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Online Versus Face-to-Face Education
Get PDFThis paper explores the benefits and disadvantages of online and face-to-face modes of education. Throughout the paper, I discuss whether online courses provide the same level of education as face-to-face courses without the nurturing, attentive, and physical aspects. Based on extensive reading on the topic, as well drawing on my personal experience, I argue that online and face-to-face education can have both positive and negative effects on students’ learning. However, I conclude that online courses do not provide the same level of education that face-to-face courses do, based on the nurturing, attentive, and often physical aspects that traditional education provides. I provide what I hope is an argument that will help others appreciate that face-to-face courses provide a more effective and helpful way for students to have a successful academic career
1.2 Increasing Engagement through Access to a Remote Laboratory
No full textThis study focuses on a cross-curricular inquiry program centred on the BC-Integrated Laboratory Network that provides online remote access to analytical instrumentation in chemistry. Through the theoretical lens of Productive Disciplinary Engagement (Engle & Conant, 2002), and a pilot study survey, students indicated that they were highly engaged, specifically in the discipline of science, and this engagement was productive in advancing their learning. Current work, is underway to analyze video recording of students, to investigate how this productive disciplinary engagement develops. This presentation will include a discussion of the following: Outlining the cross-curricular program and the activity facilitated by BC-ILN The Productive Disciplinary Engagement theoretical framework Analysis of video recordings Future wor
2.1 Connecting Students with Indigenous Content in the Classroom: Ideas and Strategies
No full textThis presentation will showcase ways in which I sought to consider and integrate Indigenous content into my teaching and assignments for courses in the areas of Communication, Popular Culture and New Media. From hashtag assignments via social media to discussions of a variety of film and television, I will present some effective ways in which students (in and outside the classroom) were able to examine and connect with Indigenous content
Making Thinking Visible
No full textInstructional practices in the K-12 sector are evolving to encourage students to think critically and deeply. These practices are easily transferable to higher education and working with adults. This session will describe and demonstrate a collection of thinking routines developed at Harvard\u27s Project Zero that can be used in a wide variety of academic disciplines
Benefits of Combining Distraction and Reappraisal in the Face of an Anger-Inducing Event
No full textResearch evidence on emotion regulation has indicated that reappraisal, the process of rethinking an event so that the emotional impact is reduced, is a more effective long-term strategy for reducing anger than distraction, the process of diverting one’s attention from an emotional event. However, the efficacy of combining these strategies has not been tested. In the present study, participants recall an anger-inducing interpersonal event and employ one of three emotion regulation approaches: distraction, reappraisal, or distraction followed by reappraisal. We will compare the long-term effects of these three approaches on reducing anger by measuring anger pre-emotion regulation, post emotion regulation, and post re-exposure to the anger-eliciting event. We expect that participants who solely distract will experience immediate decreases in anger, but a return to initial levels upon re-exposure to the anger-eliciting event, while participants who solely reappraise will experience a more gradual decrease in anger over time. We also predict that participants who distract and then reappraise will experience the greatest long-term decreases in anger following re-exposure to the event. The findings of the current study will allow for a better understanding of the efficacy of the different ways we control our emotions
The Role of Consequence Salience and Evidence Threshold in Perceptions of Child Neglect
No full textThe present study used vignette scenarios of a case of child neglect to explore the influence of salient consequences and certainty in abuse (i.e., level of evidence) on perceptions of child neglect, child credibility, likelihood of reporting, and responsibility towards the child. Undergraduate students (N = 199) were randomly assigned to read one of nine different vignettes. The study was a 3 (Consequences: child, adult, control) x 3 (Levels of additional evidence: none, moderate, strong) between-subjects design. After reading the scenario, participants provided judgements of their likely future actions and rated perceptions of the child. Results showed participants were most likely to report to both social services and the police when the consequences of the abuse were more child-focused [F(2, 198) = 8.05, p \u3c .001, ƞp2 = .08, F(2, 198) = 13.97, p \u3c .001, ƞp2 = .13, respectively] than when they were adult-focused or in the control condition. However, salient consequences did not impact the likelihood of contacting either the child’s father or another informal option (“someone else”), ps \u3e .05. Surprisingly, despite significant increases in the belief that the child was abused as a function of increasing evidence, F(2, 198) = 7.02, p \u3c .001, ƞp2 = .07, there were no effects of varying levels of evidence on participants reporting behavior, ps \u3e .05. Implications for this study could lead to the development of programs for reporting child abuse and provide insight into why people who suspect child abuse decide whether or not to report the abuse
Pacifism and Challenges to Liberty in Canada during the First World War
No full textThe overall aim of my research has been to arrive at a better understanding of how beliefs and values shape, or fail to shape, how we act. A few of the key concepts I explored were pacifism, liberty, self, and conscience. Given the extent of the topic, I approached research in an interdisciplinary manner, drawing predominantly from the subjects of philosophy, psychology, religious studies, and history. In order to limit the scope of the project my research focused on a particular group of people during a particular time, namely, on Canadian pacifists during the First World War (WW1). Accordingly, my presentation will include a brief explanation of what is meant by pacifism, liberty, self, and conscience, an overview of pacifist activity in Canada during WW1, and a discussion on a few of the major theoretical constructs underlying person-centered therapy and their connection to aspects of pacifist moral theory. Ultimately I make the case that action in accord with conscience has both a social and psychological benefit
Female Gaze Times and Preferences of Online Dating Profiles
No full textThis study aims to corroborate research done on females’ online dating preferences and also determine if manipulating the variables of physical attractiveness, income, warmth and intelligence will affect how long heterosexual females will look at a male’s online dating profile. Participants will view 16 hypothetical male online dating profiles, rating potential interest in dating them for both a short- and long-term relationship while their eye movements are being monitored. We are hypothesizing that the manipulation of these variables will have a significant effect on the participants’ interest in dating the profile, as well as affect looking times. Specifically, we expect that gaze times will be longer for high levels of the variables, and shorter for low levels. Additional interactions between these variables and their impact on gaze times will also be explored
Contact with an Underlying Surface May Enable the Development of Precise Visually Guided Reach and Grasp Movements in Human Infants
No full textMultiple Motor Channel (MMC) Theory posits that the reach and the grasp originate under haptic control and only come under visual guidance later in development. However, it is currently unknown how the transition from non-visually to visually guided reaching and grasping occurs. To investigate the possible factors that enable this transition 12-month-old infants, as well as sighted and blindfolded adults, were filmed as they reached for Cheerios on either a transparent table or narrow pedestal. Frame-by-frame video analysis revealed that the reach and grasp movements of infants differed significantly from both sighted and blindfolded adults. When reaching, infants, like blindfolded adults, almost always contacted the table with an open hand before they contacted the Cheerio. After table contact, however, infants resembled sighted adults in that they used the tip of an appropriate grasping digit to establish first contact with the target. Interestingly, infants were much less likely to use the appropriate digit tip to establish first contact when the Cheerio was located atop the pedestal. These results suggest that tactile contact with the underlying tabletop plays a causal role in helping infants develop the ability to use vision to direct their grasping digits towards a precise target location
Uncovering the Metabolomic Fingerprint of Exercise-Derived Platelet Microvesicles
No full textMicrovesicles (MVs) are lipid-enclosed vesicles that bleb off the plasma membrane of various cells when subject to chemical or physical stressors. These MVs range from 0.1 μm to 1.0 μm and are implicated in many important processes such as angiogenesis and tumorigenesis through the transfer of cargo from cell to cell. MV origins are diverse but, in circulation, approximately 70% are of platelet origin. Recent research suggests that high-intensity exercise is linked to an increase of platelet microvesiculation and enhanced cell behaviours that mimic angiogenesis in vitro. Many proteins and other transcripts have been found as platelet microvesicle (PMV) cargo but the metabolites in PMVs have not been extensively studied. Exercise may perturb the metabolites within platelets and consequently modify the metabolomic fingerprint of PMVs. This study aims to identify metabolite changes that may exist between PMVs obtained at rest and those after a bout of high intensity exercise. To assess this profile, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy (Bruker 500 MHz using 1D 1H NMR and 2D 1H-1H correlation spectroscopy (COSY)) was used to assess the metabolic profile from PMV obtained before and after 45 minutes of high intensity exercise in ten participants. The chemical shifts and correlations of protons in the NMR spectra were queried in the human metabolome database (HMDB), giving a percentage probability of metabolites in the samples. Future research can focus on which biochemical pathways these metabolites will be shunted through, providing a better understanding of the link between exercise and PMV function