Transportable educational programs for scientific and technical professionals: More effective utilization of automated scientific and technical data base systems

This grant final report executive summary documents a major, long-term program addressing innovative educational issues associated with the development, administration, evaluation, and widespread distribution of transportable educational programs for scientists and engineers to increase their knowledge of, and facilitate their utilization of automated scientific and technical information storage and retrieval systems. This educational program is of very broad scope, being targeted at Colleges of Engineering and Colleges of Physical sciences at a large number of colleges and universities throughout the United States. The educational program is designed to incorporate extensive hands-on, interactive usage of the NASA RECON system and is supported by a number of microcomputer-based software systems to facilitate the delivery and usage of the educational course materials developed as part of the program

An Innovative, Multidisciplinary Educational Program in Interactive Information Storage and Retrieval

There exists a large number of large-scale bibliographic Information Storage and Retrieval Systems containing large amounts of valuable data of interest in a wide variety of research applications. These systems are not used to capacity because the end users, i.e., the researchers, have not been trained in the techniques of accessing such systems. This thesis describes the development of a transportable, university-level course in methods of querying on-line interactive Information Storage and Retrieval systems as a solution to this problem. This course was designed to instruct upper division science and engineering students to enable these end users to directly access such systems. The course is designed to be taught by instructors who are not specialists in either computer science or research skills. It is independent of any particular IS and R system or computer hardware. The project is sponsored by NASA and conducted by the University of Southwestern Louisiana and Southern University

Music Technology Education and a Plugin-Based Platform as a Tool to Enhance Creativity, Multidisciplinarity, Creative Design, and Collaboration Skills

Music technology is known to have the ability to enhance creativity and creative development among students. A high level of engagement has been shown among students who studied and developed musical projects, and among students who were intellectually involved in the process of meaningful exploration. When students develop a music technology project, they use their software design skills to build and combine different artistic and computational components. Here we present a creative education method for computer science and software engineering students, it uses Muzilator, a plugin-based web platform that enables developers to develop a project as a set of independent web applications (plugins). Students can share their plugins with others or use plugins developed by others. We examined 75 projects of teams of computer science students who participated in a Computer Music course. We studied the characteristics of these projects and Muzilator’s effectiveness as a creative education and collaboration tool. Some of our results show that Muzilator-based projects received higher creativity and multidisciplinarity ratings than did other projects, and that high-risk projects were more creative and artistic than low-risk ones. We also found a gender-dependency: women tended more than men to develop interactive applications, while men tended to choose more theoretic (algorithmic), non-interactive projects. Keywords: educational method, creativity, music education, software design, multidisciplinarity. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-11-01 Publication date: April 30th 202

Government Information Quarterly. Volume 7, no. 2: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientific and Technical Information Programs. Special issue

NASA scientific and technical information (STI) programs are discussed. Topics include management of information in a research and development agency, the new space and Earth science information systems at NASA's archive, scientific and technical information management, and technology transfer of NASA aerospace technology to other industries

Social shaping of digital publishing: exploring the interplay between culture and technology

The processes and forms of electronic publishing have been changing since the advent of the Web. In recent years, the open access movement has been a major driver of scholarly communication, and change is also evident in other fields such as e-government and e-learning. Whilst many changes are driven by technological advances, an altered social reality is also pushing the boundaries of digital publishing. With 23 articles and 10 posters, Elpub 2012 focuses on the social shaping of digital publishing and explores the interplay between culture and technology. This book contains the proceedings of the conference, consisting of 11 accepted full articles and 12 articles accepted as extended abstracts. The articles are presented in groups, and cover the topics: digital scholarship and publishing; special archives; libraries and repositories; digital texts and readings; and future solutions and innovations. Offering an overview of the current situation and exploring the trends of the future, this book will be of interest to all those whose work involves digital publishing

A Game Approach to Teach Environmentally Benign Manufacturing in the Supply Chain

Multidisciplinary models of education are needed to prepare students for their role in a global work environment. Combined with this need is the reality of the new Millennial Generation entering the educational system with a different approach to learning. This paper introduces an interactive, educational engineering game designed to appeal to the Millennial Generation’s learning preferences. Shortfall is a prototype board game with a team approach and a trial and error methodology to introduce students to environmentally benign manufacturing in the supply chain using the automobile industry as a model. After playing the game, quantitative analysis showed that on average, students gained new knowledge and a changed perception of their confidence in their answers. Qualitative analysis of data demonstrated that students felt the game also helped them with the teamwork/communication aspects of supply chain. Future plans involve converting the game to a computer format to streamline its effectiveness for multi-institutional participation

Реализация инновационных технологий на уроках языка в Новой украинской школе

The article deals with the problem of implementation of innovative pedagogical technologies of language learning at the New Ukrainian School. The attention is dedicated to the phenomenon of integration of pedagogical technologies in achieving a specific educational goal. The degrees of the development of various aspects of the problem, which are studied in methodical, psychological literature and linguistics, have been analyzed. It is noted that in modern linguistics the problem of implementation of pedagogical technologies at the lessons of the Ukrainian language has been deeply developed. However, the social importance of mastering students’ key competences, skills and knowledge of self-acquisition and assimilation of knowledge, world trends in the development of modern science, processes of updating the education system in Ukraine, as well as insufficient coverage of issues in modern linguistics has actualized the problem of finding effective ways to implement innovative technologies of language learning at the New Ukrainian School. The object, subject, aim and research objectives are clearly defined. The methodology of the research (theoretical methods include studying of normative documents and working on topical problems of general secondary education, analysis and synthesis of achievements of linguistic, psychological, pedagogical sciences on the problem of implementation of innovative technologies of language learning at the New Ukrainian School; comparison, classification and generalization of theoretical data; empirical methods comprise observations, conversations with teachers and students, questionnaires, analysis of lessons, writing and oral responses of students study and generalization of teachers’ best practices in the process of implementing innovative technologies at language lessons). It has been found that the initial requirements for the implementation of innovative technologies of language learning at the New Ukrainian School are: necessities on the need to integrate different approaches to language learning in a comprehensive language school course; provisions on the need for an organic combination of different pedagogical technologies in language teaching at school; provisions on interdisciplinary and cross-curricular communication of language and, accordingly, opportunities for the formation of paradoxical and divergent thinking of students as the basis for a diverse, critical thinking personality. It is determined that the implementation of innovative learning technologies at school is carried out in the following areas: mastering linguistic terminology, key categories, spelling and punctuation rules, linguistic facts and phenomena regarding the features of the functioning of linguistic units in texts of different styles and genres of speech, etc.; implementation of cross-curricular and intra-subject connections, which contributes to the formation of a paradoxical type of students’ thinking and implements the principles of openness and emergence of scientific knowledge. The linguo-didactic features of the implementation of innovative technologies of language learning at the New Ukrainian School are highlighted. Effective innovative technologies in general secondary education institutions have been characterized. The prospects of further research on specifying the course of integration processes between innovative learning technologies, development of specific methods and tactics for their implementation at the language lessons at school on the material of different language levels and units are determinedУ статті описано проблему реалізації інноваційних педагогічних технологій на уроках мови у Новій українській школі. Особливу увагу приділено явищу інтеграції педагогічних технологій з метою досягнення конкретної освітньої мети. Проаналізовано ступінь розробки різних аспектів проблеми, що досліджуються у методичній, лінгвістичній, психологічній літературі. Зауважено, що у сучасній лінгводидактиці проблема реалізацій інноваційних технологій на уроках української мови глибоко розроблена, однак соціальна значущість оволодіння учнями ключовими компетентностями, вміннями і навичками самостійного здобуття і засвоєння знань, світові тенденції розвитку сучасної науки, процеси оновлення системи освіти в Україні, а також недостатнє висвітлення питання у сучасній лінгводидактиці актуалізували проблему пошуку ефективних засобів і способів реалізації інноваційних технологій на уроках мови у Новій українській школіВ статье описано проблему реализации инновационных педагогических технологий на уроках языка в Новой украинской школе. Особое внимание уделено явлению интеграции педагогических технологий с целью достижения конкретной образовательной цели. Проанализирована степень разработки различных аспектов проблемы, которые исследуются в методической, лингвистической, психологической литературе. Замечено, что в современной лингводидактике проблема реализации инновационных технологий на уроках украинского языка глубоко разработана, однако социальная значимость овладения учащимися ключевыми компетенциями, умениями и навыками самостоятельного получения и усвоения знаний, мировые тенденции развития современной науки, процессы обновления системы образования в Украине, а также недостаточное освещение вопроса в современной лингводидактике актуализировали проблему поиска эффективных средств и способов реализации инновационных технологий на уроках языка в Новой украинской школ

Кибербезопасность в образовательных сетях

The paper discusses the possible impact of digital space on a human, as well as human-related directions in cyber-security analysis in the education: levels of cyber-security, social engineering role in cyber-security of education, “cognitive vaccination”. “A Human” is considered in general meaning, mainly as a learner. The analysis is provided on the basis of experience of hybrid war in Ukraine that have demonstrated the change of the target of military operations from military personnel and critical infrastructure to a human in general. Young people are the vulnerable group that can be the main goal of cognitive operations in long-term perspective, and they are the weakest link of the System.У статті обговорюється можливий вплив цифрового простору на людину, а також пов'язані з людиною напрямки кібербезпеки в освіті: рівні кібербезпеки, роль соціального інжинірингу в кібербезпеці освіти, «когнітивна вакцинація». «Людина» розглядається в загальному значенні, головним чином як та, що навчається. Аналіз надається на основі досвіду гібридної війни в Україні, яка продемонструвала зміну цілей військових операцій з військовослужбовців та критичної інфраструктури на людину загалом. Молодь - це вразлива група, яка може бути основною метою таких операцій в довгостроковій перспективі, і вони є найслабшою ланкою системи.В документе обсуждается возможное влияние цифрового пространства на человека, а также связанные с ним направления в анализе кибербезопасности в образовании: уровни кибербезопасности, роль социальной инженерии в кибербезопасности образования, «когнитивная вакцинация». «Человек» рассматривается в общем смысле, в основном как ученик. Анализ представлен на основе опыта гибридной войны в Украине, которая продемонстрировала изменение цели военных действий с военного персонала и критической инфраструктуры на человека в целом. Молодые люди являются уязвимой группой, которая может быть главной целью когнитивных операций в долгосрочной перспективе, и они являются самым слабым звеном Систем