Assessing a Mid-Sized University with HE-TPACK

The dissertation research project has the goal of looking at a mid-sized regional university and assessing the faculty in the college of education and human services to see how faculty members self-assess themselves with the higher education technological pedagogical and content knowledge (HE-TPACK) instrument while attempting to determine whether or not there is a difference between digital immigrant faculty and digital native faculty. The study also looks at the self-perception of what digital group faculty members think they belong in. The study examined (n=13) faculty members, including digital immigrants 9 and digital natives 4. According to the findings, there was no statistical significance in terms of the HE-TPACK results. However, both the digital immigrants and digital natives had self-perceptions that they belonged to the other group even though their age placed them in the opposite group. This finding supports other studies indicating that individuals can move between these groups based on their experiences with technology rather than a defined age

To equip tomorrow\u27s cybersecurity experts, we\u27ll need an open approach

An open approach to training the next generation of cybersecurity experts can fully equip them to combat a constantly shifting threat landscape

Adopting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Principles in a Cybersecurity Program

With cybersecurity becoming an essential need in today\u27s world alongside the growing trend of higher education in adopting and implementing cybersecurity programs at their institutions, principles of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) must be utilized to help faculty grasp student learning and how to further enhance their programs. At Murray State University’s Telecommunication Systems Management (TSM) program, we have implemented SoTL by focusing on the inquiry of student learning, grounding in context, abiding by sound methodology, partnering with students, and making our findings appropriately public. By applying these SoTL principles in the TSM cybersecurity track, faculty have been able to guide their inquiries about student learning and to help evaluate what assignments, curriculum, and activities are enriching the learning experience. Additionally, they have been able to ensure that the cybersecurity content remains updated and relevant. Understanding student learning in a cybersecurity program is critical because the field of cybersecurity is always changing and advancing, which requires the curriculum and assignments to be updated or changed at the same pace. Utilizing the principles of SoTL has enabled the faculty in the TSM program to accomplish this important goal

Creating a Deep Learning Environment in a Virtual Lab for Cybersecurity

In today’s world, there is an increasing need for cybersecurity professionals because of the increase of Internet-connected devices, digital assets, and information systems infrastructure. Growth of automation and digitization, enterprise safety risks, the illusion of privacy and consumer data breaching, data storage, and management in the world of massive internet device connectivity that is expected in the near future collectively bring new security concerns. In order for students to gain the required skill sets to enter the workforce, they need hands-on experience to build essential employability qualities, confidence, knowledge, and experience. Murray State University’s Telecommunications Systems Management program uses a lab environment that has been developed using Netlab software to create a secure environment isolated from the campus network, allowing students to experience the execution of these attacks and exploits

Utilizing Discord to Create a Learning Space for Cybersecurity Courses

Using technology tools during the COVID-19 pandemic has been critical to communicate with students. This manuscript explores how using Discord a gaming communication platform has been adopted by cybersecurity faculty to communicate in real time.https://encompass.eku.edu/pedagogicon_postergallery/1001/thumbnail.jp

Modeling Regional Recycling and Remanufacturing Processes: From Micro to Macro

This paper reports progress in modeling recycling and remanufacturing processes within metropolitan regional economies at the micro and macro levels. The paper presents interim results from a multi-year, inter-institutional research project funded by the National Science Foundation. We identify a number of issues that have arisen from an in-depth industry level analysis of obsolete and waste products generated in the Seattle, WA and Atlanta, GA metro regions from waste electronics (e-waste) and carpet production and consumption. The two metro regions were selected for comparative analysis because Seattle is a recognized leader in e-waste recycling and sustainable development programs, while Atlanta has been slow to embrace recycling but is only 70 miles from the center of US carpet manufacturing (Dalton) and has an industry trade association that has set aggressive targets for carpet recycling and remanufacturing, e-waste forms the focus of this paper. We provide a detailed elaboration of processes at the micro-level, along with an enumeration of problems and solutions in characterizing these new industries, including an integration with environmental Life Cycle Assessment, and embedding the results in a macro-economic modeling framework

The nicotine + alcohol interoceptive drug state: contribution of the components and effects of varenicline in rats

Nicotine and alcohol co-use is highly prevalent, and as such, individuals experience the interoceptive effects of both substances together. Therefore, examining sensitivity to a compound nicotine and alcohol (N+A) interoceptive cue is critical to broaden our understanding of mechanisms that may contribute to nicotine and alcohol co-use

Research my world: crowdfunding research pilot project evaluation

Report evaluating the pilot project Research My World: a collaboration between pozible.com and Deakin University to crowdfund Australian research<br /

Modulation of sensitivity to alcohol by cortical and thalamic brain regions

The nucleus accumbens core (AcbC) is a key brain region known to regulate the discriminative stimulus/interoceptive effects of alcohol. As such, the goal of the present work was to identify AcbC projection regions that may also modulate sensitivity to alcohol. Accordingly, AcbC afferent projections were identified in behaviorally naïve rats using a retrograde tracer which led to the focus on the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), insular cortex (IC) and rhomboid thalamic nucleus (Rh). Next, to examine the possible role of these brain regions in modulating sensitivity to alcohol, neuronal response to alcohol in rats trained to discriminate alcohol (1 g/kg, intragastric [IG]) vs. water was examined using a two-lever drug discrimination task. As such, rats were administered water or alcohol (1g/kg, IG) and brain tissue was processed for c-Fos immunoreactivity (IR), a marker of neuronal activity. Alcohol decreased c-Fos IR in the mPFC, IC, Rh, and AcbC. Lastly, site-specific pharmacological inactivation with muscimol+baclofen (GABAA agonist+GABAB agonist) was used to determine the functional role of the mPFC, IC and Rh in modulating the interoceptive effects of alcohol in rats trained to discriminate alcohol (1 g/kg, IG) vs. water. mPFC inactivation resulted in full substitution for the alcohol training dose, and IC and Rh inactivation produced partial alcohol-like effects, demonstrating the importance of these regions, with known projections to the AcbC, in modulating sensitivity to alcohol. Together, these data demonstrate a site of action of alcohol and the recruitment of cortical/thalamic regions in modulating sensitivity to the interoceptive effects of alcohol

Neutral Heavy Leptons and Electroweak Baryogenesis

We investigate the possibility that baryogenesis occurs during the weak phase transition in a minimal extension of the Standard Model which contains extra neutral leptons and conserves total lepton number. The necessary CP-violating phases appear in the leptonic Yukawa couplings. We compute the CP-asymmetries in both the neutral and the charged lepton fluxes reflected on the bubble wall. Using present experimental bounds on the mixing angles and Standard Model estimates for the parameters related to the scalar potential, we conclude that it seems unlikely to produce the observed baryon to entropy ratio within this type of models. We comment on the possibility that the constraints on the mixings might be naturally relaxed due to small finite temperature effects.Comment: 21 pages (4 Figures