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Leading Educational Technology Change Through Faculty Development: Creating Lasting Relationships
Get PDFLearning environments in are changing rapidly, with increased attention surrounding active learning, educational technologies, and their impact on teaching and learning. Companies are introducing innovative technologies at breakneck speeds, often overwhelming academic leaders needing to meet the needs of the institution, faculty, students, and community. This whirlwind of change creates new challenges and opportunities to address as leaders guide their institutions toward adopting new educational technologies. Faculty are increasingly bombarded by innovative technology, while remaining pedagogically grounded. This presentation draws on research in this area and experience working with faculty and staff from 14 residential liberal arts colleges
LVAIC-Teagle: Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience
No full textThe LVAIC-Teagle “Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience” project aims to support cross-campus teams of interested faculty in implementing new hybrid courses, revising courses or modules to have hybrid components, and/or generating new teaching materials to share in a hybrid fashion. Based on our three years of experience leading cohorts of faculty we will identify our triumphs and challenges with technology, faculty support structures, and the very concept of collaboration on multiple levels: for students, faculty, campus administration, and consortial leadership
Blending the classroom to allow student research with online publication
Get PDFBlending a course can create class time for students to perform independent research culminating in student-peer-reviewed publications that are searchable and available online in perpetuity. By creating online learning resources and online exchange forums, students in Wheaton College (MA) science courses participate in all the stages of research from hypothesis formation, thru experimentation to data analysis, paper writing, student-peer-review, and publication. The blended setting allows students to create quality preliminary research that becomes a resource for their job searches and a legacy for future students. Students show high engagement in, and express great enthusiasm for, these authentic research experiences
Course Redesign with Student-Faculty Partnership: A Reflection on Opportunities and Vulnerabilities
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Building Relationships, Navigating Discomfort and Uncertainty, and Translating My Voice in New Contexts
Get PDFSmoothness of de nite unitary eigenvarieties at critical points
Get PDFWe compute an upper bound for the dimension of the tangent spaces at classical points of certain eigenvarieties associated with definite unitary groups, especially including the so-called critically refined cases. Our bound is given in terms of “critical types” and when our bound is minimized it matches the dimension of the eigenvariety. In those cases, which we explicitly determine, the eigenvariety is necessarily smooth and our proof also shows that the completed local ring on the eigenvariety is naturally a certain universal Galois deformation ring
Combat-Related Reproductive Trauma: Implications for Quality of Life and the Reproductive Narrative
Get PDFLittle research exists on the experiences of a combat-related injury that impairs fertility. This dissertation is a qualitative exploration of the lived experiences of military members after a genitourinary (GU) injury. It addresses the biological, psychological, and social impact on quality of life during recovery and subsequent attitudes about family development and sexual functioning. Building on both the life course perspective and the reproductive story model, this dissertation reviews literature on military culture, GU injury, and infertility to give a context to further analyze the essences of the phenomenon (Elder & Giele, 2009; Jaffe & Diamond, 2011).
This study is based on intensive interviews of 10 recent veterans from the post- 9/11 War on Terror. Through a phenomenological analysis approach, results suggest that the reproductive trauma is difficult to fully internalize, as it impacts many areas of life (i.e.-intimate relationship, sexual functioning, fertility). Yet, in the lived experience of these veterans, the GU injury is insufficiently addressed due to more critical health needs and the lack of medical resources to reverse testicular function. The reproductive trauma is often put aside until physical injuries are stabilized and some independence is regained. Finding meaning and purpose is a way to reconstruct the reproductive narrative.
The results of this study have implications for social work policy and practice, as well as future research, for persons who have experienced military-related GU injuries. Approaching this trauma-based experience through a reproductive narrative provides clinicians a tool to reconstruct the life course and manage the unknowns of this trauma