Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is the new Learning Styles
https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/universal-design-for-learning-udl
UDL is a complicated way to teach. It involves giving multiple representations of the same information to students which they then choose from. Students also choose to work collaboratively or individually. And they decide how to demonstrate their learning through written work, a video, a poster or some other means.
UDL as a form of classroom differentiation. Differentiation – the process of giving different students in the same classroom different forms of instruction
a new paper by Dr. Guy A. Boysen of McKendree University in the U.S. Boysen claims that this lack of evidence is one of the five ways in which UDL parallels debunked learning styles theories.
Learning styles theories are still remarkably popular despite most serious researchers classing them as a ‘neuromyth’.
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=udl
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=learning+styles
Why has public belief in universities been haemorrhaging?
Nathan M Greenfield 20 November 2021
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20211118103250672
The red flag went up on page five, when Stephen M Gavazzi and E Gordon Gee wrote that their research was underwritten by a grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. Founded by oil man Charles Koch, the foundation is famous for its libertarian views and for supporting the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University in Virginia, which hosts corporate-backed ‘free market’ educational workshops for federal and state judges and attorneys general.
the Morrill Land Grant College Act
Both Gavazzi and Gee know that Republicans and others made the same complaint about university students in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Yet, as soon as they’d handed in their last essays replete with approving references to Karl Marx, Michel Foucault or Jacques Derrida, these cohorts applied en masse for jobs on Wall Street or later to the companies that grew wealthy during the dot-com boom.
https://newrepublic.com/article/162553/amazon-care-pharmacy-big-tech-universal-healthcare
Microsoft has a data initiative with Providence St. Joseph Health, which operates dozens of hospitals in the United States. In 2019, Google signed a deal with the Mayo Clinic to manage and parse health records for “insights,” explaining that cloud computing and data analytics would provide better performance. Google also reached an agreement this week with HCA Healthcare, a large hospital chain
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more on data privacy in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=data+privacy
The dark side of education research: widespread bias
Johns Hopkins study finds that insider research shows 70 percent more benefits to students than independent research
https://hechingerreport.org/the-dark-side-of-education-research-widespread-bias/
The study, “Do Developer-Commissioned Evaluations Inflate Effect Sizes?”
There are a number of reasons for why developer studies tend to show stronger results, according to Wolf, whose full time work is to evaluate educational programs. The first is that a company is unlikely to publish unfavorable results. Wolf speculates that developers are more likely to “brand a failed trial a ‘pilot’ and file it away.”
This isn’t the first study to detect bias in education research. The problem of hiding unfavorable results from publication was documented as far back as 1995. In 2016, one of Wolf’s co-authors, Robert Slavin, wrote about the positive results that researchers get when they devise their own measures to prove that their inventions work.
Library Instruction for:
EM 663: Engineering Management
Instructor: Gary Nierengarten, MBA
Tel: (320) 308-6000, E-mail: gjnierengarten@stcloudstate.edu
Library Instruction facilitated by: Plamen Miltenoff
320 308 3072, pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu
https://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/
From syllabus:
Engineering Management Project (30%)
This purpose of this second group project is to relate the concepts of the text to present organizations. Each Team will select an organization or create an organization and present on that organization. The focus of this project is sustainability, and accounts for 30% of the grade. The presentation will consist of 20 to 30 minutes, a presentation of 10 to slides 20 slides, complete with a 10-15-page paper. The presentation and paper will be due electronically prior to class. Members will be graded on 50% contribution and 50 % presentation. The objective of this exercise is to develop skills in working as a team as well as developing your presentation skills.
The paper shall address the following analysis to the selected organization:
- The firm may a service or manufacturing firm, or one that you create.
- Relate each Chapter of the book (minimum twelve chapter relationships)
- The relationship could be made from a topic within that chapter.
- All projects must be uploaded in D2L/Brightspace by start of class, 9:30 AM, March 30, 2021
Library Instruction delivered by Plamen Miltenoff, pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu
My name is Plamen Miltenoff (https://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/) and I am the InforMedia Specialist with the SCSU Library (https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/free-tech-instruction/).
- Developing Your Research Topic/Question
Why Keyword Searching?
Why not just type in a phrase or sentence like you do in Google or Yahoo!?
- Because most electronic databases store and retrieve information differently than Internet search engines.
- A databases searches fields within a collection of records. These fields include the information commonly found in a citation plus an abstract (if available) and subject headings. Search engines search web content which is typically the full text of sources.
- The bottom line: you get better results in a database by using effective keyword search strategies.
- To develop an effective search strategy, you need to:
- determine the key concepts in your topic and
- develop a good list of keyword synonyms.
- Why use synonyms?
Because there is more than one way to express a concept or idea. You don’t know if the article you’re looking for uses the same expression for a key concept that you are using.
- Consider: Will an author use:
- Hypertension or High Blood Pressure?
- Teach or Instruct?
- Therapy or Treatment?
Class assignment (5-10 Min)
Share keywords related to the Engineering Management Project
- Getting Ready for Research (15-20 min)
Library Resources vs. the Internet (do we need to discuss?)
Library Databases: https://stcloud.lib.minnstate.edu/subjects/guide.php?subject=databases
https://www.engnetglobal.com/tips/glossary.aspx
Journals’ subscription:
https://mnpals-scs.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/jsearch?vid=01MNPALS_SCS:SCS
Government Publications:
https://mnpals-scs.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,%22government%20publications%22,AND&query=any,contains,%22Engineering%20Management%22,AND&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&sortby=rank&vid=01MNPALS_SCS:SCS&lang=en&mode=advanced&offset=0
eBooks (15-20 min)
https://www.stcloudstate.edu/library/research/books.aspx
walk together through the eBooks dbases to figure out logins and search techniques.
- Personal work with the librarian (5 min each student)
using the list of keywords and the information sources, collaborate with the librarian to find 3-5 references for your project
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Plamen Miltenoff, Ph.D., MLIS
Professor
320-308-3072
pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/
schedule a meeting: https://doodle.com/digitalliteracy
find my office: https://youtu.be/QAng6b_FJqs
Jeremi Suri, a professor of public affairs and history at the University of Texas at Austin, outlined that argument in an article published this week in the nonpartisan publication The Constitutionalist.
Our universities just in my own lifetime, since I was an undergrad in the 1990s, have become more professionalized, more corporate and more driven by money than ever before… what’s happened is that has crowded out the discussions about civic responsibility, about serving the public… Most people running universities today spend very little time thinking about civic responsibility. They spend much more time thinking about budgets, thinking about the politics of their university and quite frankly, thinking about athletics…. our institutions infused a certain culture and they incentivize certain kinds of behavior.