scholarly journals Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsey Baker ◽  
Philip Barker ◽  
Chris R. Jones ◽  
Kate Morss ◽  
Elaine Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Evaluation Of Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
North London

This book is written from the viewpoint that learning technology, although perceived of immense value, is not being exploited to its full potential, nor are its effects on student learning fully understood. Obtaining as accurate a picture as possible in order to correctly to influence policy and practice is an activity that is rightly receiving increased attention. No one could expect a 'how to do it' book for this subject area.as outcomes (be they of learning, cost-effectiveness or of more abstract influence) are dictated by a wide range of factors. Martin Oliver (from the LaTTD group at the University of North London) has gathered a wide range of interesting papers (derived from the Evaluation of Learning Technologies conference, 1998) to demonstrate the diversity of approaches in this field. The book comprises some 242 pages that are arranged into 14 chapters, written by those involved in related projects.DOI: 10.1080/0968776990070310 

Media Streaming for Technological Innovation in Higher Education

2014 ◽  
pp. 691-712
Author(s):  
Moradeke Olaniyan ◽  
Deryn Graham
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Media Streaming ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Streaming Technology ◽  
The University

Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) can be slow in responding to technological innovation. Streaming technology offers a competitive advantage to a HEI if appropriately adopted and integrated with the marketing strategy compared to the Push-Pull strategy: when all available technological innovation is used to push educational options to the market and the potential people pull from the market. This chapter briefly describes the concepts of e-learning and media streaming, and their relationship to HEIs. The intangible business benefits of using media streaming to enhance teaching and learning in HEIs are explored through a literature review and small sample survey. The case study of a UK university is used to represent a HEI; e-learning technology is already in use within the university, considering the integration of media streaming technology into new or existing learning technologies. The hardware and software requirements are briefly examined, and possible business concerns and risks are identified with recommendations.

scholarly journals Using research to inform learning technology practice and policy: a qualitative analysis of student perspectives

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Russell ◽  
Janne Malfroy ◽  
Maree Gosper ◽  
Jo McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Institutional Goals ◽  
Institutional Learning ◽  
New Strategies

<p>As learning technologies are now integral to most higher education student learning experiences, universities need to make strategic choices about what technologies to adopt and how to best support and develop the use of these technologies, particularly in a climate of limited resources. Information from students is therefore a valuable contribution when determining institutional goals, building infrastructure and improving the quality of student learning. This paper draws on a survey of student experiences and expectations of technology across three Australian universities. Analysis of text responses from 7,000 students provides insight into ways that institutional learning technologies and academic-led technologies are influencing the student experience. This paper also discusses how the three universities have used this information to develop strategic initiatives, and identifies a need for new strategies to support academic-led use of the available tools.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Enhance, Extend, Empower: Understanding Faculty Use of E-Learning Technologies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Squires ◽  
Nancy Turner ◽  
Sandra Bassendowski ◽  
Jay Wilson ◽  
Susan Bens
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Postsecondary Institutions ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Student Access ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University

There has been scant nation-wide assessment of institutional use of learning technology in Canada (Grant, 2016) and where assessment has been done of student access to e-resources, considerable variability within and across institutions has been reported (Kaznowska, Rogers, &amp; Usher, 2011). With a broad goal of improved and increased use of learning technologies, one university wanted to explore the use of e-learning technologies across campus. The purpose of this study was to identify instructors' needs and aspirations with respect to how learning technologies at the university could be designed, implemented, and supported. The 3E framework of Enhance, Extend, Empower, proposed by Smyth, Burce, Fotheringham, &amp; Mainka (2011), was useful in examining the underlying purposes of using e-learning technologies. For this qualitative study, the research team engaged 32 instructors in individual interviews or in focus groups to discuss how they currently use e-learning technologies, how they hope to advance their uses of these technologies, and their perceived barriers or enablers to implementation. The study has implications for practice and policy at postsecondary institutions; additionally, this study suggests possibilities for further research into the scholarship of teaching and learning in the context of e-learning technologies.

scholarly journals 320Applying novel multi-disciplinary methodologies to accelerate malaria elimination

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Agius ◽  
Julie Simpson ◽  
Saber Dini ◽  
Peter Gething ◽  
Angela Devine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Malaria Transmission ◽  
Malaria Elimination ◽  
Antimalarial Drug ◽  
Clinical Effectiveness ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Epidemiological Methods ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract Focus and outcomes for participants Presented by researchers from the Australian Centre of Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination (ACREME, www.acreme.org.au), the focus of the symposium will be the application of multi-disciplinary epidemiological and statistical approaches to inform the control and elimination of malaria in the Asia-Pacific region. The epidemiology of malaria is complex as it involves multiple mosquito vectors, different malarial species (that require species-specific treatments) and emerging insecticide and antimalarial drug resistance. The symposium will provide an overview of the significance of the changing epidemiological landscape of malaria globally, and how modern epidemiological methods, such as stepped-wedge designs, multi-state modelling, within-host mechanistic mathematical models, geospatial methods and cost-effectiveness modelling applied to clinical effectiveness trials, prospective cohort studies, volunteer infection studies and national and regional data have contributed to answering the key challenges in malaria research. Specifically we will discuss evidence for effective interventions to reduce the risk of malaria transmission, the effect of recurrent episodes of malaria on risk of hospitalisation and mortality, the selection of antimalarial drug combination therapies to fast track new drugs, understanding geospatial heterogeneity of malaria transmission, and the cost-effectiveness of scenarios using different treatment regimens. Discussion of the importance of these methodologies and their findings will be contextualised in the current global malaria elimination goals. As similar transformations in epidemiological environment have occurred in other disease elimination settings, we believe this symposium will have broad appeal and that the challenges faced and the methodological solutions proposed to accelerate progress in malaria elimination will have a high degree of relevance and be useful to researchers working in global health or infectious diseases. Rationale for the symposium, including for its inclusion in the Congress Following a two-decade period of declining malaria burden due to intensified control efforts, global progress against the disease has stalled, and in some countries, malaria has resurged. Emerging parasite resistance to insecticides and antimalarial drugs has reduced the effectiveness of cornerstone malaria control interventions. Malaria endemic areas of the Greater Mekong Sub region (GMS) have set the target to eliminate malaria by 2030, however, the failure of these established interventions and transition to low-transmission endemic environments has necessitated fundamental re-evaluation of the epidemiological landscape of the disease and emphasised timely development of robust evidence for novel interventions. In order to provide evidence, a wide range of advanced multi-disciplinary methodologies have been developed and applied in many malaria epidemiology areas and we believe discussion of these in the symposium will be highly relevant given the principal theme of the 2020 WCE (Methodological Innovations in Epidemiology). Additionally, the symposium will feature research where findings have been effectively translated to national and regional policy and practice, an important theme of the 2020 WCE. Presentation program Names of presenters

scholarly journals Textual practices in the new media digital landscape: messing with digital literacies

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Gourlay ◽  
Mary Hamilton ◽  
Mary Rosalind Lea
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New Media ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Academic Literacies ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
Textual Practices

This paper offers a working conversation between the authors about the uneasy relationship between literacy studies and learning technologies. We come from the field of literacy studies but from contrasting perspectives: from academic literacies and work on literacies and technologies in higher education; from an interest in media theory and the implications of digital mediation for the contemporary university; from everyday literacies in informal settings and a concern for the gaps between policy and practice. We illustrate our perspectives through reference to post-compulsory education, especially higher education, but intend our arguments to be of broader value to all sectors of education and learning. We argue that it is probably inevitable that terms such as literacy/digital/network will be taken up by different arenas of scholarship and practice to mean different things, but what is important is finding spaces to make visible the embedded and implicit understandings, assumptions and ideological positions that are carried by these terms. In the paper, we attempt to lay bare some of the tendencies in the different approaches and argue the case for building on these differences in our work rather than seeing them as paradigm contests. We suggest that it would be more generative to the field to acknowledge the richness and diversity of these different traditions, rather than attempting the impossible task of forcing them into a superficial reconciliation.Keywords: literacies; digital; textual practices; learning landscapes; ethnographic(Published: 31 January 2014)Citation: Research in Learning Technology 2014, 21: 21438 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v21.21438

scholarly journals Implementing a learning technology strategy: top–down strategy meets bottom–up culture

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lisewski
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The University

Using interview-based ‘insider case study’ research, this paper outlines why the University of Salford has adopted a Learning Technologies Strategy and examines the factors which are likely to lead to its successful implementation. External reasons for the adoption focused on the need to: respond to ‘increased Higher Education (HE) competition’, meet student expectations of learning technology use, provide more flexibility and access to the curriculum, address the possible determining effect of technology and establish a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) presence in this ‘particular area of the HE landscape’. Internal drivers centred on the need to: continue a ‘bottom– up’ e-learning pilot project initiative, particularly given that a VLE is a ‘complex tool’ which requires effective strategic implementation, and promote the idea that learning technology will play an important role in determining the type of HE institution that the University of Salford wishes to become. Likely success factors highlighted the need to: create ‘time and space’ for innovation, maintain effective communication and consultation at all levels of the organization, emphasize the operational aspects of the strategy, establish a variety of staff development processes and recognize the negotiatory processes involved in understanding the term ‘web presence’ in local teaching cultures. Fundamentally, the paper argues that policy makers should acknowledge the correct ‘cultural configuration’ of HE institutions when seeking to manage and achieve organizational change. Thus, it is not just a question of establishing ‘success factors’ per se but also whether they are contextualized appropriately within a ‘correct’ characterization of the organizational culture.DOI: 10.1080/0968776042000216228

A Framework for Developing Pre-Service Teachers’ Web 2.0 Learning Design Capabilities

2012 ◽  
pp. 58-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Bower
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Web

This chapter presents and evaluates a Web 2.0 Learning Design Framework that can be used to develop pre-service teachers’ learning design capabilities. The framework integrates the TPACK model of educational practice, Anderson and Krathwohl’s Taxonomy of learning, teaching and assessing, and different types of constructive and negotiated pedagogies, with a range of contemporary Web 2.0 based learning technologies. Pre-service teachers in a second year learning technology subject felt that the framework helped them to better understand the relationship between technology, pedagogy, and content, as well as create more effective learning designs for their students. Examples of student learning designs are used to illustrate the way that pre-service teachers applied the framework. Students’ reflective responses to the framework are also used to explain how the Web 2.0 Learning Design Framework can be more effectively used to develop pre-service teachers’ Web 2.0 learning design capabilities.

Recent Applications of High Resolution Electron Microscopy to Crystalline Arrays of Virus Particles

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.W. Horne
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Staining Technique ◽  
High Resolution Electron Microscopy ◽  
Optical Diffraction ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Virus Particles ◽  
Resolution Electron ◽  
Wide Range

The technique of surrounding virus particles with a neutralised electron dense stain was described at the Fourth International Congress on Electron Microscopy, Berlin 1958 (see Home & Brenner, 1960, p. 625). For many years the negative staining technique in one form or another, has been applied to a wide range of biological materials. However, the full potential of the method has only recently been explored following the development and applications of optical diffraction and computer image analytical techniques to electron micrographs (cf. De Hosier & Klug, 1968; Markham 1968; Crowther et al., 1970; Home & Markham, 1973; Klug & Berger, 1974; Crowther & Klug, 1975). These image processing procedures have allowed a more precise and quantitative approach to be made concerning the interpretation, measurement and reconstruction of repeating features in certain biological systems.

TEM study of boron additions to cobalt aluminide

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Feldewerth
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Aerospace Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ordered Alloys ◽  
The University ◽  
Very High

In recent years an increasing emphasis has been placed on the study of high temperature intermetallic compounds for possible aerospace applications. One group of interest is the B2 aiuminides. This group of intermetaliics has a very high melting temperature, good high temperature, and excellent specific strength. These qualities make it a candidate for applications such as turbine engines. The B2 aiuminides exist over a wide range of compositions and also have a large solubility for third element substitutional additions, which may allow alloying additions to overcome their major drawback, their brittle nature.One B2 aluminide currently being studied is cobalt aluminide. Optical microscopy of CoAl alloys produced at the University of Missouri-Rolla showed a dramatic decrease in the grain size which affects the yield strength and flow stress of long range ordered alloys, and a change in the grain shape with the addition of 0.5 % boron.

Biodiversity in Vegetation and Ecosystems»: symposium on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Dr. Fred J.A. Daniels (Munster, Germany, July 11, 2008)

2008 ◽  
pp. 123-124
Author(s):  
N. V. Matveyeva
Keyword(s):  
Wide Range ◽  
65Th Anniversary ◽  
The University

July 2008 in Münster (Germany) hosted a Symposium on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Professor of the University of this city, Fred Daniels (Frederikus Josephus Alphonsus Daniëls). The title of this Symposium «Biodiversity in Vegetation and Ecosystems» reflected the wide range of interests of the celebrant.

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