Spring 2016Forum Schedule

WHEN:Monday, March 28, 201611:30 am - 1:00 pm WHERE:Candelaria 1375

Culturally Responsive Research Ethics

In this session Culturally Responsive Research Ethics will be described as a possible aspirational ethical stance in which researchers consider issues above and beyond IRB and discipline ethical codes. Drawing on tenets from ethno-graphic understandings of culture, cul-turally responsive teaching, reflexivity and relational research, culturally re-sponsive researchers attempt to know their personal cultures and those of their participants in order to increase the like-lihood of enacting ethically responsive research. Attendees should come ready for lively discussion over issues that may be unanswerable and will leave with questions to pose to themselves and the people they mentor in research.

Presenter: Dr. Maria Lahman is a professor of qualitative meth-odology in the Department of Applied Statistics and Research Methods, College of Education and Behav-ioral Sciences at the University of Northern Colora-do. She is co-chair of the Institutional Review Board which she has been part of for 14 years. Her specialty areas are research ethics and methodologies with young children and diverse groups of participants and alternative representations of research findings.

Lunch will be provided for all REGISTERED participants; to reserve your seat contact CETL@unco.edu

For additional information contact Dana.Walker@unco.edu

WHEN:Thursday, March 24, 201611:30 am - 1:00 pm WHERE:Candelaria 1375

In both the present and near future, cli-mate change is and will impact many aspects of our lives. This presentation will summarize our current under-standing of the science of global warm-ing, and present and future impacts, both regionally and globally. The pre-senter will share personal experiences teaching and studying climate change in Ecuador and Colorado. We will also have time to discuss the challenges and opportunities for communicating about climate change to a broad audi-ence, and for considering the cross-dis-ciplinary impacts of change as well as implications for how we teach our re-spective disciplines.

Presenter:Dr. Lucinda Shellito’s primary areas of specializa-tion include paleoclimate modeling and science education. Modeling interests focus on the role of greenhouse gases in rapid climate transitions, dynamical mechanisms responsible for maintain-ing warm climates in Earth’s history, and dynam-ic and radiative feedbacks between climate and vegetation. Educational interests involve research on using numerical and conceptual models to facilitate inquiry and learning among students in the classroom.

Lunch will be provided for all registered participants; to reserve your seat contact CETL@unco.edu

WHEN:Monday, March 28, 201611:30 am - 1:00 pm WHERE:Candelaria 1375

Predatory Journals and Other Scholarly Publishing-Related Perils

This session will describe predatory publishers and journals and other related scams aimed at researchers. While describing the current state of scholarly publishing, the talk will show how to identify predatory publishers and how to avoid being victimized by them.

Presenters: Jeffrey Beall is the Scholarly Communications Librarian and Associate Professor at the Univer-sity of Colorado Denver. His work includes in-forming the scholarly community regarding new and evolving aspects of scholarly communication, including open-access publishing, author and publisher misconduct, and scholarly publishing ethics. Jeffrey’s research and writing has been published in many scholarly publications. Jeffrey is the author of the academic blog Scholarly Open Access, which includes lists of predatory journals/pub¬lishers, misleading metrics companies, and hijacked journals. He began his library career at Harvard University, and earned his MS in Library Science from the University of North Carolina.

Heng-Yu Ku is a Professor in the School of Teacher Education at the University of Northern Colorado. He taught courses in Computers in Education, Distance Education, and Educational Research. His research interests include technolo-gy integration, instructional strategies, and online collaboration. He has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Lunch will be provided for all registered participants; to reserve your seat contact CETL@unco.edu