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Avoiding the “Axe”: Advancing Affordable and Open Education Resources at a Midsize University
INTRODUCTION To address the soaring cost of textbooks, higher education institutions have launched a number of strategies to promote the adoption of affordable and open educational resources (AOER). Although a few models ... -
Battlebot
Battlebots are machines that have been popular to niche crowds over the past two decades. The show Battlebots first aired in the year 2000 and is still creating new episodes today. There are other similar robot fighting ... -
Be a Force For Affordable Learning!
In this session the presenters will provide an overview of Affordable Learning (AL) initiatives that can help address student textbook costs, including the use of Open Educational Resources (OER), also known as Freely ... -
Because You Can, You Should: A Beauvoirian Ethics of Food
The freedom to act in humans and the inability to act in nature imposes the moral responsibility on humans to return to nature that which they have used or ruined and improve upon it for future generations and the preservation ... -
Before the Numbers Disappeared: Media and Perception of the 1937 Soviet Census
This thesis surveys the 1936 All-Soviet Census and its importance to national image under Stalin as an explanation for its suppression shortly after completion. The census served as a vital data collection tool for the ... -
“Begin with a Moment:” A Pilot Study of a Method for Supporting Information Creativity in First Year Writing Instruction
This presentation describes a pilot study conduced at the University of Illinois during the fall of 2017, which tested the effectiveness of a low-pressure early-semester information creativity session that encouraged ... -
Behind the Man, the Kneel, and the Protest
Pictures are apparently worth a thousand words, and for the picture Michael Zargaris captured during the 2016 football season of a sole player kneeling justly before an NFL game, one could say that this photo is not only ... -
Between the Sheets: a Library-wide Inventory with Google
When it comes to taking an inventory of physical items, libraries often rely on their traditional integrated library system’s (ILS) à la carte add ons; outside vendors; or other possibly outdated, complex, and often expensive ... -
Beyond Mechanical Limits: Cohousing and Permaculture
This research aims to achieve two objectives. The first objective is to minimize and eliminate building contributions to climate change starting from a domestic prototype. The second is to increase the role of architecture ... -
Beyond the Damsel in Distress: Gender Differences and Similarities in Enacting Prosocial Behavior
We examine gender differences and similarities in prosocial behavior from the vantage point of social role theory. According to this perspective, the gendered division of labor leads to gender roles, which are elaborated ... -
Beyond the Land Acknowledgement: Indigenous Language Revitalization, Student Activism, and Critical Theory in STEM Librarianship
Throughout their history, libraries have participated in white supremacist power structures that privilege white knowledge over that of other cultures. While humanities and social science librarians are becoming more ... -
Beyond the Stacks to Partner for Success: Libraries and TRiO Programs!
Two academic libraries built connections with the federally funded first-generation or low-income student success programs (TRiO Student Support Services) on their campuses to support student success. -
Biological Data QAQC Module Instructions
This document provides detailed instructions on using the Biological Data QAQC Module app, which was created through R Shiny. This app facilitates quality assurance and quality control of large, scientific data sets. A ... -
Black Bodies in Schools: Dewey’s Democratic Provision for Participation Confronts the Challenges of ‘Fundamental Plunder’
In this chapter, we read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me (2015) against Dewey’s Democracy and Education (1916) to glean insight into how Deweyan transactionalism can help theorize greater democratic participation ... -
Book Lovers, Technophiles, Printers and Pragmatists: The Social and Demographic Structure of User Attitudes toward e-Books
(2012-09)Q-methodology was used to identify clusters of opinions about e-books at Miami University. The research identified four distinct opinion types among those investigated: Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and ... -
Boolean and Truncation
(2014-03-26)Classroom handout describing Boolean operators and truncation. -
Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: Implications for Family Leisure Participation
(2011-06-07)An estimated 20% of breast cancer survivors face the chronic condition of breast cancer related lymphedema. This study explored the ways in which women with this condition experienced changes in their participation in ...