Incorporating external data into data warehouses is a rather unexplored area and deserves more attention, especially if considering the resources organizations spend on acquiring data from specialized data suppliers. Therefore, this paper gives the results of an interview study partly aimed at evaluating, from a general perspective, the outline of such a process and related problems. The result...

Studio-based teaching focuses on problem/project work and experimentation in a hands-on studio environment. Traditionally found in the arts and architecture, it is now being used in other fields such as Instructional Technology and the sciences. The first link below describes the history and rationale of studio-based teaching. Subsequent links provide information on studio teaching in a variety...

An indispensable component of cyber security education is hands-on activities carried out in a lab to enable students to understand both offense and defense aspects of the cyber space. We describe our design and implementation of this course, and a resulting student organization Cyber Defense Club (CDC), at Kansas State University. Our 1.5-year experience in teaching this course and advising th...

This paper describes an on-going design-based research project that aims to develop an instructional process to facilitate pre-service teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) development as they learn to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) in their teaching content subjects. In conjunction with an initiative to prepare pre-service teachers for integrat...

Guided by evolutionary psychology and a situational perspective on violence, we generated three hypotheses to investigate whether the percentage of intimate partner homicides by beating, a hands-on homicide method, varies with the victim-offender relationship. We tested these hypotheses with a national database that includes incident-level information on over 50,000 intimate partner homicides. ...