UMUC Research and Scholarship

- Engage faculty in outcomes assessment to improve student learning
- Khalsa, Datta Kaur; Cooksey, Yan Zhang
- Outcome Assessment (Education); Learning; Educational programs; Performance; Graduate students
- Engaging faculty actively in the assessment process is still one of the common challenges for many universities and colleges. For those faculty members who are adjunct and not involved daily in institutional activities, full engagement with...
- Conducting immersive group projects for core graduate level IT courses
- Bojanova, Irena
- Group work in education; Graduate students; Distance education; Educational technology; Student participation; Internet in education
- This is a study on student experiences from immersive and traditional online group projects revealed the need of a reliable and valid measure of student engagement in group projects.
- Identification of personalized instruction in an online MAT program: A new name and process
- Schwartz-Bechet, Barbara
- Online courses; Mobile communication systems in education; Individual needs; Individualized instruction
- The following objective was created, identified, and researched over Summer 2011: To analyze current course design in the MAT program to develop an effective eteaching framework in order to strengthen personalized learning to develop maximum human...
- Established theory and violent female offenders
- Livojevic-Davis, Michele
- Violence; Women; Violent crimes; Violet offenders; Female offenders;
- Abstract: According to Uniform Crime Report (UCR) arrest data, women’s violent offending has increased while men’s has decreased. The increase is slight for all violent offenses (less than 1%) and men continue to be arrested for over 80% of...
- Two Decades Later: Approaches to Teaching Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy, an Edited volume of Essays
- Levin, Tobe
- Women; Female genital mutilation; Women's rights
- In 1992, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker performed a laudable act for humanity: she became the first major author to dedicate a novel “to the blameless vulva” and thereby set an egregious abuse of girl’s and women’s rights --...
- Assessing focal points in homeland security and emergency management research and practice through content analysis method: Creating a knowledge area map for the curriculum at UMUC
- Renda-Tanali, Irmak
- Research -- Methodology; Information retrieval; Curriculum planning; Curricula (Courses of study); National security; Emergency management
- Abstract: This research identified important focus areas associated with the fields of Homeland Security and Emergency Management through a survey of the literature published in the well known online scholarly journal, Journal of Homeland security...
- Assessing the benefits of online scenario simulation tools in security-related studies at UMUC
- Renda-Tanali, Irmak
- Simulation methods; Classroom simulators; Simulation of crimes
- Abstract: This research aimed at capturing the effectiveness of computerized simulation tools used in security related courses in online classroom environments at UMUC on student learning. The researcher identified one graduate course and 3...
- Using social media to engage learners and support skill development
- Blaschke, Lisa Marie
- Distance education; Student participation; Social media
- This research project was undertaken during the spring semester 2012 within the OMDE601 Foundations of Distance Education and E-learning course, the first course that graduate students take upon entering the Master of Distance Education and...
- Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson, 5 vols as part of the 40-volume New Edinburgh Edition of the collected works of Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburg University Press
- Abrahamson, Robert-Louis
- Essays; STEVENSON, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
- The Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson is the first scholarly edition of this significant body of work from a writer whose literary and cultural importance is recognized by scholars and critics working in many different fields. The five volumes of...
- Development of a reliable, valid, multi-dimensional measure of student engagement in group projects
- Bojanova, Irena
- Student participation; Group work in education; Interpersonal relations
- The Study Purpose: Assess SGPEQ reliability and internal consistency; establish criterion-related and construct validity, for measure to be usable with confidence for quantitative analysis. Data: All students form 25 ITEC 620 sections and 15 TLMN...
- Assessing the applicability and utility of the megacommunity model: a case study in law enforcement information sharing and applicability to broader issues of intelligence management
- McWeeney, Thomas
- Assessment; Management -- study & teaching; Intelligence service; Community relations; University of Maryalnd University College; Information sharing
- The purpose of this project was to begin an assessment of the extent to which the practical solutions offered by the Megacommunities model are relevant to the cross-boundary problems of intelligence management in the 21st Century. This project...
- 2012 G8 Summit: Business preparedness, response, and impact in Frederick County, MD
- Landahl, Mark
- Emergency Management; Emergency preparedness in business; Preparedness
- The purpose of this study is to examine the use of information sources, preparedness actions, response actions, and impacts of an extraordinary international event on the business community in Frederick County, Maryland. The G8 summit drew 14 world...
- Creating a contemplative pedagogy module for UMUC social science online teaching and learning toolkit for instructors and students
- Maurer, Donna
- Universities & colleges -- Curricula; Study & teaching; Social sciences; Online classroom
- Contemplative pedagogy is a relatively new, student-centered approach to teaching and learning that helps students focus their attention, explore and identify personal meanings from external circumstances, and creatively reflect on these meanings...
- Improving ethics education in cybersecurity and information assurance
- Chen, Jim, Q.
- Ethics -- Study & teaching; Cyberspace -- Moral & ethical aspects; Ethics; Cyberspace
- Abstract: In an ethics course taught within a cybersecurity or an information assurance program, the following topics are usually covered independently as different topics: privacy, intellectual property, crime, professional ethics and...
- Naypyidaw, Myanmar's (Burma's) new capital city: The landscapes of power
- Seekins, Donald M.
- Burma -- Politics & government -- 1988- ; Military government; Landscape architecture -- Social aspects
- Summary Report for the project, "Naypyidaw, Myanmar's New Capital City - the Landscapes of Power." shows how the layout and design of the city, its “landscapes of power,” represent the vision of the military regime and its constitutional...
- Strategies to increase retention rate of students in online degree programs
- Khan, Rana; Shahdad, Moe
- Higher education; Academic achievement; Retention; School enrollment; School dropouts -- Prevention
- Goal: The goal of this research was to develop and define strategies that will increase retention rate of ITS students. It is likely that such strategies will be applicable to other departments at UMUC.
- Efficacy of foreign assistance in promoting HIV treatment
- Dobra, Matthew; Marconi, Katherine
- International economic assistance; Aids (Disease) -- Africa; HIV (Viruses); International affairs;
- This paper analyzes the efficacy of donor aid in promoting HIV treatment coverage. The ongoing financial and sovereign debt crises in developed countries are leveling, if not reducing, aid contributions to the African nations that have received...
- 360 degree perspective on CSR
- Mann, Clarence J.
- Corporate social responsibility; Corporate governance; Social responsibility of business; Business enterprises;
- The purpose of this study is to formulate a framework and rationale for assessing and determining the ways in which the full range of a company’s operations can be managed and performed in ways that not only do no harm to a country’s physical...
- Organizational resilience: Is there evidence for what works to support business continuity?
- SchWeber, Claudine; Bouchard, Marcia
- Success in business; Entrepreneurship; Business planning; Risk assessment
- The purpose of this presentation is to examine and critique the varied literature & commentary on sustaining organizational continuity and to determine if there is supporting evidence for what works. BP oil spill; Lehman Brothers; Wall Street...
- Advances in financial decision making: Past, present, and future
- Howard, James A.
- Decision making; Cognitive psychology; Neurosciences; Human behavior
- This paper will employ a model comprised of five components (Rules of Thumb/Heuristics, Rational Being/Theory, Cognitive Psychology/Behavioral Finance, Neuroscience, and the Unconscious Mind) for conducting a qualitative meta-analysis of the...