Faculty Adoption of Teaching and Learning Technologies: Contrasting Earlier Adopters and Mainstream Faculty

The adoption of teaching and learning technologies is an innovation that challenges the structure, culture and practice of modern research universities. This paper documents quantitatively and qualitatively the attitudes, skills and behavior of the faculty related to the use of instructional technology at a large Canadian research university. The data was gathered from a survey (n =557) of teaching faculty. The data is analyzed with respect to Roger's (1995) categories of adoption of innovation differentiating "Earlier Adopters" {EAs} from "Mainstream Faculty" (MF). The paper discusses four factors that have tended to create a "chasm" between these two groups and discusses strategies for reducing the chasm and providing support and incentive for all faculty in the adoption of instructional technologies

Faculty Adoption of Teaching and Learning Technologies: Contrasting Earlier Adopters and Mainstream Faculty

The adoption of teaching and learning technologies is an innovation that challenges the structure, culture and practice of modern research universities. This paper documents quantitatively and qualitatively the attitudes, skills and behavior of the faculty related to the use of instructional technology at a large Canadian research university. The data was gathered from a survey (n = 557) of teaching faculty. The data is analyzed with respect to Roger's (1995) categories of adoption of innovation differentiating "Earlier Adopters" (EAs) from "Mainstream Faculty" (MF). The paper discusses four factors that have tended to create a "chasm" between these two groups and discusses strategies for reducing the chasm and providing support and incentive for all faculty in the adoption of instructional technologies.L'adoption de la technologie éducative à des fins pédagogiques constitue une innovation qui remet en question la structure, la culture et les pratiques des universités de recherche modernes. Cet article présente des données qualitatives et quantitatives sur les attitudes, les habitudes et le comportement de professeurs d'une grande université de recherche canadienne en ce qui a trait à l'utilisation de la technologie éducative. Les données ont été collectées au moyen d'un sondage mené auprès de 557 professeurs et analysées en fonction des deux catégories selon lesquelles Rogers (1995) fait, quant à l'adoption des innovations, une distinction entre les «adeptes précoces» et le courant majoritaire des professeurs. L'article énumère quatre facteurs qui tendraient à créer un «fossé» entre ces deux groupes. Il suggère aussi des moyens permenttant de combler ce fossé et de fournir de l'aide et de l'encouragement à tous les professeurs qui cherchent à intégrer les techonologies éducatives à leur enseignement

The Effect of Changing Sea Ice on the Vulnerability of Arctic Coasts

Shorefast sea ice prevents the interaction of the land and the ocean in the Arctic winter and influences this interaction in the summer by governing the fetch. In many parts of the Arctic the sea-ice-free season is increasing in duration, and the summertime sea ice extents are decreasing. Sea ice provides a first order control on the vulnerability of Arctic coasts to erosion, inundation, and damage to settlements and infrastructure. We ask how the changing sea ice cover has influenced coastal erosion over the satellite record. First, we present a pan-Arctic analysis of satellite-based sea ice concentration specifically along the Arctic coasts. The median length of the 2012 open water season in comparison to 1979 expanded by between 1.5 and 3-fold by Arctic sea sector which allows for open water during the stormy Arctic fall. Second, we present a case study of Drew Point, Alaska, a site on the Beaufort Sea characterized by ice-rich permafrost and rapid coastal erosion rates where both the duration of the sea ice free season and distance to the sea ice edge, particularly towards the northwest, has increased. At Drew Point, winds from the northwest result in increased water levels at the coast and control the process of submarine notch incision, the rate-limiting step of coastal retreat. When open water conditions exist, the distance to the sea ice edge exerts control on the water level and wave field through its control on fetch. We find that the extreme values of water level set-up have increased, consistent with increasing fetch

Spice Up Your Pregame

Pregame getting a little stale? Fear no more, we’ve compiled a list of drinking activities more exciting than the classic fall-back Ring of Fire to amp up your weekend (or week) nights

Taking Your Son/Daughter with an Autism Spectrum Disorder to the Dentist

Taking your son/daughter on the autism spectrum to the dentist poses many challenges. This article hopes to make you aware of some of these challenges prior to your first visit, as well as provide some useful ways to deal with them. Included in this article are three main area that are most often in need of attention: preparation, sensory issues and communication

Dinámica familiar en viviendas flexibles para la zona II del distrito de San Juan de Lurigancho: Supermanzana

El enfoque de la Investigación, es la contribución de unidades de vivienda para el descenso del déficit habitacional del Perú, enfocado al hacinamiento; la zona de estudio es el distrito de San Juan de Lurigancho por presentar altos índices de hacinamiento. Ante ello, el propósito de la investigación es diseñar un proyecto de vivienda; a través de estrategias proyectuales que benefician a la Dinámica familiar y social; respondiendo a las necesidades y actividades de cada familia. Asimismo, la investigación es de tipo aplicada, con enfoque mixto y diseño no experimental; para el estudio socioeconómico y vivencial de las familias se realizaron encuestas, fotografías y la observación como instrumentos de medición. Obteniendo datos de la estructura de la familia y la interacción de estas, que es condicionante primordial para la aplicación de la flexibilidad en la vivienda y su entorno, como estrategia en la disminución del hacinamiento habitacional. En respuesta, se propuso la creación de una Supermanzana compuesta de viviendas, oficinas, comercio y espacio público. Las viviendas tendrán la implementación de paredes y muebles móviles, que ayudarán a la modulación de espacios para el desarrollo de múltiples configuraciones. En conclusión, un proyecto de vivienda no se basa en el desarrollo individual de cada módulo habitacional, sino engloba un ecosistema que ocasiona actividades permitiendo la flexibilidad.LIMAEscuela Profesional de ArquitecturaDiseño Arquitectónic

Management Education in Turbulent Times

This special section was initiated by members of the British Academy of Management’s Management Knowledge and Education project. Management Knowledge and Education is an academy-wide initiative, launched in 2014 to advance the creation and circulation of innovative and transformative research that deepens and broadens our understanding of management knowledge, knowing, education, and learning. For our members, in common with the authors of the Journal of Management Education, the sites of inquiry are varied, range from traditional classroom settings to collaborative organizational contexts for learning. Many of the innovations taking place in these varied contexts are responses to the turbulent and rapidly changing management environments. Our aim then is to support our community in striving to understand management learning and education however and wherever it happens in these turbulent times, and support responsive adaptation and innovation. </jats:p

A shout-out for the value of management education research : “pedagogy is not a dirty word”

Management Learning Education (MLE) research and curriculum and pedagogy innovation are urgently needed to lead our world out of crisis. If we are to take responsibility for educating future leaders of business, third- and public-sector organizations with the skills, competences and knowledge to deliver sustainable futures for the planet and people, then pedagogy cannot be a dirty word. In this essay, we consider the state we're in by looking at the juncture of [climate] crisis, with the lack of investment in MLE research and innovation, and management education market misfires – which together, constitute MLE as undervalued, underfunded and underdeveloped. We discuss advances in MLE theory to reveal a missing middle of understanding, namely between meta theories of pedagogic philosophies and values and infra theories of programme, course and project insights, as we work toward developing ‘responsible’ and ‘civic’ management schools. Drawing on our own experience as researchers, educators and pedagogy developers, and as past and present vice-chairs of the Management Knowledge and Education initiative at the British Academy of Management, we call for investments in supporting infrastructures to accelerate MLE and curriculum and pedagogy innovation, implicating learned societies, governments and higher education institutions

New algal diversity records for the Lake of the Clouds, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan.

PhycologyThe Lake of the Clouds, located within the Porcupine Mountains and two miles away from Lake Superior, is a famous vista site of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan. Even though several fishery surveys have been released by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources on the lake in the 1940s, no known algal studies have been conducted. The Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park has a relatively small level of anthropogenic disturbances compared to other regions around the Great Lakes, which makes the site appealing for algal studies. This paper reports the exploratory research done by the professors and students at the University of Michigan Biological Station on the algal diversity of the Lake of the Clouds. In this study, 7 algal divisions were observed. The inventory showed that, based on number of genera recorded, the green algae (Chlorophyta) is much more diverse than the other algal divisions in Lake of the Clouds. A significant number of diatom (Bacillariophyta) species were also observed, though omitted from this paper for future analysis and identification. A total of 88 genera (excluding Bacillariophyta genera) and 34 species were identified. This rich list of algal taxa is only the first step in exploring the algal diversity, microhabitats, and ecosystem of the Lake of the Clouds. The diversity of algae found in this study suggest that further algal research needs to be conducted on the Lake of the Clouds.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/95920/1/Anderson_Fate_Hsieh_Kim_Lazarus_2012.pd