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Let’s make dissertations masterly again! A study on improving the experience and results of the post-graduate final project in the UAE
Full text linkThis paper aims to enhance the supervision-level of post-graduate dissertations in a Middle East Branch Campus of a Transnational Higher Education Institution (HEI). For a number of years, the proposal stage of the dissertation had been more or less ignored and final dissertation results had been adequate. Then in one academic year, a series of initiatives comprising; focused workshops, formative assessment, one to one guidance, best practice panels and proposal grading, were developed and implemented. This resulted in a sustained passing rate and a significant elevation of grade classifications awarded. The author suggests that the practices contained herein could benefit similar dissertation programs offered both in the Middle East region and worldwide
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
GET CONNECTED!: collaborative adventures in networked spaces of learning
Full text linkThe Ernst & Young University of the Future White Paper (2012) identified digital technologies as a major force of change in education futures. In Learning Spaces (2006, p.1.3), Oblinger argues the need for innovative explorations that bring together space, technology and education philosophies to ensure learner success.
James Cook University has its vision on learning futures, setting up digital classrooms modelled on spaces that promote collaborative learning at its Australian campuses in Cairns and Townsville in North Queensland, and its offshore campus in Singapore. The aim is to create learning spaces that are responsive to a digital and networked world, and that engage university students in meaningfully connected ways.
Connectivity of learning is not restricted to students. Networked spaces also open potential research adventures between academics from diverse disciplines. It is as if the very space of the networked classroom draws both students and academics into communities of learning.
This paper seeks to explore the notion of ‘relational’ space itself. It takes up theories from phenomenology, Eastern philosophy, quantum physics, matrixial space, new network science, actor-network theory and rhizomatics, in order to reflect on how these theories of space offer imaginings towards research adventures involving connective learning (Siemens 2006) in ‘networked’ classrooms. The site of this adventure is one model ‘networked’ classroom at the JCU Singapore campus which uses ProVEOS wireless learning technology
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
All Generalisations Are Dangerous, Including This One: Pigeon-Holing On-Line Purchases
Full text linkBuilding upon the review of contemporary literature, this paper reports on studies in the field of the of web-based shopper market segmentation. It finds that unique groups of consumers perceive the internet differently; and that the key to successful web-based marketing strategy is clear segmentation and division. Using the findings of an empirical study comprising a set of focus groups and an electronic survey, criteria for segmenting web-based shoppers by; gender, age, education, life stage, ethnic type and previous internet usage are offered and described. These criteria will be of interest to marketing academics and professionals alike
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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