Does Anywhere + Anytime = Success? Mobile Learning, Engagement, and Student Success in Higher Education

This study aims to understand the possible impact of mobile learning on engagement and student success in the online environment. The research questions ask what impacts mobile learning has on student engagement, measured with Self-Regulated Learning (SRL); what impact mobile learning has on the SRL constructs of environment structuring, task management, and time management; and what associations mobile learning might have with student success and persistence. One hundred sixty-two undergraduate online students participated in the study through the survey instrument, utilizing the Online Self-Regulated Learning Questionnaire (OSLQ). ANOVA results showed that lower levels of mobile learning use engaged in SRL less when compared to the highest level of mobile learning use (HSD = -4.581, p = .001, d =.719). The lowest level of mobile learning used the SRL construct of task management less than the highest level (HSD = -2.624, p=.000, d =.796), as did the moderate level of mobile use (HSD = -1.681, p = .040, d =.494). Additionally, the lowest level of mobile learning used the SRL time management construct less than the highest group of mobile learning use (HSD = -1.293, p = .026, d =.505). Crosstabs analysis indicated no association between levels of mobile learning and measures of student success. These findings have implications for the development of online pedagogy, mobile learning theory, online course design, and student support initiatives

“Did Emmett Till Die in Vain? Organized Labor Says No!”: The United Packinghouse Workers and Civil Rights Unionism in the Mid-1950s

Emmett Till’s mangled face is seared into our collective memory, a tragic epitome of the brutal violence that upheld white supremacy in the Jim Crow South. But Till\u27s murder was more than just a tragedy: it also inspired an outpouring of determined protest, in which labor unions played a prominent role. The United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) campaigned energetically on behalf of Emmett Till, from the stockyards of Chicago to the sugar refineries of Louisiana. Packinghouse workers petitioned, marched, and rallied to demand justice; the UPWA organized the first mass meeting addressed by Till’s mother, Mamie Bradley; and an interracial group of union activists traveled to Mississippi to observe the trial of Till’s killers, flouting segregation inside and outside the courtroom. In addition to revising our image of a signal event in African-American history, this article contributes to wider scholarly debates over the relationship between organized labor and the black freedom struggle. The growing “whiteness” literature has documented European-American workers’ assimilation of racist ideology and the complicity of labor unions in the subordination of African-Americans. But whiteness scholarship has done little to illuminate the contexts and strategies that have fostered durable interracial working-class solidarity. Analysis of antiracist unions like the UPWA can help address this lacuna. A second body of scholarship, more attuned to the diversity of racial practices within the labor movement, has highlighted the destructive impact of anti-Communism on unions with impressive records of challenging white supremacy. The UPWA, which managed to survive the red scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s relatively unscathed, represents an important link between the “civil rights unionism” of the 1930s and 1940s and the civil rights movement of the mid-1950s and 1960s

Nichter on Heiss and Papacosma, \u27NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts\u27

A review of NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts edited by Mary Ann Heiss and S. Victor Papacosma

Nichter on Burr and Kimball, \u27Nixon\u27s Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War\u27

A review of Nixon\u27s Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Who Was Fritz Kraemer? And Why We Should Care

Whether Vietnam, Iraq, or now Afghanistan, wars come and go, but the real battle is a philosophic one between two sects of conservatives. In The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons from Nixon to Obama, authors Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman challenge readers to examine the role of a little-known Pentagon figure named Fritz G.A. Kraemer. Colodny and Shachtman argue that Kraemer was the leading intellectual behind what became known as the neo-conservative movement, witnessed by the fact that Kraemer influenced so many high-ranking conservative figures over the course of six decades

Health ideologies and medical cultures in the South Kanara areca-nut belt

The study is divided into four parts. The first provides a brief ethnography of the South Kanara areca-nut belt, the second a detailed account of the region's health ideologies, the third a portrayal of the region's pluralistic medical cultures, and the fourth an examination of the villagers' use of these medical cultures. The subjects of disease, etiology, the ontological role of illness, the language of disease, techniques of curing, and patient-practitioner relationships are investigated. Disease is considered to be a sign as well as a symptom of social and physiological imbalance.Three themes pervade the study: the nature of power, the ideal of balance, and the formal significance of acculturation. A conceptualization of power as unstable and transmutable underlies the Hindu ideal of balance; and it in turn has influenced the distinct but interrelated Brahman and non-Brahman cultures. This ideal underlies the structural principles of hot-cold, the tridosha, and the doctrine of multiple disease causality. The conjunction of the hot-cold principles and the doctrine of multiple causality facilitate the interaction of distinct strata of society and foster a complementary relationship between pluralistic medical cultures.The entrance of a new medical culture or paradigm into the villagers' universe is depicted as analogous to the entry of a new deity to the village pantheon. The appearance of a new deity or paradigm does not result in a loss of faith in existing practices or structural principles. It is rather incorporated into the established universe. It is either relegated to a particular domain or assimilated as a homologous expression of an already existing source of power or knowledge. The villagers' conceptual universe evolves as an aggregate of ideas organized by basic structural principles. Health planners are encouraged to recognize these principles and incorporate new ideas within the existing cognitive universe, emphasizing a unity of the traditional and modern

Caught on Tape: The White House Reaction to the Shooting of Alabama Governor and Democratic Presidential Candidate George Wallace

On May 15, 1972, Arthur H. Bremer shot Alabama Governor and Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace five times at close range with a .38 caliber revolver during a campaign stop in Laurel, Maryland. The shooting in the Washington, D.C. suburb ended Wallace’s political career and he was paralyzed from the waist down for the remainder of his life. In November, thirty-five years later and in the middle of another political season, Bremer was released from the Maryland State Penitentiary in Hagerstown on November 6, 2007. The first political assassin to be paroled in American history, his sentence for the shooting was reduced on good behavior from an original term of 53 years, even though Bremer apparently never expressed any remorse

John W. Dean III and the Watergate Cover-up, Revisited

At the heart of the latest installment of a decade-old debate is the work most often cited on the Watergate portion of the Nixon tapes, Kutler\u27s Abuse of Power. Working in the pre-digital era with difficult analog cassette audiotapes, Kutler set the standard for Nixon tape transcription. His permanent loss of hearing is the price he paid so that generations could leam from his groundbreaking work. Numerous critics have raised objections - not all of them legitimate - to Abuse of Power and to Kutler\u27s earlier book TheWars of Watergate, bu Klingman\u27s article, which was submitted for publication to the American Historical Review, is the most pointed and the most prominent of these critiques.

President Obama and Bretton Woods

On the occasion of this weekend\u27s G-20 meeting in Washington, the global economic crisis seems more entrenched than ever. Calls for the return to a Bretton Woods-like system can be heard around the world. The Washington Post has said that a new Bretton Woods \u27could reform the IMF\u27 (October 20). The Times of London has reported Prime Minister Brown\u27s call for a new international financial architecture (November 14). Le Monde has printed favorable coverage for a \u27Bretton Woods acte II\u27 (November 14). Before getting caught up in the momentum of \u27reform\u27, the incoming administration of President-elect Obama should carefully heed the lessons of history

Nichter on Mahan, \u27Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, vol. 32, SALT I, 1969-1972\u27

A review of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, vol. 32, SALT I, 1969-1972 edited by Erin R. Mahan