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Metaverse in in the Geography Lecture Classroom? Evaluating ‘Group VR’ Possibilities Using the Multiplayer ‘Wooorld’ VR App
No full textWith the introduction of in-class group-based virtual reality (VR), multiple students can interact in a single shared “metaverse”. One geography-focused group VR option is the Wooorld app, available on various Meta Quest unit models. To evaluate the feasibility of group VR in a higher education geography lecture classroom, a pilot study was run for two days with a small, upper-level Urban Geography class at Arkansas Tech University in spring 2023. Using multiple wireless Meta Quest 2 headsets, the class collectively used the Wooorld app to visit 3D-rendered global downtowns. Inside the app, students saw each other’s avatars and manipulated the viewing area for the rest of the class. Students completed pre/post-experience surveys, and the data suggest strong student enthusiasm for shared VR, and for Wooorld. However, some technical and physical space issues arose. While this pilot study aimed to evaluate the potential of classroom group VR via the Wooorld app, this study also considers the possibility of using group VR in future geography lecture classrooms
Educational Learning Theories
Get PDFReview of OER Educational Learning textbook by Molly Xhou and David Brown, available at https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/education-textbooks/1
Action Research
Get PDFReview of OER Educational Research textbook by J. Spencer Clark, Suzanne Porath, Julie Thiele, and Moragan M. Jobe, available https://kstatelibraries.pressbooks.pub/gradactionresearch
Introduction to Programming and Applied Analytics Using Python
Get PDFThis open electronic textbook is a collection of lecture notes, assignments, and additional background material for a junior level analytics course targeted for business students, it is free to use and copy. The text assumes readers have not had prior programming or computing courses, but have had at least one analytics course. The textbook differs from other textbooks because it serves a dual purpose, to first introduce to students the Python programming language and secondly to introduce analytics programming in Python. It is not meant to be a comprehensive book on the Python language or data analytics, rather a semester’s worth of lessons to take business data analytics students with no Python knowledge to a point where they can competently manipulate, explore, and analyze data using Python. Data sets used in this text are available upon request from [email protected]. Solutions to practice problems are found in Appendix A.https://orc.library.atu.edu/atu_oer/1009/thumbnail.jp
Interior Least Terns (Sternula antillarum athalassos) in a Landscape of Fear: Explaining Predator Frequency on Sandbars Using Habitat Features
Get PDFCauses of colony failure in interior least terns (Sternula antillarum athalassos) have been a prevalent topic for researchers investigating this previously endangered species. In Arkansas, these colonies are primarily located on sandbars formed along the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. Reduction in nesting site quality may put this sensitive species at a greater risk for predator encounters. In my first chapter, I identified which sandbar characteristics resulted in higher frequencies of predator encounters at interior least tern colonies. In my second chapter, I investigated how those predators influenced colony production and whether interior least tern colonies exhibited similar associations to those site characteristics. I used colony surveys from the summer 2020 and 2021 nesting seasons for my investigations. Commonly identified predators included American crows (Crovus brachyrhynchos), bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), coyotes (Canis latrans), domestic dogs (C. familiaris), and northern raccoons (Procyon lotor). I studied fourteen characteristics representative of sandbar morphometrics. Generalized additive models were used to quantify the relationships between those site characteristics and avian predators, mammalian predators, and ILT reproductive success. Interior least tern colonies were located on larger sandbars further away from upriver dams. This study highlights the importance of sandbar size, shape, and location on waterbodies for ILT colony use. These factors were important for ILT production and explaining predator counts at sandbars. This study suggests that, while interior least tern conservation management usually focuses on local habitat features, landscape-scale features may be driving ILT production as well as predator encounters on Arkansas River sandbars
Don Quixote
No full textThis is a design of the book cover for Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.https://orc.library.atu.edu/bookart_2024/1001/thumbnail.jp
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
No full textThis is a design of a book cover of I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.https://orc.library.atu.edu/bookart_2024/1028/thumbnail.jp
Pride and Prejudice
No full textThis is a design of a book cover of Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen.https://orc.library.atu.edu/bookart_2024/1023/thumbnail.jp
Matthew Perry\u27s Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing Cover Redesign
No full textThis is a design of a book cover of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry.https://orc.library.atu.edu/bookart_2024/1017/thumbnail.jp
Little Rock’s Unique Political Opportunities for Black Arkansans, 1865-1905
Get PDFLittle Rock, Arkansas offered unique political opportunities in the late nineteenth century. Unlike the rest of the state, Little Rock housed a prominent middle-class black community that earned political office positions in local and state government. The current historical scholarship on the state’s African American political power in these years lacks detailed treatment of the political power of black Arkansans in Little Rock. Using newspapers, census data, and local and state government documents, this thesis argues for the unique position of the state’s capital for black Arkansans. In the late nineteenth century, the black middle class was especially strong in Little Rock, which helped the city’s black community gain political influence. Black officeholding in Little Rock ad Pulaski County was strong enough not to have to rely on fusion tickets. Using the city’s unique position, African Americans of Little Rock seized political opportunities at the local and state level throughout the latter nineteenth century