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Using Digital Outcrops to Make the High Arctic More Accessible through the Svalbox Database
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Senger, Kim; Betlem, Peter; Birchall, Thomas; Buckley, Simon J.; Coakley, Bernard; Eide, Christian H.; Flaig, Peter P.; Forien, Melanie; Galland, Olivier; Gonzaga, Luiz; Jensen, Maria; Kurz, Tobias; Lecomte, Isabelle; Mair, Karen; Malm, Rie Hjørnegaard; Mulrooney, Mark; Naumann, Nicole; Nordmo, Ivar; Nolde, Nils; Ogata, Kei; Rabbel, Ole; Schaaf, Niklas W.; Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2021
The high Arctic is a remote place, where geoscientific research and teaching require expensive and logistically demanding expeditions to make use of the short field seasons. The absence of vegetation facilitates the use of modern photogrammetric techniques for the cost-effective generation of high-resolution digital outcrop models (DOMs). These…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Models, Databases, Foreign Countries
Towards a Social Networks Model for Online Learning & Performance
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Chung, Kon Shing Kenneth; Paredes, Walter Christian – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
In this study, we develop a theoretical model to investigate the association between social network properties, "content richness" (CR) in academic learning discourse, and performance. CR is the extent to which one contributes content that is meaningful, insightful and constructive to aid learning and by social network properties we…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning
Measuring Graduate Student Retention.
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Isaac, Paul D. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1993
The conceptual and technical problems that need to be considered when studying graduate student retention and degree progress are examined, and practical suggestions for the institutional researcher are offered. Terms are defined, retention measures are explained, and different types of analysis are outlined. Ideas are given for database…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Databases, Degrees (Academic), Graduate Students
Training Knowledge Workers: A New Perspective on Graduate Education.
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Ammentorp, William; Chaffin, Paulette – 1986
A non-traditional approach to professional training at the graduate level is described. Studies of professional practice are referenced to identify educational requirements for health and human service practitioners. Using a knowledge worker perspective, these requirements are translated into a professional education/learning environment in which…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Students, Databases, Education Work Relationship
The Glut of Ph.D.s Complex Models for the Faculty Workforce. AIR 1998 Annual Forum Paper.
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Milam, John – 1998
This study examines some of the literature on college faculty supply and demand and asks whether it is possible to adopt assumptions from the previous research to construct a complex model of faculty workforce using the available data. The study involved a comprehensive review of the literature; numerous interviews conducted by telephone, e-mail,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Databases