86,731 research outputs found
Learning to learn with virtual microscopes
No full textRecent research (Jonas-Dwyer & Sudweeks, 2007) indicated that when virtual microscopes were introduced to third year health science students as part of their histology and pathology laboratory work, no detrimental effects were found. To investigate the use of virtual microscopes further, an extended study was undertaken with both second and third year health sciences students. In this paper, we report the results of students’ learning approaches and compare the outcomes to identify and evaluate changes in students’ learning approaches when using virtual microscopes rather than optical microscopes
Falling through the (cultural) gaps?
No full textIn this paper we report findings of a study of online participation by culturally diverse participants in a distance adult education course offered in Canada, and examine two of the study’s early findings. First, we explore both the historical and cultural origins of “cyberculture values” as manifested in our findings, using the notions of explicit and implicit enforcement of those values. Second, we examine the notion of “cultural gaps” between participants in the course and the potential consequences for online communication successes and difficulties. We also discuss theoretical perspectives from Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Genre and Literacy Theory and Aboriginal Education that may shed further light on “cultural gaps” in online communications. Finally, we identify the need for additional research, primarily in the form of larger scale comparisons across cultural groups of patterns of participation and interaction, but also in the form of case studies that can be submitted to microanalyses of the form as well as the content of communicator’s participation and interaction online
Grenzen der Sprache und indirekte Mitteilung. Wittgenstein und Kierkegaard über den philosophischen Umgang mit existentiellen (ethischen und religiösen) Fragen.
No full textWittgensteins Verhältnis zu Kierkegaard, das über seine Beziehungen zu dem Kreis um die Zeitschrift "Der Brenner" (Hg.: v. Ficker mit Theodor Haecker, einem frühen Kierkegaard-Interpreten und -Übersetzer, Ferdinand Ebner, Karl Kraus u.a.) vermittelt worden ist, kann zwar nicht als eine Kierkegaard - R e z e p t i o n im strengen Sinne angesehen werden. Es ist eher so, daß Wittgenstein von seinem eigenen Denken und dessen Grenzproblemen her Parallelen und Entsprechungen im Werk Kierkegaards entdeckt, die eine Beziehung stiften. Aber die Bezugspunkte selbst betreffen durchaus das Sinn-Zentrum von Wittgensteins (und auch Kierkegaards) Denken
Promoting cooperation and collaboration in a Web-based learning environment
No full textWeb-based learning environments provide an attractive method for information dissemination, but in many instances they can be just electronic equivalents of printed course materials. Appropriate learning objectives and pedgagogical strategies are minimal or non-existent. Too often web-based learning environments lack cooperative and collaborative activities with the unintended consequence of feelings of social isolation. This paper describes a case study in which critical elements of online learning settings (Oliver, 2001) were implemented along with essential attributes for effective teamwork. Analyses of student que stionnaires indicate that students gained significant benefits from the instructional design of both the learning environment and the collaborative activity – without meeting face-to-face
Präsentationaler Gehalt
No full textIn diesem Aufsatz argumentiere ich dafür, daß Qualia im Sinne einer analytisch strikten Definition nämlich als einfachste Form phänomenalen Gehalts im Sinne phänomenaler Eigenschaften erster Ordnung - nicht existieren. Relativ einfache empirische Überlegungen zeigen nämlich bereits, daß wir keine introspektiven Identitätskriterien für viele Formen von sensorischen Bewußtseinsinhalten besitzen: Wir können sie nicht wiedererkennen und deshalb auch weder kognitiv noch sprachlich erfassen. Wenn diese empirische Prämisse richtig ist, dann liefert die subjektive Erfahrung selbst uns in solchen Fällen also keine transtemporalen Identitätskriterien für die einfachsten Formen phänomenalen Gehalts. Auf dem Weg zu einer auch empirisch verankerten Theorie des phänomenalen Bewußtseins ist ein begrifflich klares Verständnis dieser einfachsten Formen phänomenalen Gehalts jedoch absolut unabdingbar
Editorial preface
No full textThe papers collected in this special issue on Communication, Culture and Praxis are drawn largely from presentations made at the International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC’02), co-chaired by Charles Ess and Fay Sudweeks. The conference, held in Montréal , Canada , 12-15 July 2002, was the third international conference in the CATaC biennial series. This conference series aims to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of both theory and praxis on how diverse cultural attitudes shape our appropriation and use of information and communication technologies. Presenters and participants attending the CATaC’02 represented 20 countrie
Introduction
No full textThis book follows previous texts: Celia Romm and Fay Sudweeks (eds) (1998), Doing Business Electronically: A Global Perspective of Electronic Commerce, and Fay Sudweeks and Celia Romm (eds) (1999) Doing Business on the Internet: Opportunities and Pitfalls. Not only is this current book about doing something, but it also aims to present insights into how electronic commerce impacts upon the lives of everyday people; in other words, how electronic commerce is received, as well as how it is ‘done’. Accessing the Internet on a regular basis has become an established activity for many people. This activity gives academics and researchers the opportunity to observe and study the nature and effects of this engagement in society. The influence of the Internet in our social fabric also provides the incentive for organizations to implement a web presence
Quantifying beauty: an information system for evaluating universal aesthetics
No full textIn this paper we propose that a metaphor can be used to represent domains that are not easily quantifiable and thus can be used to communicate information about those domains between the human and the computer at a cognitive and visual level. We propose a model which uses the metaphor of a human face as an interface for the perception and evaluation of universal aesthetic
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