Influencing Government
MP for Broxtowe, Dr Nick Palmer, explains how you can get a start in the career and once there how to influence policies and Prime Ministers.
Dr Palmer was speaking at the second seminar in a series hosted by the Centre for British Politics.
This podcast gives a behind the scenes look at life as a backbencher in Parliament.
E-learning for enhancing management skills
The paper discusses design and development issues of an online program for enhancing management skills of Early Years Childcare practitioners. The program is developed in the frames of the EEEYMS* project by partners from UK, Bulgaria, Finland, and the Netherlands. The purpose is to design an ICT-based flexible learning solution for problem-based learning. The content is organized in nine modules. The learning materials are available online, through the Learnwise Learning Management System, and
Educational Knowledge Based Environment
In this paper a knowledge based environment is represented which facilitates easy creation and preparation of wide range of educational software. The heart of the environment is the knowledge representation tool providing a hybrid knowledge representation formalism combining frames, production rules and logic. The environment is built on the basis of the logic programming language Prolog.
User Interfaces for a Virtual Learning Environment: Two Study Cases
A recent powerful idea in the design of Web-based learning environments is the usage of virtual places. The employment of interface metaphors is one of the approaches enabling inexperienced users to feel comfortable in such virtual environments. We have designed a Virtual Environment for Distance Education and Training (VEDET), which provides basic virtual spaces, resources, and services. In this paper we discuss the user interface of two Web-based distance learning courses Business on the Inter
Normative Positions in Architectural Design - Deriving and Applying Design Methods
This paper presents a recently finished course of eight weeks where CAAD skills, design methodology, and architectural theory are combined to discuss possible perspectives on the use of the computer in design, and its influence on architecture. In the course, three contemporary architects were studied; Peter Eisenman, Ben van Berkel, and Greg Lynn. Each was discussed on aspects of ontology (which are the elements of discourse), design method (design process and organization of the process), and
An Underground River
Groundwater is one of the largest sources of drinking water, so environmental engineers need to understand groundwater flow in order to tap into this important resource. Environmental engineers also study groundwater to predict where pollution from the surface may end up. In this lesson, students will learn how water flows through the ground, what an aquifer is and what soil properties are used to predict groundwater flow.
Role of Assistance in Computer-mediated Communication in Higher Education
This paper reports preliminary findings of a small scale study that address the role of
assistance in computer-mediated communication (CMC) in Higher Education. In
particular, this study investigates whether the type of assistance in such environments
is affected by the type of task used to initiate the CMC, and to see whether the
instructors and students offer more or less assistance according to task type. We
examine courses which use CMC in the adjunct mode i.e. students used CMC as an
option
May the Force Be With You: Thrust
In this lesson, students will study how propellers and jet turbines generate thrust. This lesson focuses on Isaac Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion, which states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Internal and external cooperation scripts in web-based collaborative inquiry learning
Cooperation scripts are a powerful means to improve collaborative learning. Scripts can be
designed to support argumentative knowledge construction. However, not only externally induced
cooperation scripts but also the learnersÂ’ internal scripts on argumentative knowledge construction
influence argumentative processes and what kind of knowledge is acquired during collaboration. In this
study, 98 students (49 dyads) of two German secondary schools participated. We implemented two
versions (high
How people in virtual groups and communities (fail to) interact.
In 4 different research projects taking place in our department, students, teachers, researchers,
policymakers and policemen are communicating and interacting through shared electronic work
spaces between face to face meetings. The students interact about their studies in pedagogy. The
teachers, researchers and policymakers interact about ICT in higher education. The researchers
are from different universities all over Europe and interact between meetings about their
collaborative research proje
Implementing Learning Design to support web-based learning.
In this paper we consider an initial implementation of a system for managing and using
IMS Learning Design (LD) to represent online learning activities. LD has been suggested
(Koper & Olivier, 2004) as a flexible way to represent and encode learning materials,
especially suited to online and web-based learning while neutral to the pedagogy that is
being applied. As such it offers a chance to address a gap in the preparation of learning
materials and their eventual use by students by providing a
Never enough time - Electronic literary exercises in an Italian lower secondary school.
Not available,Unpublished ethnographic material, Université de Liège - Laboratoire d'Anthropologie de la Communication
Re-engineering of collaborative e-learning systems: evaluation of system, collaboration and acquired
This paper relates an experimentation of a collaborative e-learning system.
In this kind of system, tracks arising from communication tools allow to build useful
indicators for all system actors. We show how tracks are analyzed and how this
analysis is useful for reengineering purposes.
Environnements interactifs d'apprentissage et démonstration en géométrie
Not available,Habilitation à diriger des recherches de l'université de Rennes I, juillet 2001.
Is it all in the game? Learner support in an educational knowledge management simulation game
Not available,Doctoral thesis, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Un questionnaire dynamique pour le suivi et l'analyse de l'activité et des productions d'élèves e
L'argumentation des réponses fournies par l'apprenant est-elle riche de sens pour aider à 'établissement d'un diagnostic sur ses connaissances ? L'activité de simulation faite par les élèves peut-elle être un élément déstabilisateur de conceptions ? Une remédiation peut-elle s'opérer par le biais d'un scénario pédagogique? Autant de questions auxquelles nous tenterons de répondre dans cet article.
Skills for Learning - Grammar Diagnostic tool
Interactive 30 question quiz with feedback for each answer. Grammar diagnostic tool (based around entry level research processes). Download this zipped file and open the file named 'academic_comm_skin.swf' - the quiz will then run from the start.
A Non-Libertarian Approach to Drug Legalization Hosted by Young Americans for Liberty at Auburn University and the Mises Institute. Recorded 20 April 2019 at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
JISC Information Environment Portal Activity. Supporting the Needs of e-Research: Web-based Library
This is a study of web-based library and information services from the final report of the JISC Information Environment Portal Activity: supporting the needs of e-Research. The aims and objectives of this study were: To scope the requirements of e-Research within the area of resource discovery with...
Circus in America: 1793-1940
This archive traces the history of the American circus since 1793, when British equestrian John Rickets presented the first circus in America. Learn about the acts, animals, people, music, and marketing of circuses -- and the impact of the circus on popular culture in America. Get an in depth look at six major circuses, including P.T. Barnum and the Ringling Brothers. A timeline and video clips are provided. The site contains artifacts from private collections, museums, archives, brought togethe
