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Are You Having Trouble Finding Relevant Articles for Research or Teaching?
CIRT and the GCU Library join in collaboration to help you find relevant, timely materials for your scholarship. Please let us know what you are looking for by filling out the Purple File request form.
Please note that this service is available to GCU Faculty and Staff only. Within 48 hours of submitting a request, an email will be sent to the requester containing a permalink to 5-10 academic articles.
To access this service, please fill out the webform located at the following link: https://cirt.gcu.edu/research/develop/purple
Seven from GCU presented at the 37th Annual Distance Teaching and Learning Conference.
CIRT would like to congratulate Lisa Duryee, Alli Schilling, Marnie Davis, Helen Hammond, Jean Mandernach, Thomas Dyer and Jacob Aroz for their presentations at the 37th Distance Teaching and Learning conference held August 2-5.
Thomas Dyer and Jacob Aroz (both of CHSS) presented Level up: Gamifying your online courses with digital badges
- Digital badges are ways for learners to display the skills they have obtained from courses and can be part of greater gamification design. They are motivating, promote community, encourage critical thinking and rewards participation in formative assessment activities. Session attendees heard about what students had to say about badging through a thematic analysis of their…
Each year, the Center for Innovation in Research and Technology offers two distinct awards to GCU faculty members who exhibit extraordinary accomplishments in research or creative scholarship through teaching, discovery, scholarly engagement, and service.
Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award
The Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award is an annual award presented to GCU faculty members who exhibit extraordinary accomplishments in research or creative scholarship through teaching, discovery, scholarly engagement, and service. Distinguished Faculty Scholars are faculty whose body of scholarship and current level of scholarly activity warrant distinction within the university community.
Leadership in Research and Scholarly Activity Award
The…
Do you need assistance, support or guidance to successfully complete your research?
The Research Consultation program is designed to support GCU faculty conducting scholarly research. Research consultants are available to brainstorm, assist with development of research ideas, provide feedback on research proposals or methodology, and assist with data analysis. We also help with draft review and working with making adjustments to manuscripts based on peer review comments.
To schedule an appointment, go to our research consult page and schedule an appointment.
Many thanks to the authors for their scholarly contributions and the peer review board for the insightful feedback. The manuscript titles and abstracts are provided below and the complete issue may be accessed at the following link: https://cirt.gcu.edu/jir/volumes/10.
Adam Rasmussen
DOI: 10.9743/JIR.2021.1
The teaching strategies of Francis and Edith Schaeffer helped young adults construct meaning in their lives. During several seasons of tumultuous social unrest, the Schaeffers consistently gave shelter to many confused, searching, and hurting adults. Their educational motto was “honest answers to honest questions. ”For nearly thirty years, from…
The Eta Chi Chapter of the Delta Mu Delta Honors Society in the Colangelo College of Business invites you to start preparing your scholarly work! The 5th Annual Kevin McClean Research Colloquium will be held in February 2022, and the call for abstracts will be announced at the end of September.
The tradition of the research colloquium began in 2008, under the advisor at the time, Dr. Kevin McClean. In 2018, the Colloquium was renamed in his honor in appreciation of his service to GCU and the Eta Chi Chapter.
The goal of the KMRC is to advance and promote the scholarship and scholarly culture at GCU, by offering an avenue for faculty, staff, students, and scholars in the larger academic community to share their research in a supportive environment. Each year, we have received an…
Dr. Ramesh Velupillaimani presented at the American Scientific Affiliation 2021 meeting and conference: “THE GIFT OF SCIENTIA, THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND THE COMMON GOOD": Scientists and Theologians Working Together, Virtual Annual Meeting, July 29 - August 1, 2021. Attended by Christian Educators, Scientists, and Theologians from all over the world.
Dr. Ramesh’s Presentation titled “Synergistic Antimicrobial Effects of Desert Plant Extracts with Antibiotics and DNA Barcoding of Medicinal plants".…
OfflineProvide your feedback on the current discussion papers to become a reviewer for the Journal of Instructional Research.
We are seeking your participation in reviewing, providing feedback and discussing the current submissions to JIR. All individuals who participate in the review process are issued a certificate of participation and will be acknowledged in the 2020 volume as a member of the Peer Review Board.
Current discussion papers include:
•Intentional Integration of Faith and Learning
•Understanding-Connection Between Emotions and Motivation
•Improving Retention Rates in Ecore Composition: A Problem Identified
•Bhutanese In-Service Science Teachers’ Conceptions of the Nature Of Science
To participate in the review process (while simultaneously fostering your own knowledge of emergent teaching practices), visit the JIR website at: https://cirt.gcu.edu/jir/discussionpapers. The public review period lasts through February 2020.
The Journal of Instructional Research (JIR) is an annual publication by the Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching at Grand Canyon University that highlights research relevant to best practices in post-secondary instruction. Unique to JIR is the use of a two-stage evaluation process with public peer review, interactive discussion and final formalized peer review.
OfflineDulce Ruelas on receiving CIRT's Scholarship Recognition Program award
2019 was a year of enhancing pedagogical skills and rewarding research and publication milestones. I was able to work with the Latino Caucus of Public Health in affiliation with the American Public Health Association in publishing three poems in the bilingual (Spanish and English) book Latinx Salud Poems, An Inaugural Collection. I received first place for one of the poems on a popular national vote-Impacto, a poem on health equity and justice. The other two poems Politicamente Insegura and…
OfflineMy research mission throughout my 27 years in higher education has been focused on investigating the reemergence of phenomena in multiagent systems. Using theories on human learning from Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Science in the constructivist vein, I have been formalizing learning approaches, applying those theories in programs for software and robotic agents, and observing phenomena emerging though interactions between the homogenous or heterogenous models such as environment…
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