KUCTC Creative Works

Academic Education Solution

Cerner, in partnership with KU School of Nursing and the KU Center for Healthcare Informatics, created Academic Education Solution (AES), a suite of live software applications that simulate clinical information systems used in healthcare organizations around the world.  The product, including the case studies, will help educate health professionals for 21st century Health Information Technology/Health Information Exchange (HIT/HIE) practices.

 

Actiwatch Protective Case

The Actiwatch Protective Case was developed to work with the "Primate Products" neck collar by attaching to the collar at one of the two leash rings without modifying the collar itself. This allows for secure attachment of the Actiwatch to the collar and quick removal.

Adaptive Interface Evaluator

The Adaptive Interface Evaluator is designed to be an interface between an adaptive switch and sources of stimulation. It increases the benefits of switch activity programs for children and adults who have little or no reliable communicative behavior.

Analytical Procedures for Predicting Biological Species Invasions

Staff with the Natural History Museum have developed a new process in predicting, analyzing, and strategizing for combat of species invasion. The Analytical Procedures for Predicting Biological Species Invasions in a combination of tools drawn from the emerging field of biodiversity informatics, quantitative geography, and artificial intelligence.

Blending Assessment with Instruction Program

The Blending Assessment with Instruction Program (BAIP) is designed to provide online support to teachers in aligning their instruction with indicators that operationally define curriculum based standards in mathematics. BAIP is made powerful by the additional alignment of instructional lessons with statewide assessments that are used to measure the achievement of students in fulfilling performance objectives of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation.

Class Wide Peer Tutoring Program

Juniper Gardens Children’s Project developed the Class Wide Peer Tutoring Program (CWPT), an instructional procedure that enables the teacher to engage all students in a classroom simultaneously, in a variety of academic tasks.  The CWPT consists of a set of software, multimedia, and web-based products supporting teacher’s learning, implementation, and evaluation of student learning in the curriculum as a function of the use of CWPT.

Computerized Assessments and Learning

The Kansas Department of Education is currently using a process invented by the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation, to deliver the Kansas state mandated tests on-line. The process provides a system for on-line and computer testing of individuals and is comprised of four main components: 1) a test builder component 2) a registration/preparation component 3) an on-line test delivery component 4) a scoring and reporting component.

Content Literacy Continuum

The Content Literacy Continuum is a framework of supports at five levels of increasing intensity that meet the varying needs of high, average and low achievers in educational settings.

 

Dual Diagnosis Videotapes

Staff from the Lawrence and Medical Center campuses have collaborated to create several videotapes relating to dual diagnosis: Mood Disorders and Developmental Disabilities, Anxiety Disorders and Developmental Disabilities, and Autism and Co-existing Disorders.  The videos present known information about the signs and symptoms of mental and anxiety disorders in a format that should improve understanding of the topic for a viewing audience with a limited understanding of these topics. 

FRAANK-XBRL

FRAANK-XBRL or Financial Reporting and Auditing Agent with Net Knowledge for XBRL is intelligent agent software for accounting and auditing domain. It parses the information, identifies tables containing financial statements, parses each table into line items and identifies every line item by matching it to the appropriate tag of the XBRL taxonomy, and then tags the information using US-XBRL taxonomy.

Geodiscovery

Staff at the Kansas Geological Survey created a framework built to index the virtual location of numerous web mapping services called Geodiscovery. It is a process that leverages multiple existing technologies to build an index of map services similar to Google.

Grid Actometer

Staff from the Bureau of Child Research and Life Span Institute have made an improvement on the force-plate actometer. The Grid Actometer has a higher temporal resolution than video tracking systems and human observes, as well as, a higher spatial resolution. It has application in the pharmaceutical industry in toxicology testing as well as in compound development for movement disorders.

 

Online Academy Behavior Support Modules

The Online Academy Behavior Support Modules created by Bureau of Child Research, promote effective online training for educators. They provide an intensive introduction to positive behavior support and are content-rich. The modules also report research validated strategies for teachers in school settings.

Online Academy E-Learning Modules

These Online Academy E-learning Modules was developed due to the lack of available design and design tools that allow for the development and national online dissemination of content rich online educational instruction employing streaming media.

Pathways to Recovery: a Strengths Self-Help Workbook

Staff from Social Welfare adapted an existing process to create Pathways to Recovery: a Strengths Self-Help Workbook. The new use is for persons with psychiatric disabilities. Products entail a workbook, curricula for self-help group process and training materials.

Personal Data Recorder (PDR)

The Personal Data Recorder (PDR) is used to adapt a Personal Data Assistant (PDA) for human observation data collection in both the laboratory and field environments. The PDR is attached to a PDA, providing a physical interface that allows an observer to record events to the PDA without having to look at the PDA.

Physical Activity Across the Curriculum

The Physical Activity Across the Curriculum program (PAAC) delivers academic lessons through physical activity to elementary children.

ProfilerPro

ProfilerPro provides extensive enhancements to an already existing application.  The improvements provide the software with the ability to operate as a distributed system on various platforms allowing users to develop survey instruments, administer surreys to various groups via the Web, as well as collect and analyze data electronically. 

Project Management Assessment Tool

The Project Management Assessment Tool is a questionnaire that can be distributed to and completed by individuals within a target organization with the tabulated results quickly identifying strengths and weaknesses.

Protected and Rare Species Database

The KU Biological Survey developed NatureServe Data Sharing Project, a database of protected and rare species, and natural communities in Kansas. This is the only database containing current, detailed, location and status information about rare plants and animals and their habitats in Kansas. It is consulted frequently to identify actual or potential environmental impacts resulting from development and regulatory activities.

Quarked

Quarked is a project for educating children about science that includes cartoon characters, web and television format presentations, and lesson plans.

QuizStar

QuizStar is a technology developed by staff from the Center for Research on Learning, which allows for a teacher/educator to establish classes and construct quizzes for access by students in specific classes. This instructional resource can run across any platform, browser, and database format. The quizzes can be any length, time sensitive, use multiple types of questions and the results can be analyzed by the teacher for each student, across students, and by item.

RubiStar

RubiStar is a web-enabled rubric maker for educators with vetted rubric templates available for use as is, or editable. In addition there are thousands of user created rubrics available for photocopying or editing.

ROM Outcomes Report System

The ROM Outcomes Report System is a web-based performance reporting system that is designed to provide social service managers with current performance data and a means of analyzing their performance.

Search Engine to Extract Knowledge from Industry Filings

SEEK-INF is a search engine that extracts knowledge in terms of data from industry filings from the Security and Exchange Commission. It provides users with a friendly interface, along with immense power to extract data from industry filings at the user defined level of resolution.

Stroke Impact Scale

The Stroke Impact Scale (SIS) is an interviewer administered measure to assess recovery from stroke over time.  It focuses on changes in the individual's ability to perform daily activities and to communicate with others.  It also assesses the patient's ability to perform meaningful activities.  SIS assesses changes in impairment and handicap (role function), and provides a clearer picture of how the patient feels about the quality of life since the stroke.

Strategic Instruction Model

Taken as a whole, the Strategic Instructin Model (SIM) materials represent an approach to teaching adolescents who struggle with becoming good readers, writers, and learners. SIM attacks low levels of adolescent literacy through intensive, carefully tailored lessons that break the process of learning into manageable, explicit steps for students to follow.

Tax Abatement Model

The Tax Abatement Model for Lawrence, Kansas and other Kansas Communities was created by the Policy Research Institute. This model is based on a Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet that is designed to evaluate the costs and benefits of granting a property tax abatement to a firm that is considering building a new facility or an expansion in a Kansas community.

Test Items in Math, Reading, Science, Social Studies and English Language Proficiency

Items developed and included are those in the areas of mathematics, reading, science, social studies and English language proficiency. The Test Items were developed over a period of years (1990 to the present) as part of the annual Kansas Assessment Program.

Touch-Tone Reader

The Touch-Tone Reader (TTR) is a PC-based system for recording and retrieving newspaper articles via a touchtone telephone. The TTR is software, packaged with commercial software and commercially available hardware. The software controls the access to read the Kansas City Star and other publications.

Walking Game

The Walking Game is designed to be used by individuals to monitor, in a game-like fashion, steps taken to improve health and fitness. Individuals wearing pedometers return to the board whenever they have accumulated 10,000 steps and mark the game board accordingly.

Weight Control Research Project

The Weight Control Research Program (WCRP) is an ongoing research program that seeks improved strategies for the prevention and treatment of child and adult obesity and its conditions. Various strategies are used for prevention of weight gain and for promotion of weight loss.

Workbook Series

Staff with the Bureau of Child Research have developed action planning guides and a 16 module curriculum for courses taught in the Department of Human Development. The workbook series was composed to support a process of strategic planning that goes beyond the usual scope of strategic planning efforts. The curriculum consists of participant workbooks, instructor guides, and PowerPoint presentations.