Analysis of Management and Employee Job Satisfaction (open access)

Analysis of Management and Employee Job Satisfaction

Article on an analysis of management and employee job satisfaction for gender, age group, length of time with the organization, and between management and non-management employees.
Date: January 2004
Creator: Andrews, Charles G. & Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Applying Technology to Online Counseling: Suggestions for the Beginning E-Therapist (open access)

Applying Technology to Online Counseling: Suggestions for the Beginning E-Therapist

Article discussing research on applying technology to online counseling and suggestions for the beginning e-therapist.
Date: 2004
Creator: Elleven, Russell K. & Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling (open access)

Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling

Article reports on a trace-based assessment of approaches to learning used by middle school aged children who interacted with NASA Mars Mission science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) games in Whyville, an online game environment with 8 million registered young learners. Differences in approach to learning were found illustrating the potential value of the methodology to curriculum and game-based learning designers as well as other creators of online STEM content for pre-college youth.
Date: September 5, 2022
Creator: Knezek, Gerald; Gibson, David; Christensen, Rhonda; Trevisan, Ottavia & Carter, Morgan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of ICT in Tertiary Education Applying Structural Equation Modeling and Rasch Model (open access)

Assessment of ICT in Tertiary Education Applying Structural Equation Modeling and Rasch Model

Article studies information and communication technology (ICT) in tertiary education. This article is part of the special collection: Educational Psychology & Counseling, Educational Psychology.
Date: December 21, 2020
Creator: Spector, J. Michael; Islam, A. Y. M. Atiquil; Gu, Xiaoqing & Crook, Charles
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
Bot-teachers in hybrid massive open online courses (MOOCs): A post-humanist experience (open access)

Bot-teachers in hybrid massive open online courses (MOOCs): A post-humanist experience

This article explores networked learning technologies and the development of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). The study examines and explains hybrid MOOCs and focuses on the use of bot-teachers within a post-humanist perspective. The research findings reveal that, while the use of bot-teachers is beneficial in terms of facilitating and increasing discourse/interaction, it is ineffective in providing other components of teaching presence. Yet ultimately, learners' positive behaviors indicate that bot-teachers hold promise as an educational tool.
Date: July 20, 2018
Creator: Bozkurt, Aras; Kilgore, Whitney & Crosslin, Matt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Campus Chaplains: Cult Training and Perceptions (open access)

Campus Chaplains: Cult Training and Perceptions

This article examines the perception of 43 college chaplains across the United States with regard to cult training and perceptions of college and university cult activity.
Date: June 1, 2004
Creator: Elleven, Russell K.; Greenhaw, Kimberly J. & Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Challenges of Training and Retraining Mature Learners (open access)

The Challenges of Training and Retraining Mature Learners

Article discussing research on the aging process from physical, cognitive, and social and psychological perspectives, accommodations for age related changes, retraining mature learners, adaptations of the classroom environment, training technology issues, and successful corporate retraining programs to better prepare vocational educators for the workforce of the new millennium.
Date: 1998
Creator: Ennis-Cole, Demetria & Allen, Jeff M.
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) (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
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
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
Copyright and Fair Use: An Issue of Ethics in a Changing Learning Environment (open access)

Copyright and Fair Use: An Issue of Ethics in a Changing Learning Environment

Article discussing copyright and fair use in regards to ethics in a changing learning environment.
Date: 2004
Creator: Allen, Jeff M.; Elleven, Russell K.; Andrews, Charles G.; Cox, Lynne Cagle & Clem, Karen E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creativity and Innovative Processes: Assemblages and Lines of Flight (open access)

Creativity and Innovative Processes: Assemblages and Lines of Flight

Article provides assemblage maps showing the elements related to creativity, innovation, and creativity and innovation. These assemblage maps highlight virtual and dynamic flight lines that represent potentially active components with varying intensity and direction, which provides a tool for managers and practitioners to identify potentialities for future predictions better.
Date: September 26, 2022
Creator: Turner, John R.; Baker, Rose M. & Thurlow, Nigel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cross-Cultural Training and Success Versus Failure of Expatriates (open access)

Cross-Cultural Training and Success Versus Failure of Expatriates

Article discussing cross-cultural training and the success versus failure of expatriates.
Date: 2012
Creator: Joshua-Gojer, Ashwini Esther
Object Type: Article
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
The Development and Assessment of an Instrument for Measuring Mental Model Styles in Korea (open access)

The Development and Assessment of an Instrument for Measuring Mental Model Styles in Korea

This article discusses a research study on the development and assessment of an instrument for measuring mental model styles in Korea.
Date: 2012
Creator: Chermack, Thomas J.; Song, Ji Hoon; Nimon, Kim F.; Choi, Myungweon & Korte, Russel F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Curation and Data Management Capacity Building: Curricula and Workforce

Poster presented at the 2012 ALISE Annual Conference. This poster discusses digital curation and data management capacity building, as part of the iCAMP project.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun; Moen, William E.; Whitworth, Cliff; Wakefield, Jenny S.; Warga, Edward; Helsing, Joseph et al.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distance learning during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining K-12 students’ and parents’ experiences and perspectives (open access)

Distance learning during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining K-12 students’ and parents’ experiences and perspectives

Article examines K-12 students and parents in the United States’ experiences and challenges during the sudden shift to distance learning during the COVID19 crisis. This article is part of the special issue: Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19.
Date: 2020
Creator: Simpson, Jenna Conan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Educators', Administrators' and Students' Perceptions of Principles of Technology Programs in Pennsylvania (open access)

Educators', Administrators' and Students' Perceptions of Principles of Technology Programs in Pennsylvania

This study assesses the Principles of Technology Applied Science high school courses taught in Pennsylvania.
Date: 1998
Creator: Chinoda, Michelle D. & Allen, Jeff M.
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
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
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library