This paper seeks to present the findings of a focus group and questionnaire in assessing how aware mental health professionals, who have experience with people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), are in the extent of ICT based support for people with BPD. The methods used were both qualitative and quantitative and used descriptive data. Content analysis was used to explore specific them...

THISARTICIX INVESlIGATES THE PERCEPTION that humanists are less than enamored with technology when compared to their peers in other disciplines. Using focus group interviews with humanities faculty at an east coast university, the article examines and analyzes their access to technolqgy, their technological skill and interest, their concerns about digitized texts and art works, their views on t...

This paper describes the evolution of a first year Java course at Griffith University Gold Coast since Semester 1, 2000 to the present day. The course was updated to emphasise program design and to implement and evaluate an "objects-as-needed" approach to first year programming. A number of strategies were tested to increase consistency amongst teaching staff, improve delivery of course resourc...

This study examines resilience in home-based caregivers (HBCs) in Limpopo South Africa. The PEN-3 model is used to investigate cultural influences on care-giving and frame the relationships, expectations, and cultural identity of care-giving in the context of African cultures. Data were gathered from participants’ responses in 4 focus group interviews held in South Africa. The results highlight...

This paper reports on a project which was undertaken with a network of Neighbourhood Houses (community-based organisations) in the Western Region of Melbourne, Australia. The region is an area of high social-economic need, and at the same time, contains a major growth corridor. A decline in investments in communitylevel ICT systems is producing technical and informational gaps impacting the wor...

We present an approach for cataloging an organization’s skill assets based on electronic communications. Our approach trains classifiers using messages from skill-related discussion groups and then applies those classifiers to a different distribution of personrelated e-mail messages. We present a general framework, called cross training, for addressing such discrepancies between the training a...

This article examines the impact of the introduction of roles and the added value of selfassessment on students‟ level of knowledge construction in online asynchronous discussions in a first year university course in instructional sciences. Students‟ postings in 20 discussion groups were used as the research data for this study. All messages, submitted during the 12 week discussion period, comp...

Independent learning and independent learning strategies are at present significant topics in educational research. The bulk of this research deals with independent learning in junior and higher education with little based upon the further education sector. The focus of this article is the interpretation of independent learning by 16to 19-year-old students at a further education tertiary colleg...

Cyberbullying is a growing phenomenon in our society with the technological advances that are occurring. This type of bullying can transpire at all hours via text message, email, or social networking sites. According to several studies, college students are being affected by cyberbullying, with prevalence rates ranging from 8% to 21%. Many psychological ramifications exist as a result of cyberb...

When merged with new pedagogical practices the use of open social web tools as a means to mediate and support teacher training triggers a whole new set of implications for education and individuals. It is important for teachers, learners and other educational agents to think of themselves as co-learners in a social collective aware of their role in developing the skills and knowledge they need ...