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A Smart Collaborative Educational Game with Learning Analytics to Support English Vocabulary Teaching

Description: This article applies learning analytics to design a smart collaborative educational game to enhance primary school children's learning of English vocabulary. The findings of this study can help researchers and practitioners incorporate LA in their educational games to help students enhance language acquisition.
Date: March 12, 2021
Creator: Tlili, Ahmed; Hattab, Sarra; Essalmi, Fathi; Chen, Nian-Shing; Huang, Ronghuai; Kinshuk et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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The Gendered Consequences of a Weak Infrastructure of Care: School Reopening Plans and Parents’ Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Description: This article collected detailed primary data—the Elementary School Operating Status database (ESOS)—to measure the percentage of school districts offering in-person, remote, and hybrid instruction models for elementary schools by state in September 2020 to understand the nature and magnitude of school closures across states during the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on maternal labor force participation. The article shows that schools are a vital source of care for young children, and that wit… more
Date: March 12, 2021
Creator: Collins, Caitlyn; Ruppanner, Leah; Landivar, Liana Christin & Scarborough, William
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Religious Exiting and Social Networks: Computer Simulations of Religious/Secular Pluralism

Description: This article uses agent-based simulations in three “artificial societies” (one predominantly religious; one predominantly secular; and one in between), to demonstrate that worldview pluralism within one’s neighborhood and family social networks can be a significant predictor of religious (dis)affiliation but in pluralistic societies worldview diversity is less important and, instead, people move toward worldview neutrality.
Date: March 12, 2021
Creator: Cragun, Ryan; McCaffree, Kevin; Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan; Wildman, Wesley & Shults, F. LeRon
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Anti-racist Praxis at Futurist Art and Design Pedagogy

Description: Video recording featuring esteemed guest panelists, Tameka Ellington, Ph.D., Cheryl D. Holmes Miller, and Terresa Moses, M.F.A., this second installment of the 2044 series highlights the ways that working against anti-Blackness through the lens of Afrofuturism and Critical Race Theory allows for the examination and enactment of decolonizing design bias and white default. This session brings questions of Black agency, stereotyping, bias, representation, appropriation, commodification, and the d… more
Date: March 12, 2021
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Brown, Kathy J.; Cross, Lauren E.; Ellington, Tameka; Miller, Cheryl D. Holmes & Moses, Terresa
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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