EndNote Tip Sheet

The EndNote Tip Sheet has been updated for the summer semester and is available to you. EndNote is software that will manage references and citations collected during research. Citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.) are included within the EndNote program. EndNote X6 software is free to graduate students, faculty and staff at KU. The EndNote Primer, which was introduced in a previous post, is our slideshow to use when installing and using EndNote for the first time.

Condition of Education 2013

“The Condition of Education 2013 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 42 indicators on the status and condition of education, in addition to Spotlights that look more closely at 4 issues of current interest. The indicators represent a consensus of professional judgment on the most significant national measures of the condition and progress of education for which accurate data are available…As this year’s Condition shows, in 2012, about 90 percent of young adults ages 25 to 29 had a high school diploma, or its equivalent, and 33 percent had a bachelor’s degree or higher. As in previous years, annual median earnings in 2011 were higher for those with higher levels of education—for example, 25- to 34-year-olds with a college degree earned over twice as much as high school dropouts.” U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, May 23, 2013. (Info from http://www.bespacific.com)

EndNote Primer

Covering everything from downloading and installing EndNote to inserting APA citations into Word, our Primer takes you there: this is the link to the EndNote Primer that we are using for today's class:

http://www.lib.ku.edu/presentations/Lissa/endnoteclass/endnoteprimer.ppt

MOOCs Massive Open Online Courses

We are updating our list of  MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Look for specific courses within the online learning resources listed below and verify teachers associated with universities you know as valid and upstanding. Usually, you can start a course the minute you sign-up but there are some nice sites that take students for a specific and limited time only as part of the online learning curriculum of the university offering the course. All courses are free and that does not mean they are bland and without challenge. The ones I've peeked into are actual college level courses that are offered as MOOCs as a step along continuing education and outreach. Lissa llord@ku.edu

Academic Earth - Thousands of Video Lectures From the World's Top Scholars
http://academicearth.org/
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, they are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning. They are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.

Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/
We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.
Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.

EdX
https://www.edx.org/
A not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web.

Harvard Open Courses for Free | Open Learning Initiativewww.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative 

Take free Harvard online courses. The Extension School—a cornerstone of Harvard University for a century—represents the University’s dedication to extending its rich academic resources to the public, locally, nationally, and internationally. At Harvard University’s primary resource for continuing education courses for a century, you’ll find open-enrollment classes in more than 65 fields. Choose from more than 200 Harvard online courses, including Harvard College lectures.

Khan Academy 
http://www.khanacademy.org

A free world-class education for anyone anywhere with a library of over 3000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice.The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.

MIT-OPEN-COURSEWARE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
The goal of advancing education around the world is shared by the MIT Faculty. Indeed, we owe the existence of OpenCourseWare to the foresight, dedication, and generosity of our faculty. In the year 2000, a faculty committee first proposed this bold and innovative idea, and since then, the vast majority of our faculty–over 90%–have voluntarily contributed their teaching materials for free and open publishing on OCW. MIT faculty are passionate about their teaching, and they are keen to see their work benefit global society.

Open Culture

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

Get free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 700 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player. 

Open Yale Courses - Yale University 
oyc.yale.edu/
Provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

Udacity
https://www.udacity.com/
Founded by former Stanford Professor Sebastien Thurn, this for-profit company made headlines for offering an "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course that enrolled over 150,000 students in the fall of 2011. Udacity focuses on the hard sciences of computer science, physics, and statistics among others.

Udemy
http://www.udemy.com
Helps students make moves. Whether you want to get promoted, break into a new industry, start a company, further a passion, or just accelerate your life, Udemy helps you learn from the amazing instructors in the world, so that you can get there and get there faster. 

Suburban Poverty in America

In Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube take on the new reality of metropolitan poverty and opportunity in America. For decades, suburbs added poor residents at a faster pace than cities, so that suburbia is now home to more poor residents than central cities, composing over a third of the nation’s total poor population. Unfortunately, the antipoverty infrastructure built over the past several decades does not fit this rapidly changing geography. The solution no longer fits the problem. Kneebone and Berube explain the source and impact of these important developments; moreover, they present innovative ideas on addressing them."

KU helps train state's bioscience employees

The bioscience industry is adding jobs four times faster than other industries and in Kansas grew 14.6 percent in the last decade. Many of those jobs require doctorates, but opportunities are also available for people without college degrees. To help job seekers land one of these entry-level positions, KU Medical Center offers an Introduction to Biomanufacturing course.  Full Story

Project Management / New Masters's at KU

Project Management (New Masters's at KU)

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BEST building on the KU Edwards Campus

Project Management (PM) responsibilities include creating clear and attainable project objectives, building the project requirements, and managing the triple constraint for projects: cost, time, and scope.
PM uses cross-functional teams to assist in the process of planning, organizing, securing, leading, delegating and controlling of resources to achieve specific goals for a finite objective.  This is one distinction from business as usual, operations or permanent business functions. A project manager is often also a client representative and has to determine and implement the exact needs of the client based on knowledge of the firm they are representing.

Who's The Program’s For

People working full-time in engineering, technical, science, business and construction fields. These programs help existing project managers, engineers, scientists and business leaders learn what’s necessary to successfully lead highly complex projects. These degrees are ideal for people interested in leadership and management opportunities, complementing existing certifications while setting graduates apart. This article explains how.

The Project Management Advantage

Time. Cost. Focus. Convenience.
The KU Master’s in Project Management recognizes the strong analytical skills, problem-solving abilities and context both PM and experienced professionals bring to the program. As a result, students can earn their degree after completing as few as 33 credit hours. Fewer hours means lower cost. In addition, the program is designed for people working full-time. Courses are offered in the evening at the KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park and can be accessed online for professionals outside the Kansas City area or called away on business.

Advantage of PM Master degree from KU Edwards Campus

Courses at the Edwards Campus earn the same credit as those taught on the main campus in Lawrence, Kan. with our students earning KU degrees. Because the University of Kansas enjoys a national and international reputation, our students can be sure their hard work will earn them the respect of current and potential employers no matter where their career takes them. Most students opt for a part–time load, taking one course per semester and graduating in four to four and a half years. The average degree completion time is three and a half years.

U.S. Census: State and County Quick Facts

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

QuickFacts includes statistics for all states  counties, and for cities and towns with more than 5,000  people. 

Government Statistics Source

This "Frequently Used Sites Related To U.S. Federal Government Information" is the best I've come across in serving the statistical information needs of our students. The arrangement of statistics is General Topics/Sites, and Specific Subjects. I found this particular listing at the Vanderbilt University Government Information Services site under the supervision of Larry Romans. I suggest you keep this site bookmarked for all your classes (http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/fdtf/statistics.html)

Dissertation Information Handouts

Students ready to tackle another chunk of dissertation research and writing often find the summer term to be a productive and positive experience. The library has several new handouts to help with the dissertation process (free to all students). The following are available on this blog and also in the brick and mortar library on the handout rack by the main bulletin board:

• Dissertation Content and Chapters / Handout
• Dissertations & Dissertation Books / Handout
• Writing a Dissertation: A List of Links / Handout

Top 100 Tools for Learning List

Jane Hart founded the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT). "For the last 6 years, I have conducted an annual survey of learning tools and compiled a yearly Top 100 Tools for Learning list. I released the 2012 list on 1 October 2012. As this has become  a very popular resource, I have now produced a supplementary resource, A Practical Guide to the Top 100 Tools, which will help you find out more about how to make the most of the world’s most popular tools for learning in both education and the workplace."

Below are the top 25 out of 100 learning tools listed at Jane Hart's Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies:

Finding Dissertations

University of Kansas Libraries Homepage: http://lib.ku.edu 
1) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: online access to over 2 million dissertations and master's theses, many of which are available in full text for immediate download. Citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997 for over 1,000 schools submitting (KU).

2) Dissertations and Theses @ University of Kansas: Contains  citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by this institution and published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database, download the full text of dissertations (1996 +) and theses (2005 +) (KU)
 

3) KU Online Catalog to locate pre-1996 KU Dissertations:  Use author or title to locate known dissertations. Find a sampling of KU dissertations by using the following search method on the Online Catalog: select Advanced Search and type dissertation on the first line and university of Kansas on the next line and press Search. Type a specific keyword on the third line (ie: education) to further limit your search. (Public)
 

4) KU ScholarWorks Select KU ScholarWorks from the Libraries’ homepage at http://lib.ku.edu and search “dissertations” to route you to the subject listing for both dissertations and theses. KU ScholarWorks is the digital repository of the University of Kansas and contains electronic dissertations authored by KU students. Although this is a digital collection the scanning of paper dissertations is an ongoing project: see (KU Pre-1923 Dissertations and Theses)  (Public)
 

5) WorldCat:  This database is the OCLC Online Union Catalog, containing millions of records describing items owned by the KU Libraries and libraries around the world.  Use keywords for topic search with “dissertation” and “university of whatever” in the notes field.  Also, restrict by location, language and date to limit number of hits. (Public)
 

6) Databases such as Social Work Abstracts and PsycInfo include dissertations and theses. (KU)
 

7) The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Foreign dissertations collection holds more than 750,000 doctoral dissertations from universities outside the U.S. and Canada. 
 

8) The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) an international organization providing access to electronic theses and dissertations. Scirus-etd (worldwide)    http://bit.ly/h4pcUQ(Public)