A mobile ecology of resources for Covid-19 learning

Mobile devices and a vast array of accompanying applications offer significant affordances to create, consume, share, collaborate and communicate—affordances that could be easily leveraged to facilitate meaningful learning. A positive disruption arising from Covid-19 that aligns with the affordances of mobile learning is the uncoupling of time and space in the learning process. Traditionally formal learning is a process that is predominately viewed as an experience that is ‘timetabled’— scheduled to eventuate at a ‘place’—lecture or a tutorial (or similar) in a room or lecture theatre. In this concise paper, an ecology of resources is discussed along with guiding principles for designing and facilitating uncoupled authentic and student-determined learning post the emergency remote teaching phase

New Generation of Educators Initiative: Transforming teacher preparation.

The focus of the New Generation of Educators Initiative (NGEI) was to answer the question "What would it take to transform teacher education?" From 2016 to 2019, with support from the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, teacher education programs at 10 California State University (CSU) campuses partnered with local school districts to design and demonstrate innovative practices that could transform teacher preparation. This report documents the learnings from multiple participants in this transformative work, including Foundation program staff and representatives from partnerships between universities and school districts

Faculty Publications Bibliography 2013

The works listed here represent the scholarly pursuits and products of the Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi faculty and staff during the 2013 calendar year. It is with great pride and gratitude that the Mary and Jeff Bell Library honors these contributions to their respective fields and presents this bibliography.The works listed here represent the scholarly pursuits and products of the Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi faculty and staff during the 2013 calendar year. It is with great pride and gratitude that the Mary and Jeff Bell Library honors these contributions to their respective fields and presents this bibliography.Publication of this bibliography has been made possible through the Mary and Jeff Bell Library. Compiled by Jennifer Anderson, Sarah Brown, Diana Gaona, Lisa Louis, and William Ransom. Cover Art from the University's Image Gallery. Art and Print Layout by Jennifer Anderson. Display Cases by Jennifer Anderson and William Ransom. Special thanks to Cynthia Roper and Virginia Hopkins for their support and encouragement. A reception honoring the faculty who are listed in this bibliography has been made possible through the support of the Office of the Provost

Selection of internal reference genes for normalization of reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) analysis in the rumen epithelium

<div><p>The rumen is lined on the luminal side by a stratified squamous epithelium that is responsible for not only absorption, but also transport, extensive short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) metabolism and protection. Butyrate has been demonstrated to initiate the differentiation of the tissue following introduction of solid feed to the weaning neonate as well as affecting the metabolism of other nutrients and absorption of nutrients in <i>in vitro</i> experiments. The objective of the present study was to validate expression stability of eight putative reference genes bovine rumen, considering the intrinsic heterogeneity of bovine rumen with regard to different luminal characteristics due to direct infusion of butyrate to double the intra-ruminal content of the rumen liquor. Our focus was on identifying stable reference genes which are suitable to normalize real-time RT-qPCR experiments from rumen samples collected from clinical assays, irrespective of localization within the organ and the across physiological state. The most stably expressed genes included: <i>ACTB</i>, <i>UXT</i>, <i>DBNDD2</i>, <i>RPS9</i>, <i>DDX54</i> and <i>HMBS</i>. Their high stability values suggest these reference genes will facilitate better evaluation of variation of across an array of conditions including: localization within the rumen, differences among cattle fed an array of rations, as well as response to development in the weaning animal. Moreover, we anticipate these reference genes may be useful for expression studies in other ruminants.</p></div