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Developing Online Learning Experiments Using Doenet (2024)

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• Kris Hollingsworth - Minnesota State University, Mankato
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In this five-day workshop, participants will learn how to create and implement online learning experiments using the Distributed Open Education Network (Doenet,  doenet.org ). Doenet is designed to help faculty critically evaluate how different content choices influence student learning in their classrooms. Doenet enables instructors to quickly test hypotheses regarding the relative effectiveness of alternative approaches by providing tools to assign different variations of an activity and analyze the resulting data.

Following brief introductions and demos of features of the Doenet platform, participants will work in small groups to develop learning experiments that can be used in the college classroom, assisted by the developers of Doenet. The expectation is that participants will leave the workshop with a learning experiment that they can use in their classroom the following year.

The workshop will run from 9 AM on Monday, May 20 through Noon on Friday, May 24. All organized activities will occur between 9 AM and 4 PM each day.

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• A personal statement briefly (200 words or less) stating what you hope to contribute to the discussion on learning experiments and what you hope to gain from this workshop. Include courses you teach for which you'd like to develop learning experiments. Priority will be given to those able to run learning experiments in their courses in the following year.
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Are you looking for an opportunity to grow as a leader in an environment where you are constantly in motion? How about learning and understanding a complex business from the ground up? Does leading a team to a goal interest you? If so, we have a program built just for you as a retail management intern!

Our retail management intern will work closely with managers and Team Members to learn the many functions within our locations to include restaurant, tire care and retail operations.

The 10-week program is designed to get you onto the sales floor where you will provide exceptional customer service, drive sales through effective merchandising, and learn how to lead a team while earning $18 per hour . You will also have the ability to work closely with management to explore the many opportunities Love’s presents for a career in retail management.

• Junior or Senior class standing preferred
• Desire to pursue a career in leadership or retail or restaurant management
• Strong problem solving, decision making and financial analysis skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, time management and delegation skills, organization skills, can-do attitude, sense of urgency, and strong work ethic.

Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is the industry leader in “highway hospitality”. Our approximately 500 locations are a warm, welcoming and ever-evolving space where guests are inspired to get what they need to enjoy life—for less. This unmatched shopping experience is cultivated by our store leaders who train, guide and support their teams.

BACKGROUND CHECKS: All offers of employment may be conditioned on receipt of a background check report and/or drug screen that is acceptable to Love’s.

SKILLS AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Hard Skills: Ability to learn and operate all facility equipment including computers, restaurant and tire care equipment
• Soft Skills: Good verbal and written communication skills, time management and delegation skills, organization skills, can-do attitude, sense of urgency, and strong work ethic.
• Regularly required to talk and hear.
• Requires standing and walking, with some bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing
• Occasional light lifting not over 50lbs
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to outdoor elements in all seasons. Occasionally, the employee will also be exposed to fumes and particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The noise level in the work environment and can be loud at times. While performing the duties, the employee is frequently exposed to dirt, dust, grime, grease, oil, gas, high-concentrated cleaning solutions, and human waste.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: No travel is expected for this position.

Another vestige of Carlson travel empire sold, this one to Amex spinoff for $570M

M inneapolis-based CWT, a business travel and meeting management firm that was part of a prominent Minnesota family's business legacy, will sell to rival American Express Global Business Travel for $570 million, the companies announced Monday.

The merger, which should close in the latter half of this year, blends two of the biggest corporate travel entities. CWT, formerly Carlson Wagonlit Travel, started in its current form in the mid-1990s and touts 4,000 customers with a projected revenue of approximately $850 million this year. American Express spun off its global business travel (GBT) sector as a joint venture with an investor group in 2014, and GBT has rapidly grown through various mergers and acquisitions since.

CWT was not reachable for comment, including on if its global headquarters will remain in the state, if this will affect any jobs or if the CWT name will survive.

American Express said the deal means CWT customers will have access to its proprietary software and services.

"Joining forces with Amex GBT helps accelerate our vision of a tech-enabled future for business travel, where people and technology combine to deliver an exceptional customer experience," said Patrick Andersen, CEO of CWT, in a statement. "We are highly confident in the value creation of the combined company."

The privately held CWT — which investment funds like Redwood Capital Management, Monarch Alternative Capital and others own — will now be part of the public GBT, which debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in 2022. That came at a time when corporate travel was still in a precarious state after grinding to a halt in 2020 because of the pandemic.

Business travel still hasn't fully recovered to 2019 levels in terms of volume or spending, but that milestone could hit as soon as by the end of this year. So Jose Ferreira, owner of Coon Rapids-based Riverdale Travel, said this deal is timed for growth.

"For corporate travelers, I would say that service levels are going to improve," Ferreira said. "Both of these companies are still recovering from the pandemic."

Curt Carlson, namesake of the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, started his family's business empire during the Great Depression, eventually venturing into the travel industry about 30 years later.

In 2021, the family gave up its ownership stake in Carlson Travel Inc. and its many related companies, including CWT, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the business into bankruptcy. The family has also offloaded some of its large portfolio of hotels, including selling the Radisson Hotel Group Americas for $675 million to Choice Hotels International in 2022.

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