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Many organizational course design methodologies feature general guidelines for the chronological and time-management aspects of course design development. Proper course structure and instructional strategy pacing has been shown to facilitate student knowledge acquisition of novel material. These course-scheduling details influencing student learning outcomes implies the need for an effective and tightly coupled component of an instructional module. The Instructional Module Development System, or IMODS, seeks to improve STEM, or ‘science, technology, engineering, and math’, education, by equipping educators with a powerful informational tool that helps guide course design by providing information based on contemporary research about pedagogical methodology and assessment practices. This is particularly salient within the higher-education STEM fields because many instructors come from backgrounds that are more technical and most Ph.Ds. in science fields have traditionally not focused on preparing doctoral candidates to teach. This thesis project aims to apply a multidisciplinary approach, blending educational psychology and computer science, to help improve STEM education. By developing an instructional module-scheduling feature for the Web-based IMODS, Instructional Module Development System, system, we can help instructors plan out and organize their course work inside and outside of the classroom, while providing them with relevant helpful research that will help them improve their courses. This article illustrates the iterative design process to gather background research on pacing of workload and learning activities and their influence on student knowledge acquisition, constructively critique and analyze pre-existing information technology (IT) scheduling tools, synthesize graphical user interface, or GUI, mockups based on the background research, and then implement a functional-working prototype using the IMODs framework.
ContributorsCoomber, Wesley Poblete (Author) / Bansal, Srividya (Thesis director) / Lindquist, Timothy (Committee member) / Software Engineering (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2016-05
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Much of the anthropological and Islamic studies focus in recent years has addressed the shifting forms of Islamic piety across Muslim majority societies. The analysis of this shift in Islamic practice and belief has enveloped the changing sensibilities around technologies, social strata, democracy, law, and everyday life. In light of these transformations, after the fall of the Indonesian New Order in 1998, the performances of Islamic devotional songs (salawat) by Habib Syech bin Abdul Qadir Assegaf (Habib Syech) began bringing millions of people together across Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Although salawat has typically been performed in remembrance of the birth of Prophet Muhammad (mawlid) in localized celebrations. The performances of salawat by Habib Syech, on the other hand, occur fifteen or more times a month with crowds swelling to tens of thousands across multiple nation-states. Habib Syech’s salawat performances furthermore appeal to and bring together diverse Muslim populations that have historically been more divided. Habib Syech’s gatherings reveal how popular forms of piety are shifting in conjunction with profound societal changes in Indonesia and other Muslim communities. In untangling the popularity of Habib Syech’s gatherings, it was not until I became entangled in the rhythm of salawat that baraka, often translated as blessings, emerged as a slippery, elusive, and living helping propel the popularity of this phenomena. The guttural cries of my interlocutors (baraka, baraka, baraka) resonate and summon a methodology that takes the visible and invisible together in understanding the concept and life of baraka. I, like my interlocutors, began hunting baraka as an alternative, living concept that challenges understandings of Islam in Indonesia driven by Islamic civil organizations, prescriptive vs everyday Islamic piety, and Western interpretations of the world as disenchanted. This dissertation is an exploration of new opportunities for understanding religion in the modern world that emerge from the ethnographic field through the life of baraka.
ContributorsEdmonds, James Michael (Author) / Talebi, Shahla (Thesis advisor) / Bennett, Gaymon (Committee member) / Haines, Charles (Committee member) / Rush, James (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021