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Operationalizing Creativity: Desired Characteristics for Instructional Designers
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The purpose of this study was to explore the ways that creativity manifests itself in the field of higher education instructional design and to identify specific core competencies that could be considered desirable in this ...
Educational Social Software: The Use of Social Network Sites for Teaching and Learning
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Although social network sites (SNS) are in use by millions worldwide, the deployment of such sites as tools for teaching and learning is new. Topics related to the ways, means, and outcomes of SNS use in education and ...
The Nexus Between Local Needs and Aspirations of Ugandans and Global Education Goals; A Case Study
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The United Nations promotes access to basic education as an indelible right for all children, leading to the global push for Education for All (EFA) as a vehicle for realizing the global Millennium Development Goals. EFA ...
Teacher Concerns and Perceptions about the Implementation of Professional Learning Communities at the High-School Level
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This study investigated concerns and perceptions about the implementation of a professional learning community at the high-school level. The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to be accountable for increasing the ...
Innovation Hour: A Qualitative Case Study of a School-Wide Advisory
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Innovation Hour is a unique advisory program that was created at Anywhere High
School to foster increased student connectedness to school. Having a strong connection to
school may help students thrive, building capacity ...
The Boundaries of Social Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: A New Framework
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Social entrepreneurship (SE) incorporates the more ethical dimensions of innovative
business practices in the pursuit of financial sustainability in the advancement of societal goals,
and is intended to empower all ...
Moving to the Other Side of the Desk: Learning Experiences of Preservice Teachers as They Transition to Becoming Professional Teachers
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This study sought to understand learning through the lifeworlds of preservice teachers who are in the last semester of their elementary education program at a Midwest University. The research was an explorative study into ...
Decolonizing Instructional Design through Auto/Ethnography
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Instructional design is the systematic process of planning and developing learning environments. In contemporary educational contexts, this has come to include also the intentional integration of digital and Internet ...
Factors Influencing Program Impact Evaluation in Cooperative Extension
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Impact evaluation (IE) has become a major focus of Extension program evaluation during the past three decades, yet Extension professionals continue to struggle to produce well-documented evidence of program impacts (Lamm, ...
Effective Doctoral Education: Interpreting Factors and Outcomes of Success through a New Framework, Autoethnography, and Quantitative Study of Passion
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The purpose of this disquisition is to increase knowledge about the factors and outcomes of success in doctoral education. Enhanced understanding about the factors and outcomes of success could help optimize effectiveness ...