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This issue contains the following articles: • Taking Stock of a Work Unit • Integrity in Grant Funding Pursuit • Branding a Grant Proposal • Ideas with Traction • Drying Up of Public Funding • Checking Grant Budgets • Change Orders • Getting Fit-to-Purpose • Momentum of an Idea • Giving Credit • Protective of Some Ideas • What is Harde...

This issue contains the following articles: • Institutional Data • Modern Patronage • Relevant Info • Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) • Pre- and Post-Intervention • Mechanics of Submitting a Grant Application • Walking the Straight and Narrow in the Grants Space • ‘Set Pieces’ in Grants • Capacity Expanding Grants: Building Out the ‘Ca...

This newsletter contains the following articles: • Writing a Grant Application: Soup to Nuts • Line or Supervisory Staff Signing on the Dotted Line? • Common Grant Deliverables • Research for New Program Building • Narrative Overlay • Assessing “Currency” of Grant Apps • Going Entrepreneurial in the Grants Marketplace • Dependencies in the...

This newsletter contains the following articles: • Why Close Loops? • Transferable Applied Models • The “Engine” Behind a Grant Application and Grant-funded Work • Limited Sharing of Collaborative Work Folders Online • Mutual Aid Society…of Sorts • Gleaning Insights from Applied Research • Designing Proposed Work for High Impact • Reading Aw...

This newsletter contains the following articles: • Fat Years, Thin Years • Up for Re-application, Not “Renewal” • Opening and Closing Windows • Working to Make Real • Getting Started? • Grant Learning Curves • Optimizing Work Handoffs for Competitive Grant “Renewals” • ‘Spotting’ Each Other on a Grant Application • Animating Ideas that Driv...

This issue contains the following articles: • A Grand Strategy? • Reading, Numeracy, Data Analytics…and Grants • Giving Notes on Grant Applications • Form Letters • Working with Imputed Data • Designing a Program for a Grant • Hard to Compete with Free • Being Principal on a Grant • Making a Case for Grant Funding • Plan B (C or D…) if N...

This newsletter contains the following articles: • Last Cursory Checks before Sendoff • Full Transparency • Asserting Anticipated Outcomes • Shaping Résumés • “Learning Organizations” around Grants • Geographical Advantage • Making a ‘Business Case’ • Where is the Tipping Point towards Creating an Actual Grant Application? • Iterative Revie...

This August 2025 newsletter contains the following articles: • Working with a Grant Writer • Laying the Groundwork • Practical Logic in Grant Applications • Missed Opportunities • Passing a Pre-award Risk Assessment • About Value Propositions and Value-Added • ROI • Common Technologies Related to Grant Applications • Reusing an Older Grant...

This issue contains the following articles: • Closing Out a Grant-Funded Project • Professional Conferences • Online Surveys: Human Subjects Research Standards • Reading for (Actual) Capabilities • Multimodal Writing in the Grants Space • Open Issues in a Field • About Deadlines • Propositions from the WWW and Internet • Ensuring Research...

This is the fourth edition of the "Academic Grant Pursuits" newsletter, this for June 2025. The articles include the following: • Rookie Mistakes in Grant Pursuit • Coming in Cold • Letters of Support • Fit to Form • Assessing Organizational Competitiveness for Grant Pursuit • Seed Grants • Asking for Top Dollar? • Proofing a Grant Applica...

This issue contains the following articles: • Writing in a Budget Contingency? • Grant Funder Elicitations • Why Stay in Regular Practice? • Boutique Grant Funders • R&D • A $500 Million Question • Now What? After Winning a Grant • Changing Focuses and Values • Generalizable Solutions • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) • Fund...

This is the July 2026 issue of the Academic Grant Pursuits newsletter. It contains the following articles: • Pressure Testing Research Data • Virtue Signaling • Toxic Collaborations • Something for Nothing • Defining “Cutting Edge” • Thrill of the Grant Chase • Adjusting to the New Frugal • It’s a Wrap: Completing a Closing Grant Report •...

This issue contains the following articles: • Shepherding a Project from a Distance • Avoiding Optimism Bias • Standing and AORs • Standing Out by Being Outstanding • Importance of Narratives • The “New Wine, Old Skins” Problem in Grant-Seeking • Moment in the Sun • Setting up Online Accounts for Grant Pursuit • Grant Seeking in Abandoned...

This issue contains the following articles: • Counting and What Counts • Avoiding Politics • Fielding a Team • A Basic Research Toolkit around Grant Work • Invitation-Only Grants • Protecting Ideas • Learning from Topsy-Turvy in the Grants Space • Organizational ‘Direction of Travel’ • Learning by Doing • About Artifice • Catching Breath...

This newsletter contains the following articles: • Grant Genre • Grant Pursuit in a Postliterate World • Signing Contracts Electronically • An Inflection Point for Grant Seeking in Higher Ed • Generative AI and Grant Work • Grants Infrastructures • Relevant Problem Solving • Program Health • Controlling for Outsized Expectations • What to...

Meeting the needs of contemporary at-risk learners, in an age of political and legal challenge to “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA)—benefits from a review of the relevant research and then explorations of the on-ground needs of real-world learners. This chapter explores some possible directions to explore to meet the needs of...

This newsletter is the Academic Grant Pursuits newsletter for April 2025. It contains the following articles: • Full Program Grants • Acknowledgments of Grant Funding in an Academic Publication • Typical Outsized Grant Funder Expectations • Hard Money, Soft Money • Working with Informants • Thinking about Common Constraints • Stretching Time:...

This is the inaugural issue of the "Academic Grant Pursuits" newsletter. This contains the following articles: • End of an Epoch • “Whoa-hey! We didn’t agree to that!” • Proximity to Grant Funder Objectives and Personnel • Chokepoints in Grant Pursuit • Funding the Try (for the Win) • An ‘Umbrella of Actions’ for a ‘Basket of Goods’ • When to G...

This issue contains the following articles: • Navigating through the Grants Process at HutchCC • Working through Authorizing Environments • Computational Analytics • Answering Grant Application Questions Completely • Knowing What Won’t Make • Ensuring Grant-Funded Work Continues Post-Funding • Grant Work Project Postmortem • Reupping for the...

This issue of the HutchCC Grant Navigator contains the following articles: • Compliance Corner: Grant Awards and Audits (Karen Linn) • Grant Monitoring, Management, and Reporting (Marlene Lemmer Beeson) • Putting in the Effort • Problem Solving Framework for Grants • Influencing, Social Followers, and Grants • Fighting “Fraud, Waste, and Abuse”...

This is the December 2024 issue of the HutchCC Grant Navigator. It contains the following articles. • Being a Good Citizen in the Grants Space • Areas of Specialization • Writing Work Objectives for Grant Applications • Audit Readiness • Grants Marketplace • Dated Ideas or Not? • Project Handoffs • Artful Grant Applications • What is a Gr...

So much of automated decision-making is common in everyday modern life, but it is often hidden in applications, in processes (searches, academic assessments, loan processes, job applications, and others), in self-driving electronic vehicles, and others. Generative AIs have come to the fore and have been used to enhance human decision-making. This w...

The November issue of the "HutchCC Grant Navigator" has the following articles: • Compliance Corner: Grant Project Management Top 5Reskilling around Grants (Karen Linn) • Direct vs. Indirect Costs in a Grant Application • Adjusting Project Scope • How Much Admin Approval is Needed before Applying for a Grant? • Rate Cards in Grant Application...

This issue of the HutchCC Grant Navigator contains the following articles (and more): • Compliance Corner: Best Practices in Pursuing and Managing Grants • Ten Bare Minimums for Grant Pursuit • Optimizing Online Grant Application Systems and Forms • Minus Evidence, Minus Data < 0 • Blue Sky Dreaming • Building Modular Grant Applications • A ‘Data P...

This is the September 2024 issue of the HutchCC Grant Navigator. The articles include the following: Funding Curiosity: Tips for Grant-Writing (Dr. Brooklyn Walker) Grant Budgeting Basics Notetaking as a Crucial Skill Assembling an Activity Table Handling Sparse Grants Harnessing Lead-up (Planning) Grants

For the past three decades, food pantries have been an intermittent presence on college campuses; however, in the past decade or so, they have become more present, funded by universities, local food banks, and the occasional grant. For many colleges, food pantries exist with very soft and intermittent funds, if they are funded at all. Some are set...

A common strategy in higher education post-pandemic is to “braid” funding sources to keep the institutions of higher education (IHE) afloat. One of the additional funding sources is acquired through grant writing. Any additional program at an IHE affects all parts of the organization, and administrators, faculty, and staff are encouraged to be awar...

The SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 global pandemic left many workplaces in disarray. The author—an American-born Chinese American person—had returned to work shortly after receiving her first Moderna vaccination in April 2021. She returned to a workplace in which a direct supervisor started engaging in racist behaviors (pulling “chink eyes” during a Zoom meet...

Online learning includes courses that require learners to create and innovate. While many of these include domain-specific pedagogical approaches, there are a range of universal and passive prompts for both ideational creativity and innovation in online learning socio-technical spaces. These include elements in the following four areas: (1) instruc...

Some governments provided financial assistance to their respective populations during the shutdowns and social distancing period of the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 pandemic of late 2019 – mid 2023. In that time, institutions of higher education were able to access funds to maintain programs from the federal, state, and county governments. By 2024, with t...

This is the August issue of the HutchCC Grant Navigator. It contains the following articles and more: • Compliance Corner: Risk Assessments Under 2CFR-200 (Karen Linn) • Setting a “Baseline” for Grant-Related Research • CAQDAS Tools and Grants • Multiple ~ Grant Submissions or Not? • Conventions for Diagrams in the Grants Process • “Standing...

The advent of web-facing artmaking generative AI tools (A-GAI) has enabled new methods for teaching multimedia. This work explores some pedagogical approaches in harnessing combinatorial human-machine advantages in multimedia teaching and learning in higher education. This work begins with a summary of the advent of multimedia education and propose...

The HutchCC Grant Navigator (July 2024) contains the following and more: • Compliance Corner: What (or Who?) is EDGAR? (Karen Linn) • Probabilities and Odds in Grant Writing • What’s Your Biosketch? • What is a Project Narrative in a Grant Proposal? • “In-Kind Contributions” in Grant Work • Signing on the Dotted Line • Naming Research Instrume...

Common artists, crafters, artisans, and DIY (do-it-yourself) makers need spaces to explore their inspirations and creativity and to advance their making skills. They need a place to set up their equipment. They need a physical location to store their supplies and reference materials and incomplete works. They may need a virtual space to create, too...

Workplace documents are a combination of genre (form) and topic (content), and there are a variety of standards they must meet to be usable. Most such files are also multimodal, consisting of both text and still imagery. When outputting multimodal digital works for the workplace from multimodal generative AI (GAI) tools, their usability depends on...

The affordances of generative AI—in its ability to provide feedback on human-made (or human-machine made, or computer-made) works, its ability to create text/audio/video/still imagery/multimedia—enables powerful augmentations to the solitary human imagination. To wit, such technologies enable human-machine collaboration in terms of (1) human-direct...

In the research and popular literature, there are many concerns about the deepfakes that may be generated using generative AI and other tools to mislead people and to compromise them in various ways through deception. This work explores the nature of deepfakes, generative AI, and manual and computational and combined means to identify (and neutrali...

There is an important value in human-machine collaborations using artmaking generative AI tools: that is, the preservation of the human hand (the human mental-emotional-embodied manual contribution) in the artwork. One way to ensure the original look-and-feel involves using multimodal prompts—both text and visual—with a twist. The visual may be one...

The June 2024 issue of the HutchCC Grant Newsletter contains the following and more: • Compliance Corner: Highlight on Perkins V: Grant Funding for CTE Programs • Why “Institutional Support”? • Conducting Research for a Grant Application • Organizing Grant Materials in Folder Structures for Collaborative Work and Eventual Archival

This shows the May 2024 issue of the HutchCC Grant Navigator. Some of the contents include the following: • Grant Pursuit from a Nonprofit Perspective: Visioning a Program to Address an Important Social Problem (by Marlene Lemmer Beeson) • Compliance Corner: Grant Rules & Standards for Procurement – 2 CFR §200.303 to §200.319 • Writing Letters o...

Static visual illustrations with characters and scenes play an important role in story problems and other pedagogical narratives. Such visuals may better engage learners, connect learners with the learning sequence, set the emotional tone, evoke settings, emphasize critical moments, and support the teaching and learning in other ways. With the popu...

How would a well-known artmaking generative AI (A-GAI) go about illustrating children's books? This chapter uses multiple prompting approaches to elicit children's book illustrations for known stories and more original plots to identify some early visual patterns from Deep Dream Generator. The research explores a variety of questions around the qua...

For researchers, in-world phenomena offer many opportunities to learn in systematic ways (through various types of observation, research, and analysis). One phenomenon that can bear higher levels of insight involves artmaking generative AIs, not only in terms of how the systems work and are designed, but in terms of their output images. This work a...

2023 was an original year, with global humanity emerging from a deadly pandemic (COVID-19), facing the advent of artmaking generative AIs, and surviving in a time of geopolitical turmoil, economic and financial pressures, and social strife. What role does an online social network (built up around an artmaking generative AI platform) play for people...

This is the fourth issue of the HutchCC Grant Navigator. It was published in April 2024. Its contents include the following: • Compliance Corner: Top 10 List of Grant Management (Karen Linn) • Achieving Grant Applications on Tight Deadlines • A Social Media Scrub • Unpacking a Program Logic Model

The making of augmented reality for mobile learning is a complex endeavor. The visual materials needed for such builds may be time-consuming to create given technological requirements. The emergence of artmaking generative AI (GAI) tools provides opportunities for to fast-track some of the work, in all phases: the design (research, brainstorming, c...

This is the third issue of the HutchCC Grant Navigator. It was published March 2024. The contents include the following: • Compliance Corner: Allowable Costs • NDAs and Embargoes in Grant-Funded Work • Prepping for a Grant Opportunity in the (Near) Future • Differentiating between Short- vs. Long-Term Grants

This is the second issue of the HutchCC Grant Navigator, published in February 2024. It contains the following articles and more. • Benefits to Formalizing Grants • Poking Holes in a Grant Application (Pre-Submittal) • First Principles of Grant Pursuit

This is the inaugural issue of the "HutchCC Grant Navigator." It contains the following: • Compliance Corner: Free Money! (by Karen Linn) • Why the HutchCC Grant Navigator? (by Shalin Hai-Jew and Karen Linn) • Conducting an Environmental Scan for Grant Opportunities • Brainstorming Grant Application Ideas: 10 Tips

Artmaking generative AIs have been used to create visual works (still images, motion videos, and animated sequences, including simulations) that are photorealistic, high-fidelity, hyper-realistic, and emulative of the world; artful works are translated in style transfers derivative of known artist, artworks, art styles, schools of art practices, an...

Starting as an organization’s new grant writer can be a challenge, especially in a case where there has been a time lapse since the last one left. People get out of the habit of pursuing grant funds. This slideshow addresses some of the reasons for such reluctance and proposes some ways to mitigate these.

Writing grants is one common way that those in institutions of higher education may acquire some funds—small and big, one-off and continuing—to conduct research, hire faculty and researchers and learners and others, update equipment, update or build up new buildings, and achieve other work. This slideshow explores some aspects of the work of grant...

One of the themes in the emergence of text- and image-making (multimodal) generative AIs is their value in the learning space, with the vast potential just beginning to be explored by mass humanity. This chapter explores the potential and early use of large language models (LLMs) harnessed for their mass learning, human-friendly conversations, and...

Instructional designers often pride themselves on using the most cutting-edge commercial authoring and other tools available to achieve their work. Their creations have to meet high technical standards in order to function in a digital environment, in learning management systems, content management systems, on social media, on digital content platf...

With the mass-scale adoption of augmented reality (AR) in the commercial space, and student interest in 3d- and 4d experiential learning, higher education is starting to look towards digital augmentations of real spaces for teaching and learning. University creative shops are exploring whether they can get into the game of producing AR-enhanced exp...

The work of academic book reviewing, as a volunteer (most often), is a common academic practice. The presenter has served as a neophyte one for some years before settling into this invited volunteer work for several decades. There have been lessons learned over time about avoidable mistakes…from both experience and observation.

CrAIyon (formerly DALL-E after Salvador “Dali”) is a web-facing art-making generative AI tool online (https://www.craiyon.com/) that enables the uses of text (and image) prompts for the creation of watermarked, lightweight visuals. Counterintuitively, the rough visuals are much more usable for recombinations and remixes and recreations into usable...

Augmented reality (AR)—the use of digital overlays over physical space—manifests in a wide range of spaces (indoor, outdoor; virtual) and ways (in real space (with unaided human vision); in head gear; in smart glasses; on mobile devices, and others). There are various authoring technologies that enable the making of AR experiences for various users...

One of the extant questions about augmented reality (AR) is how (in)effective it is for the teaching and learning in various formal, nonformal, and informal contexts. The research literature shows mixed findings, which are often highly context-based (and not generalizable). There are some non-trivial costs to the design/development/deployment of AR...

The Deep Dream Generator was created by Google engineer Alexander Mordvintsev in 2014. It has a public facing instance at https://deepdreamgenerator.com/, which enables people to use text prompts and image prompts (individually or in combination) to inspire the art-generating generative AI to output images. This work highlights some process-based w...

Recently, the presenter conducted a systematic review of the academic literature and an environmental scan to learn how to set up an augmented reality (AR) shop at an institution of higher education. The ambition was to not only set up AR in an accessible and legal way but also be able to test for potential +/- effects of AR on teaching and learnin...

This slideshow on SlideShare is titled "Art-Making Generative AI and Instructional Design Work: An Early Brainstorm."

This file points to a slideshow on SlideShare about creating open-source contents as a way to maintain skills, reskill, and upskill in the digital multimedia space. Specifically, the researcher here signed up for two Pixabay accounts: They are located at https://pixabay.com/users/sjjalinn-28605710/ and at https://pixabay.com/users/wavegenerics-2944...

This work provides insights about publishing in the ed tech space in terms of the academic-commercial, open-access, open-source, and self-publishing spaces.

This slideshow explores the dynamics of human-machine collaboration in the use of an art-making generative AI called CrAIyon.

This slideshow describes a review of the literature to understand how an institution of higher education may stand up an "augmented reality shop." There are some pedagogical design insights, too.

With the learning slippage that occurred in the aftermath of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic, learning advantages that may be achieved are a topic of special interest. The popularization of online learning has riveted focus to digital learning methods and contents. In formal higher education, various contemporary digital infographics are in use: s...

To help the world emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, an older tool has come back to the fore: analog and digital informational graphics. Infographics (information + graphics) have been used for many decades to convey data, knowledge, information, and learning. In the latest phase, there are now motion (animated) and interactive and immersive infogr...

The SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic (late 2019 to the present) brought to the fore latent and externalized forms of racism and bias and xenophobia. The author experienced a range of inequitable mistreatment and racist harassment in her workplace in higher education during this time, including from her direct supervisor who engaged in a racist microass...

Capturing Second Life® imagery sets from Yahoo's Flickr and Google Images enables indirect and backwards analysis (in a decontextualized way) to better understand the role of SL in people's virtual self-identities and online practices. Through manual bottom-up coding, based on grounded theory, such analyses can provide empirical-based understanding...

Is it accurate to suggest that face-to-face (F2F) learning involves learner “embodiment” (learners' physical presence) and fully online learning involves learner “disembodiment” (a lack of learner corporeality in the learning experience)? An exploration of the research suggests that the concepts of embodiment and disembodiment are not clearly defin...

Practice is a regular part of learning, and it is used for a variety of learning objectives and outcomes. There is very little in the academic research literature about how to design assigned and formal “practice(s)-for-learning,” much less for an online learning context in higher education. This work explores the extant literature on practice desi...

Optimally, the learning sequence experienced by learners is addressed in the instructional design plan. So too is the sequencing of learning objects in the modules, related modules in the course, related courses in a degree program, and so on, from granular objects to larger ones. A variety of learning contents may be conceptualized, at a zoomed-ou...

In formal learning in higher education, online learning groups are used to help learners attain various learning objectives in a learning domain and outside that domain. Social learning is set up to benefit the following: enhanced distributed collaboration, intercommunications, co-exploration, co-inquiry, co-design, diverse thinking, critical think...

Malicious political socialbots used to sway public opinion regarding the U.S. government and its functions have been identified as part of a larger information warfare effort by the Russian government. This work asks what is knowable from a web-based sleuthing approach regarding the following four factors: 1) the ability to identify malicious polit...

In the dozen years since massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been a part of open-source online learning, the related platforms and technologies have settled out to some degree. This chapter indirectly explores 10 of the most well-known MOOC platforms based on social data from the following sources: large-scale web search data (via Google Corre...

What is not as commonly identified as an optimal life #bestlife is living #frugal, and yet, there is a global electronic hive mind about how to live sparingly based on highly variant local realities. There are blogs about living on a shoestring, stretching funds, cooking in, engaging in a DIY economy (bartering with like-minded others), living off...

To capture a broader range of data than close-ended questions (often defined and delimited by the survey instrument designer), open-ended questions, such as text-based elicitations (and file-upload options for still imagery, audio, video, and other contents) are becoming more common because of the wide availability of computational text analysis, b...

What I.T. challenge involves novel research, data, sensitive information, and global reputations? Complex Microsoft Word templates? LaTeX templates? Evolving technologies? Dozens of source citation methods? Local domain-based conventions? Professorial quirks? Multiple web-facing databases? Hard deadlines that can be costly if missed? Electronic th...

Every researcher is a cyborg! Academic researchers engage various sorts of research in vitro (in the glass) and in vivo (in the living body), or they engage in experimental laboratory work and analyze data in natural in-world experiments. In between, many conduct surveys, focus groups, interviews, and other types of research work. In the computer-a...

Malicious political socialbots used to sway public opinion regarding the U.S. government and its functions have been identified as part of a larger information warfare effort by the Russian government. This work asks what is knowable from a web-based sleuthing approach regarding the following four factors: 1) the ability to identify malicious polit...

The q-method, as a graphic (visual) elicitation, has existed since the mid-1930s. Setting up a q-method, with q-sort capabilities, in an online survey platform, extends the reach of this method, even as data has to be processed in a quantitative data analytics suite. This chapter describes the setting up of a visual q-sort and the related debriefin...

Demand is very high for people to work in various cybersecurity professions and ceteris paribus that demand may well continue into the near term. While there are more formal trails for employment, such as higher-educational pathways, performance in cybersecurity competitions, participation in professional conferences, and social media presentations...

The SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic has been disruptive of various industries globally, due to the need for social distancing in the absence of effective vaccines and treatments in the first year and counting. As humanity has racked up losses, many people have been sidelined from the workforce, which was already under pressure with the incursions of h...

The SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic has been with humanity since late 2019 (based on new information) and has cost close to four million lives globally (and counting) and resulted in chronic health conditions for many tens of millions of others with “long COVID.” As humanity acquires some level of biosafety with several highly effective vaccines, many...

Given the intimacy of food preparation and service, the close proximity of diners and staff, the general inability to eat comfortably while masked, the warm emotional atmospherics of restaurants, and the limits to restaurant ventilation, the current SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic has meant shutdowns of restaurants across the United States early in th...

A sub-class of small and medium(-sized) enterprises (SMEs) are family-run groceries and restaurants, both businesses hard hit by the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic, given the high-contact person-to-person nature of both. In one American Midwestern town, there are two stores that carry Asian foodstuffs. These are B2C and B2B businesses with a limited...

In the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), people go online to meet various professional and personal needs. For artists, both amateur and professional, they go online to acquire new skills, find inspirations, create a professional identity, showcase their style and capabilities, market and sell their work and services, make and maintain collegial...

This slideshow is "Editing Digital Imagery in Research: Exploring the Fidelity-to-Artificiality Continuum." Given the ability to edit digital images down to the pixel, how should researchers render their imagery and present their image data to the colleagues and the world? This is the third iteration and probably the final one for the presentation.

A subgroup of the images shared as part of the “selfie” phenomenon is group selfies (aka “groupies” and “we-fies” or “us-ies”) or self-portraits of groups (three or more individuals of focal interest) that are shared on social media. These images have informational value that has thus far been only thinly explored. In this work, an instrument—Categ...

In a time of the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 pandemic (and future ones), the choices made by each individual accumulates to population scale and can have widespread repercussions on individual and population health. A critical part of the public health mandate is communicating the nature of the health threats and ways to defend against and mitigate them....

In the online learning space, adult learners have access to a wide variety of sound-based content (podcasts, audio books, audio recordings, and others) and multimodal contents of which the audio element is a central part. This work explores research methods used to enhance “concentrated listening” to enable learners to acquire the most from the fol...

Social media platforms enable access to large image sets for research, but there are few if any non-theoretical approaches to image analysis, categorization, and coding. Based on two image sets labeled by the #snack hashtag (on Instagram), a systematic and open inductive approach to identifying conceptual image categories was developed, and unique...

In remote learning, “animated (and interactive) infographics” combine—visual representations of concepts, data, information, and in-world phenomena; designed motion; designed interactivity; designed learner control; setup of learning contexts and learner sociality; and other factors—to enable various types of learning: observational, (disembodied)...

New Prairie Press (Kansas State University) recently released "Social World Sensing via Social Image Analysis from Social Media" on the Pressbooks platform. This is an open-access and free publication but with some restrictions in the applied Creative Commons licensure, which restricts commercial use and editing...and requires attribution. The ea...

This chapter is available online at https://kstatelibraries.pressbooks.pub/socialworldsensing/chapter/streetdemocracy-6/. In the popular massmind, “democracy” seems to mean different things to different people. For some, it is something worth fighting, and demonstrating and dying for. For others, they cannot be bothered to engage in the minimal c...