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| A context-aware knowledge map to support ubiquitous learning activities for a u-Botanical museum.
| Wang, Shu-Liu
Chen, Chia-Chen
Zhang, Zhe George | 2015 |
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Title: A context-aware knowledge map to support ubiquitous learning activities for a u-Botanical museum.
Author(s): Wang, Shu-Liu | Chen, Chia-Chen | Zhang, Zhe George |
Journal Details: Australasian Journal of Educational Technology v.31 n.4 p.470-485
Published: 2015
ISSN: 1449-3098
Abstract: Recent developments in mobile and wireless communication technologies have played a vital role in building the u-learning environment that now combines both real-world and digital learning resources. However, learners still require assistance to control real objects and manage the abundance of available materials; otherwise, their mental workload could become so high that learning becomes less effective. The learner is the priority in every learning situation and is, therefore, a crucial factor in executing u-learning. This study presents a u-learning system that integrates context awareness and ontological technology to design a context-aware knowledge map (CAKM) to improve learning efficiency. A case study of an Orchid Island botanical ecosystem course was conducted in classrooms and at the Botanical Garden of National Museum of Natural Science in Taiwan. Participants were university teachers and students. A questionnaire based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) theory was designed and used to measure the willingness for adoption or usage of the proposed system. The results demonstrate that this innovative approach can enhance learning intention. The results also indicate that this CAKM not only substantially improves the effectiveness of subject learning but also enhances the usability of u-learning systems in the museum environment. [Author abstract]
URL (open access) : http://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/article/view/1205/1302
URL (conditional access) : https://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=208868
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| Collaborative development of an online pharmacy experiential learning database.
| Owen, Susanne
Ryan, Greg
Woulfe, Jim
McKauge, Leigh
Stupans, Ieva | 2011 |
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Title: Collaborative development of an online pharmacy experiential learning database.
Author(s): Owen, Susanne | Ryan, Greg | Woulfe, Jim | McKauge, Leigh | Stupans, Ieva |
Journal Details: Australasian Journal of Educational Technology v.27 n.7 p.1069-1081
Published: 2011
ISSN: 1449-3098
Abstract: Academics preparing students for experiential placements within professional programs require considerable curriculum planning and pedagogical expertise. Communities of practice involving workshops and online processes provide opportunities for collaborative work in developing quality curriculum materials and also in supporting widespread dissemination. The aim of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council funded project was to collaboratively establish an online repository of tasks and other associated resources. These tasks were intended for potential inclusion in the suite of activities that could be required to be completed in a pharmacy experiential clinical placement. An educational template and website were initially created, with over 90 academics and other industry partners subsequently attending a series of workshops to share ideas and develop the online materials. Online surveys regarding the tasks, written feedback concerning workshop processes and interviews were conducted as part of the ongoing evaluation processes to ascertain the effectiveness of the tasks and processes and to inform future directions. Workshops and follow up processes resulted in publication of twenty eight tasks, positive responses to the materials and to the collaborative processes. [Author abstract]
URL (open access) : http://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/article/view/904/181
URL (conditional access) : https://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=189697
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| A case study of an Assessment Task Bank.
| Moore, S.
Hargreaves, M. | 2009 |
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Title: A case study of an Assessment Task Bank.
Author(s): Moore, S. | Hargreaves, M. |
Journal Details: Prospect v.24 n.1 p.3-16
Published: 2009
ISSN: 0814-7094
Abstract: An Assessment Task Bank (ATB) is an attractive option for a language-teaching institution with a criterion-referenced curriculum. In theory, with appropriate professional guidance, teachers could create and moderate tasks, which could then be stocked in the bank to be available for subsequent use by a wider pool of teachers in their classroom assessments. In practice, the process is not a simple one, especially if one of the goals is to have multiple tasks of good quality and approximately the same level of difficulty for each competency being measured. This paper outlines the processes involved in stocking an ATB with appropriate assessment tasks. It reports on the online ATB of the Australian Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP), highlights the major challenges that the task bank faces, presents some of the solutions that have been adopted, and addresses the complex issue of why the process for completing new tasks is inherently slow. [Author abstract]
URL (open access) : http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/docs/prospect_journal/volume_24_no_1/HargeavesandMoore.pdf
URL (conditional access) : https://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=175180
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| User-centred design vs. 'good' database design principles : a case study, creating knowledge repositories for Indigenous Australians.
| Godbold, N. | 2009 |
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Title: User-centred design vs. 'good' database design principles : a case study, creating knowledge repositories for Indigenous Australians.
Author(s): Godbold, N. |
Journal Details: Australian Academic and Research Libraries v.40 n.2 p.116-131
Published: June 2009
ISSN: 0004-8623
Abstract: In 2006-07, the author was involved in redesigning a database storing traditional knowledge of Australian Aboriginal clans. The project raised issues relating to the design of repositories for indigenous knowledge, including theoretical approaches taken to ontology (knowledge structures, classification systems) and metadata creation. This article describes the design process undertaken, in which user-centred design principles accommodated an emergent contrast between traditional knowledge customs and 'good' database design principles. Theoretical approaches taken to ontology are presented, and the format of the restructured database is discussed in general terms. Assembling evidence from usability testing and qualitative research, the article concludes that a flexible ontological system was needed to provide the customisability required by indigenous users - a system whose iterations and applications may usefully represent widely differing aboriginal cultures. [Author abstract]
URL (open access) : https://web.archive.org/web/20130418042721/http://alia.org.au/publishing/aarl/40/ARRL.Vol40.No2.2009.pdf
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048623.2009.10721390
URL (conditional access) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048623.2009.10721390
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| Aboriginal knowledge traditions in digital environments.
| Christie, M. | 2005 |
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Title: Aboriginal knowledge traditions in digital environments.
Author(s): Christie, M. |
Journal Details: Australian Journal of Indigenous Education v.34 p.61-66
Published: 2005
ISSN: 1326-0111
Abstract: According to Manovich, the database and the narrative are natural enemies, each competing for the same territory of human culture. Aboriginal knowledge traditions depend upon narrative through storytelling and other shared performances. The database objectifies and commodifies distillations of such performances and absorbs them into data structures according to a priori assumptions of metadata; that is the data which describes the data to aid a search. In a conventional library for example, the metadata which helps you find a book may be title, author or topic. It is misleading and dangerous to say that these databases contain knowledge, because we lose sight of the embedded, situated, collaborative and performative nature of knowledge. For the assemblages of digital artefacts we find in an archive or database to be useful in the intergenerational transmission of living knowledge traditions, we need to rethink knowledge as performance and data as artefacts of prior knowledge production episodes. Through the metaphors of environment and journey we can explore ways to refigure the archive as a digital environment available as a resource to support the work of active, creative and collaborative knowledge production. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : https://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=152796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1326011100003975
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| Dangerous goods & hazardous substances compliance : an innovative approach.
| Williams, R. | 2005 |
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Title: Dangerous goods & hazardous substances compliance : an innovative approach.
Author(s): Williams, R. |
Journal Details: Lab Talk v.49 n.4 p.14-15
Published: 2005
ISSN: 1059-2033
Abstract: Of late, there has been a significant push to increase the level of compliance with occupational health and safety acts and regulations in the Victorian education sector. Trafalgar High School (THS) was recently subjected to inspections by WorkCover, aiming to assist the school in complying with the relevant acts and regulations. One of the focuses of these WorkCover inspections was the use and storage of dangerous goods (DGs) and hazardous substances (HSs). There are a number of different aspects involved in complying with the regulations associated with DG and HS chemicals, the main ones being: physical storage and containers (labelling); chemical register; risk assessments; training; MSDSs. Time constraints and a lack of resources meant that THS, as with many other schools, have had difficulties ensuring that they comply with the HS and DG regulations. As a result, an innovative pair of computer programs were constructed and implemented by the school's staff OHS representative, Rodney Williams. The first program is the Chemical Register; it is a database constructed in Filemaker pro, which contains details about every chemical in the school. The second program is the Experiment Risk Assessment Program (ERAP). Risk assessments for experiments are constructed in ERAP. This program was constructed to reduce the time required to enter information about numerous chemicals into a risk assessment. Both the Chemical Register and Experiment Risk Assessment Program have been presented to the regional Laboratory Technician conference and entered into the WorkCover OHS Awards 2005. The programs were also presented at STAVCON and LABCON 2005 with both becoming available to other schools from late term 4, 2005. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : https://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=153948
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| The development of a course profile database.
| Rowlands, L.
Nichols, S.
Maton, W. | 2003 |
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Title: The development of a course profile database.
Author(s): Rowlands, L. | Nichols, S. | Maton, W. |
Journal Details: Journal of Institutional Research v.12 n.1 p.60-73
Published: May 2003
ISSN: 1443-2110
Abstract: In recent times there has been an increasing demand for detailed information on Deakin University's courses and units. This demand has stemmed from an increased need to review the University's activities to ensure that they meet and exceed the requirements of students, staff, graduates, employers and the general community whilst complying with the its long-term strategic goals. Traditionally the preparation of indicators and data was performed by staff within the Planning Unit. As the volume of requests increased it was decided that a single database would be developed to contain the most common indicators for all possible course and campus combinations. The paper discusses the process in which the database was developed and examines issues faced in the development of the database and how they were overcome. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (open access) : http://www.aair.org.au/app/webroot/media/pdf/JIR/Journal%20of%20Institutional%20Research%20in%20Australasia%20and%20JIR/Volume%2012,%20No.%201%20May%202003/Rowlands.pdf
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| Data modelling for information processes and technology.
| Tolhurst, D.
Handzic, M. | 2001 |
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Title: Data modelling for information processes and technology.
Author(s): Tolhurst, D. | Handzic, M. |
Journal Details: Quick n.79 p.9-17
Published: March 2001
ISSN: 0811-5222
Abstract: This article considers the data modelling part of the database system design process, and the context of databases within the NSW HSC Information Processing and Technology (IPT) Syllabus.
URL (conditional access) : https://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=110542
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| Information architecture : building to have clients or having clients to build?
| McCauley, K. | 2001 |
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Title: Information architecture : building to have clients or having clients to build?
Author(s): McCauley, K. |
Journal Details: LASIE v.32 n.1 p.7-18
Published: April 2001
ISSN: 0047-3774
Abstract: A challenge we face in working with information technologies is how to make the internet familiar to clients and users who are comfortable with static models of information transfer. In their handbook Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville establish connections between those who create and utilise physical space and those who specialise in the arrangement of information in 'cyberspace'. In this paper, the author addresses some of the specifics of what Rosenfeld and Morville call 'information architecture' and raises concerns about the way in which their proposed architectural model for online information exchange appears to compartmentalise ' conceptualisation' (or 'creativity') and 'production' in the design of structures and the delivery of information. The author proposes a change in the context of information architecture and a movement in nomenclature from the notion of terrain and objects to the notion of fluidity and flow in order to utilise a wider breadth and range of communication strategies available to us and our clients in the exchange of online information. [Author abstract]
URL (archived) : http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/77226/20071011-0000/www.sl.nsw.gov.au/lasie/apr01/apr01.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20030501110710/http://sl.nsw.gov.au/lasie/apr01/apr01.pdf
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| What makes a good place to live? A database problem for Year 3.
| Seaton, A. | 1997 |
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Title: What makes a good place to live? A database problem for Year 3.
Author(s): Seaton, A. |
Journal Details: Quick n.65 p.19-21
Published: Sept 1997
ISSN: 0811-5222
Abstract: This article describes an example of how computer databases and spreadsheets can be used to assist lower primary students to solve simple problems.
URL (archived) : http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.andrewseaton.com.au/database.htm
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| Format-free databases and the construction of knowledge in primary school science projects.
| Nason, R.
Lloyd, P.
Ginns, I. | 1996 |
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Title: Format-free databases and the construction of knowledge in primary school science projects.
Author(s): Nason, R. | Lloyd, P. | Ginns, I. |
Journal Details: Research in Science Education v.26 n.3 p.353-373
Published: 1996
ISSN: 0157-244X
Abstract: A review of science project work reveals that little knowledge construction occurs during science projects. This article reports on a study in which a teachers used the collaborative development of a format free computer database to facilitate the construction of knowledge by a group of three year 6 students doing a science project.
URL (conditional access) : https://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=75093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02356945
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