(2018). Unseen and Unheard? Women Managers and Organizational Learning. Learning Organization, v25 n1 p40-50. Purpose: This paper aims to use (in)visibility as a lens to understand the lived experience of six women managers in the headquarters of a large multinational organization in the UK to identify how "gender" is expressed in the context of organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach: The researchers take a phenomenological approach via qualitative data collection with a purposeful sample–the six female managers in a group of 24. Data were collected through quarterly semi-structured interviews over 12 months with the themes–knowledge, interaction and gender. Findings: Organizations seek to build advantage to gain and retain competitive leadership. Their resilience in a changing task environment depends on their ability to recognize, gain and use knowledge likely to deliver these capabilities. Here, gender was a barrier to effective organizational learning with women's knowledge and experience often unseen and unheard. Research limitations/implications: This is a… [Direct]
(2012). Extension Professionals' Strengths and Needs Related to Nutrition and Health Programs. Journal of Extension, v50 n3 Article 3RIB2 Jun. We report results of a Web-based nationwide survey of nutrition and health Extension specialists representing 42 states. Survey items (n = 36) assessed five areas: curriculum review, nutrition and physical activity, professional training, communication, and evaluation. An internal curriculum review was common, but few states shared their criteria or process on-line. The majority of respondents reported discussing physical activity, and over half lead physical activities. Most favored on-line professional development training and a one-stop website for sharing information and resources. Evaluation data were most commonly collected for food safety, healthy eating and physical activity, and food resource management…. [PDF]
(2012). Students as Co-Inquirers: A Requisite Threshold Concept in Educational Development?. Journal of Faculty Development, v26 n3 p34-38 Sep. For over a decade, Western Washington University has sponsored the Teaching-Learning Academy, bringing students, faculty, staff, and community members together as co-inquirers into overarching questions about teaching and learning. In this safe space, participants frame one research question of interest each year; sharing their perspectives and lived experiences to create understandings about education that frequently rise to the level of threshold concepts. In this article we explore some of the results of the co-inquiry process, illustrating the important contributions students make to answering the shared questions and to translating the TLA findings into an enhanced institutional learning environment for everyone…. [Direct]
(2015). The Effects of Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Peer Review on EFL Writers' Comments and Revisions. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, v31 n1 p1-15. This study investigates the use of face-to-face and computer-mediated peer review in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing course to examine how different interaction modes affect comment categories, students' revisions, and their perceptions of peer feedback. The participants were an intact class of 13 students at a Taiwanese university. The computer-mediated peer review involved "OnlineMeeting," software specifically designed for peer review activities and featuring a split screen protocol, document sharing, and chat room functions. The results of chi-square tests show that overall students offered more revision-oriented comments than non-revision-oriented ones among different writing tasks in either mode. Also, peer review mode affected some types of peer comments to a certain extent. There were significantly more global alteration comments and fewer local alteration comments in face-to-face than computer-mediated mode. While the participants liked comments via… [Direct]
(2015). The New Reverse Transfer: A National Landscape. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, v39 n1 p70-86. For decades, higher education professionals and researchers have used the term reverse transfer to describe a specific group of students. A current review of community college literature and higher education policy reflects a contextual change of the term, and today reverse transfer has grown to include students who transfer from a two-year college to a four-year institution and retroactively receive an associate's degree with their newly earned university credits. The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of the new reverse transfer and the current status of reverse transfer participation and implementation procedure within each of the 50 states. This study also provides a review of the best practices for implementing the new reverse transfer. Results were obtained through an extensive literature review and a qualitative study that used document analysis. Findings show that 18 states had no participation, 11 states had emerging participation, and 21 states had strong… [Direct]
(2013). Exploring Knowledge Processes Based on Teacher Research in a School-University Research Network of a Master's Program. Journal of Educational Change, v14 n2 p139-176 May. School-university research networks aim at closer integration of research and practice by means of teacher research. Such practice-oriented research can benefit both schools and universities. This paper reports on a multiple-case study of five participants in a school-university research network in a Dutch master's program. The research question was: In what way is knowledge based on practice-oriented research by master's students developed, shared, and used in school-university research networks in which education is primarily offered within a university setting? Twenty interviews were conducted, on the basis of logs, over a period of 10 months. Results show that (1) for master's students, the most significant motive for developing, sharing or using knowledge was that the content knowledge about their research topic could be useful to school practice and colleagues; (2) research supervisors reported more than master's students about the procedural knowledge that they had developed… [Direct]
(2016). Introducing Large-Scale Innovation in Schools. Journal of Science Education and Technology, v25 n4 p541-549 Aug. Education reform initiatives tend to promise higher effectiveness in classrooms especially when emphasis is given to e-learning and digital resources. Practical changes in classroom realities or school organization, however, are lacking. A major European initiative entitled Open Discovery Space (ODS) examined the challenge of modernizing school education via a large-scale implementation of an open-scale methodology in using technology-supported innovation. The present paper describes this innovation scheme which involved schools and teachers all over Europe, embedded technology-enhanced learning into wider school environments and provided training to teachers. Our implementation scheme consisted of three phases: (1) stimulating interest, (2) incorporating the innovation into school settings and (3) accelerating the implementation of the innovation. The scheme's impact was monitored for a school year using five indicators: leadership and vision building, ICT in the curriculum,… [Direct]
(2014). Cloud-Based Virtual Laboratory for Network Security Education. IEEE Transactions on Education, v57 n3 p145-150 Aug. Hands-on experiments are essential for computer network security education. Existing laboratory solutions usually require significant effort to build, configure, and maintain and often do not support reconfigurability, flexibility, and scalability. This paper presents a cloud-based virtual laboratory education platform called V-Lab that provides a contained experimental environment for hands-on experiments using virtualization technologies (such as Xen or KVM Cloud Platform) and OpenFlow switches. The system can be securely accessed through OpenVPN, and students can remotely control the virtual machines (VMs) and perform the experimental tasks. The V-Lab platform also offers an interactive Web GUI for resource management and a social site for knowledge sharing and contribution. By using a flexible and configurable design, V-Lab integrates pedagogical models into curriculum design and provides a progressive learning path with a series of experiments for network security education…. [Direct]
(2015). Measuring Team Learning Behaviours through Observing Verbal Team Interaction. Journal of Workplace Learning, v27 n7 p476-500. Purpose: This study aims to explore, as an answer to the observed lack of knowledge about actual team learning behaviours, the characteristics of the actual observed basic team learning behaviours and facilitating team learning behaviours more in-depth of three project teams. Over time, team learning in an organisational context has been investigated more and more. In these studies, there is a dominant focus on team members' perception of team learning behaviours. Design/methodology/approach: A coding schema is created to observe actual team learning behaviours in interaction between team members in two steps: verbal contributions by individual team members are coded to identify the type of sharing behaviour and, when applicable, these individual verbal behaviours are build up to basic and facilitating team learning behaviours. Based on these observations, an analysis of team learning behaviours is conducted to identify the specific characteristics of these behaviours. Findings: An… [Direct]
(2016). Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities 2016 HACU Annual Report. Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities For over thirty years, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) has advocated on behalf of Hispanic higher education in the U.S. and around the world. The mission of the association is to Champion Hispanic Success in Higher Education. HACU fulfills its mission by: promoting the development of member colleges and universities; improving access to and the quality of postsecondary educational opportunities for Hispanic students; and meeting the needs of business, industry and government through the development and sharing of resources, information and expertise. HACU is the only organization that represents existing and emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). HSIs today represent 13 percent of all institutions of higher education that enroll 62 percent of Hispanic undergraduates. HACU serves its membership through advocacy, conferences, partnerships and educational programs, and offers scholarships and internship opportunities for students. HACU, is a… [PDF]
(2016). (Re)Telling Lived Experiences in Different Tales: A Potential Pathway in Working towards an Inclusive PE. Sport, Education and Society, v21 n1 p62-81. Existing research reveals that there are large discrepancies between the rhetoric of inclusive practice and what actually takes place in physical education (PE) lessons. PE appears to be a conservative subject, where little has changed over the years, despite increased diversity in schools and new modes of movement in society at large. In this article, I will argue that there is a need for "different" ways of knowing, to gain knowledge about the complexity of creating an inclusive PE. My critical interpretive PhD project will serve as a starting point for arguing how narratives can be well suited to help illuminate individual experiences located within broader social and cultural structures. By engaging in self-biographical story sharing from my position as a neophyte researcher, I will highlight some of the theoretical and methodological tensions that I have encountered in my narrative inquiry of embodied experience. Narratives provide insight into the multiple realities… [Direct]
(2021). In an Era of Soft Skills: Investigating Teamwork Skills in the Geosciences. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Western Michigan University. Geoscience employers have increasingly called for student competency in three sets of skills — technical, field and soft skills. One major soft skill identified by employers is teamwork, which is critical in laboratory and field-based activities. At the same time, educators seek to inculcate in students a stronger focus on the development of teamwork skills as they are useful for knowledge sharing and problem solving. This interconnected value of teamwork in both the workforce and academia means students' preparation should include learning teamwork in the geoscience. However, before educators can design strategies that help students learn critical teamwork skills, we need to identify what these specific skills are, and how they are enacted in academic and professional employment settings. This research was conducted as a series of studies that explored teamwork from perspective of employers and students through the lenses of input-process-output taxonomy of teamwork model by Marks… [Direct]
(2012). Unusual Suspects: The Case of Insider Theft in Research Libraries and Special Collections. College & Research Libraries, v73 n6 p556-568 Nov. The widespread theft of collection materials, including rare and unique items, continues to be an issue of great concern to libraries of all types. The potential loss of such items threatens not only an institution's operations but, in many cases, global cultural heritage. Despite an increasingly open attitude among institutions regarding sharing information about lost items and suspected perpetrators, little scholarship has examined such thefts quantitatively in an effort to draw conclusions about how such incidents occur and how best to prevent them. This paper describes a project that examines data from over twenty years of reported library theft cases in libraries and special collections to determine how frequently such losses are perpetrated by library insiders…. [Direct]
(2015). The Annual Condition of Iowa's Community Colleges, 2015. Iowa Department of Education Data reported in the Condition Report comes primarily from each of Iowa's 15 community colleges, transmitted each fall to the division's Management Information System (MIS). Upon receipt, division staff review the data for discrepancies and return summary reports to the colleges to confirm accuracy. After confirmation, data files are aggregated for analysis and subsequent reporting. This aggregated data is reported in the Condition Report as dashboards and summative data that provide snapshots of various community college functions, along with related narrative for the reader to gain a more in-depth understanding. In addition, figures depict basic statistics and demographic data for quick reference and to illustrate trends and changes over time. Tables with more detailed data can be found on the department's website. The 2015 Condition Report features two supplemental sections featuring information about innovative data projects underway at the division. Section 17 discusses in-state… [PDF]
(2018). Pedagogical Principles of Learning to Teach Meaningful Physical Education. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, v23 n2 p117-133. Background: Concerns that current forms of physical education teacher education (PETE) are not adequately providing teachers with the tools necessary for working with the realities and challenges of teaching physical education in contemporary schools has led some scholars to advocate for an approach that prioritises meaningfulness in physical education. There is, however, little empirical evidence of how future teachers might be taught to facilitate meaningful physical education experiences. Purpose: This paper describes a pedagogical approach to PETE to support pre-service teachers (PSTs) in learning how to facilitate meaningful experiences in physical education. We aim to contribute new understanding through sharing pedagogical principles that support PSTs' "Learning About Meaningful Physical Education" (LAMPE). Participants and setting: The research team consisted of three physical education teacher educators: Tim and D√©irdre who implemented LAMPE pedagogies and Mary who… [Direct]