With the aim to facilitate sharing and uptake of high quality JCT-based learning designs amongst academics in higher education, the Australian Universities Teaching Committee fimded project: Jnformation and Communication Technologies (leTs) and Their Role in Flexible Learning examined a number of existing high quality, JCT-based learning implementations to determine if the learning designs empl...

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The formal mathematical definition of a Jordan curve (a non-self-intersecting continuous loop in the plane) is so simple that one is often lead to the unimaginative view that a Jordan curve is nothing more than a circle or an ellipse. In this paper, we continue a discussion of others [1, 2, 9, 11] that a Jordan curve can be quite fantastical both in some bizarre properties such a curve might ha...

The formal mathematical definition of a Jordan curve (a non-self-intersecting continuous loop in the plane) is so simple that one is often lead to the unimaginative view that a Jordan curve is nothing more than a circle or an ellipse. In this paper, we continue a discussion of others [1, 2, 9, 11] that a Jordan curve can be quite fantastical both in some bizarre properties such a curve might ha...

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