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Information Seeking, Information Sharing, and going mobile: Three bridges to informal learning (open access)

Information Seeking, Information Sharing, and going mobile: Three bridges to informal learning

This article introduces a new perspective on information behavior in Web 2.0 environments, including the role of mobile access in bridging formal to informal learning.
Date: September 8, 2013
Creator: Mills, Leila A.; Knezek, Gerald & Khaddage, Ferial
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emerging educational technologies: Tensions and synergy (open access)

Emerging educational technologies: Tensions and synergy

This article conducts a review of high level sources with regard to new and emerging technologies, including a critique using established principles pertaining to learning and instruction, and a recommended curriculum for advanced learning technologies
Date: November 4, 2013
Creator: Spector, J. Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bringing the World to the Classroom through Videoconferencing and Project-based Learning (open access)

Bringing the World to the Classroom through Videoconferencing and Project-based Learning

Article describes a case study of a Texas-based school that implemented global projects to connect their students with many states and countries as a platform for integrating collaboration and communication skills, technology tools, and cultural diversity into an existing curriculum.
Date: April 23, 2014
Creator: Hopper, Susan B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Longitudinal analysis of cognitive constructs fostered by STEM activities for middle school students (open access)

Longitudinal analysis of cognitive constructs fostered by STEM activities for middle school students

This article studies whether the changes found to occur pre- to post intervention in students' cognitive structures continued to persist two years later.
Date: June 2014
Creator: Christensen, Rhonda; Knezek, Gerald; Tyler-Wood, Tandra L. & Gibson, David C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conceptualizing the emerging field of smart learning environments (open access)

Conceptualizing the emerging field of smart learning environments

This article suggests that a convergence of advances and developments in epistemology, psychology, and technology provide a foundation for the planning and implementation of smart learning environments. It includes an approach for the evaluation of smart learning environments.
Date: October 16, 2014
Creator: Spector, J. Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring the richness of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries (open access)

Exploring the richness of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries

This article reports results of a study that used an in-depth comparative content analysis to assess free-text and controlled vocabulary collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries in the European Union and the USA.
Date: December 31, 2014
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unveiling the Co-Word Structures Among Mobile Computing, Mobile Commerce and Mobile Application Research: A Science Mapping Analysis (open access)

Unveiling the Co-Word Structures Among Mobile Computing, Mobile Commerce and Mobile Application Research: A Science Mapping Analysis

Article on the interplay over time among mobile computing, commerce and applications. The study performed is a co-word analysis for a corpus of 4821 SCI/SSCI indexed papers related to mobility in the Web of Science (WoS) database from 1995 to 2013. The emerging concepts demonstrated in the strategic diagrams and the associated co-word structures have implications for future research.
Date: 2015
Creator: Chang, Hsia-Ching & Wang, Chen-Ya
System: The UNT Digital Library
Service learning in action: Integrating reflection to deepen the educational experience (open access)

Service learning in action: Integrating reflection to deepen the educational experience

This article focuses on service learning projects (SLPs) sponsored by the University of North Texas College of Information. A constructivist learning environment perspective was applied to the potential for library science international service learning projects to provide a short term learning environment that introduces pedagogy, provides the opportunity to develop and apply new skills, energizes students to develop cultural competence, and develops reflective skills towards the pursuit of wisdom.
Date: February 2015
Creator: Baron, Benjamin K. & Schultz-Jones, Barbara
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building a Framework of Metadata Change to Support Knowledge Management (open access)

Building a Framework of Metadata Change to Support Knowledge Management

Article defining ways that metadata records might change (addition, deletion, or modification) and describing a study to evaluate multiple versions of selected records in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections to observe the types and frequency of various changes.
Date: April 17, 2015
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Kizhakkethil, Priya; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Seeking Behavior of Clergy: The Research, The Results, and the Future (open access)

Information Seeking Behavior of Clergy: The Research, The Results, and the Future

This article reviews the information seeking behaviors of clergy.
Date: June 29, 2015
Creator: Dankasa, Jacob
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research-Informed Strategies to Address Educational Challenges Ina Digitally Networked World (open access)

Research-Informed Strategies to Address Educational Challenges Ina Digitally Networked World

This article provides the background and aim of EDUSummiIT, the Third International Summit on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, with an overview of the contents of this special issue.
Date: September 3, 2015
Creator: Voogt, Joke; Knezek, Gerald & Pareja Roblin, Natalie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Challenges for Educational Technologists in the 21st Century (open access)

Challenges for Educational Technologists in the 21st Century

This article describes the challenges that 21st century educational technologists are, and will be addressing as they undertake the effective integration of new technologies into K-12 educational systems and learning environments.
Date: September 17, 2015
Creator: Mayes, Robin; Natividad, Gloria & Spector, J. Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Student, School, Parent Connectedness, and School Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Saudi Arabia (open access)

Student, School, Parent Connectedness, and School Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Saudi Arabia

This article investigates select school behaviors, including school absenteeism, engaging in fights, and discipline for misconduct at school as well as their association with the school environment, school and home connectedness.
Date: October 31, 2015
Creator: AlMakadma, AbdulKarim S. & Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini
System: The UNT Digital Library
Representation of Recorded Knowledge and Extended Date/Time Format: A Case Study of the Digital Public Library of America (open access)

Representation of Recorded Knowledge and Extended Date/Time Format: A Case Study of the Digital Public Library of America

This paper presents results of a study that analyzed representation of dates and time in one of the largest aggregators of digital content in the world -- the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The findings demonstrate both similarities and differences in date and time representation across DPLA content hub and service hub provider groups.
Date: 2015-11-04/2015-11-06
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward; Kizhakkethil, Priya; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior as risk factors for human papillomavirus infection in Saudi Arabia (open access)

Sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior as risk factors for human papillomavirus infection in Saudi Arabia

This article seeks to determine the prevalence and the sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior risk factors for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in a hospital-based cohort of women in Saudi Arabia.
Date: April 3, 2016
Creator: Alhamlan, F. S.; Khayat, H. H.; Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini; Al-Muammar, T. A.; Tulbah, A. M.; Al-Badawi, I. A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Value and Pricing of MOOCs (open access)

Value and Pricing of MOOCs

This article reviews the potential for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to transform higher education delivery, accessibility, and costs.
Date: May 27, 2016
Creator: Baker, Rose M. & Passmore, David L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Life Between Big Data Log Events: Learners' Strategies to Overcome Challenges in MOOCs (open access)

The Life Between Big Data Log Events: Learners' Strategies to Overcome Challenges in MOOCs

This article discusses a study in which 92 MOOC learners were interviewed to better understand their worlds, investigate possible mechanisms of student attrition, and extend conversations about the use of big data in education.
Date: June 1, 2016
Creator: Veletsianos, George; Reich, Justin & Pasquini, Laura A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using the mTSES to Evaluate and Optimize mLearning Professional Development (open access)

Using the mTSES to Evaluate and Optimize mLearning Professional Development

This article reports on the findings from the analysis of data collected using the Mobile Teacher's Sense of Efficacy Scale survey instrument, from an open course about mobile learning called Instructional Design for Mobile Learning that took place from May 4 through June 6, 2015.
Date: June 2016
Creator: Power, Robert; Cristol, Dean; Gimbert, Belinda; Bartoletti, Robin & Kilgore, Whitney
System: The UNT Digital Library
EDUsummIT: A Global Knowledge Building Community for Educational Researchers, Practitioners, and Policy Makers (open access)

EDUsummIT: A Global Knowledge Building Community for Educational Researchers, Practitioners, and Policy Makers

This paper reports findings of an evaluative study conducted at the conclusion of EDUsummIT 2015 to investigate the effectiveness and impact of EDUsummIT.
Date: July 2016
Creator: Lai, Kwok-Wing; Voogt, Joke; Knezek, Gerald & Gibson, David C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Multilevel System of Quality Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching Indicators (open access)

A Multilevel System of Quality Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching Indicators

This paper elaborates and extends the work of the EDUsummIT 2015 Thematic Working Group 7 by proposing a set of indicators on quality Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching.
Date: July 2016
Creator: Law, Nancy; Niederhauser, Dale S.; Christensen, Rhonda & Shear, Linda
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment for 21st Century Learning (open access)

Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment for 21st Century Learning

This article is based on the deliberations of the Assessment Working Group at EDUsummIT 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. All of the members of Thematic Working Group 5 (TWG5) have contributed to this synthesis of potentials, concerns and issues with regard to the role of technology in assessment as, for and of learning in the 21st century.
Date: July 2016
Creator: Spector, J. Michael; Ifenthaler, Dirk; Sampson, Demetrios; Yang, Lan (Joy); Mukama, Evode; Warusavitarana, Amali et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing an Empirically-Based Framework of Metadata Change and Exploring Relation Between Metadata Change and Metadata Quality in Marc Library Metadata (open access)

Developing an Empirically-Based Framework of Metadata Change and Exploring Relation Between Metadata Change and Metadata Quality in Marc Library Metadata

This paper from International Conference on Knowledge Management, ICKM 2016 conference proceedings seeks to test and refine the metadata change framework initially developed for characterizing the change in digital library metadata, in the study of traditional library metadata.
Date: September 27, 2016
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Zavalin, Vyacheslav; Shakeri, Shadi & Kizhakkethil, Priya
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology Enhanced Instruction: An Example of English Language Learning in the Context of Peace (open access)

Technology Enhanced Instruction: An Example of English Language Learning in the Context of Peace

This study reveals the impact of learning through technology in the English language.
Date: April 18, 2017
Creator: Sasi, Sabri; Chang, Maiga; Altinay-Aksal, Fahriye; Kayimbasioglu, Dervis; Haci, Huseyin; Kinshuk et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
How does intrinsic and extrinsic motivation drive performance culture in organizations? (open access)

How does intrinsic and extrinsic motivation drive performance culture in organizations?

Article reviews literature on the subject of employee motivation to determine whether intrinsic or extrinsic motivation is becoming the driving force of business.
Date: June 2, 2017
Creator: Turner, Arielle
System: The UNT Digital Library