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- Course Development Plan TemplateWilliams, Daron; Cox, Larry A., II; Ofori, Eunice; Louvet, Matthew, Sr.; Nino, Miguel (Miko); Cui, Andy-Gouqiang (2020-01)The Course Development Plan (CDP) was designed as a job aid for faculty to use when working to revise or develop a technology-enhanced course. This document is used as part of a semester-long course (re)design with the aid of an Instructional Design unit. Many of the elements in this document were included to build a course that would pass a quality assurance review based on the Quality Matters Higher Education Rubric.
- Framing generative AI in education with the GenAI Intent and Orientation ModelPike, Dale; McGowin, Brooke; Bond, Mark Aaron; Williams, Daron; Cox, Larry A., II (Educause, 2024-06-06)The proposed model seeks to assist instructors and learners with a framing lens for how GenAI might be useful in educational settings.
- Fun With Frames: Exploring Metacommunication and Real Media Frames in South Park's Fake NewsWilliams, Daron (Virginia Tech, 2009-05-06)The popular cable show South Park has steadily entertained audiences since its debut in 1997. Much of the show's humor and entertainment value comes from its satirical treatment of public figures, institutions, and timely trends. One of the institutions often lampooned on the show is that of television news broadcasting. This thesis project seeks to shed light on entertainment media portrayals of television news journalists and television news journalism as a whole by examining the issues covered, how those issues are framed, and how the journalist is used as a figure on the border of entertainment and information in one show. A content analysis was performed on all news broadcasts contained within all 181 episodes of South Park through its twelfth season. Results indicate that Semetko and Valkenburg's (2000) five generic frames penetrate well into the entertainment realm; a broadcast's "relationship to reality" is framed significantly differently when Conflict and Speculation frames are employed; news broadcasters are not portrayed as exemplars of the media's "liberal bias;" and that South Park has used significantly more reality-based storylines in recent years than in its early years.
- Simplify, Consolidate, Intervene: Facilitating Institutional Support with Mental Models of Learning Management System UseHassan, Taha; Edmison, Bob; Williams, Daron; Cox II, Larry; Louvet, Matthew; Knijnenburg, Bart; McCrickard, D. (ACM, 2024-11-08)Measuring instructors' adoption of learning management system (LMS) tools is a critical first step in evaluating the efficacy of online teaching and learning at scale. Existing models for LMS adoption are often qualitative, learner-centered, and difficult to leverage towards institutional support. We propose depth-of-use (DOU): an intuitive measurement model for faculty's utilization of a university-wide LMS and their needs for institutional support. We hypothesis-test the relationship between DOU and course attributes like modality, participation, logistics, and outcomes. In a large-scale analysis of metadata from 30000+ courses offered at Virginia Tech over two years, we find that a pervasive need for scale, interoperability and ubiquitous access drives LMS adoption by university instructors. We then demonstrate how DOU can help faculty members identify the opportunity-cost of transition from legacy apps to LMS tools. We also describe how DOU can help instructional designers and IT organizational leadership evaluate the impact of their support allocation, faculty development and LMS evangelism initiatives.