This paper takes the position that community, collaboration and conversation are essential elements of the success of the MA ICT and Education at Leeds. We feel that successful design and delivery of an e-learning programme not only requires subject matter expertise and/or technical skills, but that pedagogical, information and communication skills to manage and facilitate online learning are a...

Two challenges related to capturing provenance about scientific data are: 1) determining an adequate level of granularity to encode provenance, and 2) encoding provenance in a way that facilitates enduser interpretation and analysis. A solution to address these challenges consists in integrating two technologies: Semantic Abstract Workflows (SAWs), which are used to capture a domain expert’s un...

This paper reports findings from a research project that explores reasons why some employees prefer to seek expertise to resolve work-related problems from direct colleagues rather than designated internal experts. Several studies suggest that while an expert generally provides a higher quality solution in a shorter time, workers tend to ask friendly or proximate colleagues to help with knowled...

This study investigates student teachers’ opinions about learning “instructional technology and material preparation” subjects in a hypermedia-based constructivist learning context. A qualitative case study design was employed. The students of one classroom were the focus of an in-depth investigation by means of interviews, which were designed to elicit these students’ perceptions concerning th...

In this survey article, the author summarizes the motivations, key ideas and main applications of ramified optimal transportation that the author has studied in recent years. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. 90B10, 49Q10, 49Q20.

Teachers, all too often, know too little about the children with whom they work. There are many reasons for this. Their classes are often too large for them to feel really acquainted with each child. They are under pressure to prepare their students for the next class, for the next examination, and they feel that their own advancement depends in large measure on their success in doing this. The...

Web-based tutoring is very similar to computer-based tutoring with the additional issues of response or download time. This paper addresses if there are software tutors that cover the spectrum of educational subjects. A mapping is presented of top-level Core Knowledge curriculum topics for grades K through 5 with commercially available computer-based tutors. Some of the tutors would be consider...

This study evaluates a method for reengineering a procedural system to an object-oriented system. Relationships between functions in the procedural system were identified using various coupling metrics. While the coupling metrics used for analysis were helpful in identifying candidate objects, domain expert analysis of the candidate objects was required. The time taken at each step in the proce...

This paper describes a proposal of a ‘from A to Z’ virtual learning process and its preliminary validation which consists of representing the knowledge, authoring graphically the subject-matter domain, modelling the students’ believes and offering to each learner a personalised suitable feedback.

In the very near future gravitational wave astronomy is expected to become a reality, giving us a completely new tool for exploring the universe around us. We provide an introduction to how interferometric gravitational wave detectors work, suitable for students entering the field and teachers who wish to cover the subject matter in an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level course. ...