Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Turnover Intention of Career and Technical Education Health Science Teachers (open access)

Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Turnover Intention of Career and Technical Education Health Science Teachers

Article describes study which examines the relationships between job satisfaction, work engagement, and turnover intention of Career and Technical Education (CTE) health science teachers in the United States (US).
Date: December 19, 2019
Creator: Park, Kathleen A. & Johnson, Karen R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Stereoscopic Three-Dimensional Images on Vocabulary Learning (open access)

The Effect of Stereoscopic Three-Dimensional Images on Vocabulary Learning

Article describes study investigating the effect of stereoscopic three-dimensional (S3D) images on recall and retention of foreign language vocabulary.
Date: October 17, 2019
Creator: Kaplan-Rakowski, Regina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Multiteam System (MTS) Effectiveness Model (open access)

A New Multiteam System (MTS) Effectiveness Model

The article focuses on a systematic review of current team effectiveness frameworks and models. A narrative-based method for theorizing was utilized to develop a new MTS team effectiveness framework. This research contributes to the MTS literature by providing a new formula for team effectiveness at both the team level (team effectiveness formula) and the MTS level (MTS team effectiveness formula).
Date: April 19, 2020
Creator: Turner, John R.; Baker, Rose M.; Ali, Zain & Thurlow, Nigel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Bibliographic and Visual Exploration of the Historic Impact of Soft Systems Methodology on Academic Research and Theory (open access)

A Bibliographic and Visual Exploration of the Historic Impact of Soft Systems Methodology on Academic Research and Theory

This article produced descriptive narrative outcomes and data visualizations including information about top soft system methodology (SSM) authors, author citation impacts, common dissemination outlets for SSM work, and other relevant metrics commonly used to measure academic impact. The goal of this piece is to depict who, what, why, when, and where SSM had the greatest impact on research, systems thinking, and methodology after nearly 40 years of use, as we look towards its future as a methodological approach used to comprehend complex problem situations.
Date: December 12, 2018
Creator: Warren, Scott J.; Sauser, Brian & Nowicki, David
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Smartphones, Smart Teens captions transcript

Smartphones, Smart Teens

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Deborah Cockerham presents her research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Cockerham, Debbie
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rethinking Learning in a Digital Age: Outcomes from EDUsummIT 2017 (open access)

Rethinking Learning in a Digital Age: Outcomes from EDUsummIT 2017

This article presents the scholarly articles that were written after the 2017 EDUsummIT, based on discussions within the Thematic Working Groups during the meeting itself. The article also present the Call to Action that was consolidated from the closing statements of the nine EDUsummIT 2017 Thematic Working Groups.
Date: August 3, 2018
Creator: Voogt, Joke & Knezek, Gerald
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Game design for visually-impaired individuals: Creativity and innovation theories and sensory substitution devices influence on virtual and physical navigation skills (open access)

Game design for visually-impaired individuals: Creativity and innovation theories and sensory substitution devices influence on virtual and physical navigation skills

This article examines the design elements of three virtual reality games for functionality and transferability to orientation and mobility education for visually impaired individuals.
Date: October 23, 2018
Creator: Baker, Rose M.; Ramos, Karina & Turner, John
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Administrative Intensity and Student Retention and Success: A Three-Year Study (open access)

The Relationship between Administrative Intensity and Student Retention and Success: A Three-Year Study

This article describes a secondary data analysis study linking the internal organizational elements of administrative intensity to institutional results as evidenced by higher education student retention and graduation rates.
Date: September 22, 2018
Creator: Romine, Kerry; Baker, Rose M. & Romine, Karla A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inclusivity Instead of Exclusivity: The Role of MOOCs for College Credit (open access)

Inclusivity Instead of Exclusivity: The Role of MOOCs for College Credit

This book chapter reviews the extant model, programs, and available outcomes for the massive open online course (MOOC) credit acceptance process.
Date: 2018
Creator: Baker, Rose M.; Passmore, David L. & Mulligan, Brian Martin
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complex Adaptive Systems: Adapting and Managing Teams and Team Conflict (open access)

Complex Adaptive Systems: Adapting and Managing Teams and Team Conflict

This book chapter provides an overview of teams, complex adaptive systems, conflict stages, and conflict models, while also presenting adaptive leadership as a style that offers organizations with the capabilities of reacting to changing environments quickly.
Date: August 1, 2018
Creator: Turner, John; Baker, Rose M. & Morris, Mark
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Designing Learning for Sustainable Development: Digital Practices as Boundary Crossers and Predictors of Sustainable Lifestyles (open access)

Designing Learning for Sustainable Development: Digital Practices as Boundary Crossers and Predictors of Sustainable Lifestyles

This article contains results from a survey among students of urban and spatial planning in Slovenia to inform teacher's approaches to teaching as an important driver of institutional change.
Date: June 15, 2018
Creator: Starcic, Andreja Istenic; Terlevic, Maja; Lin, Lin & Lebenicnik, Maja
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learning Analytics and Learning Technologies (open access)

Learning Analytics and Learning Technologies

Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper discusses the roles of learning analytics and learning management systems in instructional design.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: McCauley, Kelley & Lin, Lin
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complex Adaptive Team Systems (CATS) (open access)

Complex Adaptive Team Systems (CATS)

Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper introduces a new theoretical model utilizing Turner and Baker’s (2017) Team Emergence Leadership Development and Evaluation (TELDE) model as a tool to facilitate interactions imbedded in complex adaptive systems.
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Turner, John; Romine, Kerry & Baker, Rose M.
Object Type: Paper
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learning and teaching as communicative actions: Improving historical knowledge and cognition through Second Life avatar role play (open access)

Learning and teaching as communicative actions: Improving historical knowledge and cognition through Second Life avatar role play

This article examines a higher education history course where virtual role play was implemented as an assignment.
Date: 2012
Creator: Wakefield, Jenny S.; Warren, Scott J.; Rankin, Monica A.; Mills, Leila A. & Gratch, Jonathan S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: A Mixed-Methods Twitter Study (open access)

Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: A Mixed-Methods Twitter Study

This article examines the design of a course that utilized the real-time information network Twitter to spark reflective thinking and communication based on classroom topics.
Date: 2011
Creator: Wakefield, Jenny S.; Warren, Scott J. & Alsobrook, Metta
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Five-Picture Charades: A Flexible Model for Technology Training in Digital Media Tools and Teaching Strategies (open access)

Five-Picture Charades: A Flexible Model for Technology Training in Digital Media Tools and Teaching Strategies

This article presents Five-Picture Charades, an instructional activity designed to introduce preservice and in-service teachers to the technical and pedagogical uses of digital images in the classroom.
Date: 2012
Creator: Alexander, Curby & Hammond, Thomas C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contrasting Perceptions of STEM Content and Careers (open access)

Contrasting Perceptions of STEM Content and Careers

This article presents a second year analysis of baseline attitudinal data gathered from a National Science Foundation Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers project concerning contrasts between the perceptions of practicing professionals and students toward science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and careers.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Knezek, Gerald; Christensen, Rhonda & Tyler-Wood, Tandra L.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retrospective Pretest: A Practical Technique For Professional Development Evaluation (open access)

Retrospective Pretest: A Practical Technique For Professional Development Evaluation

This article discusses the field test of an instrument incorporating a retrospective pretest to determine whether it could reliably be used as an evaluation tool for a professional development conference.
Date: 2007
Creator: Allen, Jeff M. & Nimon, Kim F.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library