An Analysis of Virtual Research Experiences for Undergraduates Programs in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

AbstractWith the continued social distancing requirements of the novel COVID-19 pandemic, many in-person educational programs were halted in 2020, including specialty education and research experiences for undergraduates. However, some Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) progressed in Summer 2020 in a fully virtual format. The importance of understanding how these practical STEM skills translated in a virtual REU format, in addition to areas of improvement going forward, are critical to the development of effective online STEM learning through REUs. Two survey instruments were designed to capture data from both the REU mentors (including the PIs) and the students in the programs. Questions included information on the REU they participated in, their perceptions of the best and worst aspects, their overall satisfaction with the experience, and their likelihood to seek out virtual REUs in the future. Overall, both students and faculty involved in virtual REUs were glad to have had the experience and were satisfied with it. The benefits of flexibility, the ease of communication and scheduling, and the increased access to online resources were echoed as the strengths of the virtual format. However, many believe that an in-person REU had benefits that could not be replicated in a virtual environment including community building and hands-on experiences. Several were bogged down by technical difficulties. With more effort made to include community building to a greater extent, as well as considerations and planning for technical demands, the future of widely accessible online REU experiences is a bright one.

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Black Books and Brownies

10.1093/oso/9780198824466.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Alison Milbank

Keyword(s):

Historical Change ◽

Religious Change ◽

The Novel ◽

Black Book ◽

James Hogg ◽

The Bible ◽

The Reformation ◽

The Future

Scottish fiction about the Reformation is concerned with the mechanics of historical change, which are rendered through a series of enchanted books and people discussed in Chapter 8. In the novel, The Monastery, describing the Dissolution and Reformation, Scott gothicizes the Bible as a magic book and the White Lady as its guardian to dramatize the mysterious nature of religious change, the dependence of the future on a Gothic past, and the need for interpretation. In Old Mortality, Scott’s protagonist escapes the frozen dualities of Covenanter and Claverhouse, revealing historical change itself as problematic in Humean terms and requiring a leap of faith. James Hogg contests this presentation of the Covenanters by re-enchanting them as supposed brownies, as mediators of history and nature, and in his Three Perils of Man reprises Scott’s wizard Michael Scott pitted against Roger Bacon and his ‘black book’ the Bible to present the Reformation as an eternal reality.

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Dombey and Son

10.1093/owc/9780199536283.001.0001 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Charles Dickens ◽

Dennis Walder

Keyword(s):

Family Relationships ◽

The Sun ◽

The Novel ◽

The Earth ◽

The Future ◽

Original Illustrations ◽

The One

Dombey and Son ... Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light.' The hopes of Mr Dombey for the future of his shipping firm are centred on his delicate son Paul, and Florence, his devoted daughter, is unloved and neglected. When the firm faces ruin, and Dombey's second marriage ends in disaster, only Florence has the strength and humanity to save her father from desolate solitude. This new edition contains Dickens's prefaces, his working plans, and all the original illustrations by ‘Phiz’. The text is that of the definitive Clarendon edition. It has been supplemented by a wide-ranging Introduction, highlighting Dickens's engagement with his times, and the touching exploration of family relationships which give the novel added depth and relevance.

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La Bête humaine

10.1093/owc/9780199538669.001.0001 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Émile Zola

Keyword(s):

Human Nature ◽

Technological Progress ◽

Second Empire ◽

The Novel ◽

Literary Context ◽

The Future

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola’s most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his ‘most finely worked’ novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.

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Platform Patterns—Using Proven Principles to Develop Digital Platforms

Journal of the Knowledge Economy ◽

10.1007/s13132-021-00772-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Marvin Drewel ◽

Leon Özcan ◽

Jürgen Gausemeier ◽

Roman Dumitrescu

Keyword(s):

Mechanical Engineering ◽

Early Stage ◽

Use Case ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Hands On ◽

The Future ◽

Platform Development ◽

Strategic Options ◽

Generic Design ◽

Platform Economy

AbstractHardly any other area has as much disruptive potential as digital platforms in the course of digitalization. After serious changes have already taken place in the B2C sector with platforms such as Amazon and Airbnb, the B2B sector is on the threshold to the so-called platform economy. In mechanical engineering, pioneers like GE (PREDIX) and Claas (365FarmNet) are trying to get their hands on the act. This is hardly a promising option for small and medium-sized companies, as only a few large companies will survive. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are already facing the threat of losing direct consumer contact and becoming exchangeable executers. In order to prevent this, it is important to anticipate at an early stage which strategic options exist for the future platform economy and which adjustments to the product program should already be initiated today. Basically, medium-sized companies in particular lack a strategy for an advantageous entry into the future platform economy.The paper presents different approaches to master the challenges of participating in the platform economy by using platform patterns. Platform patterns represent proven principles of already existing platforms. We show how we derived a catalogue with 37 identified platform patterns. The catalogue has a generic design and can be customized for a specific use case. The versatility of the catalogue is underlined by three possible applications: (1) platform ideation, (2) platform development, and (3) platform characterization.

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Towards modeling of human skilling for electrical circuitry using augmented reality applications

International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education ◽

10.1186/s41239-021-00268-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ana Villanueva ◽

Ziyi Liu ◽

Yoshimasa Kitaguchi ◽

Zhengzhe Zhu ◽

Kylie Peppler ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Augmented Reality ◽

Learning Outcomes ◽

Cognitive Assessment ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Stem Learning ◽

Educational Value ◽

Learning Content ◽

Hands On ◽

Specific Learning

AbstractAugmented reality (AR) is a unique, hands-on tool to deliver information. However, its educational value has been mainly demonstrated empirically so far. In this paper, we present a modeling approach to provide users with mastery of a skill, using AR learning content to implement an educational curriculum. We illustrate the potential of this approach by applying this to an important but pervasively misunderstood area of STEM learning, electrical circuitry. Unlike previous cognitive assessment models, we break down the area into microskills—the smallest segmentation of this knowledge—and concrete learning outcomes for each. This model empowers the user to perform a variety of tasks that are conducive to the acquisition of the skill. We also provide a classification of microskills and how to design them in an AR environment. Our results demonstrated that aligning the AR technology to specific learning objectives paves the way for high quality assessment, teaching, and learning.

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Architecture, Ability, and Adaptability of Recursive Internetworking Architecture – A Review

Recent Advances in Computer Science and Communications ◽

10.2174/2666255814666210615144943 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

Author(s):

Bhushana Samyuel Neelam ◽

Benjamin A Shimray

Keyword(s):

Complex Network ◽

Network Architecture ◽

Future Internet ◽

The Novel ◽

Process Communication ◽

Cyber Threats ◽

The Future ◽

Future Internet Architectures ◽

Reliable Solution ◽

Inter Process Communication

: The ever-increasing dependency of the utilities on networking brought several cyber vulnerabilities and burdened them with dynamic networking demands like QoS, multihoming, and mobility. As the existing network was designed without security in context, it poses several limitations in mitigating the unwanted cyber threats and struggling to provide an integrated solution for the novel networking demands. These limitations resulted in the design and deployment of various add-on protocols that made the existing network architecture a patchy and complex network. The proposed work introduces one of the future internet architectures, which seem to provide abilities to mitigate the above limitations. Recursive internetworking architecture (RINA) is one of the future internets and appears to be a reliable solution with its promising design features. RINA extended inter-process communication to distributed inter-process communication and combined it with recursion. RINA offered unique inbuilt security and the ability to meet novel networking demands with its design. It has also provided integration methods to make use of the existing network infrastructure. The present work reviews the unique architecture, abilities, and adaptability of RINA based on various research works of RINA. The contribution of this article is to expose the potential of RINA in achieving efficient networking solutions among academia and industry.

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The campus of the future needs hands‐on learning, stackable certificates

The Successful Registrar ◽

10.1002/tsr.30900 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (9) ◽

pp. 6-7

Author(s):

Halley Sutton

Keyword(s):

Future Needs ◽

Hands On ◽

The Future ◽

Hands On Learning

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Editorial. Yes, Please - Both Crafts and Digital Tools in Basic Education

Form Akademisk - forskningstidsskrift for design og designdidaktikk ◽

10.7577/formakademisk.1266 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Liv Merete Nielsen ◽

Janne Beate Reitan

Keyword(s):

Personal Development ◽

Basic Education ◽

Compulsory Education ◽

Arts And Crafts ◽

Ministry Of Education ◽

Qualified Teachers ◽

Hands On ◽

The Future ◽

Important Challenge ◽

Near Future

The Ludvigsen Committee (Ludvigsen-utvalget), which aims to assess primary and secondary educational subjects in terms of the competence Norwegian society and its working life will need in the future, has published an interim report entitled Pupils’ Learning in the School of the Future – A Knowledge Foundation (Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, 2014). The committee wrote the following about arts and crafts: “That subject will contribute to personal development and simultaneously strengthen opportunities to participate in a democratic society, which can be seen as a desire to protect both individual-oriented and community-oriented training. The breadth of the subject can restrict the ability to delve into individual topics” (NOU 2014: 7, 2014, p. 89, our translation from Norwegian). This will be an important challenge for the team in the near future. The committee shall submit their principal report by June 2015.Practical work with materials must not be removed from primary school. It should be required that qualified teachers are employed on the lower grades. Practical/hands-on work can give the trades a boost, encourage students to choose vocations and prevent dropouts in vocational education programmes. We need skilled craftsmen in the future, and good teaching in Arts & Crafts in compulsory education could provide an important basis for both future craftsmen and customers of good craftsmen.

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