The Practice and Innovation of General Education at University of Maryland: A Case Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Lin ◽  
Qian Meng ◽  
Xuan Weng
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
The World ◽  
New Curriculum ◽  
The University

Abstract Universities in the U. S. have adopted new curriculum to meet changes in the world. But how bold is the change, and how expanded is the reform vary by institutions. In this article, we look at the new curriculum for general education at the University of Maryland as a case study. We will first conduct a review of literature, which provides readers with an overview of the evolvement of general education and how it leads to the current types of reforms. We then present the reform at the University of Maryland, highlighting some key changes such as the addition of the I-Series courses, to illustrate the depth and breadth in reform in general education, and finally we reflect on the innovation and challenges of the reform.

scholarly journals Kids in the Library

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-193
Author(s):  
Rachel W. Gammons ◽  
Karina Kletscher ◽  
Kelsey Elizabeth. Corlett-Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Family Study ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
The University ◽  
Is Value

While children's services are traditionally associated with public libraries, the increase in students with dependent children means that academic libraries are increasingly being called to provide family-friendly spaces. Using the University of Maryland Libraries as a case study, the authors detail the process of developing, implementing, and overseeing family-friendly services, including a family study room and activity kits for children. They argue there is value in welcoming families into the academy and projects, such as a family study room, worthy not only for the contributions they make to the community but also for the opportunity to enact joy in our daily practice as academic librarians.

scholarly journals Utilization of the Maryland Environmental Justice Screening Tool: A Bladensburg, Maryland Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aubree Driver ◽  
Crystal Mehdizadeh ◽  
Samuel Bara-Garcia ◽  
Coline Bodenreider ◽  
Jessica Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Air Toxics ◽  
Prince George's County ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Demographic Indicators ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Maryland School ◽  
The University

Maryland residents’ knowledge of environmental hazards and their health effects is limited, partly due to the absence of tools to map and visualize distribution of risk factors across sociodemographic groups. This study discusses the development of the Maryland EJSCREEN (MD EJSCREEN) tool by the National Center for Smart Growth in partnership with faculty at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. The tool assesses environmental justice risks similarly to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) EJSCREEN tool and California’s tool, CalEnviroScreen 3.0. We discuss the architecture and functionality of the tool, indicators of importance, and how it compares to USEPA’s EJSCREEN and CalEnviroScreen. We demonstrate the use of MD EJSCREEN through a case study on Bladensburg, Maryland, a town in Prince George’s County (PG) with several environmental justice concerns including air pollution from traffic and a concrete plant. Comparison reveals that environmental and demographic indicators in MD EJSCREEN most closely resemble those in EPA EJSCREEN, while the scoring is most similar to CalEnviroScreen. Case study results show that Bladensburg has a Prince George’s environmental justice score of 0.99, and that National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) air toxics cancer risk is concentrated in communities of color.

scholarly journals Transition of graduates from backpack‐to‐briefcase: a case study

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 489-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter McIlveen ◽  
Dominic Pensiero
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Career Services ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Environment ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
Career Service ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to overview the Backpack‐to‐Briefcase project which established a set of prototype career development learning strategies for Australian university career services, with the aim of contributing to their services for supporting students and graduates to make a smoother transition into graduate employment and the world‐of‐work.Design/methodology/approachA case study analysis of the development and implementation of three career development learning interventions is described. These interventions include: employability skills workshops for students; career mentoring for students; and services to small and medium sized employers to support their recruitment and induction of new graduates into their worksites.FindingsThe prototype interventions developed in the project extended the work of the university's Career Service. The interventions were judged as having the capacity to be readily implemented by university career services. A key outcome was the success of the graduate‐induction initiative which engaged small and medium sized employers traditionally unfamiliar with or unable to enter the graduate recruitment market.Originality/valueThis case study highlights the value of university career services' contributions to undergraduate preparation for the world‐of‐work, particularly in regional areas. Furthermore, the case study highlights the importance of inter‐departmental cooperation within the university environment, and the value of university‐industry collaboration toward the goal of improving graduates' transitions into the workforce, particularly in rural and regional areas.

scholarly journals How Effectively are University Students Tested? A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Jane Kembo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
University Students ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Academic Mobility ◽  
The World ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The University

Testing and examining go on in higher education all the time through continuous assessments and end semester examinations. The grades scored by students determine not only academic mobility but eventually who get employed in the job market, which seems to be shrinking all over the world. Those charged with testing are often staff who have higher qualifications in their subject areas but are not necessarily teaching or examination experts. Against this background, the researcher wanted to find out what was happening at selected university across three schools: Social Studies, Education and Science. The university is fairly young having been awarded its charter twenty years ago. The paper asked two questions namely, at what levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy are lecturers asking examination questions? Secondly, do the level and balance of questions show growth in examining skills? The study evaluated over 1039 questions from randomly selected examination papers from the Examinations Office for the academic years from 2014/15 to 2017/18 (three academic years). A guide from the list of verbs used in Anderson s (revision of Bloom was used to analyze the questions. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the trends in testing for each year. ANOVA and t-tests were used to find out if there were significant differences between numbers across categories and within categories. The results of the study show that most examination questions are at the levels of remember (literal) and knowledge (understand). In 2016/17 and 2017/18 academic years, there were significant differences in the percentage of questions examined in these two categories. However, it seems from the study, that testing or examining skills do not grow through the practice of setting questions. There is need for examiners to be trained to use the knowledge in setting questions that discriminate effectively across the academic abilities of students they teach.

scholarly journals Verso il restauro

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio De Vita
Keyword(s):  
Final Stage ◽  
University Education ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
The World ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Specific Discipline ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

The book brings together critical considerations and experiences linked to the work of the author, lecturer in restoration at the Florence University Faculty of Architecture, as supervisor of degree theses on restoration. The reflections concern teaching Restoration as a subject, the conditions within which the knowledge and culture of restoration can ripen within our universities and the most recent problems encountered by both the discipline and restoration projects. In the first part of the publication, these aspects are set out in broad and more precisely conceptual and methodological terms in chapters and themed paragraphs which also act as a guide to drawing up degree theses on restoration, as well as a contributing to the didactics and efficiency of the specific discipline. This is followed by a selection of degree theses on restoration discussed in recent years which show the route from the principles, general problems and intervention criteria for every case study to drawing up a project. They are projects that deal with analysis methods and techniques, surveys, specialist restorations, regeneration, and the relationship between old and new. In short, the projects are what gave the final stage in the university education meaning and substance, also in order to acquire fundamental keys to restoration culture and activities in the world after university.

Converting to a Synchronous Virtual Nursing Research Conference Amidst a Pandemic: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-124
Author(s):  
Lilian J. Canamo ◽  
Jessica P. Bejar ◽  
Judy E. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
University Of California ◽  
World Health ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Research Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The University

University of California San Diego Health was set to launch its 13th annual Nursing and Inquiry Innovation Conference event in June 2020. However, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed a barrier to large gatherings throughout the world. Because the World Health Organization designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, the University committed to continuing the large-scale conference, converting to a virtual event. This article reviews the methodologies behind the delivery of the virtual event and implications for user engagement and learning on the blended electronic platform.

Beyond the Horizon

2014 ◽  
pp. 265-289
Author(s):  
Diane M. T. North
Keyword(s):  
Social Engagement ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Threaded Discussions ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Course Length ◽  
The University ◽  
Goals And Objectives

The mission of this chapter is to explain the extensive step-by-step process involved in creating and teaching an online university humanities course based upon the primary educational philosophy called “constructivism.” Instead of using a distance learning or correspondence model, the University of Maryland University College’s learning approach focuses on “construction and engagement” or intensive interaction among students and professors. This social engagement (professor to student and student to student) requires more time, energy, and thought on the part of students and faculty members than face-to-face teaching. As a case study in teaching the History of the American West online within an intensive eight-week course length, this chapter provides concrete information about the course’s required concepts, skills, goals and objectives, project assignments, conference participation requirements for threaded discussions, assessment methods, and grading rubrics. The case study also addresses the current challenges facing the implementation of the course and offers recommendations. Although some of the details specifically relate to teaching a history course, they are applicable to any humanities course.

scholarly journals Understanding Information Use in a Multidisciplinary Field: A Local Citation Analysis of Neuroscience Research

2005 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian A. Burright ◽  
Trudi Bellardo Hahn ◽  
Margaret J. Antonisse
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Neuroscience Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Sciences Citation Index ◽  
Neuroscience Community

Assessing the information needs of a multidisciplinary academic community presents challenges to librarians managing journal collections. This case study analyzed the literature used by the neuroscience community at the University of Maryland to determine the following about the publications they cited: their type, their discipline, and how recent they were relative to the citing publication. The authors searched the ISI Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index to identify the publishing, citing, and coauthoring patterns of both faculty and graduate students to inform library decisions about collecting journals and other types of literature.

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