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COLLABORATION IN THE NEW CONTEXT OF DIGITAL LEARNING: AN INVESTIGATION OF COLLABORATIVE HYFLEX AND REMOTE LEARNING AT NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA
No full textIn this sociological study, I aim to address how digital technologies function to facilitate collaboration among students and between students and professors. I explore this topic through an analysis of the way students used platforms to collaborate in the Fall 2020 courses offered at New College of Florida. The study uses a multi-method approach that includes a survey of New College faculty, semi-structured interviews with three professors and six students (two per course), and content analysis of the course syllabus for each interviewed professor’s course. I found that technological familiarity affected the extent of students’ collaboration, and the type of platform (and teaching tools) used in a course aids how people collaborate in remote and hyflex courses. Courses that require collaboration, leads to more student-student communication. Many platforms offer distinct functions for students, and a platform\u27s usability affects how students collaborate when working remotely. More importantly, students must adapt to changing hidden requirements: to develop the skills necessary to communicate effectively using various technologies and the agency to work remotely
Conditions Influencing How Emergency Powers Affect Democracy
No full textThis study analyzes the impact emergency powers have on democracy, democratic transitions, and democratic quality. It reviews the extant literature and determines that there are several areas where further research is required. Using multivariate regression, it finds correlations between the presence of emergency powers, and decreased democratic quality, and sharp decreases in democratic quality when emergency powers are used. This relationship holds when standard predictors of democratic quality are accounted for. To generate deeper insights into questions raised by the quantitative study, this study then turns to qualitative analysis of several cases. The case studies show the danger posed by using emergency power in fledgling and established democracies. Another finding is that emergency power design has less effect on democratic outcomes than the literature assumes
“IT’S NOT ABOUT FOOD, IT’S ABOUT KEEPING THOSE ANTS IN LINE”: HOW CHILDRENS’ FILMS HAVE IMPACTED A GENERATION
No full textIn this thesis, I analyze representations, gender, archetypes, and more in 51 children’s films released between 1965 and 2012. I define the phrase “My Generation, Our Generation,” and argue that these films have influenced the political and moral compasses of the members of this. Using an auto-ethnographic approach, I explain the personal impact of these films on my understanding of the world when I grew up, and how I saw these films impact my peers through our social interactions
Exploring Legitimacy: A review of the debate around American judicial review
No full textThe divide between proponents of and opponents to the American practice of judicial review has always been present throughout the United States’ history; only now has the divide become substantial enough to justify the formation of a commission by a current US President, tasked specifically with exploring the possibility of reforming the longstanding institution. One of the biggest questions at the center of this debate focuses on whether the US Supreme Court’s practice of American judicial review is a democratically legitimate one. Rather than providing a specific answer to this question, this thesis focuses on explaining the arguments in support of and in contention to the American practice of judicial review to provide a means by which unfamiliar scholars can better understand both sides of this centuries long debate. This is accomplished by bringing together two of the most influential voices in this debate, Ronald Dworkin and Jeremy Waldron. Dworkin supports the American practice of judicial review through his theory of the moral reading of the Constitution, whereas Waldron opposes the practice as democratically illegitimate and argues that the practice can easily be performed by the elected legislature without compromising democracy. The ideas presented by contemporary thinkers before the Presidential Commission, both for and against American judicial review, are brought together in the final chapter. To provide context on these contemporary arguments, the points of Dworkin and Waldron are reintroduced to analyze the contemporary reform suggestions through the lenses of their respective theories
Co-Culture Tranquility
No full textMural featuring a pink diamond-shaped medallion outlined in blue, and containing blue, orange, and white motifs, primarily floral and vegetal. The medallion appears on a blue background of painted tiles that contain darker, circular motifs.https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/pubart/1103/thumbnail.jp
NCF TO-DO’ER: A TO-DO LIST WEB APPLICATION THAT ASSISTS STUDENTS WITH TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS
No full textResearch indicates that effective time management skills play a critical role in student outcomes. Providing students with tools and resources for managing their time can improve academic performance, lower stress, and enhance health. This thesis presents NCF To- Do\u27er, a web-based to-do list application that offers assistance with time management skills. Unlike other to-do list applications, NCF To-Do\u27er is explicitly designed for students. When making a to-do list, students are given the option to answer a brief questionnaire. This feature provides students with time estimates and priorities for their tasks, automating vital time management skills. NCF To-Do\u27er provides another tool to complement the current resources at New College. This application could assist students in appointments at the college\u27s Student Success Center. Additionally, since students\u27 performance in their first year is critical to their long-term success, the college\u27s first-year SET SAIL seminars could use the application to promote time management skills. NCF To-Do\u27er was created using Angular, a web development framework, and written in HTML, SCSS, and Typescript programming languages. The application integrates with a third-party question-asking platform, making calls to the platform\u27s API and utilizing data from it to produce a downloadable, prioritized to-do list
Some Kind of Light Listening to the Streets of Sarasota
No full textIn “Some Kind of Light” I have hoped to create a snapshot tapestry 0f the lives of people living on the streets of Sarasota during my time there, 2018-2022. I have woven together my story of houseless activism in Sarasota, on my own and with the local organizations Streets of Paradise and Food not Bombs. Here I present my research, observations, and interviews with those who work with the houseless about the institutional framework people living on the streets find themselves in, and several interviews with individuals living on the streets of Sarasota who speak about their lives and experiences
THE CASE FOR REPRODUCIBILITY: A SERIES OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR REPLICATIONS
No full textThe scientific method has always included a step for retesting hypotheses, but it is often overlooked. Reproducibility in research of any field is increasingly more important as data and analyses become more complex. With replication, scientists can find more support for their theories, or come to new conclusions as time passes and contexts change. I replicate three political behavior studies to demonstrate the importance of reproducibility, using various datasets and statistical methods. I find that some political behavior conclusions still hold true while others have changed in tandem with the political landscape
NEWLY ASSERTIVE AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES AND PERSONALIST BIAS: EXAMINING INVESTMENT AS A FOREIGN POLICY CHOICE BY MAJOR AUTHORITARIANS, 2000-2019
No full textThe stereotypical view of how authoritarian regimes operate has changed in the last few decades since the end of the 20th century. Personalist regimes have become much more common; however, not as much information exists on how they operate compared to other authoritarian regime types. Personalist regimes have seemingly gotten a biased level of investment from major authoritarian powers in the past few decades, despite arguably more significant threats of instability. This research project intends to understand whether major authoritarian powers, in this case China and Russia, have a bias for personalist regimes in allocating their foreign direct investment. A possible explanation for this potential relationship is that these regimes seek greater authoritarian foreign direct investment to stave off threats of instability and avoid governance pressures that often come with investment from democracies. This study concludes that there is unlikely to be any sort of significant bias for investment into personalist regimes. Rather, regional trends seem to be a stronger explanation of investment bias than regime type in any capacity. Follow-up research is focused on examining the regional relationship that does exist, and whether it has any links to the domination of personalist regimes within the high investment region of West Asia. Personalist regimes and their external relations also require deeper analysis due to the characteristics that make them different in daily operations compared to other authoritarian regimes
