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SeHee Jung; Hanwen Wang; Bingyi Su; Lu Lu; Liwei Qing; Xiaolei Fang; Xu Xu – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
This study presents a mobile application (app) that facilitates undergraduate students to learn data science using their own full-body motion data. The app captures a user's movements through the built-in camera of a mobile device and processes the images for data generation using BlazePose, an open-source computer vision model for real-time pose…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Data Science, Handheld Devices, Open Source Technology
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Richardson, Jennifer C.; Castellanos Reyes, Daniela; Janakiraman, Shamila; Duha, Mohammad Shams Ud – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
The Purdue Repository for Online Teaching and Learning (PoRTAL) was developed as an Open Educational Resource (OER) for graduate students and faculty in higher education settings to enhance their online teaching skills and strategies. The PoRTAL team used a design-based research approach (DBR; Wang & Hannafin, "Educational Technology…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Web Based Instruction, Open Educational Resources, Graduate Students
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Morin, Heather; Curry, John – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
Open Educational Resources (OER) offer educators the ability to personalize learning, differentiate and accelerate instruction, and maintain the integrity and currency of instructional materials. This article will summarize a plan for integrating OER in a K-12 setting with a central focus on professional learning.
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Sustainability
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Liu, Juhong Christie; Johnson, Elizabeth – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Video and interactive media provide visual exposition and review for students to formulate cognitive representations where learning and reflection take place, especially in science laboratories. More inclusively, open educational resources (OER) with interactive content can facilitate access to media-enhanced learning. This paper reports part of a…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Science Instruction, Open Educational Resources, Educational Media
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Valle, Natercia; Brishke, Janet; Shenkman, Elizabeth; Ritzhaupt, Albert D. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
The purpose of this design and development case study is to provide an in-depth account of the needs analysis (through surveys and interviews), design, development and formative evaluation of the Citizen Science Cancer Curriculum (CSCC). The curriculum was developed as an online, self-paced educational program distributed as an Open Educational…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Cancer, Curriculum Development
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Essmiller, Kathy; Thompson, Penny; Alvarado-Albertorio, Frances – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
In keeping with its land grant mission, a university campus library partnered with several OER advocacy efforts on both national and state levels to promote the creation and use of OER at the university. While the program had some initial success in inspiring faculty to create and use OER in their courses, the effort proved difficult to sustain.…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Sustainability, Academic Libraries, Partnerships in Education
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Riley, Jacqueline; Isbell, Laura – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine how faculty in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at one university perceived the usefulness of a website which contained ELL (English language learner) teaching resources (e.g., videos, lesson plans, handouts) created by graduate students. The website was created as part of a graduate level…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Graduate Students, Second Language Learning
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Hunsaker, Enoch; West, Richard E. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
This design case documents the creation of open educational resources for preservice and inservice teachers at Brigham Young University (BYU). The purpose of this interdisciplinary project was to design and develop training, assessments and credentials to help the learners become competent in teaching computational thinking (CT) and coding in…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Coding, Computation, Thinking Skills