A Profile of Computer Use among the University of Illinois Humanities Faculty

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Jacobson ◽  
Martha H. Weller
Keyword(s):  
Computer Use ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
Faculty Perceptions ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Humanities Faculty ◽  
The University

The faculty of the School of Humanities of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) were surveyed to assess their current use of and attitudes towards educational computing. The respondents were generally self-trained in computer use, indicated positive attitudes to, and made frequent use of computers. Frequency of computer use, level of general computing skills, computer interest, and anxiety were analyzed according to respondent rank, sex, and age. Faculty perceptions of obstacles to computer use in the humanities indicate a need to address issues of funding for hardware, quality of software, training, and technical support. The main faculty interests in applications software include word processing, desktop publishing, graphics, database management, communications, and computer-assisted instruction. While recognizing that humanities faculty do not have the same level of involvement in computing as faculty in more “technical” disciplines, UIUC humanists, as a group, are clearly not intimidated by computer technology.

Population Education through Computer Generated Graphics

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian Klaff ◽  
Paul Handler
Keyword(s):  
Energy Use ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
Population Education ◽  
Dynamics Of Population ◽  
Assisted Instruction ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The Population Dynamics Group (P.D.G.) computer assisted instruction system is designed to communicate information concerning (a) the structure and dynamics of population and (b) the relationship between population and issues such as economic development, food demand and supply, energy use, etc. This paper focuses on the population model and describes the interactive graphics program as it operates on the University of Illinois PLATO IV system. The P.D.G. programs are a good example of the ability to use currently available developments in computer technology to transmit information in a flexible, interactive and graphic format for instructional purposes.

Teacher Educators´ Attitudes Toward Computers: A Study Among Teacher Educators in Teacher´ – Training Colleges in Johor, Malaysia

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abang Ahmad Ridzuan ◽  
Kian Sam Hong ◽  
Aliza Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Computer Use ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Attitudes Toward Computers ◽  
Computer Attitude ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Teacher Training Colleges

Guru memikul tanggungjawab yang berat dalam memastikan pelajar mengalami suasana pembelajaran yang memerangsangkan. Teknologi maklumat dan komunikasi, khususnya komputer, merupakan alat yang strategik memperkayakan suasana pembelajaran. Pensyarah maktab merupakan barisan depan yang sepatutnya mampu membimbing guru pelatih mengintegrasikan penggunaan komputer dalam proses pembelajaran. Pensyarah yang cekap menggunakan komputer dan memiliki sikap positif terhadap komputer diharap akan dapat menjana ilmu dan kemahiran mereka kepada guru pelatih agar dapat dipraktikkan dalam sistem persekolahan. Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk mengenalpasti tahap penggunaan komputer dan sikap terhadap komputer dikalangan pensyarah maktab perguruan berdasarkan ciri–ciri demografi terpilih. Kajian ini juga melihat perhubungan antara komponen sikap afektif seperti minat, keyakinan dan kebimbangan terhadap penggunaan komputer dengan penggunaan komputer dalam urusan pendidikan. Kajian ini menggunakan soal selidik untuk memperolehi data demografi, tahap penggunaan komputer dan sikap terhadap komputer yang diperlukan daripada sampel. Computer Attitude Scale oleh Lyod dan Gressard telah digunakan untuk mengukur sikap terhadap komputer. Kajian ini melibatkan seramai 224 pensyarah dari tiga buah maktab perguruan di Johor, Malaysia. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan para pensyarah menggunakan komputer pada tahap sederhana dalam mengendalikan kursus yang mereka ajar. Penggunaan komputer yang kerap adalah pada penyediaan soalan dan pengubalan soalan peperiksaan. Penggunaan yang paling kurang ialah pada Pengajaran Berpandukan Komputer. Pensyarah yang tidak mempunyai pengalaman menggunakan komputer menunjukkan perkaitan yang signifikan dengan sikap jarang menggunakan komputer berbanding dengan mereka yang mempunyai pengalaman lebih setahun. Secara amnya, pensyarah mempunyai sikap positif dan kurang bimbang menggunakan komputer untuk pengajaran dan pembelajaran. Ketiga–tiga domain sikap (minat, keyakinan, kebimbangan) menunjukkan perhubungan yang signifikan dengan penggunaan komputer. Keyakinan dan minat mempunyai hubungan yang positif terhadap penggunaan komputer manakala kebimbangan mempunyai hubungan yang negatif terhadap penggunaan komputer. Kata kunci: Pensyarah maktab perguruan; sikap; komputer; maktab perguruan Teachers shoulder the heavy responsibility of ensuring that students experience a meaningful learning environment. Information and communication technologies, in general, and computers, in particular has been put forward as a strategic tool for enhancing these learning environments. Teacher educators, as frontliners of the teacher preparation process, should themselves be well versed in the fields of integrating computers into the learning processes. Teacher educators who use computers regularly and have positive attitudes towards computers it is hoped, will rub on some of their knowledge, skills and enthusiasm to future teachers who will enter the school system. The purpose of this study is to determine the level of computer use and attitude towards computer among teacher educators. Differences in computer use among teacher educators based on selected demographic data are also investigated. This study also looks at the relationship between attitude towards computers, namely liking, confidence and anxiety with computer use for educational purposes among teacher educators. A questionnaire was designed to obtain the necessary demographics, levels of computer use and attitudes of the sample toward computers. The Computer Attitude Scale by Lyod and Gressard was used to measure the attitudes toward computers. The sample consisted of 224 teacher educators at three teacher–training colleges in Johor, Malaysia. Findings indicate that the teacher educators used computers moderately in the course of their work. Teacher educators mosfly used the computers for preparing exercises and examination questions. Computer assisted instruction was seldom utilized. Teacher educators without experience in using computers exhibit significantly less computer use as compared to those with more than a year of computer use experience. In general, the teacher educators have positive attitudes and low anxiety toward using computers for teaching and learning. The three attitude domains (liking, confidence and anxiety) were significantly related to computer use. Confidence and liking were positively related to computer use while anxiety was negatively related to computer use. Key words: Teacher educator; attitudes; computer; teacher training college

Five Decades of Research Experience in Speech Anatomy and Physiology

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
David P. Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
Ohio State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
The Ohio State University ◽  
Speech Science ◽  
The University ◽  
East Carolina University

This report highlights some of the major developments in the area of speech anatomy and physiology drawing from the author's own research experience during his years at the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois. He has benefited greatly from mentors including Professors James Curtis, Kenneth Moll, and Hughlett Morris at the University of Iowa and Professor Paul Lauterbur at the University of Illinois. Many colleagues have contributed to the author's work, especially Professors Jerald Moon at the University of Iowa, Bradley Sutton at the University of Illinois, Jamie Perry at East Carolina University, and Youkyung Bae at the Ohio State University. The strength of these researchers and their students bodes well for future advances in knowledge in this important area of speech science.

A Local Area Network for Medical Research; Planning, Realization and Experience

1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Schosser ◽  
C. Weiss ◽  
K. Messmer
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Word Processing ◽  
Local Area Network ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Test Installation ◽  
Cost Performance ◽  
The Public ◽  
On Line ◽  
The University

This report focusses on the planning and realization of an interdisciplinary local area network (LAN) for medical research at the University of Heidelberg. After a detailed requirements analysis, several networks were evaluated by means of a test installation, and a cost-performance analysis was carried out. At present, the LAN connects 45 (IBM-compatible) PCs, several heterogeneous mainframes (IBM, DEC and Siemens) and provides access to the public X.25 network and to wide-area networks for research (EARN, BITNET). The network supports application software that is frequently needed in medical research (word processing, statistics, graphics, literature databases and services, etc.). Compliance with existing “official” (e.g., IEEE 802.3) and “de facto” standards (e.g., PostScript) was considered to be extremely important for the selection of both hardware and software. Customized programs were developed to improve access control, user interface and on-line help. Wide acceptance of the LAN was achieved through extensive education and maintenance facilities, e.g., teaching courses, customized manuals and a hotline service. Since requirements of clinical routine differ substantially from medical research needs, two separate networks (with a gateway in between) are proposed as a solution to optimally satisfy the users’ demands.

Teaching Computer Based Historical Data Analysis

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Anderson ◽  
Robert J. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social History ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Historical Data Analysis ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The University

A case study ofa third year course in the Department of Economic and Social History in the University of Edinburgh isusedto considerandhighlightaspects of good practice in the teaching of computer-assisted historical data analysis.

University Geographies and Folk Music Landscapes

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
David K. Blake
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Distant Object ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
The University

By examining folk music activities connecting students and local musicians during the early 1960s at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this article demonstrates how university geographies and musical landscapes influence musical activities in college towns. The geography of the University of Illinois, a rural Midwestern location with a mostly urban, middle-class student population, created an unusual combination of privileged students in a primarily working-class area. This combination of geography and landscape framed interactions between students and local musicians in Urbana-Champaign, stimulating and complicating the traversal of sociocultural differences through traditional music. Members of the University of Illinois Campus Folksong Club considered traditional music as a high cultural form distinct from mass-culture artists, aligning their interests with then-dominant scholarly approaches in folklore and film studies departments. Yet students also interrogated the impropriety of folksong presentation on campus, and community folksingers projected their own discomfort with students’ liberal politics. In hosting concerts by rural musicians such as Frank Proffitt and producing a record of local Urbana-Champaign folksingers called Green Fields of Illinois (1963), the folksong club attempted to suture these differences by highlighting the aesthetic, domestic, historical, and educational aspects of local folk music, while avoiding contemporary socioeconomic, commercial, and political concerns. This depoliticized conception of folk music bridged students and local folksingers, but also represented local music via a nineteenth-century rural landscape that converted contemporaneous lived practice into a temporally distant object of aesthetic study. Students’ study of folk music thus reinforced the power structures of university culture—but engaging local folksinging as an educational subject remained for them the most ethical solution for questioning, and potentially traversing, larger problems of inequality and difference.

The Early Years of the Jewish Presence at the University of Illinois

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-245
Author(s):  
Winton U. Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Characteristic Form ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Jewish Students ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

For over two centuries, the College was the characteristic form of higher education in the United States, and the College was closely allied to the church in a predominantly Protestant land. The university became the characteristic form of American higher education starting in the late nineteenth Century, and universities long continued to reflect the nation's Protestant culture. By about 1900, however, Catholics and Jews began to enter universities in increasing numbers. What was the experience of Jewish students in these institutions, and how did authorities respond to their appearance? These questions will be addressed in this article by focusing on the Jewish presence at the University of Illinois in the early twentieth Century. Religion, like a red thread, is interwoven throughout the entire fabric of this story.

The Attitudes of University Students of Batubara in Medan Towards Batubara Malay Language

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julisah Izar ◽  
Siti Aisah Ginting
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The University ◽  
Key Words Attitudes ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

This study dealt with the attitudes of university students of Batubara towards Batubara Malay language. The data were collected from 20 university students of Batubara in Medan. The instruments used for collecting the data were observation sheet, questionnaire sheet and depth interview. The data were analyzed by Moleong’s theory. The findings showed that the respondents’ attitudes were: 12 (60%) negative and 8 (40%) positive. The attitudes levels of university students included in negative and positive attitudes namely in: receiving 11 (55%) negative and 9 (45%) positive, responding 12 (60%) negative and 8 positive, valuing 10 (50%) negative and 10 (50%)  positive,  organizing 12 (60%) positive and 8 (40%) negative, and internalizing values 12 (60%) negative and 8 (40%) positive. The factors influenced the university students’ attitudes were language disloyalty 12 (60%) negative and 8 (40%) positive, language pride lack 14 (70%) negative and 7 (30%) positive, in the unawareness of the norms 11 (55%) negative and 9 (45%) positive. Bahasa Indonesia is dominantly spoken by the university students of Batubara in Medan which caused they have less frequency in using their Batubara Malay language with their friends who are from same region in Medan. Key words: Attitudes, University Students of Batubara, Batubara Malay Language

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