Tallman, Karen A. (2019). Introducing Students to Fundamental Chemistry Concepts and Basic Research through a Chemistry of Fashion Course for Nonscience Majors. Journal of Chemical Education, v96 n9 p1906-1913 Sep. The combined lab and lecture course is designed around the themes of colorants (dyestuffs and pigments) and fibers (natural and human-made) for nonscience majors. Students dye natural and synthetic fibers with natural dyes such as turmeric, raspberries, tea, and cochineal insects as well as synthetic dyes. The students observe the colorfast properties of a dye and the changes made to a fiber during the dyeing process. Some chemical concepts introduced over the semester are light energy and color, solution chemistry, chemical bonding and bond polarity, acids and bases, and oxidizing and reducing agents. An important component of this class is introducing students to primary literature. The students, throughout the semester, read and discuss research articles on topics relevant to the coursework. The course culminates with students applying all they learned through a self-designed inquiry project. Students, in groups, write a research proposal using science research literature. At the… [Direct]

Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd; Ghadirian, Hajar; Salehi, Keyvan (2018). Exploring the Behavioural Patterns of Knowledge Dimensions and Cognitive Processes in Peer-Moderated Asynchronous Online Discussions. International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, v33 n1. Peer moderation has been used as a beneficial strategy in asynchronous online discussions to assist student learning performance. However, most studies in peer-moderated asynchronous online discussions (PMAOD) have focused only on learning effectiveness and perceptions of students rather than on students' knowledge dimensions and cognitive processing patterns. This study combined quantitative content analysis (QCA) and lag sequential analysis (LSA) to explore student knowledge dimensions and cognitive processing patterns in PMAOD. The participants were 84 students in an undergraduate blended course from University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia. The Revised Bloom Taxonomy (RBT) was used as the codification scheme to code the discussion transcripts of participants assigned the role of peer moderators in a reciprocal manner over seven weeks. Behavioural distributions and patterns of high- and low-quality discussion groups were compared. Results showed that students were primarily… [PDF]

Estival√®zes, Mireille (2017). The Professional Stance of Ethics and Religious Culture Teachers in Qu√©bec. British Journal of Religious Education, v39 n1 p55-74. In September 2008, a new Ethics and Religious Culture programme was implemented in Qu√©bec's elementary and secondary schools. One of the main pedagogical challenges of this new course has been the requirement that teachers adopt a professional stance of impartiality. Teachers must refrain from sharing their points of view, so as not to influence students as they develop their own positions. This paper deals with the requirements related to this new professional stance, namely that teachers maintain a critical distance from their own convictions and values, respect the student's freedom of conscience and religion to avoid any indoctrination, and play the role of a cultural mediator. This new requirement has not gone over without question. For instance, some educators believe that, in the name of authenticity, it is preferable for teachers to freely express their own beliefs, thus ensuring a transparent relationship with students. For others, as teachers are in position of authority in… [Direct]

Hao, Yijun (2017). The Dialectic between Ideal and Real Forms of "Sharing": A Cultural-Historical Study of Story Acting through Imaginary Play at Home. Early Child Development and Care, v187 n1 p99-114. In a time when story-acting practices have gained increasing focus, little is known about the relations between family story acting and a child's interactions with the ideal models represented in stories. Drawing upon a cultural-historical perspective of play and development, this study is aimed at discovering how a child is able to interact with the conceptual models usually formed in stories such as "sharing" during family dramatic play. The case study reported in this paper related to a three-year-old child and the parents from Mainland China. A total 25.15 hours of video observations and interviews was collected over 16 family visits during 2 research periods. Findings suggested that a shared imaginary situation created during the co-construction of a play-world between a child and his/her parents had its importance in fostering the child's active explorations of the ideal descriptions of certain conceptual rules. A new interpretation of the play-world can be made… [Direct]

Justice, Sean (2017). Material Learning in Action: Building an Arts-Based Research Community. Art Education, v70 n2 p39-48. On completing a digital methods course, one student told his teacher (the author) he did not know what to make of the class, and it had been a strange experience. This article reports on the curriculum that precipitated this and similar responses from preservice teachers and art students, conversations sparked by the incongruity of crossing thresholds that not only seem out of reach, but are unforeseeable. Most of these students have never written a line of computer code before taking the class, but they learn to hold and give over to "digital" as an expressive material. Although many students begin the semester by saying they hate technology, by the end of the term, they are comfortably sharing generative art, interactive poetry, and robots with a sense of humor, among other things. This points to the arts-based research community they build during the course, and the way it helps them push and pull on digital materialities. The author is confident the course works because… [Direct]

Altermatt, Ellen Rydell (2011). Capitalizing on Academic Success: Students' Interactions with Friends as Predictors of School Adjustment. Journal of Early Adolescence, v31 n1 p174-203 Feb. Although friends often share successes with one another, very little attention has been paid to these interactions. The current study examines the nature of middle school students' interactions with friends following academic successes and the consequences of these interactions for students' school adjustment. Participants were 293 fifth- through eighth-grade students. Grade-level differences emerged in students' reports of their motives for sharing, friends' responses to sharing, and students' motives for not sharing. Sharing successes predicted tradeoffs for children's school adjustment such that sharing predicted more positive school attitudes, but more negative perceptions of peer relationships over time. Children's reports of their motives for sharing and friends' responses to sharing also predicted changes in school adjustment over time. Implications of these findings for helping middle school students capitalize on academic successes via their interactions with friends are… [Direct]

Fitzpatrick, Erin; Gilbert, Suze; Kissel, Brian; Schrodt, Katie (2021). Chapter 9: Writing as Capital–The Emancipatory Act of Writing for Profit, Advocacy, and Charity. Teachers College Record, v123 n13 Apr. Context: Writing is an agentive act. Despite drastic improvements over the past few decades in writing instruction and the push for sharing with authentic audiences, the majority of writing students do is still for the teacher. These practices are at odds with those who advocate for classrooms that are culturally relevant, culturally responsive, and culturally sustaining. When students write for the sole purpose of "doing school," they are denied opportunities to use their writing voices to write about, for, and within their communities. Writing is used to empower–to pose problems and solve them. The distribution of that writing is equally important. Publication matters. It is in the distribution and response to writing that one can experience the power of written words to impact one's world. Purpose: In this chapter, we outline authentic purposes for writing centered on culturally relevant, responsive, agentive, and sustaining pedagogies. We describe the writer's… [Direct]

Katherine R. Lebioda (2024). Blossoming Together: Imagining Humanizing Relationships between Racially/Ethnically Minoritized Students and Postsecondary Institutions through Digital Storytelling. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan. In this participatory action research study, I designed a digital storytelling program to facilitate conversations with racially minoritized students about their experiences with diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus–an elite, predominantly white, state flagship. I implemented this program with three groups of students (18 students total) over the course of nine meetings and a debriefing interview with each participant. At the crux of this study is a concept which I term "psychosocial blossoming." Psychosocial blossoming is a radical process toward wholeness, humanization, and liberation that emphasizes individual agency and empowerment while honoring relationships with others and environments. I used portraiture–which combines techniques from ethnography, phenomenology, and narrative inquiry while uniquely highlighting the aesthetic possibility for research. Through portraiture, I examined the context of this project, how it unfolded, and the experiences of both the… [Direct]

Rebecca L. Witte (2024). More than Just Letters: Expanding Community through Literacy in an Elementary Christian School Classroom. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University. This ethnographically-oriented, multi-year study examined an epistolary writing relationship between third grade students and the teacher's uncle, known to them as Uncle Billy, who, at the time of the study, was corresponding from prison. Taking place within a Reformed Christian school, this study encapsulates the pedagogy of Ms. Thompson, the focal teacher; how she invited students into a relationship with Uncle Billy, threaded multiple literacies together, and taught with racial justice in mind–all through a letter writing intervention. Situated within a framework based on certain elements of community (reciprocity, proximity, hospitality, justice-mindedness, and collective emotion and vulnerability), I threaded three individual yet intersecting research strands: Christianity, race-related theories, and sociocultural literacy. In doing so, I ask, "how can letter writing widen perspectives of diverse community?" Analyzing letters, classroom observations, interviews, and… [Direct]

Nash, Graham (2016). Strangers in a Strange Land: Social Conflict among Urban Refugees in Kampala, Uganda. Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, v11 n2 p117-135 Win. When refugees arrive in urban areas of Uganda, they face daunting challenges. Notably, refugees report instances of discrimination and mistreatment by the Ugandan welcoming culture. However, scholars or NGO's studying urban refugees have excluded the Ugandan population from data collection and research methods. By comparing ethnographic data collected from 9 Congolese refugees and 19 Ugandans over a one-month period, this article answers the following question — what are possible causes of the social discord between refugees and the Ugandan welcoming culture? Focusing on urban areas of Kampala, Uganda, this article considered the areas of medical care, police interactions, or more general associations of food sharing and economic situations as Ugandans and urban refugees experience them. Answering this question, this article argues that reports of discrimination and mistreatment against refugees in urban Uganda should not be viewed as a primary phenomenon, but rather as ancillary… [Direct]

Ingham, Roger (2016). A View from England and Wales. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, v16 n4 p446-450. This commentary outlines developments regarding Sex and Relationships Education (SRE, akin to Comprehensive Sex Education) in England and Wales over the past 15 years or so. BZgA has been a WHO/Europe collaborating centre for sexual and reproductive health since 2003. In this capacity, BZgA contributes to the development and dissemination of WHO strategies by sharing its knowledge and its many years of experience in sexuality education and family planning. BZgA's terms of reference as a collaborating centre includes the development of materials and methods for working with specific target groups, the development of standards for evaluation and quality assurance, research and the organization of seminars and conferences. Many of the recommendations and processes that are included in this new briefing (BZgA, United Nations Population Fund, and World Health Organization European Office 2015) were helpful in making such progress as has been made, but it is also possible to highlight… [Direct]

Douglas, Max E. (2014). Revisiting the Art of Undergraduate Teaching in Higher Education: One Person's Journey towards Enlightenment. Journal of Effective Teaching, v14 n2 p69-82. The purpose of this article is to offer reflections regarding teaching undergraduate students spanning a forty-five year career in higher education. The author discusses his teaching philosophy coupled with his perspective focusing on the "best" pedagogical practices that he has used to enhance student learning. The selected methods are grounded in over ninety semesters of classroom teaching experience much of which is empirically supported by scholarly literature. Hopefully the author's sharing of his life-long journey and commitment to undergraduate education will help sustain dialogue about the importance of pedagogical excellence…. [PDF]

Blomgren, Connie; Henderson, Serena (2021). Addressing the K-12 Open Educational Resources Awareness Niche: A Virtual Conference Response. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, v67 n1 p68-82 Spr. Since the 2002 UNESCO forum, raising awareness of the benefits and challenges to Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education have been integral to the broader Open Education (OE) movement. In the K-12 sector, however, an understanding of OER has been less advanced, although there are pockets of K-12 OER innovators throughout Canada and the United States. The 2015 U.S. Department of Education #GoOpen initiative, had over 20 American states move toward the use of K-12 OER, and within Canada, various provinces have begun investigating OER for both financial and pedagogical reasons. Because the use of K-12 OER inheres curricular decisions from the classroom teacher to all levels of governance, the move toward OER additionally involves a variety of sophisticated and complex digital and system-wide supports. This shift from the legacy educational system to the emerging practices where educators employ participatory technologies to curate, share out, and use studentgenerated… [Direct]

Conroy, Eddy V.; Dahl, Sonja; Goldrick-Rab, Sara; Magnelia, Sarah (2021). The Real Price of College: Estimating and Supporting Students' Financial Needs. Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice The real price of college keeps rising, and it often surprises students and their families.1 People know tuition is expensive. They also usually account for books and supplies, even if they might cost more than expected. Still, they don't always expect or fully understand how the price of housing, food, and transportation factor in. It's not their fault–colleges and universities often grossly understate these costs too. Yet incomplete understanding has consequences. Not understanding the real price of college contributes to lower graduation rates and basic needs insecurity. The following report explores how colleges can better estimate and support students' non-tuition expenses. Over a year, we worked with financial aid and student affairs administrators and staff at six colleges and universities in Texas. We offered the administrators and staff training and resources related to college costs. We also tested whether a light-touch intervention at Temple University increased students'… [PDF]

James Rigney (2021). Teacher Professional Public Thinking: Inspirations for, Impacts on, and Interpretations of Teachers Shaping and Sharing Ideas about Their Practice, Profession, and Public Schools in Online Spaces. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida. The public discourse about teaching has been shaped by actors often far removed from the classroom. In the face of education reform organizations, neoliberal and conservative politicians, and news media that amplify salacious and simplistic stories, teachers' voices have often been drowned out. However, the rise of blogging, social media, and other online platforms provide opportunities for teachers to communicate about their profession with broad audiences. While teachers' online activities–especially in the form of online learning and professional development–have received research interest, that scholarship is often interested in the particular online platforms teachers utilize. In contrast, teachers' shaping and sharing ideas about teaching, the teaching profession, and schooling can be understood as forms of teacher professional public thinking. This research project looks at the motivations, the factors that help maintain, and the meaning of teacher professional public… [Direct]

Hogenstijn, Maarten; Wolfensberger, Marca (2016). Slow Shift–Developing Provisions for Talented Students in Scandinavian Higher Education. Education Sciences, v6 Article 31. For decades, Scandinavian culture effectively prohibited the development of special provisions for talented students in higher education. However, in recent years, a cultural shift has gradually made more room for excellence and talent development in the national discourses. This paper analyzes the climate for talent development in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Following a first inventory of honors programs in Scandinavian higher education in which the only programs were found in Denmark, 10 experts were interviewed to analyze their national situation and reflect on the leading role of Denmark. In this country, external incentives, focus on quality, pioneers, and an open atmosphere were found to produce a culture more appreciative of excellence over the last decade. Starting from the Danish experience, the situation in Norway and Sweden is analyzed, showing that the combination of factors leading to change in Denmark is not yet present here. Lessons for other countries are… [PDF]

Shibukawa, Sachika; Taguchi, Mana (2019). Exploring the Difficulty on Students' Preparation and the Effective Instruction in the Flipped Classroom: A Case Study in a Physiology Class. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, v31 n2 p311-339 Aug. This study aims to find out how students prepared for a flipped classroom and to examine what type of instruction could effectively guide students to do pre-class preparation. We conducted case studies for over two years in a physiology class at a Japanese university. In a survey performed in 2017, students were asked to participate in a questionnaire and an interview. Their responses in the questionnaire indicated that there was a clear and positive correlation between their class preparation time and individual grades, while class preparation of some students was proven not so productive or efficient. By the same token, the student interview made clear that students were not well informed of what to focus on or how to prepare appropriately for the flipped classes. Based on the 2017 findings, we started to share learning objectives with students for their pre-class preparation in the 2018 course. Amid and after the 2018 spring semester, questionnaires were administered to examine… [Direct]

Bjork, Claire Catherine Shaller (2019). Caring for Common Ground: Developing a Spiritually-Based Ecological Restoration Education Program at Holy Wisdom Monastery. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin – Madison. The human dimensions of ecological restoration have been considered with increasing focus over the past several decades. The Earth Partnership program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has presented an evolving model of restoration as education since 1991, with growing awareness of the need for multicultural approaches to learning about and doing local land stewardship. My dissertation presents the story of the development of a pilot restoration education project, using Earth Partnership content and pedagogy with a group of interfaith participants at Holy Wisdom Monastery in Middleton, Wisconsin. Through a collaborative learning approach, participants in the "Caring for Common Ground" project explored the meanings ascribed to restoration by spiritual and faith practitioners, the tools required to enact ecological values, and the community of practice formed around spiritually-based ecological restoration. Adopting a community-engaged approach, I strive here to… [Direct]

Choi, Bumyong; Kang, Sanghee; Kim, Binna; Kim, YouJin; Yun, Hyunae (2020). Comparing the Effects of Direct and Indirect Synchronous Written Corrective Feedback: Learning Outcomes and Students' Perceptions. Foreign Language Annals, v53 n1 p176-199 Spr. From a sociocultural perspective, collaborative writing tasks offer opportunities to negotiate in decision-making processes while also sharing responsibility for the production of a single text (Storch, 2013, "Collaborative writing in L2 classrooms." Bristol: Multilingual Matters). Although research has found benefits for such tasks (Storch, 2019, "Lang Teach," 52, 40-59; Taguchi & Kim, 2016, "Appl Linguist," 37, 416-437), variation in how different types of synchronous written corrective feedback (SWCF) in such a setting impacts students' language learning and their perception of SWCF has not been examined. This study compares the role of direct and indirect SWCF during collaborative writing tasks on the learning of Korean among high beginning-level students. The study was conducted during an existing beginning level Korean course and focused on three textbook units over 6 weeks. Fifty-three learners of Korean were assigned to one of three… [Direct]

Agrawal, Somya; Chen, Ming-Huei (2018). Exploring Student's Team Behavior through Entrepreneurship Education: A Time-Lagged Study. Education & Training, v60 n7-8 p781-799. Purpose: Based on group development theories, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate student's team behavior during different stages of team development. Design/methodology/approach: A time-lagged survey method was used to collect data over a period of 18 weeks from 40 undergraduate students enrolled in an entrepreneurship course. Hierarchical linear regression and structural equation modeling were used for analysis. Findings: Findings reveal that during the early stages of team development, a leader with an entrepreneurial approach directed student's team behavior proactively. Analysis showed that lower level of task conflict strengthened the impact of leadership on team cohesion. It was also found that during the pre-final stages, students demonstrated knowledge-sharing behavior once they were characterized by team cohesion. Research limitations/implications: Data were collected from student teams, which may not generalize to organizational teams. Social implications: This… [Direct]

Eschenfelder, Kristin R.; Stewart, Brenton; Tsai, Tien-I; Zhu, Xiaohua (2013). How Institutionalized Are Model License Use Terms? An Analysis of E-Journal License Use Rights Clauses from 2000 to 2009. College & Research Libraries, v74 n4 p326-355 July. This paper explored the degree to which use terms proposed by model licenses have become institutionalized across different publishers' licenses. It examined model license use terms in four areas: downloading, scholarly sharing, interlibrary loan, and electronic reserves. Data collection and analysis involved content analysis of 224 electronic journal licenses spanning 2000–2009. Analysis examined how use terms changed over time, differences between consortia and site license use terms and differences between commercial and noncommercial publisher license use terms. Results suggest that some model license use terms have become institutionalized while others have not. Use terms with higher institutionalization included: allowing ILL, permitting secure e-transmission for ILL, allowing e-reserves with no special permissions, and not requiring deletion of e-reserves files. Scholarly sharing showed lower institutionalization with most publishers not including scholarly sharing… [Direct]

Michael A. Timko (2023). Implementation of an Early College Design in a Rural High School: Empowering Place-Conscious Leadership to Affect Change and Overcome Barriers to Innovation. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Clemson University. This qualitative, improvement science, autoethnographic case study aims to examine a unique perspective on rural research through the lens of place-conscious leadership. With an identified problem of inequity in advanced-level course offerings, which resulted in lost student opportunities and student attrition to neighboring schools, the leadership at Forest Lakes High School (FLHS) in rural South Carolina began the ambitious journey of reframing their narrative. As a scholarly researcher and administrator at FLHS, I had the unique opportunity to immerse myself fully in all aspects of this study. My dual positionality allowed me to study this process while sharing the lived experiences of the leadership team. This study tells our story of conceptualizing, creating, and maintaining the Forest Lakes Early College High School (FLECHS) program. Through leadership team interviews, researcher observations, personal experiences, and program artifacts, this study details the experiences of… [Direct]

Goshu, Ayele Taye (2016). Strengthening Statistics Graduate Programs with Statistical Collaboration–The Case of Hawassa University, Ethiopia. Journal of Education and Practice, v7 n19 p82-85. This paper describes the experiences gained from the established statistical collaboration center at Hawassa University as part of LISA 2020 network. The center has got similar setup as LISA at Virginia Tech. Statisticians are trained on how to become more effective scientific collaborators with researchers. The services are being delivered since May 2015. The University has a well established and strong academic graduate programs of statistics. The master programs are: Applied Statistics, and Mathematical and Statistical Modelling launched in 2008 and 2010, respectively. They are research based studies. They have produced over one hundred sixty graduates to-date, with current enrollment of over fifty students. The doctoral program started in 2013, with enrollment of ten students. The graduate students are the main role players as statistical collaborators at the center. The collaborators and clients have revealed positive feedback about the services. It is observed that the… [PDF]

Buning, Megan M.; Pettit, Stacie K.; Rychly, Laura (2020). Lessons Learned: Aligning Voices from the inside with Nine Essentials of Professional Development Schools. School-University Partnerships, v13 n2 p59-69 Fall. This exploratory case study documents the experiences shared by teacher candidates and cooperating teachers in two contrasting Professional Development School (PDS) sites over four semesters. At the ends of semesters during which courses were moved from the traditional university site delivery to public middle schools as part of an emerging PDS, focus group interviews were conducted with teacher candidates and then with classroom teachers to document their experiences. Their voices were solicited because much that went on between them and outside of what could be directly observed by those making decisions is important for identifying what would strengthen a PDS model. Eight themes were identified: communication, barriers to practice, teacher uncertainty, candidate uncertainty, building relationships, on-site presence, integrating into the culture, and experiential learning. Findings were held up to the Nine Essentials of Professional Development Schools as identified by the National… [PDF]

Alb√≥, Laia; Hern√°ndez-Leo, Davinia; Michos, Konstantinos (2018). Teacher-Led Inquiry in Technology-Supported School Communities. British Journal of Educational Technology, v49 n6 p1077-1095 Nov. Learning design is a research field which studies how to best support teachers as designers of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) situations. Although substantial work has been done in the articulation of the learning design process, little is known about how learning designs are experienced by students and teachers, especially in the context of schools. This paper empirically examines if a teacher inquiry model, as a tool for systematic research by teachers into their own practice, facilitates the connection between the design and data-informed reflection on TEL interventions in two school communities. High school teachers participated in a learning design professional development program supported by a web-based community platform integrating a teacher inquiry tool (TILE). A multiple case study was conducted aimed at understanding: (a) current teacher practice and (b) teacher involvement in inquiry cycles of design and classroom implementations with technologies. Multiple data… [Direct]

Finnigan, Kara S.; Holme, Jennifer Jellison (2018). Striving in Common: A Regional Equity Framework for Urban Schools. Harvard Education Press In "Striving in Common," Jennifer Jellison Holme and Kara S. Finnigan seek to build a bridge between two largely disparate, yet interconnected, conversations–those among education reformers on the one hand, and urban reformers on the other. In this carefully considered volume, the authors show how the challenges faced by urban schools are linked to issues of regional equity and civic capacity. More Drawing on examples from a range of cities, including St. Louis, Milwaukee, Palo Alto, Rochester, Omaha, and Minneapolis, Holme and Finnigan trace the policy decisions that have fostered competition for scarce resources between cities and suburbs as well as patterns of segregation by race and income. They highlight the limited ability of technical education reforms and interdistrict desegregation programs to counter the resulting educational inequities. The authors then examine existing regional governance initiatives aimed at promoting equity and reducing inefficiency through… [Direct]

Alane Sanders (2018). Generative Tools Enhance Creative and Ethical Research with Children. Qualitative Research Journal, v18 n1 p33-44. Purpose: Qualitative researchers working with young people consistently face challenges in trying to ethically gain insight into their inner thoughts and worlds. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the use of generative tools in conjunction with qualitative interviewing with young people can enhance creativity and reflexivity, while mitigating adult-child power dynamics. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws upon ethnographic research conducted by the author examining the interplay between emotion, communication, and schooling at a public high school. Participant observation, use of generative tools to make collages representing each student's experience, and in-depth interviews guided by the student-created visuals were triangulated to more fully understand the students' experiences. Findings: Generative tools foster reflexivity in both researcher and participants, lesson adult-child power dynamic concerns, and foster creativity without the requirement of drawing… [Direct]

Jensen, Bjoern J. M. (2017). The Effects of Procedural Knowledge Transparency on Adoption in Corporate Social Networks. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Purdue University. This dissertation investigated how a certain type of organizational knowledge sharing, procedural knowledge transparency, affected innovation adoption rates of members of a corporate social network within a large Scandinavian organization, in its two years of activity. It also explored the mediation of these effects by different types of sensemaking and moderation by performance transparency in the form of badges. Corporate social networks such as Yammer have gained enormous traction over the past decade as tools for knowledge sharing and retention, and their usage will continue to rise. However, the distinct value these online social networks bring to the organization remains highly debated and understudied. This study attempts to explore this existing gap and add to the scarce literature and practical knowledge surrounding it. Content analysis was used to code 2866 posts that occurred within the network to identify and classify instances of procedural knowledge transparency,… [Direct]

Ngammuk, Patariya (2016). A Comparison of the Twelve Core Values of Thai People Defined by the Head of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Found in Thai Private and Public University Students. Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education (14th, Honolulu, HI, Jan 3-6, 2016). This study aims to examine the twelve core values of Thai people found in Thai university students. The twelve values consist of the following attributes: 1.Upholding the nation, the religions and the Monarchy 2. Being honest, sacrificial and patient with positive attitude for the common good of the public 3. Being grateful to the parents, guardians and teachers 4. Seeking knowledge and education directly and indirectly 5. Treasuring the precious Thai tradition 6. Maintaining moral, integrity, well-wishes upon others as well as being generous and sharing 7. Understanding, learning the true essence of democratic ideals with His Majesty the King as the Head of State 8. Maintaining discipline, respectful of laws and the elderly and seniority 9. Being conscious and mindful of action in line with His Majesty's the King's statements 10. Practicing the philosophy of Sufficiency Economy of His Majesty the King. Saving money for time of need. Being moderate with surplus used for sharing or… [PDF]

Baugh, David E.; Juliani, A. J. (2019). Maverick Teachers: How Innovative Educators Are Saving Public Schools. 1st Edition. Eye on Education Despite dwindling resources and high-stakes testing, public school teachers all over the country are managing to breathe life, passion, and excitement into their classrooms. In this new book by bestselling author A.J. Juliani and lifelong educator David E. Baugh, you'll meet a diverse group of teachers–Mavericks–who are doing exactly that. You'll hear from teachers across the country and how they are shaking up the norm. Each story includes a powerful vignette and a breakdown of tactics used, so you can bring inspiration and strategies back to your own classroom. Together, these teachers and their stories will show you how to relate and respond to your students' most pressing needs, leaving you feeling reenergized in your role as a change-maker. Following an introduction, "Dave Baugh and the Power of Mavericks to Save Public Education," chapters include: (1) Sharing a Passion for Middle-School Science (Mary Ann Miller); (2) Changing the Classroom for a Changing World… [Direct]