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Kris Poduska May 7, 2022

FediFollows has moved!May 7, 2022

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NOTE: FediFollows is a hand-picked selection of recommended accounts about specific topics, to help get your timeline started. It is just a small fraction of the millions of accounts on here. For a much larger amount of general accounts on a much wider range of topics, visit Trunk at https://communitywiki.org/trunk (or its Spanish-language counterpart at https://trunkesp.chilemasto.casa). Click "Show older" at the bottom of a category to see the next page of suggestions in that category. (continued in thread)

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Kris Poduska May 7, 2022

Open Science Feed May 7, 2022

Open Educational Resources Search Index (OERSI)
https://oersi.org/resources/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/ukdmww/open_educational_resources_search_index_oersi/?utm_source=ifttt

Open Educational Resources Search Index

Kris Poduska May 5, 2022

"Faculty need education and institutional support to develop effective and equitable evaluation rubrics and to learn how to better use the rich information in graduate applications rather than single data points in their evaluative processes." Removing a barrier to Equity: Anna Mapp, Science, 28 Apr 2022, Vol 376, p. 437, DOI:10.1126/science.abq6714

Kris Poduska May 5, 2022

"if open data were formally recognized in the same way as research articles in evaluation, hiring and promotion processes, research groups would lose at least one incentive for keeping their data sets closed." Time to recognize authorship of open data. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00921-x

Kris Poduska May 5, 2022

"we offer tangible implications for instructors and administrators to infuence the adoption of more active learning strategies in introductory STEM courses" See Yik, B.J., Raker, J.R., Apkarian, N. et al. Evaluating the impact of malleable factors on percent time lecturing in gateway chemistry, mathematics, and physics courses. IJ STEM Ed 9, 15 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-022-00333-3

Evaluating the impact of malleable factors on percent time lecturing in gateway chemistry, mathematics, and physics courses - International Journal of STEM Education

Background Active learning used in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses has been shown to improve student outcomes. Nevertheless, traditional lecture-orientated approaches endure in these courses. The implementation of teaching practices is a result of many interrelated factors including disciplinary norms, classroom context, and beliefs about learning. Although factors influencing uptake of active learning are known, no study to date has had the statistical power to empirically test the relative association of these factors with active learning when considered collectively. Prior studies have been limited to a single or small number of evaluated factors; in addition, such studies did not capture the nested nature of institutional contexts. We present the results of a multi-institution, large-scale (N = 2382 instructors; N = 1405 departments; N = 749 institutions) survey-based study in the United States to evaluate 17 malleable factors (i.e., influenceable and changeable) that are associated with the amount of time an instructor spends lecturing, a proxy for implementation of active learning strategies, in introductory postsecondary chemistry, mathematics, and physics courses. Results Regression analyses, using multilevel modeling to account for the nested nature of the data, indicate several evaluated contextual factors, personal factors, and teacher thinking factors were significantly associated with percent of class time lecturing when controlling for other factors used in this study. Quantitative results corroborate prior research in indicating that large class sizes are associated with increased percent time lecturing. Other contextual factors (e.g., classroom setup for small group work) and personal contexts (e.g., participation in scholarship of teaching and learning activities) are associated with a decrease in percent time lecturing. Conclusions Given the malleable nature of the factors, we offer tangible implications for instructors and administrators to influence the adoption of more active learning strategies in introductory STEM courses.

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Kris Poduska May 5, 2022

"If active scientists don’t sign on, the infrastructure will develop without them. [...] the predicted changes brought about by a FAIR data infrastructure will not replace scientists, but scientists who use such an infrastructure may replace those who don’t." Scheffler, M., Aeschlimann, M., Albrecht, M. et al. FAIR data enabling new horizons for materials research. Nature 604, 635–642 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04501-x
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Kris Poduska May 5, 2022

"Why was physical proximity better for creativity in these experiments? [...] researchers found that creativity correlated with the ability to move about, and to look around at the contents of a room. [...] The virtual pairs, by contrast, tended to stay fixated on their computer screens, narrowing the focus of their ideas to a small rectangle." Employers can make remote working a success by listening to research https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01044-z

Employers can make remote working a success by listening to research

Virtual working is here to stay. Research can guide employers to enhance creativity online.

Kris Poduska May 4, 2022

FediFollows has moved!May 4, 2022

OERSI is a search index for open educational resources. You can follow at:

➡️ @oersi

The OER search index is available on their website at https://oersi.org

This is OERSI's first ever social media account, they've come straight to the Fediverse 😁

#OERSI #OER #OpenEducation #Academic #Academia #Learning #Education #Educational #Science #Scientific #Research #Papers #Paper #Studies #Study #Resources #Resource

Open Educational Resources Search Index

Kris Poduska May 2, 2022

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Kris Poduska May 1, 2022

Open Science Feed May 1, 2022

Not sure it is related, but it seem like since Elon Musk "bought" Twitter nice things happen every day. #introduction

SciPost.org just joined the Fediverse & immediately with their own server! Welcome @jscaux
😊 🎉 ⚛️

SciPost does amazingly well trying something really hard: to build from scratch a modern complete publishing infrastructure system one would design had we not had the legacy of paper journals.

#CommunityOwnership #OpenInfrastructure #OpenAccess #OpenCitations
#FeeFree #NonProfit