678 research outputs found
Mapping the e-Learning Assessment Domain: Concept Maps for Orientation and Navigation
No full textConcept or Topic Maps have long been used as a method of categorizing and organizing information about a domain. Building them can help people conceptualize an area and spot trends or gaps, and as a presentation method they quickly provide an overview and general impression of a space. We are currently constructing a Reference Model of the Assessment Domain that takes the form of a highly interlinked dynamic website. This represents the assessment domain via the software, projects, standards and use cases of which it is composed. In this paper we present our efforts to create complimentary concept maps of the assessment domain, not as an overview, but for navigation and orientation within the domain. These concept maps, which model resources and activities independently, have been corroborated with practitioners in the e-learning community
Rethinking Assessment Through Learning Technologies
No full textThis paper describes a range of computer assisted assessment (CAA) research and development activities and discusses how CAA is enabling a rethinking of broader learning, teaching and assessment strategies. It includes four mini case studies which illustrate the diverse range of activities in this area. The first mini case study describes a review of the work of the CAA centre in the UK and a description of its impact across the sector, the second outlines the development of a test bank of CAA questions across a subject domain, discussing some of the key issues encountered by the project, particularly in terms of quality assurance aspects. The third describes a strategic institutional implementation of CAA and the way in which this has been achieved and finally the fourth mini case study looks to future developments in terms of CAA research and is an outline of a project which is developing a suite of freely available software to create, store, exchange and deliver assessment content. These mini case studies illustrate the ways in which CAA has developed and matured - moving from being a peripheral to a central part of the learning and teaching process. The paper describes some of the successes and failures of developing and implementing CAA systems. Evaluation of these activities has revealed insights about the potential of CAA, as well as identifying a number of issues concerning the future development of CAA and role of funded projects. The conference presentation will complement this and provide further in depth analysis of the results
Ceum air Cheum: Cruinneachadh de dhàintean nas fhaide = Step by Step: A Book of Longer Poems
No full textThis is Christopher Whyte's sixth collection. Ceum air Cheum features 12 longer poems. Its European range, modernity of tone and challenging subject matter mark this book out as a major event in Gaelic poetry. Facing translations into English are by Niall O’Gallagher and the author
Alexandria: A City and Myth
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Alexandria was one of the most important cities of the ancient world, with achievements in the arts, sciences and religion. For the first time the author seeks to understand the wider picture, the longer period of evolution as a city, as both an urban concept and a literary and historical ideal. He does this by bringing together the disciplines of archaeology (including his own recent fieldwork), anthropology, history, geography, oral history, art and literature. As a result Alexandria is seen as a unique example of African urbanism, an Egyptian city facing the wider Mediterranean world, which became an archetype for social, religious and cultural cosmopolitanism. A work for undergraduates and postgraduates in the disciplines of classical and Egyptian archaeology, historical geography, art history, oriental studies and general history
Aggregating Assessment Tools in a Service Oriented Architecture
No full textUntil recently assessment and other eLearning systems have tended to adopt monolithic architectures, this has restricted integration with other tools. The ELearning Framework (ELF) sets out to address this problem by creating an eLearning environment within which components with discrete purposes communicate via webservices. In order to help co-ordinate the design of the ELF, JISC has recently sponsored a number of Framework Reference Model Projects, and FREMA is the Framework Reference Model for Assessment. In this paper we examine how FREMA is facilitating a common understanding of the components of assessment and their interfaces, and we explain how this information is being elicited from the community by reference to tools which are already contributing to the model. We also present the adaptive website by which the emerging model is being disseminated to a range of stakeholders
Deleuze and the author
No full textThis thesis argues that Gilles Deleuze, as philosopher, reader, and critic, recognised the
central importance of a defined authorial subjectivity, closely associated with a
philosophical or intellectual project, and that his analyses of philosophy, literature, visual art
and cinema were shaped and determined by his recognition of that authority. In this
respect, my reading challenges those critics who find in the work of Deleuze an assault on
‘author-centric’ interpretations of texts, and more generally on the concept of a unified self,
and which uphold experimentation on the part of the reader or critic rather than
interpretation. I argue that Deleuze has a coherent and meaningful conception of an author
as a consciousness which persists through time, learns, plans and makes projects,
differentiates itself from the work of other authors, is inspired and creative, takes positions
in relation to the inheritance of artistic and philosophical traditions, and which is capable of
entering into collaboration with others.
Through close reading of Deleuze’s texts, I demonstrate that he consistently relies on the
authorial function to impose unity and coherence on the distinctive - and often remarkable
- body of work of an individual theorist or practitioner. I argue that the historical, political
and social situation of an author is of great importance to the analysis of a text. Finally,
unlike Roland Barthes or other critics invested in the ‘death’ or displacement of the author, I
argue that Deleuze considers the competing interpretations of a text advanced by the
reader or spectator to be of little or no importance
Political violence in context : time, space and milieu
No full textContext is crucial to understanding the causes of political violence and the form it takes. This book examines how time, space and supportive milieux decisively shape the pattern and pace of such violence. While much of the work in this field focuses on individual psychology or radical ideology, Bosi, Ó Dochartaigh, Pisoiu and others take a fresh, innovative look at the importance of context in generating mobilisation and shaping patterns of violence. The cases dealt with range widely across space and time, from Asia, Africa and Europe to the Americas, and from the Irish rebellion of 1916 through the Marxist insurgency of Sendero Luminoso to the ‘Invisible Commando’ of Côte d’Ivoire. They encompass a wide range of types of violence, from separatist guerrillas through Marxist insurgents and Islamist militants to nationalist insurrectionists and the distinctive forms of urban violence that have emerged at the boundary between crime and politics. Chapters offer new theoretical perspectives on the decisive importance of the spatial and temporal contexts, and supportive milieux, in which parties to conflict are embedded, and from which they draw strength.-- List of Figures and Tables
-- Contributors
-- Acknowledgements
-- Chapter One – Contextualising Political Violence / Lorenzo Bosi, Niall Ó Dochartaigh and Daniela Pisoiu
-- PART ONE: TIME
-- Chapter Two – Political Violence in Time / Lorenzo Bosi
-- Chapter Three – What’s so Transformative about Transformative Events? : Violence and Temporality in Ireland’s 1916 Rising / Donagh Davis
-- Chapter Four – Multiple Temporalities in Violent Conflicts: Northern Ireland, the Basque Country and Macedonia / Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd
-- Chapter Five – Temporal Factors in Prosecutions for Political Violence: The New Left in Japan and the United States / Patricia Steinhoff and Gilda Zwerman
-- Chapter Six – Remembering Violence: Four Cases of Contentious Memory in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements of the 1960s and 1970s 89 / Lorenzo Zamponi
-- PART TWO: SPACE
-- Chapter Seven – Spatial Contexts for Political Violence / Niall Ó Dochartaigh
-- Chapter Eight – Fighting the War on Two Fronts: Shining Path and the Peruvian Civil War, 1980–95 / Luis De la Calle
-- Chapter Nine – The Effects of Social and Spatial Control on the Dynamics of Contentious Politics in Xinjiang since the End of the 1990s 145 / Aurélie Campana
-- Chapter Ten – Invisible Commandos, Visible Violence: Protection and Control in the Autonomous Republic of PK18 / Jake Lomax
-- Chapter Eleven – Armed Urbanism: Political Violence and Contestation in Conflict and ‘Non-Conflict’ Cities / Jovana Carapic
-- PART THREE: MILIEU
-- Chapter Twelve – Political Violence in its Milieu / Daniela Pisoiu
-- Chapter Thirteen – The Emergence and Construction of the Radical Salafi Milieu in Egypt / Jérôme Drevon
-- Chapter Fourteen – The Radical Milieu and Mass Mobilisation in the Northern Ireland Conflict / Niall Ó Dochartaigh
-- Chapter Fifteen – From Legitimation to Rejection of Violence: The Shifting Stance of the Radical Milieu in Italy during the 1970s / Luca Falciola
-- Chapter Sixteen – Dynamics of Radicalisation in the Relationship between Militant Islamist Groups and their Constituencies: The Case of al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya in Egypt, 1986–1998 / Stefan Malthaner
-- Appendices – Data and Sources
-- Index
-- List of Figures and Tables
-- Figures
-- Figure 5.1: The origins of armed clandestine groups in the repression of New Left organisations
-- Figure 10.1: Map of Abidjan area showing location of PK18 relative to important locations
-- Figure 10.2: Satellite image of PK18 showing key conflict locations
-- Figure 10.3: Satellite image of Cité de Police
-- Tables
-- Table 8.1: Regional variation in SP’s territorial control (row percentages)
-- Table 8.2: Temporal variation in SP’s territorial control (row percentages)
-- Table 8.3: Control zones and share of tactics by presidency (all attacks included)
-- Table 8.4: Sendero tactics (only districts with at least one Sendero attack)
-- Table 8.5: Predicted proportions of violence by tactics (only districts with attacks are included
Posthumous Parleys: Chatting Up the Dead in the Ancient Novels
No full textFormal consultations with the dead in Heliodorus and in a tale narrated within Apuleius’s Golden Ass allow us to develop a typology for novelistic necromancy that includes a necromancer, a ritual involving both words and magical substances, a difficult reanimation, and a testable prophecy. Apuleius includes another, less obviously necromantic posthumous parley between Aristomenes and Socrates at the beginning of the Golden Ass that may have significant implications for the interpretation of the work’s ending and therefore for the novel as a whole. Niall W. Slater, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek at Emory University, is the author of Reading Petronius (Johns Hopkins 1990), Plautus in Performance (Princeton 1985, 2nd ed. Harwood 2000), and Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes (Penn 2002). Currently he is writing a Duckworth Companion to Euripides\u27 Alcestis
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