Fostering Narrative Post-writing through Authentic Designed Learning Objects

Narrative medicine and narrative writing.

Towards a Semantic Learning Model Fostering Learning Objects Reusability

We try in this paper to propose a domain model for both author's and learner's needs concerning learning objects reuse. First of all, we present four key criteria for an efficient authoring tool: adaptive level of granularity, flexibility, integration and interoperability. Secondly, we introduce and describe our six-level Semantic Learning Model (SLM) designed to facilitate multi-level reuse of...

Authentic teaching and learning through synthetic biology

Synthetic biology is an emerging engineering discipline that, if successful, will allow well-characterized biological components to be predictably and reliably built into robust organisms that achieve specific functions. Fledgling efforts to design and implement a synthetic biology curriculum for undergraduate students have shown that the co-development of this emerging discipline and its futur...

Village Voice: Expressing narrative through community-designed ontologies

The Village Voice project is a study of the efficacy of a localized ontology in the dissemination of narrative. It seeks to understand how community members can articulate their lives in ways that allow each other to reflect on the makeup of their overall community, and how they represent their community's needs to those outside of the group. I utilize a knowledge model, or ontology, created by...

Fostering online learning communities through instructor networking

A common model for offshore teaching involves intensive delivery by Australian academic with local staff supporting the subject. Technology has become a commonplace means of delivering subject material, including material supporting subjects being taught in an intensive manner offshore. This paper reports preliminary results of a trial conducted delivering University of Wollongong course conten...