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Michail St. Fountoulakis (Μιχαήλ Φουντουλάκης) deposited Unlocking the Potential of Language Learners: Effective Strategies for Lifelong Achievement and Personal Development in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThis study presents innovative strategies for EFL educators aimed at cultivating resilience and growth mindsets in learners. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, we engaged 200 learners aged 11-20 from varied linguistic backgrounds. The methodology comprised surveys and interviews, enabling customized interventions that significantly improved…[Read more]
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Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited Blooms Taxonomy for Writing Instruction in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoAs educators, we are all familiar with Bloom’s Taxonomy and the way it progressively maps the cognitive activities involved in learning and constructing knowledge. Too often, however, we educators who work in writing-focused curricula ask our students to work in the higher-order cognitive domains of analysis and creation without necessarily giving…[Read more]
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Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited For Students, By Students: Ignite Peer-to-Peer Content Development (Course Review Activity) in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoIn courses that end in summative final exams or capstone projects, it can be challenging to get students to pull back and identify the learning that they’ve done across an entire unit or semester rather than only focus on the learning they’ve undertaken most recently. As part of our larger sequence of active-learning-based lesson plans designed to…[Read more]
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Victor Nnadozie deposited Divergence and the use of digital technology in learning: Undergraduate students’ experiences of email feedback in a South African university in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoSouth African universities’ use of digital technologies in learning has increased in recent years. Given that
social exposure, the context and pedagogic uses of technology influence learning expectations and
learner involvement, it is important to understand students’ experiences of the use of different
technological tools. This article emp…[Read more] -
Victor Nnadozie deposited Self-agency and Academically High-performing Students’ Success: Towards a Praxis for Academic Support in one South African University in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoGlobally, student support mechanisms focus almost exclusively on academically ‘under-performing’
students, especially as insofar as academic development practices are concerned. This article makes a
case for a shift in approach. Using the context of one country, South Africa, we sought to better
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Victor Nnadozie deposited Subject competency and teacher knowledge: An exploration of second-year pre-service mathematics teachers’ difficulties in solving logarithmic problems using basic rules for logarithm in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoPre-service mathematics teachers’ (PMTs) subject competency continues to engage scholars and researchers.
Understanding level of knowledge of concepts that PMTs bring to their learning in university is crucial to
developing their teacher knowledge. This article examines genetic decomposition of schemas PMTs in one
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Johannes Bernhardt deposited Creative Museum. Dokumentation und Manual in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis booklet serves as documentation and manual for the app Creative Museum, the new participatory platform of the Badisches Landesmuseum. The goal of the app is to create a digital space for debate. Museum employees, experts and citizens are invited to get into conversation with each other and share their contributions on equal terms. The topics…[Read more]
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Ana Dumitran deposited Russian Icons from Transylvania. Exhibition Catalogue in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis publication is part of the project “Ricontrans – Visual Culture, Piety and Propaganda. Transfer and Reception of Russian Religious Art in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (16th to Early 20th Century)”, funded from the European Research Council (erc) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant…[Read more]
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Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited “Getting to Green”: Developing Analysis with Generative AI in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoStudents in analytical writing courses can struggle to fully grasp the difference between observing/describing features of a text and making interpretive claims rooted in close reading and analysis of those features. This multi-part class activity uses color coding and generative AI to establish a clearer framework for students to understand the…[Read more]
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Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited Generative AI Writing Course Framework in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoA lesson plan outlining a two-part activity that establishes a framework within which students productively wrestle with the place of generative AI in their learning and writing processes, thereby creating the space for instructor and students to arrive at a collective agreement about the use of these tools in the course grounded in a clear set of…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic OA Impact on Print Book Sales: Report and Webinar in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThanks for sharing Brenna — this was an interesting report; good to see some discussion of it.
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic New Webinar: The Role of Libraries and Open Access Publishing in Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (Americas) in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThanks for sharing, Pablo!
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Brenna McLaughlin started the topic OA Impact on Print Book Sales: Report and Webinar in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoPlease join the Association of University Presses during OA Week 2023 for a discussion and Q&A with co-authors of the new study of print revenue of OA books. Open to all, free to register.
AUPresses Webinar: Unpacking the Open Access Impact on Print Book Sales
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 10:00-11:00 AM ET
In September, Ithaka S+R…[Read more]
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