scholarly journals Reflective Design in Action: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Faculty Learning Design

TechTrends ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn Bowers ◽  
Yu-Ling Chen ◽  
Yvette Clifton ◽  
Melissa Gamez ◽  
Heidi Hubbard Giffin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Course Delivery ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Design Changes ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Reflective Design ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
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AbstractResearch on how university faculty design courses has been limited and marked by modest detail on faculty design processes. Addressing this gap, seven faculty members supported by an educational developer at a teaching-intensive university used collaborative autoethnography (CAE) to explain how university faculty engage in reflective, iterative approaches to learning design. Collaborative analysis and interpretation of systematically collected data drawn from individual experiences in learning design reveal how faculty use reflection as a tool in learning design to recognize problems, devise solutions and constructively process emotions. Through reflection, faculty identify design solutions that are responsive to circumstances during course delivery, capture reasoning that informs design solutions for future course iterations and accurately gauge the appropriate timing of design changes based on factors such as scale and feasibility. This article offers detailed ethnographic evidence and new findings that enrich our understanding of claims made in previous interview-based studies of faculty design.

Selected Personnel Policies for Faculty Members: An Empirical Analysis

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Tanner
Keyword(s):  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Job Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Personnel Policies ◽  
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There are few who would disagree with the fact that sound personnel policies are important to any organization. This would include personnel policies and procedures for university faculty members as well as members of other organizations. This study was designed to analyze any change which had occurred in faculty personnel policies in selected southeastern and midwestern universities from 1972–73. Significant improvements were made in the areas of performance appraisal procedures, promotion systems, the use of position descriptions, and job evaluation systems. This is an encouraging trend in colleges and universities, and one that will hopefully continue to improve.

Chinese university faculty members' visiting experience and professional growth in American universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jie Hu ◽  
Kezheng Chen ◽  
Dongfang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Professional Growth ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Visiting Scholars

We empirically investigated Chinese university faculty members' visiting experience and professional growth in American universities. The major data source was qualitative semistructured interviews with 30 Chinese faculty members in the arts, engineering, natural sciences, and social sciences disciplines. The results showed that, despite challenges in preparation, language, and different academic cultures, Chinese visiting scholars were capable of navigating their host programs and achieving professional growth as they moved from peripheral to central participation in their academic community. We also critically discussed how Chinese visiting scholars' academic experience in the United States can be improved, and cast light on the globalization of higher education.

GDNF Therapy: Can We Make It Work?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Anders Björklund
Keyword(s):  
Gene Therapy ◽  
Transcription Factor ◽  
Signaling Pathway ◽  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
New Findings ◽  
The Status ◽  
Interesting Discussion ◽  
Postmortem Studies ◽  
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In two recent postmortem studies, Jeffrey Kordower and colleagues report new findings that open up for an interesting discussion on the status of GDNF/NRTN signaling in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), adding an interesting perspective on the, admittedly very limited, signs of restorative effects previously seen in GDNF/NRTN-treated patients. Their new findings show that the level of the GDNF signaling receptor Ret is overall reduced by about 65% relative to non-PD controls, and most severely, up to 80%, in nigral neurons containing α-synuclein inclusions, accompanied by impaired signaling downstream of the Ret receptor. Notably, however, the vast majority of the remaining nigral neurons retained a low level of Ret expression, and hence a threshold level of signaling. Further observations made in two patients who had received AAV-NRTN gene therapy 8–10 years earlier suggest the intriguing possibility that NRTN is able to restore Ret expression and upregulate its own signaling pathway. This “wind-up” mechanism, which is likely to depend on an interaction with dopaminergic transcription factor Nurr1, has therapeutic potential and should encourage renewed efforts to turn GDNF/NRTN therapy into success, once the recurring problem of under-dosing is resolved.

Associations between Prior Disability-Focused Training and Disability-Related Attitudes and Perceptions among University Faculty

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Murray ◽  
Allison Lombardi ◽  
Carol T. Wren ◽  
Christopher Keys
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Attitudes ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Prior Training ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Students With Ld ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Time Faculty

This investigation examined the relationship between prior disability-focused training and university faculty members' attitudes towards students with learning disabilities (LD). A survey containing items designed to measure faculty attitudes was sent to all full-time faculty at one university. Analyses of 198 responses indicated that faculty who had received some form of disability-focused training scored higher on factors pertaining to Willingness to Provide Exam Accommodations, Fairness and Sensitivity, General Knowledge About LD, Willingness to Personally Invest in Students with LD, and personal actions, such as Inviting Disclosure and Providing Accommodations, and lower scores on negatively valenced factors than did faculty who had not received prior training. Faculty who had previously attended disability-related workshops and courses reported the most positive attitudes, followed by faculty who had participated in “other” forms of training (i.e., reading books and articles or visiting websites) and faculty who had received no prior training. The total number of types of training experienced and time spent engaged in training was predictive of faculty attitudes as well as faculty-reported satisfaction with prior training. Implications of the findings are discussed.

Magic III - An Old Man's Day Sailer

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richards T. Miller ◽  
Harold M. Whitacre
Keyword(s):  
Design Changes ◽  
Made In

Because it has been one of the most successful of International class racing boats, the STAR offers many out-classed but still sound hulls available for recreational sailing. Based on nearly sixty years experience with nine different racing and cruising boats, Dick Miller decided that one of those hulls could be converted to an ideal "old man's" day sailer. The basis for his design, changes made in rig and hull, and the resulting MAGIC III are described in this paper.

scholarly journals Shedding Light on Hexaquarks

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 1860033 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bashkanov ◽  
T. Skorodko ◽  
H. Clement ◽  
D. P. Watts
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Physical Size ◽  
Decay Channels ◽  
Quantum Numbers ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Reaction Channels ◽  
Experimental Side ◽  
Multiquark States ◽  
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Several new findings in the four, five and six quark systems reheat the interest in the field of multiquark states (beyond the trivial [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]). A lot of progress has recently been made in the 6q sector, on both the theoretical and experimental side. A resonance like structure observed in double-pionic fusion to the deuteron, at M = 2.38 GeV with [Formula: see text] = 70 MeV and [Formula: see text] has been consistently observed in a wealth of reaction channels, supporting the existence of a resonant dibaryon state - the [Formula: see text]. These studies include measurement of all the principle strong decay channels in pn collisions in the quasifree mode by the WASA-at-COSY and HADES collaborations. The internal structure of the [Formula: see text] is largely unknown. It can contain various ”hidden color” 6q configurations, [Formula: see text] molecular states with angular momentum L = 0,2,4,6 as well as meson-assisted dressed dibaryon structures. The large set of experimental data obtained to date gives some constraints on the internal structure of the [Formula: see text] dibaryon, but does not settle the issue. The [Formula: see text] is the only multiquark state which can be produced copiously at current facilities, offering unique access to information beyond its basic quantum numbers, particularly its physical size and internal structure.

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