This paper describes work-in-progress in the area of educational design patterns. More specifically, the paper highlights a relatively neglected area in educational design for technology-supported learning – the various ways in which students can be grouped together to work collaboratively on study activities. Thus, it looks at the ‘people’ component of the ‘task, tools and people’ design model...

We contrasted parents who had a child with a developmental disability, a serious mental health problem, and a normative comparison group with respect to parental attainment and well-being at mid-life. Data are from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, collected when the respondents were 18, 36, and 53 or 54, on average. Although similar at age 18, group patterns of attainment and well-being diverg...

In this paper, I present the evaluation of a novel knowledge domain visualization of educational technology. The interactive visualization is based on readership patterns in the online reference management system Mendeley. It comprises of 13 topic areas, spanning psychological, pedagogical, and methodological foundations, learning methods and technologies, and social and technological developme...

Analysis of web visitors access patterns can lead to benefits in a wide range of areas such as decision support and website restructuring. Data mining techniques can be used to find access patterns hidden inside huge volumes of web access data. The goal of this thesis is to determine whether there are any such patterns in the web access data for the computer science website of RMIT university. ...

Educational ergonomics is defined as that field of human factors/ergonomic science concerned with the interaction of educational performance and educational design. The premise of educational ergonomics is that student performance to a substantial degree is context specific---specialized in relation to specific design factors---and that ergonomic interventions directed at design improvements th...

This study was done as a part of a larger research project where the interest was on exploring if and how gameplay design could give informative principles to the design of educational activities. The researchers conducted a series of studies trying to map game mechanics that had the special quality of being inclusive, i.e., playable by a diverse group of players. This specific study focused on...

the article presents new educational course dedicated to Agile Software Development. The course consists of theoretical and practical parts. Theoretical part gives an overview of classical agile methodologies, widely accepted by industry practices and some important programming principles and patterns. The second part of the course includes several labs, aimed for practical usage of agile devel...

In his paper the author deals with disparities in living and economic conditions between the main South Asian ethnic minorities in Great Britain based on the 1991 Census of Britain which, for the first time, posed a question on ethnicity. He discusses these differences taking into consideration age/sex structure, socio-economic profiles, educational levels, family patterns, housing conditions a...

INTRODUCTION In institutional assessments of faculty, scholarly activity is often cited as a deficiency. Faculty lack the training and resources needed to produce peer-reviewed, quality scholarship. Although a variety of formats have been suggested and used to fill this void, fellowships are a commonly used format to foster educational leaders within institutions. In 2010, the Educational Innov...