481 research outputs found
Changing the model of workplace e-learning : a platform to facilitate autonomous social e-learning for adult learners : Innovation report
No full textE-learning has a significant blind spot (Dalziel, 2003). The predominant existing model of delivering instructional 'Courseware' via a Learning Management System (LMS) is expensive to produce and often isolating; eschewing many seminal lessons concerning the importance of social context in a learning scenario (Dewey, 1938).
Following a review of literature, a new method of facilitating workplace Elearning was devised, focused on user-generated content and the notion of a more social E-learning experience. This new method has subsequently been dubbed the Curatr Learning Cycle (CLC). To encourage user participation, a technique known as gamification was harnessed; the use of digital game-like progress measures in a non-game context.
A software platform was devised to enable the new approach to be tested in the real world. Following positive testing results, the software platform received a wide commercial launch and became known as ‘Curatr’. Using the CLC as a template of the actions that need to be facilitated for an effective social E-learning experience, organisations can create workplace E-learning that is quick to deploy, low cost and highly effective. The CLC and Curatr represent a potentially disruptive innovation to the workplace E-learning marketplace, with the possibility to displace earlier technology and existing methods.
Since its launch, Curatr has been recognised nationally and
internationally as a disruptive innovation in workplace E-learning. The software has led to the commercial turnaround of its parent organisation and has been deployed to businesses globally. Research conducted as part of this project has led to the publication of journal articles, book chapters and conference papers
Green synthesis of highly concentrated aqueous colloidal solutions of large starch-stabilised silver nanoplatelets
No full textA simple, environmentally friendly and cost-effective method has been developed to prepare a range of aqueous silver colloidal solutions, using ascorbic acid as a reducing agent, water-soluble starch as a combined crystallising, stabilising and solubilising agent, and water as the solvent. The diameter of silver nanoplatelets increases with higher concentrations of AgNO3 and starch. The silver nanoparticles are also more uniform in shape the greater the diameter of the nanoparticles. Colloidal solutions with a very high concentration of large, flat, hexagonal silver nanoplatelets (~ 230 nm in breadth) have been used to deposit and fix an antibacterial coating of these large starch-stabilised silver nanoplates on commercial cotton fibres, using a simple dip-coating process using water as the solvent, in order to study the dependence of the antibacterial properties of these nanoplatelets on their size
A study of the physical conditions of the negro rural elementary schools of Alcorn and Prentiss counties Mississippi, 1951-1952, 1953
No full textIn vitro activity of curcumin in combination with epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) versus multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
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Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use,
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article, unless otherwise stated.No external funding was available to undertake this work
A study of the services and facilities offered to the alcoholics of Atlanta, Georgia, 1948
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Re-Examining the Role of Teacher Quality In the Educational Production Function
No full textThis study uses administrative data linking students and teachers at the classroom level to estimate teacher value-added to student test scores. We find that variation in teacher quality is an important contributor to student achievement more important than has been implied by previous work. This result is attributable, at least in part, to the lack of a ceiling effect in the testing instrument used to measure teacher quality. We also show that teacher qualifications are almost entirely unable to predict value-added. Motivated by this result, we consider whether it is feasible to incorporate value-added into evaluation or merit pay programs.teacher quality, educational production, teacher value-added, value-added, test-score ceiling effects, teacher evaluation, teacher accountability, elementary school
Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal
No full textJournal containing articles, notes, and other analyses of intellectual property law in the United States
Silencing disease genes in the laboratory and the clinic
No full textSynthetic nucleic acids are commonly used laboratory tools for modulating gene expression and have the potential to be widely used in the clinic. Progress towards nucleic acid drugs, however, has been slow and many challenges remain to be overcome before their full impact on patient care can be understood. Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are the two most widely used strategies for silencing gene expression. We first describe these two approaches and contrast their relative strengths and weaknesses for laboratory applications. We then review the choices faced during development of clinical candidates and the current state of clinical trials. Attitudes towards clinical development of nucleic acid silencing strategies have repeatedly swung from optimism to depression during the past 20 years. Our goal is to provide the information needed to design robust studies with oligonucleotides, making use of the strengths of each oligonucleotide technology
Intestines
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