Most Popular Books by Michael Morris

"This collection of essays explores the authors'' work in, inquiry into, and critique of online learning, educational technology, and the trends, techniques, hopes, fears, and possibilities of digital pedagogy."--back cover.

Your students are changing. Technology is changing. The idea of the “classroom” is changing. Now, the way your students experience Spanish can change as well! At McGraw-Hill, we rededicated ourselves over the past few years to broadening and deepening our understanding of the student and instructor experience in World Languages. Employing a wide array of research tools including surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic studies, we identified a number of areas for improvement upon the existing learning materials available. The result is Experience Spanish. Experience Spanish is a first. Its groundbreaking adaptive diagnostic and synchronous/asynchronous conversation tools create a 24/7 active language-in-culture environment never possible before. With Experience Spanish, instructors can tailor the environment while students tailor the experience, allowing everyone to take ownership of the learning experience. Affording the flexibility that only an integrated solution can provide, Experience Spanish provides an opportunity for instructors to quickly and easily provide a common learning experience for their students regardless of whether the course is face-to-face, online, or hybrid. At the same time, students have all of the tools at their fingertips to take their second language acquisition from the classroom to their communities in an efficient and personalized way. With Experience Spanish, your concerns about different levels of student preparedness and delivering consistent and meaningful courses in different formats are behind you. Own the experience. Take charge of learning. Experience Spanish and experience the world. *Connect Spanish, including but not limited to the workbook/lab manual, LearnSmart, the video program, and chat tools, is sold separately and does not come automatically with the purchase of the textbook.

Collectivistic cultures have been characterized as having harmonious, cooperative ingroup relationships. Yet we find evidence that people in collectivistic cultures are more vigilant toward ingroup members, mindful of their possible unethical intentions. Study 1 found that Chinese participants were more vigilant than Americans in within-group competitions, anticipating more unethical behaviors from their peers. Study 2 replicated this finding by comparing areas within China, finding that people from China''s collectivistic rice-farming regions exhibit greater ingroup vigilance than people from the less collectivistic wheat-farming regions. The rice-wheat difference was mediated by greater perceived within-group competition. Study 3 found that Chinese participants were more likely than Americans to interpret a peer''s friendly behavior as sabotage in disguise. We also manipulated within-group competition and found that it increased ingroup vigilance in both cultures. Lastly, Study 3 identified two boundary conditions where cultural differences in ingroup vigilance decrease: an unambiguously competitive win-lose situation where Americans also exhibit vigilance, and an unambiguously cooperative win-win situation where Chinese participants relax their vigilance. This research contributes to a more balanced view of collectivism, revealing its interpersonal tensions in the forms of within-group competition and ingroup vigilance.

This thesis sets out to analyze how restricting rest (sleep) locations for long-haul truckers may impact operational productivity, given hours-of-service regulations. Productivity in this thesis is measured by the minimum number of unique drivers required to feasibly execute a set of load requests over a known planning horizon. When drivers may stop for rest at any location, they may maximize utilization under regulated driving hours. When drivers may only rest at certain discrete locations, their productivity may be diminished since they may no longer be able to fully utilize available service hours. These productivity losses may require trucking firms to operate larger driver fleets.