The Substrate-Independence Theory: Advancing Constructor Theory to Scaffold Substrate Attributes for the Recursive Interaction between Knowledge and Information (open access)

The Substrate-Independence Theory: Advancing Constructor Theory to Scaffold Substrate Attributes for the Recursive Interaction between Knowledge and Information

Article exploring how information and knowledge are absorbed by utilizing Constructor Theory and the Substrate-Independence Theory.
Date: November 30, 2021
Creator: Turner, John R.; Snowden, Dave & Thurlow, Nigel
Object Type: Article
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

Complex Adaptive Team Systems (CATS)

Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation introduces a new theoretical model to facilitate interactions embedded in complex adaptive systems utilizing a Team Emergence Leadership Development and Evaluation model.
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Turner, John; Baker, Rose M. & Romine, Kerry
Object Type: Presentation
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
Multiteam systems in an agile environment: a realist systematic review (open access)

Multiteam systems in an agile environment: a realist systematic review

Article describes a collaborate study between University of North Texas and Toyota Connected focusing on how to structure and manage multiteam systems (MTSs).
Date: June 3, 2019
Creator: Turner, John; Thurlow, Nigel; Baker, Rose M.; Northcutt, David & Newman, Kelsey
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gender Differences in 7th Grade Students' Interest in STEM after Participating in a Solenoid Instructional Unit (open access)

Gender Differences in 7th Grade Students' Interest in STEM after Participating in a Solenoid Instructional Unit

Paper presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The research presented studies achievement scores and affinity towards STEM scores of male and female students after participating in a unit focused on understanding a solenoid.
Date: 2019-06-15/2019-06-19
Creator: Tyler-Wood, Tandra L.; Smith, Daniella & Johnson, Karen R.
Object Type: Paper
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
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
Teaching and Learning with Technology During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Highlighting the Need for Micro-Meso-Macro Alignments (open access)

Teaching and Learning with Technology During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Highlighting the Need for Micro-Meso-Macro Alignments

This article covers the challenges brought about for teachers and learners from transitioning to online education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors reflect on these challenges based on discussions at EDUsummIT2019 in Quebec about the theme “Learners and learning contexts: New alignments for the digital age." Informed by theoretical conceptualization and empirical evidence the authors identify micro-meso-macro alignments that need to be in place to move education into the digital age: alignments for quality learning contexts, alignments in support for teachers, and alignments through partnerships.
Date: September 20, 2021
Creator: Voogt, Joke & Knezek, Gerald
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
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
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
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
A Review of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education from 2010 to 2020 (open access)

A Review of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education from 2010 to 2020

This article provides a content analysis of studies from 2010 to 2020 aiming to disclose how artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied to the education sector and explore the potential research trends and challenges of AI in education. The content analysis shows that the research questions can be classified into development layer (classification, matching, recommendation, and deep learning), application layer (feedback, reasoning, and adaptive learning), and integration layer (affection computing, role-playing, immersive learning, and gamification).
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Zhai, Xuesong; Chu, Xiaoyan; Chai, Ching Sing; Jong, Morris Siu Yung; Istenic, Andreja; Spector, Michael et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Multi-mode Stimuli of Feedforward and Eye Tracking on Metacognition— An Exploratory Study Using Digital Dictionaries (open access)

The Effect of Multi-mode Stimuli of Feedforward and Eye Tracking on Metacognition— An Exploratory Study Using Digital Dictionaries

Article presents a study employing multi-mode stimuli of learners’ eye movements and feedforward that aims to develop the effect of Stimulated Recall (SR) on activating learners’ metacognition in remote settings.
Date: January 2022
Creator: Zhai, Xuesong; Chu, Xiaoyan; Wang, Minjuan; Spector, J. Michael; Tsai, Chin-Chung & Liu, Hui
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring Learner to Content Interaction as a Success Factor in Online Courses (open access)

Exploring Learner to Content Interaction as a Success Factor in Online Courses

Article exploring learner to content interaction as a success factor in online courses.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Zimmerman, Tekeisha Denise
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library