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  • Optimizing map projection selection for world maps and web maps

    Creator:
    Šavrič, Bojan
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    The selection process for map projections is a mystery to many mapmakers and GIS users. Map projections ought to be selected based on the map’s geographic extent and the required distortion properties, with the goal of minimizing the distortion of the mapped area. Despite some available selection guidelines, the selection...
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    )   and   new   selection   criteria   for  world  maps.   They   improve  our

  • Libraries and the community college baccalaureate : meeting the challenge

    Creator:
    Coslor, Melinda McCormick
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    The community college baccalaureate movement has shown strong growth across the country as a strategy to meet workforce shortages. A variety of forces are driving the movement including (a) employer demand for higher credentials; (b) geographical access to education; (c) lower cost education; (d) a trained workforce to compete in...
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    were surprised at how many additional resources the library would need to accommodate the new

  • Leading the comprehensive community college library : defining, aligning, and supporting innovation and change

    Creator:
    Reed, Donna L.
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    The purpose of this multi-case study was to describe how library deans and directors at large comprehensive community colleges strategically advocate for and support instructional and technological innovation despite the reality of limited resources and the stress caused by recurring funding crises in higher education. It further sought to examine...
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    role of the library at the institution, prioritize support for new initiatives, and provide

  • Academic libraries at the center of instructional change : Faculty and librarian experience of library leadership in the transformation of teaching and learning

    Creator:
    Gilchrist, Debra L.
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    This phenomenological inquiry explored the experiences of library leaders and discipline faculty members engaging in a collaborative instructional change initiative focused on a process-based learning pedagogy and led by an academic library. The investigation’s purpose was providing insight and understanding concerning the: (a) library’s role in instructional leadership; (b) experience...
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    the library space and extend into the campus and the world. The learner's library is a library for

  • Theoretical views on mind styles in a changing world

    Creator:
    Davis, Patsy Ann Cassedy
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    This study examined the teaching experiences of six elementary student interns from Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR during fall and winter quarters, 1991. The primary intent of the study was to examine critically the roles and effects of mind styles as applied in actual classroom instruction and learning, in terms...
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    Theoretical views on mind styles in a changing world AN

  • "Identity in the making" in an adolescent new media maker experience : the role of interest, figured worlds, and use of authentic tools and practices

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    Wyld, Jennifer N.
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    Human development researchers consider adolescence a rich time for interest development and identity exploration. A relatively new movement in the Free-Choice Learning (FCL) arena, the Maker movement, offers learners interest-driven, experiential, often collaborative, and process-oriented activities ranging from game design (computer-based and otherwise) and robotics, to sewing LEDs into clothing...
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    genuine tools, was critical, and the figured world of this new media Make experience provided youth

  • University web teaching practice & pedagogy

    Creator:
    Morihara, Bonnie Bone
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    Although there is research into student learning on the Web and other computer-supported environments, there has been little investigation into the practice and pedagogy of university Web teachers. This qualitative study used a series of interviews of eight higher education faculty to gather data on their Web teaching practices, and...
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    Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Wide Web was first integrated into the Internet, a global

  • A theory of product design process measurement

    Creator:
    Wright, Alan Louis
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    This dissertation approaches the problem of how to design process measurements by identifying process attributes which are common to all product development processes. By classifying the generic attributes of a product development process and their relationships, a framework is established which gives definition and context to individual measurements. At the...
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    .............................. 90 3.2.1 Identify the new product development process ......... 92 TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • An architecture for a function driven mechanical design solution library

    Creator:
    Wood, Stephen L.
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    The engineering design process and the advancement of future computer-aided-design systems need new design aids to be used during the conceptual design phase. This design phase is where information gathering and understanding of the problem are developed, analyzed and broken into small more manageable elements. These elements consist of customer...
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    solutions accessed from a complete product library do not allow for Therefore new component variations

  • Impacts of the Internet on academic culture in Aceh, Indonesia

    Creator:
    Daud, Darni M.
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    The adoption and increasing uses of the Internet in higher education in many parts of the world have resulted in fundamental changes in academic cultures. The transfer of information is essential to academic life, and the Internet offers faster and easier access to information and communication between people than ever...
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    in many parts of the world have resulted in fundamental changes in academic cultures. The transfer