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Marketing Faculty Chosen for Mobile Learning Initiative

allisonwilde — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:34:25 +0000

Dr. Doug Lincoln, marketing professor and department chair, and Lisa Kleiman, business communication lecturer, have been chosen to participate in the Mobile Learning Initiative at Boise State University. This is a multi-year project to identify and support key uses of mobile technology that will impact the ways we teach and learn.

As part of the Mobile Learning Initiative, faculty and students will once again have an opportunity to experiment with groundbreaking uses of mobile technology as participants in the 2011-12 cohorts of mLearning Scholars. Faculty across campus submitted proposals describing specific plans to integrate mobile technology into their particular disciplines, with 13 proposals ultimately being accepted. Those accepted will experiment with integrating mobile technology into their teaching in one section of a course taught during Spring 2012.

From experimenting with how mobile devices can augment the interactions that take place in the classroom to using these devices to record and share videos, photos or other information from remote locations, the projects represent a wide variety of approaches to integrating mobile devices into the curriculum. Participants will document their experiences, which will not only build a growing community of innovators, but also directly inform decision-making and strategic planning efforts on campus.

As a part of Dr. Lincoln’s Marketing 301 Principles of Marketing course, all students will use iPads. Dr Lincoln conducted a survey with his students during the first week of class, will do one a mid-semester and another at the end to track students’ experiences and feelings about using the iPads in the course. More details about Dr. Lincoln’s research questions are here: mLearning Scholars.

For more information, visit the Mobile Learning Initiative website at mobilelearning.boisestate.edu/mlearningscholars.

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Student Spotlight – Armando Silva

Trisha Lamb — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:10:03 +0000

Armando Silva is a volunteer coordinator at the Boys and Girls Club in Garden City who works with about 40 Boise State service-learning students as they interact with the children at the center. Silva is an international business major with minors in economics and marketing who plans to graduate in fall 2012.

Click here for an audio slideshow about his service-learning experiences, his views on international business and his study abroad opportunity in Bilbao, Spain.

Photos by John Kelly

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Kelly Cobourn, Zeynep Hansen and Scott Lowe

Trisha Lamb — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:48:27 +0000

Kelly Cobourn, Zeynep Hansen and Scott Lowe of the Department of Economics presented research pertaining to water rights institutions at the American Economics Association (AEA) meetings in Chicago on Jan. 8. Cobourn and Hansen organized and moderated the session titled “Water Rights: Historical Perspectives and Emerging Issues.” Hansen and Lowe presented a paper titled “The Political Economy of Major Water Infrastructure Investments in the Western United States and the Impact on Agriculture,” and Cobourn presented a paper titled “Property Rights and Conjunctive Management: Implications of Hydraulic Connectivity between Surface and Ground Water.” The acceptance rate for sessions at the AEA meetings is about 3 percent to 4 percent for institutions similar to Boise State.

Cobourn also gave an invited oral presentation at the American Geophysical Union meetings in San Francisco on Dec. 7, 2011. The presentation, titled “Ecological vs. Economic Sustainability: An Integrated Analysis of Thresholds in Semi-Arid Western Rangelands,” was included as part of the session “Identifying and Quantifying Change in Ecological Systems.”

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Faculty Spotlight – Doug Lincoln

Trisha Lamb — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:10:24 +0000

Doug Lincoln, marketing, was selected as Coach of a Game for the Bronco football team’s home match-up against Wyoming on Nov. 26. Lincoln was recognized in the stadium just prior to kick-off. He joined Boise State’s faculty in 1980, and is a professor of marketing and current chair of the Department of Marketing and Finance in the College of Business and Economics. He also serves as editor of his discipline’s highest-ranked education journal, the Journal of Marketing Education. His current research focuses on the improvement of marketing education at the collegiate level and most recently appeared in several issues of the Marketing Education Review.

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Brian Greber

Trisha Lamb — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:57:53 +0000

Brian Greber, director of Boise State’s Business Research and Economic Development Center, was quoted in a story on NPR’s StateImpact about the nationwide decline of new business filings. He said jobs in Idaho will come primarily through new startups and small businesses. Read the story here.

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Faculty Spotlight – Gundars Kaupins and Dusty Bodie

Trisha Lamb — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:27:33 +0000

Gundars Kaupins, Department of Management, has had three refereed journal articles accepted for publication in the past two weeks. “Organizational Social Networking Usage, Policy, and Restrictions,” by Kaupins and Abilene Christian University colleagues Malcolm Coco and Andrew Little, will be published in the International Journal of Business and Public Administration in 2012. “Administrative Challenges of the Service Learning Lab Option with Non-Profits,” by Kaupins and Dusty Bodie, Department of Management, will appear in Advances in Business Research. Lastly, “Problems in Negotiation Gambit Research and Practice,” by Kaupins and Mark Johnson, Idaho State University, will be published later this year in Advances in Business Research.

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Faculty Spotlight – Don Holly

Trisha Lamb — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:31:34 +0000

Don Holley, professor of economics, was quoted in a StateImpact story about the three Rs: recession, recovery and relevance. Holley states that signs of economic recovery are there, including a leveling off in unemployment and improved home and auto sales. However, Holley points out that Idaho is not yet back to its 2007 economic productivity peak. Read the story here.

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Faculty Spotlight – Sian Mooney

Trisha Lamb — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:02:19 +0000

Sian Mooney, Department of Economics, is co-chair on a report released last week called “Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture.” The team of scientists also includes Ron Follett and Jack Morgan, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Keith Paustian, Colorado State University. In addition to a focus on agriculture’s role in climate change, the report also covers key economic, social and environmental challenges.

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Faculty Spotlight – Kent Neupert

Trisha Lamb — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:11:27 +0000

Kent Neupert, Mary Givens and Jared Everett all were quoted in the Idaho Business Review regarding the development and construction of Venture Lab at Boise State. Read the story, called “Boise State looks to ‘innovation kitchen’ to cook faculty inventions.”

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Faculty Spotlight – Sian Mooney

Trisha Lamb — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:08:03 +0000

A report on carbon sequestration co-chaired by Sian Mooney, Department of Economics, was released this week by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology. “Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities” looks at the research behind the climate change controversy. Click here to read more.

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