/news-archive/tag/annie-childers/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:24:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2018/10/23/open-education-symposium/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:24:14 +0000 /news/?p=72382 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock researchers showcase benefits of using open educational resources in the classroom]]> University of Arkansas at Little Rock faculty, staff, and students shared their experiences using open educational resources during the Open Education Southern Symposium held Oct. 1-2 at the University of Arkansas. The symposium, co-sponsored by the University Libraries and Global Campus, connected supporters of open education for presentations, lightning talks, and panel discussions. Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license, meaning they can be used freely. Educational materials like textbooks, curriculum, lecture notes, syllabi, assignments, and tests would be open to the public and could be used by students and faculty without cost. Carol Macheak, research and scholarly communications coordinator, said there is an OER Taskforce on campus that encourages 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty to consider using open educational resources as a replacement for textbooks and/or supplemental readings. 鈥淢any 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students cannot afford to purchase textbooks at the beginning of the semester, which means they are not able to read their assignments for the first 2-4 weeks of class,鈥� Mackeak said. 鈥淥ther students just can’t afford their textbooks, so they do without or they borrow and make copies or they buy an older edition.鈥� Edma Delgado-Solozano, assistant professor of Spanish, and students from the Spanish Introduction to Literature and Cultural Studies Class gave a presentation describing their development of materials for an OER textbook, the Antolog铆a abierta de literatura hispana. Students who participated in this project include Heather Rodriguez, Daisy Vasquez, Nallely Lopez, and Bryana Herrara. The textbook is the brainchild of Julie Ward, assistant professor of Spanish from the University of Oklahoma. The textbook is produced with student-generated content through the development of critical editions of canonical texts from Hispanic literature. The goal of this project is to crowd source entries including introductions, annotations in the text, and discussion questions of important literary texts in the public domain. Additional 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty and staff to present include:

• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Cori Schmidtbauer, instructional designer, 鈥淎pplying Instructional Design Strategies to Incorporate OER and Alternative Textbook Materials into Online Classes鈥�
• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Robert Belford, professor, 鈥淒eveloping a LibreText and the Application of Hypothes.is Web Annotations to Enhance Student Learning”
• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Brian Ray, assistant professor, 鈥淥pen Access, Open Development: Creating Local Educational Resources for First-Year Writing鈥�
• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Amar Kanekar, assistant professor, 聽鈥淯se of Education Resources in a Quality Matters Certified Community Health Course鈥�
• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Annie Childers, assistant professor, 鈥淥ER in Online Developmental Mathematics Classrooms鈥�
• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Jim Vander Putten, assistant professor, 鈥淢ove to Active OER Learning: Applying Bloom鈥檚 Digital Taxonomy in Education鈥�
• 听听听听听听听听听听听听Cole Williamson, research and scholarly communications librarian, and Carol Macheak, research and scholarly communications coordinator, 鈥淔aculty Incentives to Adopt OER鈥�

]]> /news-archive/2018/09/21/seed-grant-competition/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:22:04 +0000 /news/?p=71902 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock awards funding to six projects in Seed Grant Competition]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has awarded funding to six research projects by 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock faculty members through the 2018-19 Seed Grant Competition.聽 This year, the competition accepted research proposals in two tracks. Four projects were awarded funding of $6,000 each in Track A, while two projects were awarded $12,000 each in Track B. The grant period for each award is from Aug. 16, 2018, to Aug. 15, 2019. The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Seed Grant Competition aims to kickstart compelling research projects that can later be funded by external support after the term of the seed grant. The Track A winners and their projects include:

• Annie Childers and Liangfang Lu, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 鈥淧lacement and Retention in Developmental Mathematics at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥�
• Amar Kanekar, School of Counseling, Human Performance, and Rehabilitation, and Joseph Williams, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 鈥淗ealth Quest 鈥� A Training Simulation for Health Education Students and Workers鈥�
• Rebecca Glazier, School of Public Affairs, and Heidi Skurat Harris, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 鈥淚dentifying Reliable Indicators of Instructor-Student Rapport in Online Classrooms鈥�
• Fusheng Tang, Department of Biology, 鈥淥sh6-Mediated Sterol Redistribution Extends the Lifespan鈥�

The Track B winners and their projects include:

• Hirak Patangia, College of Engineering and Information Technology, 鈥淎n Experimental Investigation of a Faster Voltage Equalizer for a String of Batteries in Electric Vehicles鈥�
• Shanzhi Wang and Brian Berry, Department of Chemistry, 鈥淚nvestigation of the Pre-steady State of MTANs from Borrelia burgdorferi鈥�

Kanekar and Williams鈥� project involves testing a digital simulation that will train health education students in how to conduct public health initiatives by learning aspects of program planning and evaluation for preventing a condition/disease of public health importance. 鈥淢y co-investigator, Dr. Joe Williams, and I feel great about winning this grant as we believe that this pilot project may open up doors for extending educational games for student learning in other health courses and looking into advanced gaming projects for student learning,鈥� Kanekar said. Proposals were judged based on the significance of the research or creative activity, quality of the research plan, expected outcomes and direct impact to the community, strength of plan to seek external support, ability to enhance and acquire external support, and qualifications of the researchers. 鈥淭he quality of the proposals for this year鈥檚 Seed Grant competition blew me away,鈥� said Jerry Damerow, chair of the Dean鈥檚 Science Council for the College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences and one of judges for the seed grant competition. 鈥淭he quality was so good it made judging very difficult.鈥� Damerow said the judges looked for projects that would give 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock a competitive advantage and projects that could lead to commercially viable products or services. 鈥淚n this regard, Dr. Childers and Dr. Lu鈥檚 project to improve outcomes in developmental mathematics has the opportunity to give 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock an advantage in retaining and graduating students versus other universities that use a more traditional approach,鈥� Demerow said. 鈥淒r. Patangia鈥檚 project aimed at improving the efficiency of charging a string of batteries has important potential in the rapidly growing field of alternative energy.鈥�]]>