Research from the learning sciences and from a variety of educational settings suggests that a small number of key principles can improve learning in almost any type of college or university course, from traditional lectures to...
When students engage in academically dishonest behaviors, they may be responding to subtle pressures in the learning environment that interfere with deep learning and nudge them toward cheating. Hence if we can gain a better...
In this session you’ll learn about the concepts behind scholarly communication seen through instructional tools such as Institutional Repositories, Open Educational Resources, and Open Access initiatives. Put that knowledge...
Participants will create writing prompts in support of strategic instruction and brainstorm ways that strategic instruction can teach what students need in order to perform successfully on course writing assignments.
We are in the midst of a learning revolution. During the past few years, learning has become increasingly collaborative, global, mobile, modular, informal, immediate, self-directed, open, blended, visual, hands-on, ubiquitous,...
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year and endless ways in which they can be used for teaching and learning. So many in fact, that most instructors are simply overwhelmed. Curt Bonk offers two simple yet...
Faculty today often struggle with students' poor writing skills, failing to get the quality of written work that they imagine students can do. The traditional assignment of a research paper inadequately addresses the...
Experiential learning, the key feature of the re-designed curriculum of the Byrum School of Business, begins early in the students’ experience and continues throughout their academic career. This enables graduates to be versed...
The keynote speaker, Kevin Gannon, facilitated an interactive workshop during which participants were introduced to the research supporting Inclusive Pedagogy and encouraged to see it as a crucial part of our mission from the...
Transparency in Teaching and Learning (TILT) is an easy, practical way to start creating transparent assignments for students. The framework is a part of a national study that has shown making your assignments transparent using...
The CTL introduces, supports, and encourages Marian faculty to use research-based best practices in teaching and learning to educate their students. We support online and face-to-face teaching strategies through one-on-one...
This dissertation by Sr. Whalen explores her threefold research goals: the establishment of Marian College for future reference and study, an examination of the need for Catholic higher education for women as well as the...
This thesis concerns the human, faithful response to God's formation process, amidst the social and cultural unrest of the twentieth century through issues such as the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, Vatican II, and...
Elizabeth Spencer (1917-2003) belonged to the first graduating class of Marian College in 1941. In 2000 she received the Outstanding Alumni Award: the Francis and Clare Award for Distinguished Achievement in Peace and Social...
This novel is a semi-autobiographical work of fiction by Sara Cornelius Allison, wife of Indianapolis businessman and co-founder of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway James Allison. The work details the tumultuous relationship of...
Found in Advances in Microbiology, https://www.scirp.org/pdf/aim_2020082015540201.pdf and Background: Farnesol is added to numerous consumer products that intentionally, or inadvertently come in contact with tissues that may...
This experiment analyzes three different techniques used in literature to detect cytokine release from cells in vitro: the Human Cytokine Array (HCA) by R&D Systems, the BD Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) assay, and protein...
Originally appearing in BMC Research Notes as an open access article under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)., The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)...
BACKGROUND: Medical school curricula strives to teach as much material as can be retained in a limited amount of time. A common gold standard resource used building curricula are medical objectives suggested by national...
Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal recessive neuro- and cardio-degenerative disorder caused by decreased expression of frataxin, a protein that localizes to mitochondria and is critical for iron-sulfur-cluster (ISC)...
As a complement to the more professionally aspirant Phoenix, The Carbon served as the unofficial publication of Marian College, with the contributors and editors being solely the students of the college....