scholarly journals Effective CAL: theory and practice

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Khan
Keyword(s):  
Interface Design ◽  
Computer Literacy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Support Unit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Authoring Systems ◽  
On Line ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
Content Specialists

Modern-day authoring systems have made the production of CAL applications so easy that people with little computer literacy are able quite quickly to create elaborate multimedia applications. The point, however, is that while so many of us have become authors in the past few years, the objective of our creations has been somewhat missed. It is all to easy to see visually impressive multimedia CAL, and to convince ourselves that they represent good CAL material. An application may be quickly sanctioned, produced and implemented at universities, then attention is focused on to the next project. While evaluation is normally costed into a project, various constraints, such as shifting personnel or additional demands on funds, limit the evaluation of the application to ascertain whether the investment of producing it was worthwhile. The Hypertext Support Unit (HSU) at the University of Kent was set up in 1992 to promote the pervasive use of hypertext across the campus. In its role as a support unit, it facilitates the development of CAL material in all disciplines in close collaboration with the content specialists, i.e. the lecturers. The HSU, along with many other units or departments, produce many CAL application paying attention to the aesthetics of interface design, but largely glossing over the learning instructions so vital to good CAL applications in harnessing the potential of multimedia in an educational environment. Too many people put a linear book on-line, give it some bookmarks, and call it hypertext; worse yet, they add a few scanned-in photographs and a soundtrack and call it multimedia (Fisher, 1994).DOI:10.1080/0968776950030116

Gesture, Pop Culture, and Intertextuality in the Work of Lea Anderson

1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (50) ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
Sherril Dodds ◽  
Janet Adshead-Lansdale
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Female Group ◽  
Dance Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
The University ◽  
Head Of Department ◽  
Television Image

Lea Anderson is one of the leading choreographers to have emerged over the past decade, her most characteristic work having been with the all-female group she co-founded, the Cholmondeleys, and its all-male counterpart, the Featherstonehaughs. This article explores the distinctively intertextual elements in Lea Anderson's work – elements which, the authors suggest, make it at once accessible, distinctive, and distinctively postmodern. Sherril Dodds addressed the relationships between postmodernism and popular culture in Anderson's work, with particular focus on the television image and the dance image, in her MA dissertation for the Department of Dance Studies at the University of Surrey, where she is currently a research student. Her co-author, Janet Adshead-Lansdale, is Head of Department at Surrey, and has also edited Dance Analysis: Theory and Practice (1988) and co-edited Dance History: an Introduction (1994).

scholarly journals The development and implementation of a Peer Assisted Learning programme at the University of Liverpool

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gita Sedghi ◽  
Trish Lunt
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Peer Assisted Learning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Programme Design ◽  
Evaluation Feedback ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Student Input ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

A Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) programme was designed and implemented in the Department of Chemistry in the University of Liverpool during the 2012-13 academic year. The PAL programme was initially set up to support first year chemistry undergraduate students with one particular maths module but was extended to offer support to all Year 1 modules. The PAL programme was also designed to meet the needs of a second cohort of students, year 2 direct entry international students, but this paper focuses on the first year student programme.   A key element to the development of the Liverpool PAL programme was the contribution of student input throughout the initial programme design stages and, importantly, the ongoing involvement of students during the operation of the programme over the last three years. They provided evaluation and feedback on the programme’s organisation and effectiveness, and were involved in subsequent discussions to analyse the data from these processes in order to improve and develop the programme. The concept of working with students as partners is not new, but it has risen in profile in recent years as highlighted by Healey et al. (2014) and many others. We believe that the PAL programme would not be as effective as it is without the ongoing involvement of students in all elements of the programme.   The paper will discuss the development and implementation of the PAL programme over the past three years, and highlight the value and importance of the role and contribution of the students in making the programme what it is today, as evidenced by the evaluation feedback from the students.

Instant Prototyping Using HyperCard® on the Macintosh®

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 362-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwight P. Miller
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Code Generation ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Apple Computer ◽  
Control Panel ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
The Past ◽  
On Line ◽  
Interface Designs

Rapid interface prototyping (RIP) involves the simulation of potential user-interface designs for demonstrating and evaluating design concepts and iteratively modifying the interface designs without the burden of labor-intensive code generation and modification. In the past few years, many interface designers have had to use expensive equipment to help them perform RIP. Well, thanks to Bill Atkinson and the folks at Apple Computer Inc., you can purchase HyperCard® 1 software for your Macintosh® 2 for $49 and use it right out of the box for many of your RIP projects, without need of additional hardware (just add a cup of creativity). A special feature of HyperCard® allows the designer to create software-controlled buttons which, along with the graphics capabilities and the layering properties, permit the dynamic simulation of virtually any control panel that can be operated by discrete user inputs. Changes to the prototype can be made very rapidly (almost instantly) by an experienced HyperCard® user, making it possible to modify an existing prototype “on-line” in a design meeting. This paper will describe this serendipitous application of HyperCard®, its potential as an equipment-interface design tool, and describe how it was used to simulate the user interface for a weapons field tester, designed at Sandia.

scholarly journals CIM: Beyond a new start

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
Bing Siang Gan
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Clinical Investigation ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Official Journal ◽  
Original Research ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
On Line ◽  
Investigative Medicine ◽  
The University

This issue marks the last edition of Clinical and Investigative Medicine under the leadership of Dr. David Bevan. Dr. Bevan has been the Editor-in-Chief of CIM for the past six years. During this time, CIM, as the official journal of the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation, underwent several major changes. First, CIM was bought from the CMA and is now independently produced. Second, CIM went from a hard copy journal to an on-line journal with open access six months after publication of each issue. Third, the journal now levies publication page charges from its authors with members of CSCI exempted from these charges. Dr. Bevan succeeded in not only maintaining CIM as a MedLine and PubMed referenced journal, but also in increasing its prominence as an open access type on-line journal, while at the same time turning around its finances. The number of submissions to CIM has more than doubled since CIM instituted these changes, and CIM went from a deficit journal to making a small profit: a true great beginning of a new era for CIM. We thank Dr. Bevan for his important contributions. With the retirement of Dr. Bevan, CSCI is happy to announce that Dr. Jonathan Angel from Ottawa will take over from Dr. Bevan as Editor-in-Chief from January 1, 2010. Dr. Angel is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and a recognized expert in infectious diseases. He is widely published and brings a wealth of expertise to CIM. Under the stewardship of Dr. Angel, CIM will build on the foundation laid by Dr. Bevan and will continue to publish high quality original research related to any aspect of clinical investigation. At CSCI, we are all looking forward to working with Dr. Angel to increase CIM’s scope and impact factor. We are convinced that Dr. Angel will have a successful tenure at CIM and look forward to seeing the Journal grow further.

scholarly journals Efectos de la crisis económica en el profesorado universitario novel

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Cristina Goenechea ◽  
Noemi Serrano-Díaz ◽  
Concepción Valero Franco
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Breeding Ground ◽  
University System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Job Offers ◽  
Employment Situation ◽  
On Line ◽  
The University

This work describes the employment situation of new professors joining the teaching staff of the University of Cadiz over the past 5 years. It examines the situation of this group in 2015, a time in which the economic crisis affected both Spain and the university system, comparing this situation to that of 2019. It is a quantitative study using an on-line questionnaire that was distributed in both 2015 and 2019. Clearly, the university’s economic situation conditioned the professional development of these professors who carry out both research and teaching tasks. For years, the crisis stalled the publication of stable job offers for these new professors, preventing them from having an optimistic outlook with regard to their professional future. This study suggests that the current situation may be creating a sense of burnout in the teaching staff, perhaps due to the university’s failure to intervene in the increased depersonalization and harsh treatment of its students. Given this situation, universities may be turning into a breeding ground for pathologies related to teachers’ malaise.

scholarly journals Instructor Satisfaction in University of California Extension's On-line Writing Curriculum

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Almeda ◽  
Kathleen Rose
Keyword(s):  
Computer Literacy ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Writing Curriculum ◽  
Certificate Programs ◽  
Course Sequences ◽  
On Line ◽  
Instructor Satisfaction ◽  
Instructor Support ◽  
The University

This article describes instructor satisfaction in 14 online courses in freshman-level composition and literature, business writing, and English as a Second Language offered in the University of California (UC) Extension’s online program. The courses chosen for this case study reflect UC Extension's entire ALN program, in that they comprise a broad selection of college- and professional-level courses organized in course sequences and certificate programs. The paper reviews UC Extension’s ALN program, describes course and instructor selection criteria, and discusses such issues as course production and costs, instructor support, the transfer of teaching skills, instructor computer literacy, and instructor compensation. The results of an informal instructor survey also are discussed. Obstacles to adoption, effective and problematic practices, and critical programmatic and individual course factors gleaned from this analysis are outlined.

scholarly journals Using Locative Media to Enrich Spaces with Historical Artifacts

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Aidan Power
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Augmented Reality Application ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
The University

This piece is a prototype of an mobile Augmented Reality application that uses locative media to focus on the social interactions people have in space between each other and  technology. It allows users to interact with digital objects in the built environment on the University of Waterloo campus through their mobile devices and envision the past of the spaces they enter, such as the contruction of well known buildings on campus or past student activities at their residences. It brings together the disciplines of history, fine arts, interface design and locative media studies. 

Truth and power, monks and technocrats: theory and practice in international relations

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Curriculum ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

‘The study of international relations is not an innocent profession.’1 It is not like the classics, or mathematics, an abstract logical training for the youthful mind. The justification for the place it has gained in the university curriculum rests upon utility, not on aesthetics. The growth of the social sciences in Western universities in the past century, and their remarkable expansion over the past thirty years, has been based upon their perceived contribution to better government, in the broadest sense. ‘The forever explosive relationship between social science and public policy’ has been embedded in the discipline of International Relations from the outset.2

Challenging Institutional Resistance

2020 ◽  
pp. 200-224
Author(s):  
Arlette Gautier ◽  
Marie-Laure Déroff ◽  
Pierre-Guillaume Prigent ◽  
Sophie Hellégouarch
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Organized Activities ◽  
Support Unit ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
Student Association

Numerous cases of sexual harassment in French higher education institutions led to the creation in 2002 of a student association dedicated to anti-sexist action against sexual harassment in higher education (Collectif de Lutte Anti-Sexiste Contre le Harcèlement Sexuel dans l’Enseignement Supérieur, also known as CLASCHES). More recently, the French minister for higher education introduced a policy requiring universities to take steps to eradicate sexual harassment and commissioned a survey of violence and gender relations in universities. Focusing on one of the universities where the survey was conducted, this chapter presents key findings from the survey and discusses the university’s responses. Although the university governing body set up a Victim Support Unit and organized activities annually to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, it has not used the survey to develop a specific policy but has, in fact, tried to obscure the results. Students criticize the university’s governing body’s discourses for blaming victims and making perpetrators invisible.

LINSIM, a Linear Electrical Network Simulation and Optimisation Program

1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-168
Author(s):  
L. N. M. Edward
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Network Simulation ◽  
Electrical Network ◽  
The Past ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
On Line ◽  
Aided Design ◽  
The University

On-line computer-aided-design programs must be versatile, easy to use, reliable, and virtually ‘crash-proof. LINSIM is such a package which has been used by students and engineers at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, for the past three years. Its structure and use are described and illustrated.

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