Tapping the educational potential of Facebook: Guidelines for use in higher education     

Rex Wang  Phil Scown  Cathy Urquhart  Julie Hardman 《Education and Information Technologies》2014,19(1):21-39

Facebook is a frequently used Computer Mediated Environment (CME) for students and others to build social connections, with identities and deposited self-expression. Its widespread use makes it appropriate for consideration as an educational tool; though one that does not yet have clear guidelines for use. Whether a social networking site can be used for educational objectives remains largely unexplored as a research question. This paper discusses a study conducted at the University of Auckland and at Manchester Metropolitan University on how their students use Facebook, and its impact on their social and academic lives. Using theories of social capital and knowledge management, we explore some potential educational uses of Facebook. Guidelines are included for the educational use of Facebook by tutors in a university environment. These include both positive recommendations and activities and approaches to avoid; and include educational, administrative and legal issues.  相似文献   

The heart of ESD: personally engaging learners with sustainability     

Paul Murray  Julie Goodhew  Sheran Murray 《Environmental Education Research》2014,20(5):718-734

Education for sustainable development aims to help learners engage with the concept of sustainability. This paper considers whether specific values-centred sustainability training techniques can promote personal engagement with sustainability when undertaken by higher education students on an extra-curricular voluntary basis. Conducted over an eight-month period, the study evaluates the impact of the training on 67 second year undergraduate design and engineering students at Plymouth University using pre- and post-training values and worldview scales measured against a control group. Four months after the training, one-to-one interviews were conducted with a subset of the sample. A quantitative analysis of the values and worldview surveys indicates that a degree of values clarification and mind-set shift resulted from the training, with design students appearing more receptive than those studying engineering. This finding was reinforced in the interview data, which illustrates where and how learners engaged with the training and provides examples of learners deep thought, reflection and mind-set changes.  相似文献   

Who is in the Conversation? Listening To Each Other and To Children     

Stephanie Cox Suárez  Lisa Kuh 《The New Educator》2014,10(1):3-9

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A Review of “Indexing: From Thesauri to the Semantic Web”     

Elizabeth J. Cox 《Cataloging & classification quarterly》2014,52(2):251-253

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Scholar Commons @ USF: Sharing Knowledge Worldwide     

Carol Ann Borchert  Julie Fielding 《期刊图书馆员》2014,66(1-4):161-173

Librarians and faculty members are now working together through Open Access (OA) publishing to make faculty-produced scholarly content available to researchers worldwide. The University of South Florida Tampa Library has been working with the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) Digital Commons platform to create a substantial institutional repository (IR) that includes OA journals, conference proceedings, and data sets, among other materials. Library staff members are currently involved in a variety of activities, including negotiating memoranda of understanding, loading backfiles, registering Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) with CrossRef, designing layout, doing final publication steps, and assisting with technical issues. In 2011, the IR, Scholar Commons @ USF, went live, allowing the library to pull fragmented collections previously hosted on other platforms into a single system with improved discoverability. This article discusses how the repository was established, what is involved, lessons learned, and plans for future directions.  相似文献   

Motivational and Cognitive Contributions to Students' Amount of Reading     

Cox KE  Guthrie JT 《Contemporary educational psychology》2001,26(1):116-131

The amount that students read for enjoyment and for school is a major contributor to students' reading achievement and knowledge of the world. Consequently, it is important to identify the factors that predict amount of reading. A literature review revealed that motivation, strategy-use, and past reading achievement all may be expected to predict reading amount. To examine these variables, a total of 251 students in Grades 3 and 5 was administered questionnaires of these constructs and a reading test. Results showed that amount of reading for enjoyment was predicted most highly by motivation, when all other variables were controlled statistically in multiple-regression analyses. In contrast, amount of reading for school was predicted most highly by strategy use, when all other variables were controlled. However, these predictions were different for students in Grades 3 and 5. Findings of the study indicate that amount of reading is multiply determined by cognitive and motivational constructs, which is consistent with an engagement perspective on reading development. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.  相似文献   

Protecting the American Homeland: One Year On: Michael E. O’Hanlon, Peter R. Orszag, et al. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. xl, 188 pp. $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8157-6453-7     

Julie Linden 《Government Information Quarterly》2003,20(4):430-432

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DRAGON in my exams     

Julie Perks 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2003,34(1):103-104

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News     

Lynn Cox 《Archives and Museum Informatics》1989,3(1):20-21

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Development, Implementation, and Validation of a Computerized Test for Statewide Assessment     

James B. Olsen  Apryl Cox  Charles Price  Mike Strozeski  Idolina Vela 《Educational Measurement》1990,9(2):7-10

How does a testing component function in an integrated learning system? How can you customize computerized tests to meet local specifications? How are computerized tests implemented and evaluated? Is the pay-off of computerized testing justified?  相似文献