(2024). Preparing the Future Nutrition Professional: Exploring the Pedagogical Benefits of Active Learning. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota. The education and training of future food and nutrition professionals plays a vital role in preparation for managing complex food and nutrition problems. Within food systems, food???? and nutrition professionals provide nutrition education to individuals and families and work to ensure? ?access???? to nutritious and culturally significant foods. Food and nutrition professionals work collaboratively across a range of sectors and disciplines to advance the cause of healthy dietary practices. Their efforts are aimed at mitigating the prevalence of diet-related illnesses, addressing malnutrition concerns, combating the rising rates of overweight and obesity, and ensuring equitable access to food. Through interdisciplinary partnerships and the implementation of diverse strategies, they aim to develop sustainable solutions that contribute to the health and well-being of individuals and communities. However, current higher education students enrolled in ?the ?Didactic Program in Dietetics… [Direct]
(2011). MEANZ and NSTP Mentoring Pilot Programme Evaluation. Final Report. New Zealand Council for Educational Research The Museum Education Association of New Zealand (MEANZ) and the National Services Te Paerangi (NSTP) set up a pilot mentoring programme for museum educators in New Zealand. The overall goals for the programme were to: (1) facilitate professional relationships between museum educators who are in need of information and assistance and those who can offer knowledge and support; and (2) build the capacity of the museum education sector by capturing and sharing the exchange of knowledge and expertise that occurs between mentors and mentees. Three pairs of mentors/mentees took part in the pilot programme. The programme took place over six weeks (from mid-November until Christmas 2010). The programme was shorter than initially planned due to some unexpected delays. The evaluation was completed in January 2011. All participants felt they had learnt a lot from the mentoring programme. The participants were very complimentary about their mentors/mentees. They felt they had met their goals and… [Direct]
(2013). Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities 2013 Annual Report: The Champions of Hispanic Success in Higher Education. Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities For over a quarter of a century, 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), which enroll more than 50 percent of all Hispanics in postsecondary education. HACU serves its membership through advocacy, conferences, partnerships and educational programs, and offers scholarships and internship opportunities for students. HACU, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) association representing… [PDF]
(2011). Communities of Practice with Teaching Supervisors: A Discussion of Community Members' Experiences. Journal of Educational Change, v12 n4 p403-420 Nov. This paper presents the results of a study of interviews (N = 17) conducted with members of a community of practice (CP) comprised of school principals, vice principals, and department heads responsible for teacher supervision in their respective schools. This CP met once a month over the course of 2 years to work on adapting the New Brunswick Department of Education's Francophone Teacher Evaluation Program. Using Wenger's ("Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity." Cambridge University Press, New York, 1998) CP theoretical framework centered on four main concepts, namely meaning, practice, community, and identity, our study reveals that participants acquired knowledge by sharing their teacher supervision experiences. The participants learned new knowledge from others, enriched their supervision practices, and also gained indispensable practical skills with regard to the supervisory process. Furthermore, their fruitful discussions resulted in the creation of… [Direct]
(2012). Supporting the Process of Developing and Managing LOM Application Profiles: The ASK-LOM-AP Tool. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, v5 n3 p238-250 3rd Qtr. A number of international initiatives, such as the Open Educational Resources initiative, have recognized the potential value of sharing and reusing digital resources among educational communities. As a result, organizing, offering, and accessing these resources over the web have been key issues for both the research and the educational community. Within this framework, a popular way for describing digital educational resources is the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) Standard. On the other hand, it has been also recognized that it is not possible for a generic standard such as IEEE LOM to fully meet the specific requirements and accommodate the particular needs of different educational communities. Therefore, the practice of generating Application Profiles (APs) of the IEEE LOM has emerged and a number of different APs have been developed worldwide. However, despite the widespread development of APs it seems that only a limited number of software tools exist, to support the… [Direct]
(2012). The Common Core Standards: A Teacher Board Member's Perspective. State Education Standard, v12 n2 p43-44 Aug. As the teacher representative on the Mississippi Board of Education, the author often has the opportunity to hear about many educational programs and initiatives during their early stages of development. One particular initiative presented to the state board in 2010 was the Common Core State Standards. After reading and studying the standards, the author quickly realized that significant changes in education would be coming soon. In the two years that have passed since the Common Core inauguration, she has gained a deeper understanding of just how much those changes will affect her, her students, and her own children. In her role as a board member, the word "state" is significant because for the first time in the history of America's education system, a large majority of states are collaborating for the common good of the students. By sharing common standards, teachers from all over the country will be able to hold all students to the same high level of academic… [Direct]
(2017). New Languages and Landscapes of Higher Education. Oxford University Press The landscapes of higher education have been changing rapidly, with enormous growths in participation rates in many countries across the world, and major developments and changes within institutions. But the languages that we need to conceptualise and understand these changes have not been keeping pace. The central argument in this book is that new ways of thinking about higher education, the new languages of its title, are needed to understand the role of universities and colleges in contemporary society and culture and the global economy, new landscapes. Over-reliance on existing conceptualisations of higher education, has made it difficult to understand fully the nature of 21st-century higher education. It may also have encouraged a view that there is no alternative to the development of more marketized forms of higher education. The analysis offered suggests that the future is much more open. It argues that familiar categories, normally accepted as givens, are actually more… [Direct]
(2010). Secure and Privacy-Preserving Distributed Information Brokering. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University. As enormous structured, semi-structured and unstructured data are collected and archived by organizations in many realms ranging from business to health networks to government agencies, the needs for efficient yet secure inter-organization information sharing naturally arise. Unlike early information sharing approaches that only involve a small number of databases, new information sharing applications are often assumed to be built atop a large volume of geographically distributed databases. Moreover, with increasing concerns on protecting the sensitive and/or proprietary data, the organizations prefer sharing data in a more secure and privacy-preserving manner, instead of establishing a purely full trust relationship and releasing the control over the shared data. In this dissertation, we explore new information sharing infrastructures to address the new challenges on "security," "privacy", and "scalability." We first explore access control deployment… [Direct]
(2011). Learning Culture, Line Manager and HR Professional Practice. Journal of European Industrial Training, v35 n9 p914-928. Purpose: This paper aims to focus on the role of line management and learning culture in the development of professional practice for the human resource (HR) practitioner. Design/methodology/approach: Three-year longitudinal, matched-pair study involving five participants and their line managers. Findings: Two of the five participants experienced greater career growth and professional development, due to various factors; the roles of line management and learning culture. Research limitations/implications: Limitations are the nature of the research and small numbers in the study. This paper considers only two of the five categories that emerged and does not include the quantitative data findings. Practical implications: Greater attention needs to be given to informal learning processes and knowledge-sharing activities in organisations. Originality/value: Due to a number of constraints, the longitudinal method used in this research is rare. There are significant benefits to gathering… [Direct]
(2012). Will We Be Admitting Foreign Students in 1975?. Journal of College Admission, n214 p4-11 Win. Over the past several years, the admissions officer has been confronted with a situation that does not fit into the scheme of his normal operations–namely, the admission of foreign students. Often, because it has not been in the order of things, he has delegated this \irksome\ problem to some \lowly\ assistant or to the interested professor who at one time volunteered to assist on the occasional application from abroad. These applications continue to come and will increase in number–perhaps beyond the present expectations. Many administrators and faculty members express affirmative interest in having foreign students simply to provide an international flavor or color to their campuses. In this paper, the author proposes that each college and university undertake a self-evaluation of its resources in order to determine if and how it can educate foreign students. The institution must also decide on the extent of its investment toward international exchange either alone or in… [PDF]
(2012). Leading by Learning, Learning by Leading. Professional Development in Education, v38 n2 p247-266. Data from a study of 81 exemplary secondary school teachers across the United States provide a portrait of how these teachers have become leaders whose influence and partnerships extend well beyond their classrooms and schools. Propelled by a deep personal desire to learn and a commitment to help students learn, the teachers are learners first, leaders second: their leadership occurs as a by-product of their learning. As teachers, they become pedagogical innovators in their quest to learn what helps students learn. They develop deep knowledge of students, curricula and pedagogy, in part by changing grade levels and schools, observing and learning from students, and consulting with parents. They seek specific professional development, internal and external colleagues and partnerships, professional organisations, and opportunities to team teach and observe peers. As they learn, they refine who they are as a person. Over time, the teachers find, accept or create ways to help colleagues… [Direct]
(2010). Compassion: Practical Classroom Activities. Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, n193 p56-60 May-Jun. Compassion is a deep feeling of sharing the suffering of another. It is a mixture of words, thoughts, and actions that allow a child to be sympathetic to the needs of others. Young children today witness many conflicting values. Values promoted in the media and popular culture often glorify disrespect and unkindness, with beauty and possessions emphasized over actions and service to others. This article identifies behaviors that instill compassion in its many facets. Each activity corresponds to one of the letters spelling out COMPASSION. The authors present sample strategies that can help parents and teachers develop children's capacity for compassion and help them to become adults who can lead happy, healthy, and compassionate lives…. [Direct]
(2010). Taking Down Walls: An International Wiki Creates a Community of Thinkers. Voices from the Middle, v18 n1 p17-25 Sep. This article explores collaboration between a rural school in upstate New York and an international school in Amman, Jordan. The authors describe how they provided their students with real audiences for their writing, and, over time, built an international community of writers. Classroom walls were blurred as the authors "team-taught" one another's students, planned writing lessons, and provided support to each other for this project. By tracing students' writing throughout the school year, the authors show how students' interest in each other developed and therefore led to international understanding. Key points include: providing real audiences for student writing; collaborating using a Wikispace; sharing points of view internationally; and developing a community of writers…. [Direct]
(2013). Mining and Indexing Graph Databases. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University. Graphs are widely used to model structures and relationships of objects in various scientific and commercial fields. Chemical molecules, proteins, malware system-call dependencies and three-dimensional mechanical parts are all modeled as graphs. In this dissertation, we propose to mine and index those graph data to enable fast and scalable search. There are two common search scenarios: subgraph search and supergraph search. In a subgraph search, given a query graph q, the algorithm searches for all graphs that have q as a subgraph, from a graph database. A supergraph search, on the other hand, retrieves all the database graphs that have q as a supergraph. Determining whether a graph is a subgraph (or supergraph) of another is an NP-complete problem. Hence, it is challenging to efficiently process graph queries on large databases. Graph indices are commonly built to fast process graph queries. Subgraph patterns are mined from the graph database to build such graph indices. It has been… [Direct]
(2009). Health Insurance, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes: A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics. Journal of Human Resources, v44 n1 p47-114 Win. Prescription drug coverage creates a change in medical care consumption, beyond standard moral hazard, arising both from the differential cost-sharing and the relative effectiveness of different types of care. We model the dynamic supplemental health insurance decisions of Medicare beneficiaries, their medical care demand, and subsequent health outcomes over time. Using parameter estimates obtained with longitudinal individual-level data, we simulate behavior under different drug coverage scenarios. Prescription drug coverage increases drug expenditures by 7 percent to 27 percent over a five-year period. While mortality rates fall slightly, the survivors have poorer health, leading to higher total medical expenditures. (Contains 21 tables, 4 figures and 19 footnotes.)… [Direct]