Faculty Research & Publications: Recent submissions
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A Model for Listening and Viewing Comprehension in Multimedia Environments
(Language Learning and Technology Journal, 1999)This paper proposes an instructional design model appropriate for humanistic multimedia Computer-Enhanced Language Learning (CELL) in a self-access environment for second language learning through listening and viewing ... -
Instructional Design for Multimedia: Towards a Learner-Centred CELL (Computer-Enhanced Language Learning) Model
(Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, 1997)Designers and users of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) software have long been aware of the difficulties inherent in trying to design the means whereby a machine can provide an effective environment for a learner ... -
Strategic uses of CALL: What learners use and how they react
(Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2003)This paper outlines the findings of a two-year evaluation of learner use of software tools in a multimedia software package for teaching Indonesian listening comprehension and culture. This software package was introduced ... -
Designing for disruption: Remodelling a blended course in technology in (language) teacher education
(Australasian Society of Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2006)This study employs a case study model to documenting the evolution over three semesters of a Masters course in technology and language learning for in-service teachers using a social constructivist pedagogical approach ... -
Communicating and interacting: An exploration of the changing roles of media in CALL/CMC
(Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, 2006)The sites of learning and teaching using CALL are shifting from CD-based, LAN-based or stand-alone programs to the internet. As this change occurs, pedagogical approaches to using CALL are also shifting to forms which ... -
CALL-ing the learner into focus: Towards a learner-centred model for CALL
(Swets & Zeitlinger, 1999)With the extension of the presence of computers in learning environments to include computer-mediated communications (CMC), such as electronic mail or the Internet, we must now devise models for computer-enhanced pedagogy ... -
Networking to Learn: Blogging for Social and Collaborative Purposes
(World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2007, 2007)This study employs a case study model to documenting the evolution of a Masters course in technology and language learning for in-service teachers using a social constructivist pedagogical approach, from completely ... -
Developing a collaborative community: Guidelines for establishing a computer-mediated language learning project with a developing country.
(Springer Verlag, 2008)Proficiency in a second language and intercultural awareness are seen as important personal and professional assets as we take an increasingly global perspective. In Australia, Indonesian is one of the priority languages, ... -
The affordances of technology for student teachers to shape their teacher education experience
(CALICO: <https://calico.org/p-288-%20Calling%20on%20CALL.html>, 2007)This chapter describes a case study model to document the evolution over three semesters of a Masters course in technology and language learning for in-service teachers using a social constructivist pedagogical approach ... -
Inclusiveness – Community, Distance Education and Produsage
(2008-07-10)Keynote talk delivered at 2nd Conference of African Association of Distance Education held in Lagos Nigeria, July 2008 -
A Methodology for Developing Learning Objects for Web Course Delivery
(IGI Publishing, 2008-07)This paper presents a methodology for developing learning objects for Web-based courses using the IMS LD (Learning Design) specification. We first investigated the IMS LD specification, determining how to use it with ... -
Characteristics of interactive online media
(2008-06-11)This chapter describes technologies used to overcome distance in online learning. Online learning media are tools for cooperation, collaboration, and communication. These devices allow for provision of individual amounts ... -
Post-Secondary Learning Priorities of Workers in an Oil Sands Camp in Northern Alberta
(2008-05-27)This paper reports results to date of a three-year project by Athabasca University, intended to determine the education and training needs and interests of employees in a work camp in northern Alberta’s oil sands. (Future ... -
Web-Based Training
(2008-05-27)Current Web-based training (WBT) is based on accumulated research and experience with strategies for improving learning and instruction, beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing to the present. ... -
Learning communities in the oil sands, and in remote and rural Alberta.
(2008-05-27)This presentation updates information about the learning needs and interests of workers in remote work camps, as part of the Learning Communities Project. The presentation contains information gathered in the period ... -
The Learning Communities Project: Bringing distance education to Alberta's remote work camps and rural areas.
(2008-05-27)This presentation adds more information about the learning interests of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. employees and contractors, working at the company Horizon site, north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. -
Audiences and content for distance programming in remote Alberta workplaces.
(2008-05-27)Report on learning interests of Canadian Natural Resources employees at the Horizon site, Ft. McMurray, Alberta. Presentation is based on preliminary data collected to October 2007. -
Interim Report 1: Learning Communities Project
(2008-02-27)Executive summary This is the first formal report of the Learning Communities Project (LCP), based on results of the evaluation and research activities conducted to date. The major findings of the project, and ... -
Problems and Little Victories in Transcript Analysis
(2008-02-27)Transcript analysis requires researchers to recognize the value of CMC transcripts as a way of understanding the psychosocial dynamics of groups, and in the process to address issues of validity, ethics, and practice. This ...