(2020). Investigating the Use of Text Positions on Videos: An Eye Movement Study. Contemporary Educational Technology, v12 n1 Article ep262. Videos have become an indispensable part of both online and blended learning environments. However, the design of such videos requires careful consideration of multimedia learning principles to reduce the cognitive load during the instruction. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of text-positions presented at two videos on eye-fixation duration and remembering. An experimental research with one-shot case study design was employed to meet this purpose. Two videos about financial issues were selected from a public TV channel archive: one of them included on-screen texts located at the bottom, and the other included informative texts located on the right side of the screen. A total of 61 students first watched these videos by interacting with an eye-tracking device in a human-computer interaction lab and then completed a retention test. The results indicated a significant positive correlation between total eye fixation duration and retention test… [PDF]
(2009). Doesn't Everyone Have Rights to a Learner's Permit?. School Library Media Activities Monthly, v25 n9 p19-20 May. The word "rights" often conjures up emotions and images and a sense of entitlement. The word "rights" might be preceded with other words such as "civil," "constitutional," or "human." Merriam-Webster defines a right as "something to which one has a just claim: as the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled." What about applying these ideas of rights to learners? Doesn't everyone have rights to a "learner's permit?" A group of innovative thinkers in Colorado recognized the opportunity and the need to address both of these issues: (1) lack of student motivation; and (2) declining skills. While pondering a vision statement to accompany the new "Standards for the 21st-Century Learner," it became clear that something was missing in the standards, the educational plans, and the accountability processes in the education system. Fundamentally, that missing item was–learner's rights. This article… [Direct]
(2021). The Nexus of Play-Based Learning and Early Childhood Education: A Western Australian Account. Education and Society, v39 n1 p5-24 Jul. Human development theories identify child-initiated play as the primary source of early learning. Accordingly, the role of early childhood educators is to utilise the natural medium of play as a context for learning; an educational approach known as play-based learning. Recently, Western Australia (WA) has experienced an erosion of play-based learning opportunities across the early childhood education (ECE) spectrum, potentially violating children's rights. This paper presents research evidence related to this concerning issue. A self-completion, electronic questionnaire was distributed to educators through via several WA early childhood advocacy organisations. Participants (n=204) shared their perceptions about the availability of play-based learning opportunities for young children. Results identified perceived barriers and enablers to providing play-based learning in WA early childhood education settings that impact on children's wellbeing, development and learning. Assessment of… [Direct]
(2021). "More Person, and, Therefore, More Satisfied and Happy": The Affective Economy of Reading Promotion in Chile. Curriculum Inquiry, v51 n2 p229-260. Reading is often regarded as a public good and an essential part of developing almost every aspect of human potential. In this article, we survey the "affective economies" of literary reading through a textual and visual analysis of documents issued by Chile's Ministry of Education. Through a critical and diffractive reading of these documents with Ahmed's (2004, 2010) and Braidotti's (2018) conceptualizations of the affective, we claim that when reading is presented as beneficial, pleasurable, and promising, an assemblage of exclusion is set into motion. We describe how the affective repertoires in these documents reinforce oppressive and exclusionary neoliberal values under the guise of the promise of future happiness. The pleasure and happiness that can be achieved through literary reading, however, is only accessible to those who are willing to orientate themselves in the "right ways." In this orientation, the cognitive is privileged over the emotional, and… [Direct]
(2021). Universities and the Future of Work: The Promise of Labor Studies. Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.7.2021. Center for Studies in Higher Education There continues to be widespread anxiety about the future of work. I recently proposed a labor studies perspective on how to understand and meet undeniable challenges. This follow-up paper explores the implications of my analysis for the contemporary American academy, reflecting on how labor studies can help enlist public research universities in support of building a human-centered world of work. American universities have long been intricate bundles of contradictions, but recent trends have left them at a crossroads: Will they be able to reform and connect with a progressive reading of the original land-grant vision to support a future in the interest of workers? Or will their practices further drift away from a public-serving mission as they succumb to neoliberal expectations? This paper contends that the three constitutive features of labor studies–its focus on people's struggles, interdisciplinarity, and upholding workers' rights–illuminate crucial steps for realizing… [PDF]
(2021). Intellectual Doping and Pharmaceutical Cognitive Enhancement in Education: Some Ethical Questions. Journal of Philosophy of Education, v55 n1 p167-185 Feb. The main aim of this paper is to discuss some moral implications of cognitive doping in education. In this context, the term 'cognitive doping' refers to the use of cognitive enhancing drugs–such as Ritalin–among students in order to improve their cognitive functions and educational performance on college exams. Cognitive doping raises not only the question of its health consequences and its legal regulation, but also the ethical questions concerning the moral difference between medical treating and enhancing humans, on the one hand, and the fairness of educational examination results, on the other. Such doping, which is similar to the doping in sports, gives an unfair advantage to students who use cognitive enhancing drugs over those who do not. However, the key question is not how to ensure equal access to the enhancing drugs, but rather whether their use for educational purposes is right. Therefore, this question would remain even if all students had equal access to such drugs… [Direct]
(2022). Learning Virtue Ethics for Developing Psychological Sustainability. Journal on Educational Psychology, v16 n1 p38-47 May-Jul. Virtue ethics has been considered to be of utmost relevance in every aspect of education in terms of cultivating virtuous character in individuals. Moral education aims at the development of worthy moral character through the cultivation of virtues, values, attitudes, ethical conduct and habits. Eudemonic well-being suggests engaging in behaviours that people perceive to be morally right and derive a sense of personal meaning from righteous actions. Modern education has neglected concern for human virtues, which has led to the erosion of moral virtues in society at large. With this backdrop, a study which could investigate what virtues could be inculcated that are most essential to students and those that would improve their psychological sustainability seems relevant. This study aimed to practice virtue ethics as a means to learn virtues based on an Aristotelian perspective. Virtue-based lessons were prepared and taught to students based on set objectives. A Situational Judgment… [Direct]
(1984). Manage Telemarketers Effectively. Personnel Journal, v63 n8 p34-36,37-38,40 Aug. Discusses four types of telemarketing centers and their human resource needs, selecting the right people for the job, motivating and compensating employees, and handling burnout and turnover. Charts are included illustrating key tasks and job design factors, selection criteria, and training and development factors. (CT)…
(2024). Australian Construction Students' Experiences in the Pursuit of Human Capital through Cadetships. Australian Universities' Review, v65 n1-2 p22-30. T his paper presents an assessment of suggestions in international research and media that the modern construction cadetship experience is exploitative and, on that basis, problematises the growing trend of work integrated learning (WIL) in the Australian construction industry. Field research, aligning with the methodologies of major studies in this field, was conducted to examine the experiences of some construction cadets enrolled in construction degrees in six Australian universities. The data related to student experience and remuneration were analysed within a Marxist-Polanyian dialectical framework. The results show there is limited consistency in construction students' experiences and education while participating in this WIL. This indicates that the construction industry lacks a regulated and collaboratively driven program for cadetships. The findings also identify causes and consequences of the high rates of burnout of this cohort that have already been established in the… [PDF]
(2023). Exploring the Strategic Cybersecurity Defense Information Technology Managers Should Implement to Reduce Healthcare Data Breaches. Information Systems Education Journal, v21 n3 p4-11 Jul. The principal investigator (PI) conducted this research study to explore the strategic cybersecurity defense IT Managers should implement to reduce healthcare data breaches. The PI conducted a systematic literature review and selected articles that addressed healthcare data security breaches, information disclosure, cybersecurity in healthcare, and IT Managers' lack of leadership competence. Also, various annotations from contextual, seminal, grey, and recent literature were used to find the research problem: The strategic cybersecurity defense IT Managers should implement to reduce healthcare data breaches has not been established. The PI collected secondary data from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR)/Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The analysis, results, and findings are provided below in Part 9. Nevertheless, the routine interaction during health information exchange (HIE) on an interoperable network and the behavior of care providers and third parties who use… [PDF]
(2023). An Educational CRM Chatbot for Learning Management System. Shanlax International Journal of Education, v11 n4 p58-62. An educational customer relationship management (CRM) Chatbot is a learner support service automation tool that enhances the human computer interaction and user experience in higher education institutions through effective online conversation and information exchange. The machine with embedded knowledge is trained to identify the sentences and taking a right decision itself in response to answer a question. An E-learning platform is a web-based platform designed to streamline the administration, delivery of online educational courses and training programs. It serves as a centralized hub where educators, learners, and administrators can interact, collaborate, and access learning resources anytime, anywhere. The research objective is to design and build a E-Learning Management System with CRM chatbot for effective user interaction. A website is developed for managing course materials in the form of videos, flip-books and quiz using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL. Students can… [PDF]
(2023). A Position Paper on Researching Braille in the Cognitive Sciences: Decentering the Sighted Norm. Grantee Submission This article positions braille as a writing system worthy of study in its own right and on its own terms. We begin with a discussion of the role of braille in the lives of those who read and write it and a call for more attention to braille in the reading sciences. We then give an overview of the history and development of braille, focusing on its formal characteristics as a writing system, in order to acquaint sighted print readers with the basics of braille and to spark further interest among reading researchers. We then explore how print-centric assumptions and sight-centric motivations have potentially negative consequences, not only for braille users but also for the types of questions researchers think to pursue. We conclude with recommendations for conducting responsible and informed research about braille. We affirm that blindness is most equitably understood as but one of the many diverse ways humans experience the world. Researching braille literacy from an equity and… [PDF] [Direct] [Direct]
(2023). Finding Courage in the Heart of the School: The Library. Knowledge Quest, v51 n5 p26-31. In this article, the author finds connection between courage and a place that, at first glance, might seem to many to be among the unlikeliest of places in which to find courage: the library. The author maintains that the library–public or, as applies more directly here, school– is precisely and even profoundly the place. How so? In the books on the shelves and in the stacks, wherein are stories of bravery and resilience that can serve as models and inspiration; in the person of the school librarian, as curator of collected tales and caretaker of rights and freedoms; and, of course, in the structure of the library itself, the room where it happens, the spot that serves as safe haven to students (and indeed anyone) in need. Yet just as the strength of the human heart must be forged and maintained in certain ways to ensure its endurance, so must the library be built and sustained to create and keep up a sense of community, a culture of care and kindness, and a physical space where… [PDF]
(2020). The Good Citizen. Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, v32 n1 Fall. What does it mean to be a good citizen? In some ways, the answer is simple: participate in government (vote), pay your taxes, don't break the law, and contribute to the economic well-being of the United States. But there is more. The definition of being a good citizen is bound up in society's core cultural values and how those values are practiced in the nation or community. Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) are on the forefront of the application of tribal core cultural values that are the foundation of good citizenship. For tribal communities, the core cultural values that define what a good citizen is are very different than those of the United States or any of the individual 50 states. Each tribal nation has core cultural values that are specific to the tribal place and its human and non-human residents. Such values have developed over thousands of years. Native people have the right to participate in American politics at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels. Of… [Direct]
(2008). Citizenship and Human Rights in Islamic Education. International Journal of Children's Spirituality, v13 n1 p85-93 Feb. The nature of English citizenship, the need for cohesion in society, and the place of faith community schools, particularly Muslim schools, are issues of import in contemporary English society. When these three issues come together, in an examination of the nature of an English Islam, they raise questions that have implications for the nature of contemporary English society and the role of English state education and citizenship education within this educational system. An institutionalised and systematised curriculum subject called citizenship education risks isolating an academic subject from the day-to-day experience of young people. If citizenship is not a lived experience in the school, on the street and at home, then the attendant spiritual and moral development cannot flourish. This paper explores some of the philosophical and theological foundations that inform a discourse on the nature of English citizenship, English Islam and their influence on children's spiritual and… [Direct]