Multi-Touch Books in Higher Education: A Study of Educational Leadership and Policy for Schools of Education

Technology points to gaps in higher education adoption of learning technologies where decisions are based on a digital tool’s efficacy and unique capabilities, rather than the role they play in effective teaching and learning (Grush, 2019). Higher Education institutions and their faculty postpone technical decision-making. This results in an educational system ill-equipped to meet the needs of students, faculty, and sufficient digital fluency of graduates and the workforce. By integrating current, interactive tools into teaching materials, such as multi-touch books, or iBooks, faculty can meet their students’ learning needs, thereby improving competencies and ability to track their assessment and engagement throughout a program. This Dissertation-in-practice (DiP) appraises an interactive multi-touch book, Educational Leadership and Policy, as an effective delivery tool for faculty in Schools of education in order to improve student engagement and success. The study examines the adoption of iBook by faculty and their students at a higher education institution in the Southeastern United States to understand what relationship exist with multi-touch books and student success. Given that new technologies within higher education are relatively recent, this study is relevant and may add to the evidence available on this emerging topic

In trans T cell tolerance exacerbates experimental allergic encephalomyelitis by interfering with protective antibody responses

Despite being one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, not much is known concerning the ecology of the otters on Borneo. We conducted a study to document the activity patterns of the smooth-coated otter, Lutrogale perspicillata, in increasingly disturbed and fragmented habitats in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary (LKWS), located in the Malaysian state of Sabah, northern Borneo. The aim was to gather ecological information for establishing baseline data and to understand better the otter behavior in this region of Sabah. We deployed camera traps at active otter holts, grooming and sprainting sites for 15 non-consecutive months and utilized the photographs to model the activity patterns of the otterusing kernel’s density estimate modeling. Results showed that L. perspicillatain the LKWS was mainly crepuscular, with otter activity mainly occurring during early morning (0600 h) and late afternoon (1600 h -1800 h). Grooming activity peaked at 0600 h while sprainting activity peaked at both 0800h and 1700 h. We suggest that activity patterns of L. perspicillatamay be influenced by prey availability, human disturbance and environmental temperature