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What Are "The Carpentries" and What Are They Doing in the Library?
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Pugachev, Sarah – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
Since 2014, the University Libraries at the University of Oklahoma in Norman has been a member of the Software Carpentry Foundation (now part of "The Carpentries"), a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching basic computing skills to researchers. Through this partnership, we have taught over a dozen introductory programming workshops…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Science Education, Partnerships in Education, Introductory Courses
Increasing Computational Protein Design Literacy through Cohort-Based Learning for Undergraduate Students
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Erin C. Yang; Robby Divine; Christine S. Kang; Sidney Chan; Elijah Arenas; Zoe Subol; Peter Tinker; Hayden Manninen; Alicia Feichtenbiner; Talal Mustafa; Julia Hallowell; Isiac Orr; Hugh Haddox; Brian Koepnick; Jacob O'Connor; Ian C. Haydon; Karla-Luise Herpoldt; Kandise Van Wormer; Celine Abell; David Baker; Alena Khmelinskaia; Neil P. King – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Undergraduate research experiences can improve student success in graduate education and STEM careers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, undergraduate researchers at our institution and many others lost their work-study research positions due to interruption of in-person research activities. This imposed a financial burden on the students and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics
Systematic Literature Review Protocol: Teaching Novices Programming Using Robots
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Major, Louis – Online Submission, 2010
Teaching computer programming to novices is a difficult task due to the complex nature of the subject, as negative stereotypes are associated with programming and because introductory programming courses often fail to encourage student understanding. This Protocol outlines the plan that is to be followed in order to investigate the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Search Strategies, Programming, Robotics
Desiderata for Linguistic Software Design
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Garretson, Gregory – International Journal of English Studies, 2008
This article presents a series of guidelines both for researchers in search of software to be used in linguistic analysis and for programmers designing such software. A description of the intended audience and the types of software under consideration and a review of some relevant literature are followed by a discussion of several important…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Guidelines, Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
Profiles in Research: R. Darrell Bock
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Wainer, Howard; Robinson, Dan – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2006
This article presents an interview with R. Darrell Bock. He served as president of the Psychometric Society from 1972-1973. He has received the National Council on Measurement in Education award for "Contributions to the Design and Analysis of Educational Assessment" in 1990, the Educational Testing Service award for "Distinguished Contributions…
Descriptors: Interviews, Biographical Inventories, Personal Narratives, Awards
Mellon Conference: Panel on "Licensing, Copyright and Fair Use." The HYPATIA Project (toward an ASCAP for Academics).
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Ginsburg, Jane C.; Janklow, Morton L. – 1997
The HYPATIA Project envisions the creation of a digital depository and licensing and tracking service for unpublished "academic" works, including working papers, other works-in-progress, lectures, and other writings that are not normally published in formal academic journals. Any academic who wishes to deposit a work will be welcome to…
Descriptors: Authors, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Electronic Text
Intelligent Tutoring System: A Tool for Testing the Research Curiosities of Artificial Intelligence Researchers
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Yaratan, Huseyin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2003
An ITS (Intelligent Tutoring System) is a teaching-learning medium that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology for instruction. Roberts and Park (1983) defines AI as the attempt to get computers to perform tasks that if performed by a human-being, intelligence would be required to perform the task. The design of an ITS comprises two distinct…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Testing, Researchers