careers, and other demands on their time. Deciding to pursue their advanced degrees is typically related to gaining a competitive edge or to completely changing careers. Learning barriers often include the lack of accommodations by instructors or learning institutions for these learners' unique needs and educational preferences. This study's general problem addressed identifying barriers faced by nontraditional online graduate students, and determining how unachieved goals lead to low retention among this population. The specific problem addressed the lack of accommodation by higher education professionals in identifying, acknowledging, and addressing the barriers, and fulfilling the expressed learning needs and preferences of these learners. The purpose of this… [Direct]

Adams, Francine (2017). The Impact of Declining Student Persistence in Distance Learning on American College Completion Goals. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Nova Southeastern University. Academic institution leaders, education researchers, and policy makers have come together to restore America's ranking among the top nations who are educating citizens to prepare for the technology jobs of the future. President Barack Obama tasked the nation to do so after alarming figures in student achievement were revealed from the 2009 PISA reports. The White House and Lumina Foundation called for a transformation, setting deadlines for 2020 and 2025, respectively, that 60% of Americans should attain degrees or credentials. This study centered on degree attainment by, assessing distance learning persistence for warning signs of impeding these goals. This study had two components in determining how a collection of disparate data could be assembled for further analysis: one, to collect sample graduation statistics from available primary education data sources. Secondary data sources were reviewed for relevance; and stored for potential future value. The second component was to… [Direct]

Jaeger, Paige; Nesi, Olga M. (2014). Real-Life Research: Project Runway Makeover Model. Knowledge Quest, v43 n2 p60-63 Nov-Dec. Real-life research is incredibly varied. We research cars. We research lawn problems. We research child behavior problems, health issues, possible vacation destinations, and prices to stretch our budgets. No two scenarios are ever alike, and no two health issues should be assumed to be the same. That is reality, and that is a picture of what the Common Core State Standards call "real world problems." So if real-world problems are never the same, why are so many research activities designed in a one-size-fits-all fashion? Why do students have to fact-fetch for fill-in-the-blanks, when they have been asked to "solve real-world problems" and "research to build and present knowledge"? These low-level no-thought "research" tasks have got to go, and school librarians could be hosting lunchtime professional development shows dubbed "Research Project Runway Models–Let us make over your unit." School librarians should be in the transformation… [PDF] [Direct]

Ong, Yann Shiou (2018). Developing Secondary School Students' Epistemic Practices through Student-Centered Critique in Scientific Inquiry. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University. The study reported in this dissertation is a response to the call for school science argumentation interventions to shift from a focus on argument framework towards epistemic criteria valued by the scientific community, and to focus on the practice of critiquing in addition to constructing arguments, as both practices are part of scientific argumentation. In most science classrooms, critique is often, if not only, made by the teacher as expert. This dissertation explores the possibility of sharing the role of critique among the students and the teacher, so as to improve students' critique practice. The study contrasts an intervention focused on a student-centered critique learning environment with a comparative teacher-centered critique learning environment. The study took place in two small science classes (two groups of triads per class) in a Singapore public school offering an inquiry science course. Students worked in groups to design and implement a science research project over… [Direct]

Sanders, Sarah (2011). The First 60 Days: Early Implications from a Practitioner in Transition to a Professor. International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, v6 n4 Oct-Dec. The decision to leave a successful career and great earning potential to start over as a novice with new surroundings and expectations is not made without consideration of a wide array of variables. Making the transition to higher education was not an easy one and the transition itself has presented various other challenges and joys that I have been encouraged to share. Sharing my transition to teaching in higher education through this informal narrative begins with a very personal experience that is relevant as being a catalyst for the transition…. [PDF]

Choi, Dong Hwa; Md-Yunus, Sham'ah (2011). Integration of a Social Skills Training: A Case Study of Children with Low Social Skills. Education 3-13, v39 n3 p249-264. This study explores changes in children's social skills after a cognitive-social skills model intervention. The intervention was conducted over a period of 12 weeks within a regular preschool setting. Sixteen children including four considered to have low social skills participated in the study. Data analysis revealed that the four children with low social skills demonstrated changes in social skills through positive play behaviours such as asking positive questions, offering suggestions, initiating play episodes, and sharing play materials, although they had limited ability to maintain play episodes. (Contains 1 figure.)… [Direct]

Alrutz, Megan (2013). Sites of Possibility: Applied Theatre and Digital Storytelling with Youth. Research in Drama Education, v18 n1 p44-57. As a process for engaging marginalised voices in the social/cultural economy of the media, digital storytelling has garnered much attention from media artists, community organisers and scholars since the early 1990s. The practice of digital storytelling, or the making and sharing of personal narratives through recorded voice-overs, digital photography and video, music and/or digitally composed multi-media collages, parallels many aspects of applied drama/theatre; and yet, little scholarship exists around how digital storytelling can and does function as an intentionally facilitated, critical performance practice with young people. This article argues that digital storytelling as an applied theatre praxis can revision the ways we represent and engage young people in society. The author draws on practical examples from an applied theatre project to examine how digital storytelling, as both a creative process and a performance product, functions as a political act of cultural… [Direct]

Jones, Kirsty (2013). More Professionals Talking Physics than Ever Before!. Education in Science, n252 p19 May. In this article, "TalkPhysics," the Institute of Physics' (UK) community website for teachers of physics and their supporters, is described. It is now used by over 7,500 professionals in physics education, whether they are seeking or giving advice, contributing to discussions, or accessing the wealth of resources available, but will also genuinely enrich their teaching experiences. Not only is it a place for teachers to have their say, it is also used by teacher educators, technicians, and education academics, making it a diverse and dynamic arena for sharing ideas and discussing hot topics. When it comes to getting help with creating new practical lessons and demonstrations, "TalkPhysics" really comes into its own, with a wealth of experts who have tried, tested, failed, and tried again a plethora of practicals, you are sure to get some fantastic support for new ideas. Getting help and new ideas to do things in new ways will not only keep students engaged, but… [Direct]

Atteberry, Allison; Hardigree, Christine N.; Kibler, Amanda K.; Salerno, April S. (2015). Languages across Borders: Social Network Development in an Adolescent Two-Way Dual-Language Program. Teachers College Record, v117 n8. Background/Context: Two-way dual-language programs have become an increasingly popular educational model in the United States for language minority and majority speakers, with a small but growing number of programs at the high school level. Little is known, however, about how adolescents' social networks develop in the contexts of these programs. Purpose/Objective: This study examines how a two-way, dual language enrichment program for Spanish-language learner (SLL) and English-language learner (ELL) adolescents influenced students' social networks with peers of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Setting: The program took place in a south-Atlantic state at a suburban/rural high school that has substantial within-school linguistic segregation. Population/Participants: Program participants included 20 students: 10 English-dominant learners of Spanish, and 10 Spanish-dominant learners of English. Intervention/Program: The two-way dual-language program was a voluntary… [Direct]

Childress, Eric, Comp.; Renspie, Melissa, Comp.; Shepard, Linda, Comp. (2015). Making Archival and Special Collections More Accessible. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Revealing hidden assets stewarded by research institutions so they can be made available for research and learning locally and globally is a prime opportunity for libraries to create and deliver new value. "Making Archival and Special Collections More Accessible" collects important work OCLC Research has done to help achieve the economies and efficiencies that permit these materials to be effectively described, properly disclosed, successfully discovered and appropriately delivered. Achieving control over these collections in an economic fashion will mean that current resources can have a broader impact or be invested elsewhere in other activities. Much of the work represented in this compilation was done with the specific advice, guidance or participation of the staff at OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions. OCLC is grateful for this relationship, privileged to provide this venue, and committed to listening and leading in this Partnership. This publication will… [PDF]

(2015). Delivering TVET through Quality Apprenticeships: Report of UNESCO-UNEVOC Virtual Conference, 15-26 June 2015. UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training This virtual conference was the eleventh in a series of moderator-driven discussions introduced by UNESCO-UNEVOC in 2011. Conducted on the UNEVOC e-Forum–a global online community of over 4,000 members–and guided by an expert, these discussions provide a platform for sharing of experiences, expertise and feedback and wish to inspire people to take further action. The global youth employment crisis has brought apprenticeship back on the international policy agenda. In the face of large cohorts of unemployed youth and mismatches in skills and qualification levels, many countries wish to explore and introduce apprenticeship as a way to tackle youth unemployment and reduce future labour-market imbalances. In other countries "informal" and "traditional" apprenticeships exist and great efforts are being made to upgrade and formalize these apprenticeship schemes to increase the availability of quality training for youth. The general objective of the two-week virtual… [PDF]

(2011). Call to Action: Clarify Application of FERPA to State Longitudinal Data Systems. Data Quality Campaign Over the last five years, states have made significant progress implementing statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDS) to collect, store, link and share student-level data. States and the many national organizations supporting their efforts recognized that while building and using these indispensable data systems are important for policy, management, and instructional decisions that focus on individual success, these needs must be balanced with appropriate protections for the privacy of student records. The 1974 law, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), was enacted to protect the privacy of student education records. However, in the 30 years since FERPA was enacted, the data landscape and the state role around data collection, sharing and use has changed. The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) and its partners continue to raise four areas of ongoing confusion, and call on federal policymakers to address them. These issues include: (1) Sharing between separate P/K-12 and… [PDF]

Gewertz, Catherine (2013). Teachers Differ over Meeting Nonfiction Rule. Education Week, v32 n19 p1, 14-15 Jan. As the common core is brought to life in classrooms this year, some English/language arts teachers are finding themselves caught in a swirl of debate about whether the new standards require them to cut back on prized pieces of the literary canon to make room for nonfiction. A recent spate of news reports has ignited a new wave of anxiety about the Common Core State Standards' emphasis on "informational text." In some states and districts, little or no guidance is being offered on the issue for teachers, leaving them to grapple with achieving the right balance of fiction and nonfiction on their own. Even where guidance is offered, teachers are carrying away varying messages, resulting in some cases in bitter disagreements over who is misinterpreting the standards. The resulting landscape is pockmarked with debates about how much the standards require English/language arts teachers to change the literature they've long taught, whether that change is positive or negative, and… [Direct]

(2014). Lessons Learned from Strategy Landscape Tool. Grantmakers for Education In 2011, Grantmakers for Education (GFE) partnered with the Monitor Institute to develop the K-12 Education Strategy Landscape Tool–an asset mapping tool that used interactive data visualization to provide a clear picture of the who, what, where, and when of education grantmaking. The prototype launched in January of 2012. Over a dozen funders participated in the launch by sharing their grantmaking data. Unfortunately, this specific venture and approach proved unsustainable in the long run due to reasons outlined in this report and in the Center for Effective Philanthropy's article, "Lessons from a Risk Taken," which highlights fundamental difficulties in communicating strategies and coordinating grantmaking. The need for such a tool, however, hasn't changed. There is still a desire in the field for a clearer picture of investments in education grantmaking. A tool that provides this effectively could be of tremendous value for GFE members and the field. To understand how… [PDF]

Lewis, Judith (2016). Musical Voices from the Margins: Popular Music as a Site of Critical Negotiation in an Urban Elementary Classroom. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University. Music education research on popular music can be characterized by its emphasis on adolescent experiences and performance practice. In contrast, this study explored the ways in which popular music listening fostered deliberation and dialogue within a group of New York City elementary school children. Recognizing that popular music listening is a primary out-of-school leisure activity, the author used the lens of critical literacy to investigate how young children make sense of popular music, what tools they bring to their listening engagements, and to what degree their discussions exhibit elements of criticality and agency. The research site was envisioned as a democratic space in which sharing, inquiry, and negotiation informed an emergent sense of pedagogy. On a weekly basis, over the course of one school year, participants shared their favorite popular songs and facilitated dialogues around the meanings and themes of the songs. The children explored the intersections of popular… [Direct]

Hoki, Chieko (2013). Middle School English Second Language (ESL) Teachers' Usage of Technology for Literacy Instruction and Their English Language Learners' (ELL) Responses. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas Woman's University. Digital technologies surround our lives today and many adolescent students are actively engaged in reading and writing through multimodal digital technologies. The omnipresence of digital technologies in today's society inevitably influences students' literacy practices. Thus, there is an imminent need on the teacher's part to infuse technologies as instructional tools in the classroom in order to connect with students' lives. Recent research evidences teachers' and researchers' responses to this need. English language learners (ELLs) are included in this generation of youths actively engaged in digital technologies outside the classroom. However, little is known about ESL teachers' use of technologies for literacy instruction in the classroom and their ELLs' responses to these technologies. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine middle school teachers' use of technologies for literacy instruction and their ELL student's responses. Two middle school ESL teachers… [Direct]

Ackerman, William V.; Bunch, Rick L. (2012). A Comparative Analysis of Indian Gaming in the United States. American Indian Quarterly, v36 n1 p50-74 Win. Previous research on Indian gaming in South Dakota discovered very restrictive and unfavorable tribal-state compacts that appear to border on economic racism. This article expands this previous research by exploring the influence of tribal-state Indian gaming compacts for the Indian casinos located in the contiguous United States. The purpose is to describe the current state of the Indian gaming industry. For the states that have Class III Indian gaming the authors document the number of casinos, numbers of gaming devices, and gaming revenues. They also provide an in-depth analysis of common practices in compact negotiation and how tribal-state compacts vary geographically. States are ranked based on the degree of control that they attempt to exercise over sovereign Native American tribes. Concern is raised over the growing interest by certain states to require greater revenue sharing from the tribes' gaming operations. The authors find that the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA)… [Direct]

Huisman, Mark; Janssen, Marleen J.; Martens, Marga A. W.; Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne; Ruijssenaars, Wied A. J. J. M. (2014). Applying the Intervention Model for Fostering Affective Involvement with Persons Who Are Congenitally Deafblind: An Effect Study. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, v108 n5 p399-413 Sep-Oct. Introduction: In this study, we applied the Intervention Model for Affective Involvement (IMAI) to four participants who are congenitally deafblind and their 16 communication partners in 3 different settings (school, a daytime activities center, and a group home). We examined whether the intervention increased affective involvement between the participants and their communication partners and whether it increased positive emotions and reduced negative emotions in the participants. Methods: We used video observations in a multiple-baseline design across subjects to assess the effects of the 20-week intervention on the communication partners' interactions with the participants. Results: After onset of the intervention, affective involvement increased for three participants, while all four participants showed an increase in positive emotions and a decrease in negative emotions. During follow-up, the positive effect on the participants' behaviors decreased in most cases, but remained… [PDF]

Huang, Chung-Kai; Lin, Chun-Yu; Villarreal, Daniel Steve (2014). Challenges and Opportunities for Business Communication: A Facebook Approach Conundrum. Research-publishing.net, Paper presented at the 2014 EUROCALL Conference (Groningen, The Netherlands, Aug 20-23, 2014). Facebook is currently one of the most popular platforms for online social networking among university students. The ever-growing prevalence of Facebook has led business educators to explore what role social networking technology might play in business training and professional development. Nonetheless, much is left to be learned about how Facebook is influencing student learning in the area of business communication. This paper examined the effect on learners' satisfaction of incorporating Facebook into business communication courses. A total of 147 undergraduate students from a national university in Taiwan participated in this web-supported study. To analyze the students' reflection quantitatively, a survey was employed. The findings showed that the incorporation of Facebook into coursework effectively assisted students' learning of business communication. Facebook worked as the social glue that connected students together in a learning community, provided opportunities for… [PDF]

Anderson, Vivienne, Ed.; Johnson, Henry, Ed. (2019). Migration, Education and Translation: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Human Mobility and Cultural Encounters in Education Settings. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group This multidisciplinary collection examines the connections between education, migration and translation across school and higher education sectors, and a broad range of socio-geographical contexts. Organised around the themes of knowledge, language, mobility, and practice, it brings together studies from around the world to offer a timely critique of existing practices that privilege some ways of knowing and communicating over others. With attention to issues of internationalisation, forced migration, minorities and indigenous education, this volume asks how the dominance of English in education might be challenged, how educational contexts that privilege bi- and multi-lingualism might be re-imagined, what we might learn from existing educational practices that privilege minority or indigenous languages, and how we might exercise 'linguistic hospitality' in a world marked by high levels of forced migration and educational mobility. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the… [Direct]

Hundley, Stephen P., Ed.; Kahn, Susan, Ed. (2019). Trends in Assessment: Ideas, Opportunities, and Issues for Higher Education. Stylus Publishing LLC "Trends in Assessment" provides readers with a survey of the state-of-the-art of the enduring assessment concepts and approaches developed over the past twenty-five years, and includes chapters by acknowledged experts who describe how emerging assessment trends and ideas apply to their programs and pedagogies, covering: (1) Community Engagement; (2) ePortfolios; (3) Faculty Development; (4) Global Learning; (5) Graduate and Professional Education; (6) High-Impact Practices; (7) Learning Improvement and Innovation; (8) Assessment Trends from NILOA; (9) STEM; and (10) Student Affairs Programs and Services. The concluding chapters point to a future of assessment and identify several meta-trends in assessment. The book was conceived by organizers and contributors of the Assessment Institute in Indianapolis, the nation's oldest and largest higher education assessment event, and includes contributions by the following partners of the Institute: Association for the Assessment of… [Direct]

(2019). Project Education Impact: Achieving Educational Success for Washington's Children, Youth and Young Adults in Foster Care and/or Experiencing Homelessness. Joint Agency Report to Legislature. Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families Research nationally demonstrates that children and youth experiencing foster care and/or homelessness achieve academic outcomes significantly below their peers due to trauma and loss, multiple changes in homes and schools, and emotional upheaval. When youth fail to graduate from high school, they are much more likely to live in poverty, require public assistance, experience adult homelessness, and be incarcerated. For the class of 2015, only 41.5% of Washington State youth in foster care and only 38.4% of youth who have experienced homelessness graduated high school on time. A coalition of state agencies and nonprofit organizations began meeting about strategies to improve outcomes in October 2017. A 2018 budget proviso (Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6032) codified their charge, directing the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), in collaboration with the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), the Office of Homeless Youth (OHY), and the Washington… [PDF]

Hiller, Chris (2016). "No, Do You Know What 'Your' Treaty Rights Are?" Treaty Consciousness in a Decolonizing Frame. Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, v38 n4 p381-408. "Idle No More" represents a watershed moment of treaty education, with treaty-related teach-ins, direct actions, and information sharing happening in diverse public spaces across Canada and around the globe. Although unprecedented in scope, depth, and intensity, "Idle No More" rests in a centuries-old continuity of Indigenous treaty pedagogy: efforts on the part of Indigenous peoples, going back to the time of first contact, to educate newcomers to their territories regarding the principles, meanings, protocol, and implications of treaty relationships. Yet despite centuries of such efforts, as well as more recent efforts on the part of solidarity organizations and even mainstream educational institutions, treaty ignorance and denial remain rampant in Canada, and treaties themselves continue to constitute a lightning rod of contention and entrenched conflict between Indigenous and settler peoples. For critical educators committed to dismantling colonial mindsets,… [Direct]

Eshleman, Joe; Eshleman, Kristen; Mann, Karen; Moniz, Richard (2016). Librarians and Instructional Designers: Collaboration and Innovation. ALA Editions With online education options more ubiquitous and sophisticated than ever, the need for academic librarians to be conversant with digital resources and design thinking has become increasingly important. The way forward is through collaboration with instructional designers, which allows librarians to gain a better understanding of digital resource construction, design, goals, and responsibilities. In this book, the authors demonstrate that when librarians and instructional designers pool their knowledge of curriculum and technology, together they can impact changes that help to better serve faculty, students, and staff to address changes that are affecting higher education. Illustrated using plentiful examples of successful collaboration in higher education, this book: (1) introduces the history of collaborative endeavors between instructional designers and librarians, sharing ideas for institutions of every size; (2) reviews key emerging issues, including intellectual property,… [Direct]

Horell, Harold D. (2012). Power, Oppression, Liberation, Religious Education. Religious Education, v107 n3 p230-235. In this article, the author begins by talking about power and his early vocational discernment. He continues by sharing his ongoing vocational discernment and religious education for liberation. Over the past twenty years the author has worked for a Catholic diocese and two Catholic universities. He has also done significant volunteer work in several Catholic parishes to which he has belonged. During this time he has, in his life and work, become more and more committed to: (1) making accessible the unique potential of religious education to be a freeing, liberating activity; (2) exploring how social power can be used in life-giving rather than oppressive ways in ministerial and educational relationships; and (3) drawing attention to the necessity of balancing academic enquiry with pastoral involvement and the importance of addressing pressing sociomoral issues from a religious educational perspective. (Contains 4 footnotes.)… [Direct]

Iris Vrioni (2024). Essays in Labor Economics and Industrial Organization. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan. Chapter 1 studies how the interaction of student information with constraints dictated by market design determines higher education choices and outcomes. I study strategic application incentives in imperfect implementations of centralized assignment mechanisms in higher education. I ask whether, in markets with both a central match for public colleges and a broader private market, choices on the match are affected by the availability good private outside options. It is unclear whether the common market configuration with outside private options and application size restrictions generates strategic incentives in applications on the public match that is advantageous to students with higher socioeconomic backgrounds. I assemble data from the college match in Albania and utilize a policy change that incorporated all private colleges in the centralized platform to generate insight. The policy does two things: first, it removes private programs as an outside alternative to the match,… [Direct]

Salajan, Florin D. (2013). Policy Formulation and Networks of Practice in European eLearning: The Emergence of a European E-Learning Area. European Journal of Education, v48 n2 p292-310 Jun. This article discusses the emergence of a European E-Learning Area (EELA) as a consequence of three factors that can be observed in the e-learning developments over the past decade. The first factor consists of the carving of a policy sector in e-learning via formal instruments such as the eLearning Programme, the Lifelong Learning Programme and an array of other e-learning policy stipulations embedded in larger policy instruments at European level (e.g. Framework Programme). The second factor is represented by the mainstreaming of e-learning activities, both through formal and informal measures across multiple domains. Finally, the proliferation and consolidation of interlinked networks of practice as incubators of e-learning innovation and sharing of expertise act as the third factor in the shaping of EELA. The conceptualisation of EELA is substantiated through an analysis of the European e-learning policy documentation and the findings of a questionnaire distributed to the… [Direct]

Hurley, Angela; McCloud, Jennifer (2017). Under the Wheels of a Juggernaut: Education Programs in the Midst of a Moral Quandary. Philosophical Studies in Education, v48 p30-44. The authors begin this essay by sharing excerpts taken from two events at their own liberal arts institution. One was from an opening convocation in 1967, and the second from an accreditation visit in 2014. The two episodes have been presented in order to illustrate the major differences in the ways university experiences have been thought about in the past compared to the neoliberal manner in which they are now understood. From reading the two provided scenarios, it becomes difficult to deny that the language related to higher education and the rationale given for attending college has changed since 1967. Language and rhetoric have moved away from having, at least at times, those who "worried" about the role of the academy in such things as the well-being of the community and the development of thinking individuals, or of viewing the university as a site where contested ideas could be verbalized, to now mainly stressing job acquisition and accountability. In this change,… [PDF]

Seaman, David M. (2017). Leading across Boundaries: Collaborative Leadership and the Institutional Repository in Research Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges. ProQuest LLC, D.Bibl. Dissertation, Simmons College. Libraries often engage in services that require collaboration across stakeholder boundaries to be successful. Institutional repositories (IRs) are a good example of such a service. IRs are an infrastructure to preserve intellectual assets within a university or college, and to provide an open access showcase for that institution's research, teaching, and creative excellence. They involve multiple stakeholders (librarians, IT experts, administrators, faculty, and students) and are typically operated by academic libraries. They have existed since the early 2000s. Collaborative leadership has been studied in areas such as health care and business, but it has received little attention in studies of library leadership and management. Collaborative leadership has been shown to be an effective leadership style for an increasingly networked world; it is an interactive process in which people set aside self-interests, share power, work across boundaries, and discuss issues openly and… [Direct]

Stover, Nicholas A.; Wiley, Emily A. (2014). Immediate Dissemination of Student Discoveries to a Model Organism Database Enhances Classroom-Based Research Experiences. CBE – Life Sciences Education, v13 n1 p131-138 Mar. Use of inquiry-based research modules in the classroom has soared over recent years, largely in response to national calls for teaching that provides experience with scientific processes and methodologies. To increase the visibility of in-class studies among interested researchers and to strengthen their impact on student learning, we have extended the typical model of inquiry-based labs to include a means for targeted dissemination of student-generated discoveries. This initiative required: 1) creating a set of research-based lab activities with the potential to yield results that a particular scientific community would find useful and 2) developing a means for immediate sharing of student-generated results. Working toward these goals, we designed guides for course-based research aimed to fulfill the need for functional annotation of the "Tetrahymena thermophila" genome, and developed an interactive Web database that links directly to the official Tetrahymena Genome… [Direct]