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The Development of an Online Learning Environment for an Existing Professional Paper.
No full textThe purpose of this research is to develop an online learning environment for an existing professional paper which promotes the use of asynchronous online activities to engage learning. The study involves three phases of developing the online learning environment (the product) using qualitative questionnaires and includes a final interview phase. Participants are from the CPA P1 Managerial Finance professional accounting e‐learning course. The product was developed and evolved throughout the three phases of development concluding with a structured e‐learning product that contributes to the online learning environment though student engagement. The research will identify the fundamental aspects of asynchronous online methods that both enhance and transform the ways in which students engage with their learning. This research would suggest that while the current online learning environment conforms to best practice a need does exist for further research into the feasiblity of the inclusion of a synchronous component to the current online learning environment
A phenomenological inquiry capturing students’ experience accessing higher education through recognition of prior experiential learning
No full textRecognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is the provision of access to a programme of study and can include course credit or module exemption where there is evidence of prior formal, informal and/or experiential learning. RPL affords students recognition and places a value on their prior learning including life and work experiences. Broadly speaking RPL is formal recognition of non-formal and informal learning acquired through relevant life and work experience. RPL widens student access and participation in higher education. In Ireland recognition for prior learning and experience is offered by the majority of third level institutions providing fair and impartial opportunities to advance education. The aim of this study was to describe and interpret the lived experiences of students who gained entry to higher education through recognition of their prior non-formal and formal learning. The study took the form of a qualitative phenomenological interpretivist approach designed to explore and interpret the meanings students attached to their educational experience. Participants were purposefully selected students who accessed higher education through recognition of prior learning. Data was collected using semi-structured in-depth interviews and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). The findings that emerged from this inquiry show students who advanced their education through RPL experienced various academic and personal challenges triggering divergent emotions from instances of anxiety and self-doubt to self-realisation. The study highlighted a lack of awareness and understanding among students of the RPL process and emphasised the need to better educate and inform students about the uses of RPL. Further research into the feasibility of early intervention, introducing the concept of RPL into the curriculum at second level is suggested
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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