]]>The Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution is conducting our fall Research Assistant recruitment, for positions starting in summer 2025. We are recruiting for ten research assistants for one or two year appointments, preferably beginning between June 1 and August 1, 2025. This is an excellent opportunity for recent graduates!
Read more here: https://www.brookings.edu/join-the-top-ranked-think-tank-for-domestic-economic-policy/
Apply here: https://careers-brookings.icims.com/jobs/3497/research-assistant-%28job-id%3a-2024-3497%29/job
Applicants should have a Bachelor’s degree by summer 2025 in Economics, Mathematics/Statistics, Public Policy, or other Social Sciences with a minor in Economics and will need to submit a cover letter, resume, two letters of recommendation, and an unofficial transcript.The application deadline is October 12, 2024.
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About the Program: This internship program aims to bolster the public health workforce at the Maryland Department of Health (MDH). This program seeks to introduce students to roles within public health and expose them to different subject areas. This practical experience will enhance the knowledge that students have gained from their studies and prepare them to enter the public health workforce.
Eligibility: This program is currently open to undergraduate (completion of at least 60 credit hours) and graduate students enrolled at an accredited college or university and in good academic standing. Recent graduates (from an undergraduate or graduate program) may be accepted.
Compensation: Students will be paid ($16.50/hr undergraduate; $19.50/hr graduate).
Timeline: The program will run for 12 weeks for the Fall term, from September 25 - December 17, 2024. The fall term will be part-time at a rate that averages up to 20 hours per week. Students can work a maximum of 240 hours during the 12 weeks.
Application Instructions: Applications must be submitted online. The available internships are categorized by subject area. Please select the subject areas that interest you on your supplemental questionnaire. You may view descriptions of the openings by category below:
Whether you're preparing your first Ultra course or updating existing content, the latest features released in August are designed to streamline your teaching experience.
The Ultra Document is the centerpiece of the Ultra course, providing a place for preparing and delivering engaging content including text, lists, tables, links, images and media, or third-party tools. The Content Designer is a significant enhancement to the Ultra Document, providing new and robust options that support mobile friendly and responsive columns. Instructors can still embed files, images, and HTML content. To resize a block or move it on the Ultra Document page, simply drag and drop the block. All content is moveable with a mouse, keyboard or tab.
Image 1: Example of redesigned Ultra Document with new column display
Releasing content for different needs in a course is a critical part of an instructor’s toolkit -- whether that content is distributed by date, performance, or group using different criteria. The latest update to Ultra features advanced release conditions allow faculty to create multiple rules for release conditions using AND and OR criteria. For example, if a course consists of undergraduate and graduate students, each group may have different requirements to access certain content in the course. Rules and criteria will copy from Original adaptive release conditions with the exception for attempts and marked reviewed, which are not yet supported in Ultra.
Image 2: Example of Release Conditions page
The Ultra Assignment is also redesigned for August, removing the underlying engine that powered Tests. Now a separate instructions box is available for instructors to specify expectations for completing a graded activity. There are no options to add questions; if this is essential for an assessment, a Test must be used instead. The settings panel is updated to provide options that are only relevant to Assignments. Most importantly, when students access the Assignment, a blank attempt is no longer created, which helps reduce confusion and frustration for both learners and instructors alike. Students can access the Assignment as often as they need to before submitting their actual attempt.
Image 3: Example of new Assignment page
Instructors have long desired for the ability to subscribe to discussions in Ultra. In August, this is now possible with the new Follow Discussions setting, which allows any user in a course to re-engage with a discussion as updates occur. The first version of this feature will distribute notifications through the Activity Stream, which users can customize according to personal preference. In October, the follow notifications can be received via email.
Image 4: Example of Discussion with Follow notification enabled
Finally, when an Original course is converted, undeployed tests from the Tests, Surveys, and Question Pools area will now be converted to question banks. This will help to declutter both the course content page and the gradebook, making it easier for instructors to manage their course materials. NOTE: During the conversion process, any random blocks, question sets, and linked questions included in undeployed tests will be removed as Question Banks do not support those features. However, the resulting question banks will preserve original questions without duplication.
Additional updates for August include:
To learn more about these updates, and other features from the last six months, please join our What's New in Ultra for Teaching & Learning webinar on August 16.
Faculty should see the latest updates in their Ultra courses around August 8-9, 2024. The next update to our Ultra test environment will take place on August 13, 2024; release notes are posted to the What's New in Ultra that same week. Faculty who are interested in test driving new features before they are released to production should open an RT ticket to request early access. Please watch the FAQs, including the What's New with Ultra page, and myUMBC for additional information about Ultra.