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Smart Learning for Smart Care: Leveraging AI in Healthcare Education
No full textThis presentation examines the transformative role of AI in graduate-level student education, focusing on its potential to enhance critical thinking and inspire creative leadership for healthcare professionals. By integrating AI-driven tools, healthcare programs can provide advanced, adaptive learning experiences that prepare students for complex decision-making in clinical settings. This session will showcase practical AI applications that help students analyze data, apply evidence-based practices, and think critically under pressure while fostering innovative leadership skills. Attendees will learn how AI can empower future leaders to navigate challenges and drive positive patient care and healthcare system changes
Higher Education Faculty Perceptions of the Strategies, Training, and Support Needed for Online Teaching
Get PDFOnline teaching and learning are growing within higher education, and faculty require support and motivation to engage in professional development that provides training in transitioning from teaching face-to-face to online. The problem that was addressed through this project study was that few faculty members took advantage of the training in online pedagogical strategies at a midsized western state university (MWSU), despite survey results indicating that faculty wanted this training. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore online pedagogical strategies, training, and support faculty need and are willing to participate in at MWSU. Hall et al.’s concerns-based adoption model provided the conceptual framework to explore adopting innovations and integrating new learning as online teaching opportunities grow. For this basic qualitative design, semistructured interviews were conducted with a purposeful sample of 13 faculty from whom: seven faculty had expertise and three faculty were novices in teaching online. Axial coding was used to analyze core concepts with the following four themes emerging: barriers to teaching online, previous training faculty had received, additional training required, and motivation for faculty to participate in training. Results indicated that faculty would participate in online professional development which was flexible and shorter. Consequently, a 7-week, asynchronous online course was developed, focusing on online pedagogy, the use of the learning management system, tools and technology to be used, and course and assignment templates and examples, thus, supporting positive social change by improving faculty preparedness, strengthening university online offerings, and ultimately fostering a more effective and inclusive learning environment for students
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Generating Gratitude in the Workplace to Improve Job Satisfaction
Get PDFSession presented on Saturday, March 18, 2017: A nursing shortage is looming yet again and has been well documented in the literature. As a result, it is vital that we keep the nursing faculty we have and improve the job satisfaction of those faculty as much as possible. Studies show the cost of replacing an employee ranges from six months\u27 salary to as much as twice their annual salary (Merhar, 2016). Higher education continues to struggle with having adequate funding and cannot afford the cost of turnover. In addition, the nursing shortage decreases the supply of qualified faculty making it imperative that faculty turnover be kept to a minimum. One way to directly improve retention rates is by improving job satisfaction (Derby-Davis, 2014). Research has shown that salary and compensation is only a small part of job satisfaction (Wang & Liesveld, 2015). Gutierrez, Candela, & Carver (2012) demonstrated that perceived organizational support had an impact on the job satisfaction of nursing faculty especially when associated with other factors. It is important to find and explore innovative ways that enhance organizational support to increase job satisfaction and facilitate retention. One innovative intervention that we utilized to improve job satisfaction and increase collaboration was cultivating an \u27attitude of gratitude\u27. Gratitude is recognized as a positive emotion and is associated with empathy, increased self-esteem, and overall happiness (McCullough, Emmons, & Tsang, 2002). Grateful people have increased coping skills, more positive emotions, and deal with problems in a more direct way (Lin, 2015). Increased gratitude is also positively correlated with improved interactions and greater social support from coworkers (Lin, 2015; McCullough et al., 2002), which we hypothesized would improve job satisfaction. To assess if our intervention was successful a pre and post survey of faculty on perceived gratitude levels and job satisfaction was administered prior to the start and at the end of the project. We introduced the theme of \u27Attitude of Gratitude\u27 in the opening faculty meeting and continued gratitude discussion at each faculty meeting throughout the year. We provided a book on gratitude and offered optional lunch session gratitude collaboration groups twice each semester. We also established a social media group site related to this topic for people to share and interacted with faculty related to the topic through email, breakroom bulletin board, and mailboxes. Our ultimate goal in introducing gratitude interventions was to create a more collaborative and grateful environment that would ultimately lead to increased job satisfaction for faculty. Learning Objectives: 1. Understand how job satisfaction and personal well-being are impacted by the cultivation of gratitude. 2. Explain different methods for implementing gratitude tools and techniques to increase job satisfaction. 3. Strategize a process to manifest gratitude techniques in your workplace that will increase teamwork and a collaborative culture
Generating gratitude in the workplace to improve faculty job satisfaction
Get PDFThis was a quantitative study utilizing a convenience sample of faculty at one school of nursing. Multiple gratitude interventions were implemented throughout the year and a pre and post survey administered to measure effectiveness of interventions. The findings showed an improvement of 17.9% in overall job satisfaction
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