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Designing the Undesignable: Social Software and Control
(2008-02-28)
In this presentation, Dr. Jon Dron will discuss his recently published article, “Designing the undesignable: Social Software and Control”. In this article, Dr Dron states that social software, such as blogs, wikis, tagging ...
Development of a user-friendly interface for the creation of user elements
(1996)
The solution of the basic equations relating stiffness, displacement and force in finite element analysis is not trivial, partially due to the large numbers of equations involved. Various techniques have been developed for ...
On the Design of Collective Applications
(2009-09-09)
In this paper we define collective applications as those that employ the aggregated distinct behaviours of individuals in a crowd to shape their environment and to provide structure and influence in that environment. Such ...
Three generations of distance education pedagogy
(2011-06-16)
This paper defines and examines three generations of distance education pedagogy. Unlike earlier
classifications of distance education based on the technology used, this analysis focuses on the
pedagogy that defines ...
Fun and Fear in Open Spaces
(2011-10-27)
This presentation presents the theory and practice of Open Learning as implemented in Athabasca University’s Beyond the LMS social networking system. The presentation discusses the motivation , design and challenges ...
Self-paced and social
(AACE, 2012-11-14)
Traditionally, much institutional self-paced distance learning has been a largely individual activity, offering limited opportunities for teacher-student interaction and almost none for student-student interaction. This ...
Learning technology through three generations of technology enhanced distance education pedagogy
(European Open and Distance Learning Journal, 2012)
This paper updates earlier work in which we defined three generations of distance education pedagogy. We then describe emerging technologies that are most conducive to instructional designs that evolve with each generation. ...
Virtual platforms at Athabasca University
(2012-08-12)
The Athabasca University environment includes a virtual media lab (the e-Lab) which is an integrated website platform for curriculum enhancement and development, social networking, and pedagogical and disciplinary research. ...
"Open and Closed" Getting the mix right. Who gets to Decide??
(2012-10-26)
Despite the desirability of "Making Open the Default" as the theme of this year’s open access week, there are many reasons that can and should influence a person and an organization to restrict access to content. In this ...
Inductive Reasoning and Programming Visualization, an Experiment Proposal
(2007)
We lay down plans to study how Inductive Reasoning Ability (IRA) affects the analyzing and understanding of Program Visualization (PV) systems. Current PV systems do not take into account the abilities of the user but show ...