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Learning about e-learning: some insights into a postgraduate learning community
No full textNow that the educational significance of learning communities is increasingly well recognised and means are available to make interactions possible electronically, on large scales, there are growing opportunities to research, understand and enhance the functioning of such communities. However, whilst incorporation of communities is often theoretically justified, learning outcomes are seldom examined to see if such principles are actually borne out. Here, the author reports briefly on a special case of the use of communities within an e-Learning environment, considering their worth not only as a matter of academic interest but also for student participants themselves in their distinctive circumstances. The author concludes by discussing briefly some strategic and conceptual implications of this work for e-Learning communities
What might client feedback on diverse designs, generated from a studio-based project brief, tell a learner about designing?
No full textA first year undergraduate architectural design subject used a studio-based project - designing an innovative and spectacular weekender - as a means by which to introduce students to 'the conceptual and imaginative process in architectural designing.' The client presented her brief, giving insights into her lifestyle, intentions, hopes, requirements and anticipated uses for the building. Then, at intervals during the semester, a subject tutor, the client herself, and a critic provided students with three different sets of feedback on their developing designs. We begin this paper by detailing the client's brief for her building. Then, from the perspectives of a learner-as-researcher (first author, TG), we describe and analyse the form and substance of client feedback on the two conceptual designs each student in the studio generated, reporting how this student (TG) used this diverse feedback to guide the development of her specific design ideas and to seek insights into designing more generally. Finally, we pit this data, in a preliminary way, against the teaching academic's/tutor's provocation to consider design as a problem-solving activity and a brief as leading designers towards a solution. We conclude speculatively, suggesting how this analysis might spur a more detailed research investigation of the educative significance of this studio-based project, within its class community, thereby helping to grow an understanding of designing
Teacher education in the generative virtual classroom: developing learning theories through a web-delivered, technology-and-science education context
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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
Emergent collectivity: teachers as independent e-designers of professional development in K-6 science and technology
No full textVariations 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
Families' engagement with young children's science and technology learning at home
No full textThere is accumulating evidence of the worth of involving families in young children s learning in informal contexts. By exploring families engagement with their children s science and technology learning at home over a 6-month period, the present investigation sought to illuminate both the nature and the educational significance of what families do. Initially, in order to seed scientific and technological inquiry in homes, kindergarten and year-one children investigated flashlights with family members at school. Each day, equipment was available to take home. Using established anthropological methods, one of the researchers investigated children s further inquiries beyond the classroom in diverse ways; for example, by visiting homes and conversing via telephone and facsimile. The findings showed that families engaged with children s inquiries at home in many ways by providing resources, conversing, and investigating collaboratively with children. Moreover, when families pursued inquiries together and when children conducted their own sustained intellectual searches, children s ideas deepened. Such evidence of the educational significance of what families do suggests that early science and technology education might be made more effective if it were aligned with the ways people learn together outside formal institutions
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
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