scholarly journals Assessing a Reciprocal International Student Travel Exchange: The Iowa State University and University of Costa Rica Intercambio

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 710-717
Author(s):  
Mark L. Gleason ◽  
Amy Wang Wong ◽  
Donald R. Lewis ◽  
Luis Felipe Arauz Cavallini ◽  
Barbara C. Clawson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
International Student ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
State University ◽  
Educational Impact ◽  
Iowa State University ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
The University

The creation and educational impact of a reciprocal travel exchange program for student groups in horticulture and allied sciences between Iowa State University (ISU) and the University of Costa Rica (UCR) are described. The program, called the “Intercambio,” (“exchange,” in English), has facilitated group travel for 10- to 12-day periods to farms and agricultural research centers in the host country annually since 1999. The article explores how the Intercambio began and factors that have helped to sustain it, to provide ideas for educators interested in initiating similar exchanges. Analysis of responses to a 2015 written survey of student participants indicated that the Intercambio has exerted a strong impact on academic studies and career choices for 77% of the ISU students and 100% of the UCR students, as well as amplifying interest in the other country and raising cultural understanding and tolerance.

The Implementation and Analysis of an International Student Teaching Program

2017 ◽  
pp. 168-188
Author(s):  
Kathryn Dixon ◽  
Ricardo Gonzalez-Carriedo ◽  
Lisbeth Dixon-Krauss
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
International Student ◽  
North Texas ◽  
University Of North Texas ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
International Student Teaching ◽  
The University

This chapter provides an account of an international student teaching exchange program between the University of North Texas (UNT) and the University of Seville (UdeS) from inception to implementation. The first section of the chapter offers a rationale for the program including a review of research related to international exchanges specific to educator preparation. Section two includes a discussion of program establishment, a description of initial contacts between the universities and steps taken to form legal agreements binding the institutions to the program. Logistical aspects of the program are detailed, including agreements with local school districts. The final section synthesizes the research conducted at UNT using Mezirow's (1991) transformative learning theory to study the effects of the program on its students. Three years of data have shown a clear pattern in regard to the personal and professional growth student teachers experience as a result of their participation in the program.

scholarly journals MEMORY SPACES – COOPERATIVE LEARNING BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL MOBILITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Seyfarth ◽  
◽  
I.J. Jesan ◽  
E.A. Kovtunova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
State University ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Academic Mobility ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Winter Semester ◽  
Virtual Mobility ◽  
The University

The Corona pandemic has led to worldwide efforts to create new and innovative concepts for digital learning. In this article, we present a projectoriented seminar that took place at the University of Greifswald and St. Petersburg State University in the winter semester of 2018. In this project seminar students of both universities worked on memory spaces that are at the same time a part of the collective memory of both German- and Russian-speaking discourse communities. After giving an outline on the concept of memory spaces, this article presents the project, which combined parallel work at the two participating universities with study visits of student groups from each university to the partner university. We end with reflections on how such seminars can serve as a basis for virtual academic mobility.

Electronic schedule at the university on the basis of 1C:Automated scheduling. University on the example of Omsk State University

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
T. A. Deyneko ◽  
O. L. Epanchintseva ◽  
A. V. Rodyukov
Keyword(s):  
Initial Data ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
State University ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Reference Information ◽  
Level Of Automation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

Automating scheduling is a classic task in learning management systems. The process of scheduling is, in a sense, the final one in the chain of support of educational activities, and its automation reveals all inconsistencies and shortcomings of the previous processes. In order for the scheduling to be automated as much as possible, a lot of various initial information should be processed in the information systems of the university — curricula, staff, workload, schedule of the educational process, contingent of students, classroom fund. It is especially difficult for universities with educational programs of various orientations — natural science, humanitarian, creative, etc., which have specific principles for organizing and conducting classes.The level of automation of educational activities at Dostoevsky Omsk State University, a classical university with a wide variety of types of educational programs, made it possible to tackle the task of scheduling. However, during the implementation of the automated scheduling system, the project team faced a number of problems.The article describes the results of the project for the transition to an electronic schedule in Dostoevsky Omsk State University using the circulation software product 1C:Automated scheduling. University based on the 1C:Enterprise 8.3 system. Initial data on the individual workload of teachers, the classroom fund, the list of student groups, and the list of disciplines were loaded into the configuration from the existing information system of design of Dostoevsky Omsk State University. Based on the results of the audit of the downloaded reference information, the initial data, including curricula, were normalized. The compiled schedule in two modes (manual and automatic) was published on the official website of the university and is used to operate a chatbot on the VKontakte network to inform students and teachers about upcoming classes.

scholarly journals Farewell to Mushtaqur Rahman

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-158
Author(s):  
Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Vice President ◽  
State University ◽  
Iowa State University ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Louisiana State University ◽  
Des Moines ◽  
The University

Professor Mushtaqur Rahman, a renowned Muslim geographer, who wasborn on July 1,1933 in Agra (India), died of cardiac arrest at Des Moines,Iowa (USA), on November 5, 1999. He had heart problems for severalyears that had slowed down his academic and social service activities butnever deterred him from performing them.In 1947, he migrated to Pakistan, a country he loved dearly and lived toserve throughout his life. Still, his contributions went beyond it in a numberof ways. Having done his B.A. (1953) and M.A. (1955) from theUniversity of Karachi, he taught at Islamiah College, Karachi, and SindhUniversity, Hyderabad for a few years. He earned his Ph.D. degree inCultural Geography, from Louisiana State University in 1960, and didpostdoctoral research at the University of Geisen, Germany in 1966-67. Heserved in the Department of Geography, University of Karachi, Pakistanfrom 1963 to 1969. He was appointed Professor of Geography in theDepartment of Anthropology, Iowa State University (ISU), Ames, Iowa.He served ISU till his retirement in May 1998.Dr.. Rahman’s contribution to the field of Cultural Geography of SouthAsia has been recognized worldwide. In Professor Rahman was combinedan activist and quiet researcher. He was a founding member of the OldStudents’ Association of Karachi University (OSAKU), which he served invarious capacities. Besides carrying out advisory duties for the MuslimStudents Association at ISU, he organized for its students and faculty manystudy tours of Pakistan and brought a number of Pakistani scholars to IowaState.His main scholarly contributions are through his very long, sincere, dedicatedservice to the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) andthrough his many worthy publications in the field of political and culturalgeography. Not only did he serve AMSS as its vice president with one ofits founders, Dr. AbdulHamid AbuSulayman, but he was also elected its ...

scholarly journals Организационная модель социализации различных гетерогенных групп в условиях инклюзивной среды университета

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Валентин Васильевич Валетов ◽  
Николай Александрович Лебедев ◽  
Ирина Владимировна Журлова ◽  
Татьяна Владиславовна Палиева
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Structural Organization ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
State University ◽  
Organizational Model ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Heterogeneous Groups ◽  
Internal Structures ◽  
Youth Subcultures ◽  
The University

Through the example of organization of a holistic inclusive atmosphere in the „Pedagogical State University Mozyrsk, named I.P. Shamyakin“ (Belarus), this article presents an organizational model for the socialization of diverse heterogeneous groups of students. These students are foreign-language speakers, or come from families with different religious backgrounds, have physical and/or mental challenges, come from families with social problems, have special capabilities in various activity fields, or belong to different youth subcultures. Based on the resulting data the authors recommend an original organizational model for the socialization of heterogeneous student groups in university contexts. This model includes external as well as internal structures. It is concerened with facilitating focused and comprehensive work with different heterogeneous groups of students. The authors suggest a catalogue of competencies for pedagogues and educational managers working in an inclusive educational space. Organizational stages of socializing activities in the various heterogeneous groups in the inclusive sphere of the university are connected to a list of priority tasks for each stage. Also explicated are the function of the structural organization of the university and the respective working platforms of the pedagogues and leading staff. The article presents and generalizes the concrete experiences of the work with heterogeneous student groups in the university.

scholarly journals Influences on International Student Choice of Study Destination: Evidence from the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 597-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
International Student ◽  
The United States ◽  
Destination Choice ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
State University ◽  
School Location ◽  
The University

Competition to attract international students continues to grow and understanding the factors that influence study destination choice is critical to the marketing efforts of nations, states, and institutions. This surveybased study of international students at Michigan State University demonstrates that they appear to choose the country in which to study, and/or the specific school, with less regard for school location. The most critical influences on their choices were expected quality of education, reputation/ranking of the university and individual departments/programs, safety/security, and cost/affordability. Differences in relative importance by nationality, gender, and level of education sought were also identified. Implications of these findings, for the marketing, promotion, and recruitment efforts of universities and national/regional economic development agencies, are discussed.

Preparation of Heteroaromatics

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglass Taber
Keyword(s):  
Enantiomeric Excess ◽  
Unsaturated Ester ◽  
State University ◽  
Iowa State University ◽  
Propargylic Alcohols ◽  
Complementary Approach ◽  
Korea Research Institute ◽  
La Jolla ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

Masahiro Yoshida of the University of Tokushima described (Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 5021) the Pt-mediated rearrangement of alkynyl oxiranes such as 1 to the furan 2. Roman Dembinski of Oakland University reported (J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 5881) a related zinc-mediated rearrangement of propargyl ketones to furans. The cyclization of aryloxy ketones such as 3 to the benzofuran 4 developed (Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 6579) by Ikyon Kim of the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology is likely proceeding by a Friedel-Crafts mechanism. Sandro Cacchi and Giancarlo Fabrizi of Università degli Studi “La Sapienza”, Roma, observed (Organic Lett. 2008, 10, 2629) that base converted the enamine 5 to the pyrrole 6. Alternatively, oxidation of 5 with CuBr led to a pyridine. Zhuang-ping Zhuan of Xiamen University prepared (Adv. Synth. Cat. 2008, 350, 2778) pyrroles such as 9 by condensing an alkynyl carbinol 7 with a 1,3-dicarbonyl compound. Richard C. Larock of Iowa State University found (J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 6666) that combination of an alkynyl ketone 10 with 11 followed by oxidation with I-Cl led to the pyrazole 12. The “click” condensation of azides with alkynes, leading to the 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3- triazole, has proven to be a powerful tool for combinatorial synthesis. Valery V. Fokin of Scripps/La Jolla and Zhenyang Lin and Guochen Jia of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have developed (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 8923) a complementary approach, using Ru catalysts to prepare 1,5-disubstituted 1,2,3- triazoles. Remarkably, internal alkynes participate, and, as in the conversion of 13 to 15, propargylic alcohols direct the regioselectivity of the cycloaddition. A variety of methods have been put forward for functionalizing pyridines. Sukbok Chang of KAIST described (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 9254) the direct oxidative homologation of a pyridine N -oxide 16 to give the unsaturated ester 18. Jonathan Clayden of the University of Manchester observed (Organic Lett. 2008, 10, 3567) that metalation of 19 gave an anion that rearranged to 20 with complete retention of enantiomeric excess. Shigeo Katsumura of Kwansei Gakuin University developed (Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 4349) an intriguing three-component coupling, combining 21, 22, and methanesulonamide 23 to give the pyridine 24.

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