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Understanding images: cognitive enrichment through effective use of images
No full textThis paper argues that there is a need for more research into understanding the nature of images and the ways in which images can be used to support learning and teaching. It also argues that a better understanding of images given the increased range and complexity of different information and communication tools and associated affordances and metaphors. In particular it explores the role of imagery to support communication and community building and development of understanding through cognate mapping. The paper considers different forms of visual representation and highlights some of the key image literature. It concludes by focuses on some concrete examples, in Medicine and Economics, to illustrate the potential of visual mapping as a cognitive tool to facilitate learning. <br/
A toolkit for supporting evaluation
Full text linkThis paper describes the development of a Web-based evaluation toolkit that supports practitioners in the effective and appropriate use and evaluation of learning materials. An outline of the basic toolkit architecture and design will be described, along with extracts of some of the formative feedback received on the use and value of the toolkit during a range of user trials which were carried out as part of the project development work. The paper will conclude with potential applications for such toolkits and recommendations for future developmen
Learning technology as a community of practice?
No full textThis paper attempts to define the current status of 'learning technology' as an emergent area of research. It focuses on the experience of a group of practitioners (the Sudeley group) through a series of seminars and meetings which have been held over the last 18 months and articulates the key characteristics of this group as a 'Community of Practice'. The paper will also reflect briefly on some of the paradoxical implications of the participation of this 'Community of Practice' within the wider 'community of academia'. Specifically, it will reflect on how the practice of 'academia' constrains the publishing options of this community
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A Review of the Technologies Application Programme - Perspectives on Teaching and Learning
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Tool Kits for a Dynamic Review Journal
No full textThe Virtual Orthopaedic European University provides an infrastructure for clinicians to manage the administrative, research and educational workload of a university within the digital domain. An aim of the project is to maximise the relationship between different pedagogical approaches, tools and resources in a novel learning environment, while providing support for decision-making using a toolkit approach. This paper focuses on a specific framework, the Dynamic Review Journal, which supports the development and dissemination of documents by assisting authors in collating and analysing experimental results, organising internal project discussions, and in producing papers. The system has been deployed in a local hospital and is presently being deployed to support a regional training service
Complexity and interconnection: steering e-learning developments from commodification towards co-modification
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