AUSpace: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1581-1600 of 2001
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Experienced young PDA users set their own standards for m-learning
(2007-10-09)“Mr Flynn, I am getting better and better at using this PDA. Am I as good as you now?” The Learning2go mobile learning project in Wolverhampton has involved over 1000 learners in 18 learning establishments across ... -
Preschool sibling interaction in separated and married families: Are same-sex pairs or older sisters more sociable?
(Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, 1998)Two factors have been associated with the quality of sibling relationships: the sex of the children and their family circumstances. Yet the data on each issue are complex. This study examines the sex constellations of ... -
Peer crowds, work experience, and financial saving behaviour of young Canadians
(Journal of Economic Psychology, 2006)The objective of this study is to examine predictors of young people's saving behaviour. The results from probit analysis, using a national survey of 1806 Canadians aged 12–24, reveal that individuals from peer groups ... -
Maternal Accounts of the Costs and Benefits of Life Experiences After Parental Separation
(Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2000)Recent analyses both question the assumption that parental separation only has negative effects on families and suggest that attention should be paid to the diversity of experiences post divorce. The latter may be ... -
Optimization of Models
(University of Alberta, 1998)The parameters of model auroral current systems were described in the previous chapter. To model the currents at any given time, these parameters must be adjusted to provide an optimal match to the available observations. ... -
Authoring design patterns for user & device dependant adaptive data presentation
(2007-10-05)In 2000 the iSign project started as a virtual web-based laboratory for students of study program electrical engineering. Continuous development in the last years led to a heterogeneous learning environment offering learning ... -
An SMS Based Querying System for Mobile Learning
(2007-10-05)Mobile phone is the most widely used mobile device. Every mobile phone user can conveniently communicate with each other through SMS (Short Message Service) text messages at very low price. It is so commonly used that, in ... -
A perspective in lifelong learning: m-learning for TT management training
(2007-10-05)This paper focuses on an experience of blended learning (blended e-learning and blended m-learning). This experience is ongoing at present for the training of managers of Technological Transfer (TT), who work in an Italian ... -
Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Reusable Learning Objects
(2007-10-05)Our ongoing work at London Metropolitan University investigates effective ways to design learning environments that add mobile learning into blended higher education modules. Our approach is one of evolutionary, iterative ... -
Informal Learning Evidence in Online Communities of Mobile Device Enthusiasts
(2007-10-05)This paper describes a study that investigated the informal learning practices of enthusiastic mobile device owners. Informal learning is far more widespread than is often realised. Livingston (2000) pointed out that ... -
m-learning for work based apprentices:- A report on trials undertaken to establish learning portfolios
(2007-10-05)This paper reports on ongoing work that is being completed on developing a mlearning delivery package for apprentice bakers. These include: - a report on trials of formative assessment questions using the mass text ... -
Coordinating Networked Learning Activities with a General-Purpose Interface
(2007-10-05)Classrooms equipped with wirelessly networked tablets and handhelds can engage students in powerful collaborative learning activities that are otherwise impractical or impossible. However, the system must fulfill certain ... -
Developming multimedia mLearning for mobiles
(2007-10-05)This short paper presents a prototype multimedia learning object that has been developed for the mobile phone. It outlines the rationale for this work and then discusses the issues raised and the design solutions that ... -
Time Evolution of the Substorm Current Wedge from Ground and Space-based Magnetic Fields
(2007-10-05)Over the past several years, intensive efforts have resulted in a significant improvement in the ground instrumentation for auroral studies in North America. A major part of this is due to the THEMIS ground program, both ... -
Terra Incognita 4-The European Adventure: a collaborative, affective-aware, SMS and web-based learning system
(2007-10-05)In this paper we present a hybrid SMS and web-based game-like learning system. We designed and practically proofed the SMS and web-based four tier system. Our main goal was to provide a community information service that ... -
MOTEL: Designing a virtual geo-tagging framework for use in higher education
(2007-10-05)Higher Education students are highly mobile; they move between learning venues such as lecture halls, the field, labs, home, and excursions. In order to understand how students used technology to support them in their ... -
Population Nutrition, Health Promotion, and Government Policy
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Book Review of "Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention, Second Edition"
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Water: a neglected nutrient in the young child? A South African perspective
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2007)Water is considered an essential nutrient because the body cannot produce enough water itself, by metabolism of food, to fulfil its need.When the quantity or quality of water is inadequate, health problems result, most ... -
Selling Health in a Bottle: How Consumers are being Ripped Off
(Edmonton Journal, 2007-03-05)