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Conference Handbook

A digital copy of the 2013 Conference Handbook is available here. The handbook includes conference abstracts for every paper, timetable, map and sponsor informaton.

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Conference Proceedings

Download the full ascilite 2013 Conference Proceedings, featuring full-text papers from the conference presenters.

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Re-imagining the university: Vibrant matters and radical research paradigms for the 21st century
Reem Al-Mahmood
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Identifying e-learning principles for Maritime Education through the e-initiatives project: A design-based approach
Christopher Allan, Mark Symes, and Jill Downing
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The design of formative blended assessments in tertiary EFL programs: A case study in Saudi Arabia
Mansoor S. Almalki & Paul Gruba
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Using simple technologies to improve student engagement and success in an online applied-science course: A case study
Christopher Anderson & Jean Jacoby
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Creating engagement and cultivating information literacy skills via Scoop.it
Amy Antonio, David Tuffley & Neil Martin
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The Digital Book in Higher Education: Beyond the Horseless Carriage
Edilson Arenas & Avron Barr
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Learning Analytics in Higher Education: A Summary of Tools and Approaches
Amara Atif, Deborah Richards, Ayse Bilgin & Mauricio Marrone
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Imagining the Enculturation of Online Education
Kim Balnaves
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Five stages of online course design: Taking the grief out of converting courses for online delivery
Karin Barac, Lynda Davies, Sean Duffy, Neal Aitkin & Jason Lodge
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Mobile realities and dreams: Are students and teachers dreaming alone or together?
Mark Bassett & Oriel Kelly
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Retrofitting teaching spaces: Did our dreams come true?
Trevor Billany & Ruth Billany
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Blended synchronous learning: Patterns and principles for simultaneously engaging co-located and distributed learners
Matt Bower, Jacqueline Kenney, Barney Dalgarno, Mark J.W. Lee & Gregor E. Kennedy
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Past, present, future time perspectives and maladaptive cognitive schemas: associations with student engagement and attrition rates in an online unit of study
Ben Bullock & Stephen Theiler
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Moving on from WebQuests: Are DiscoveryMissions the next big thing?
Chris Campbell & Patrick M. O’Shea
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Business student’s attitudes to criteria based self-assessment and self-efficacy
Danny Carroll
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Working in Partnership: An authentic professional learning program to promote sustainable curriculum change
Helen Carter & Elaine Huber
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Integrating Learning Design, Interactivity, and Technology
Daniel Churchill, Mark King, Beverley Webster & Bob Fox
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The Introduction of an Advanced Class in Systems Administration at Otago Polytechnic
Tom Clark
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Do 21st Century Students Dream of Electric Sheep? A mobile social media framework for creative pedagogies
Thomas Cochrane, Andrew Withell
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Reflecting on using a theory seeded methodology for designing and building effective 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments for vocational education
Todd Cochrane, Nikki Davis & Julie Mackey
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Motivation and satisfaction for vocational education students using a video annotation tool
Meg Colasante & Michael Leedham
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Designing Fieldwork with Mobile Devices for Students of the Urban Environment
Dora Constantinidis, Wally Smith, Shanton Chang, Hannah Lewi, Andrew Saniga & John Sadar
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Student reflections on preference and use of lecture notes and recordings
Emily J Cook, Aaron S Blicblau & Therese Keane
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Dynamic digital posters: Making the most of collaborative learning spaces
Roger Cook & Paul Fenn
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Enhancing learning analytics by understanding the needs of teachers
Linda Corrin, Gregor Kennedy & Raoul Mulder
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Prospects for iPad apps and learning design in medical education
Bronwen Dalziel & James Dalziel
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Implementing Learning Design: A Decade of Lessons Learned
James Dalziel
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Key Attributes of Engagement in a Gamified Learning Environment
Penny de Byl & James Hooper
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Flexibility and function: Universal design for technology enhanced active classrooms
Stuart Dinmore
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Applied learning in online spaces: Traditional pedagogies informing educational design for today’s learners
Jillian Downing & Jan Herrington
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Getting the full picture: Storyboarding our way to Stand Alone Moodle
Joanne Doyle, Helen Farley & Neil Martin
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Flipped classroom in first year management accounting unit – a case study
Xinni Du & Sharon Taylor
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A Good Story: The Missing Dimension of a Great Online Course
Dawn Duncan
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A new era; Personal Technology Challenges Educational Technology
Richard Evans & Anne Matthew
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Action-based Learning Assessment Method (ALAM) in Virtual Training Environments
Ali Fardinpour, Torsten Reiners & Heinz Dreher
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Improving retention in first-year mathematics using learning analytics
Yasmin Erika Faridhan, Birgit Loch & Lyndon Walker
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Revisiting the definition of Mobile Learning
Helen Farley, Angela Murphy & Sharon Rees
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Use of Echo360 generated materials and its impact on class attendance
Jiangang Fei, Carey Mather, Shandell Elmer, Christopher Allan, Christopher Chin & Leah Chandler
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Communicating with peers online: What do students expect of each other?
Dianne Forbes
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Use of Anatomage tables in a large first year core unit
Georgina Fyfe, Sue Fyfe, Danielle Dye & Hannah Crabb
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Second Life calling: language learners communicating virtually across the world
Belma Gaukrodger & Clare Atkins
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Machinima for immersive and authentic learning in higher education
Brent Gregory, Sue Gregory & Myee Gregory
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Virtual worlds in Australian and New Zealand higher education: Remembering the past, understanding the present and imagining the future
Sue Gregory, Brent Gregory, Torsten Reiners, Ali Fardinpour, Mathew Hillier, et al.
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Transmedia in English Literature Classes: A Literature Review and Project Proposal
Michael Griffith & Matt Bower
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Developing social media training resources for AusAID scholarship students
Paul Gruba, Mat Bettinson, Jean Mulder & Gabrielle Grigg
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Reviewing the past to imagine the future of elearning
Cathy Gunn
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Applying Web-conferencing in a Beginners’ Chinese Class
Sijia Guo
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Academics adopting mobile devices: The zone of free movement
Boris Handal, Jean MacNish & Peter Petocz
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Accessible, reusable and participatory: Initiating open education practices
John Hannon, Donna Bisset, Leigh Blackall, Simon Huggard, Ruth Jelley, Mungo Jones, Annabel Orchard & Roderick Sadler
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Building bridges for non-engineers: virtual world support for project based delivery
Merle Hearns
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“The slides are part of the cake”: PowerPoint, software literacy and tertiary education
Craig Hight, Elaine Khoo, Bronwen Cowie & Rob Torrens
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Arguing again for e-exams in high stakes examinations
Mathew Hillier & Andrew Fluck
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Design and development of examples to support authentic professional learning: a participative process
Elaine Huber, Lucy Arthur & Scarlet An
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Connecting and Reflecting with Ning
Janette Hughes
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Designing contemporary music courses for the 21st century musician: virtual worlds as a live music performance space
Lisa Jacka & Matthew Hill
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‘It’s not the university experience we were expecting’: digitally literate undergraduate students reflect on changing pedagogy
Amanda Jefferies
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Immersive Business Simulation Games: an Innovative Pedagogical Approach to e-Learning and Education
Andrej Jerman Blažič & Slovenia Tanja Arh
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Using a Glossary Random Entry Tool on Moodle online learning sites to improve students’ engagement – A pilot study
Ying Jin, Michelle Thunders & Rachel Page
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Moving from ‘e’ to ‘d’: what does a digital university look like?
Bill Johnston & Sheila MacNeill
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The IRAC framework: Locating the performance zone for learning analytics
David Jones , Colin Beer & Damien Clark
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A Pilot Trial of Social Media in a Technical Area
Therese Keane, Philip A. Branch, Jason But, Antonio L. Cricenti & Dragi Klimovski
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Evaluation of a MOOC pilot: impacts on pedagogical and technical design and dementia education research
Jo-Anne Kelder, Carolyn King, Tony Carew, Jeremy O’Reilly, Andrew Robinson & James Vickers
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Orienting students to online learning: going like a dream or still a nightmare?
Oriel Kelly
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An opportunity to support beginning teachers in the transition from higher education into practice
Nick Kelly
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Using a collaborative investigation and design strategy to support digital resource development in an online unit of study
Shannon Kennedy-Clark, Penny Wheeler & Vilma Galstaun
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Emerging teachers’ conceptions about their current use of ICT in vocational education
Shahadat Hossain Khan & Lina Markauskaite
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“Hearing the thoughts of others”: Student voices and affordances of podcasting for learning
Elaine Khoo, Dianne Forbes & E. Marcia Johnson
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Mobile Learning at Charles Sturt University: Lessons learned from university-wide iPad trials in 2012
Tim Klapdor & Philip Uys
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Factors to consider when designing writing groups for off-campus doctoral candidates
Olga Kozar & Juliet F. Lum
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Assessing Collaboration in a Web-based Constructivist Learning Environment: A Malaysian Perspective
Fui Theng Leow & Mai Neo
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Gazing into the future of Sri Lankan Higher Education: Capacity building for the future
Kulari Lokuge Dona, Mike Keppell & Amali Warusawitharana
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Issues Integrating Remote Laboratories into Virtual Worlds
Tania Machet & David Lowe
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An online professional network to support teachers’ information and communication technology development
Damian Maher, Shukri Sanber, Leanne Cameron, Phil Keys & Roger Vallance
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Does the use of the TPACK model enhance digital pedagogies: We don’t understand the present so how can we imagine the future?
Dorit Maor
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MOOCs - what’s cultural inclusion got to do with it?
Mauricio Marrone, Lilia Mantai & Karina Luzia
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Using the e-learning Maturity Model to Identify Good Practice in E-Learning
Stephen Marshall
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The introduction of an online portfolio system in a medical school: what can activity theory tell us?
Glenn Mason, Vicki Langendyk & Shaoyu Wang
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An empirically-based, tutorial dialogue system: design, implementation and evaluation in a first year health sciences course
Jenny McDonald, Alistair Knott, Sarah Stein & Richard Zeng
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Engaging online students through the gamification of learning materials: The present and the future
Naomi McGrath & Leopold Bayerlein
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A window into lecturers’ conversations: With whom are they speaking about technology and why does it matter?
Negin Mirriahi
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Mobile learning and professional development: Future building academic work in higher education
Maxine Mitchell & Shirley Reushle
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The current use of ICT by novice female teachers in Saudi primary schools and their perceived training needs
Ensaf Al Mulhim
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Understanding the use of smart mobile technologies for learning in higher education
Angela Murphy, Helen Farley & Andy Koronios
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Enablers and Barriers to Academic’s Acceptance of Technology: Can “Individual Differences” Make a Difference?
Maimuna Musarrat, Birgit Loch & Benedict Williams
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Technology as a creative partner: Unlocking learner potential and learning
Vickel Narayan
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Virtual Worlds for learning: done and dusted?
Christine Newman, Helen Farley, Sue Gregory, Lisa Jacka, Sheila Scutter, et al.
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Distributed Digital Essay: Academia connects with social media
Fiona Nicolson, Sherrie Love & Mitch Parsell
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The Learning Ecosystem: A practical, holistic approach to old problems in a new world
Leona Norris, Annora Eyt-Dessus & Clive Holtham
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Dreams, hiccups and realities: What happens when lecturers and students co-design an online module?
Maria Northcote & Beverly Christian
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Pipe dreams or digital dreams: Technology, pedagogy and content knowledge in the vocational educational and training sector
Teresa O’Brien & Dorit Maor
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Augmenting learning reality: iPads and software as cognitive tools
James Oldfield & Jan Herrington
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Imagining the future of assessment: for evidence, for credit and for payment
Beverley Oliver & Kay Souter
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Martin Olmos
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Gamification of Tertiary Courses: An Exploratory Study of Learning and Engagement
Varina Paisley
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Designing learning spaces in higher education for autonomy: Preliminary findings and applications
Martin Parisio
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The Reading Game – encouraging learners to become question-makers rather than question-takers by getting feedback, making friends and having fun
Robert Parker, Maurizio Manuguerra & Bruce Schaefer
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Higher Education Teachers’ Understanding of Flexibility and Enhancement in a Learning Management System
Zofia Pawlaczek, Kay Souter & Aleisha Ting
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A new mindset for a new world - or a return to the ideals?
Annette Q Pedersen
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Exploring Connected Learning Spaces in Teacher Education
Rachel Perry, Kimberley Pressick-Kilborn & Matthew Kearney
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Piloting an online mathematics and statistics tutoring service
Jim Pettigrew & Donald Shearman
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Enhancement of scientific research and communication skills using assessment and ePortfolio in a third year Pathology course
Patsie Polly, Thuan Thai, Adele Flood, Kathryn Coleman, Mita Das, et al.
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Using Twitter in Higher Education
Sarah Prestridge
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nDiVE: The Story of How Logistics and Supply Chain Management Could be Taught
Torsten Reiners, Lincoln C. Wood, Sue Gregory, Natasha Petter, Hanna Teräs, Vanessa Chang, Christian Gütl & Jan Herrington
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Beyond Open Access: Open Publishing and the Future of Digital Scholarship
Xiang Ren
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Looking back to look forward: Creating and sustaining peer connections through digital communities
Shirley Reushle & Amy Antonio
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Using online learning modules to fight against antibiotic resistance in Australia
Jorge Reyna, Santosh Khanal & Tessa Morgan
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OpenTab: imagining an open, mobile future for first year business students
Matthew D. Riddle, Ruth Jelley & Nauman Saeed
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Technology, identity and the creative artist
Jennifer Rowley & Dawn Bennett
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Evaluating an institutional blended & mobile learning strategy
Carol Russell & Qi Jing
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Using technology to enable flipped classrooms whilst sustaining sound pedagogy
Michael D Sankey & Lynne Hunt
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Understanding our present: teaching disputes resolution through online role-play
Darryl Saunders & Alison Reedy
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Chemtunes: a pilot study of setting the rote to music
Mark Schier & Daniel Eldridge
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The Village Pharm: Flipping the classroom to enhance the learning of pharmaceutics and associated professional skills
Jennifer Schneider, Siva Krishnan, Irene Munro & Adam Birchnell
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Turn on the book: Using affordance theory to understand the adoption of digital textbooks by university lecturers
Debborah Smith, Jeffrey E. Brand & Shelley Kinash
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Where to from here? Reflections, rethinking & reimagining higher education assessment in the New Media Age
Simon D. Smith, Michael Griffith, Wai-Leng Wong & Paul McDonald
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Cross-institutional development of an online open course for educators: confronting current challenges and imagining future possibilities
Keith Smyth, Panos Vlachopoulos, David Walker & Anne Wheeler
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Mobile devices for learning in Malaysia: Then and now
Helena S Y Song, Angela Murphy & Helen Farley
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Metamorphosis and Adaptive Digital Publishing
Rob Stone, Roderick Haggith, Tim Klapdor & Tyswan Slater
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Exploring summative peer assessment during a hybrid undergraduate supply chain course using Moodle
Kenneth David Strang
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Caring dialogue: A step toward realising the dream of online learning communities
Jennie Swann, Peter Albion
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Challenges and opportunities for growth of e-Learning enrolments: an international business perspective
Mark Tayar
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Creating socially inclusive online learning environments in higher education
Lisa Kay Thomas & James Herbert
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The language of science: an online animated tool for learning the vocabulary used in the health sciences
Michelle Thunders, Yin Jing & Rachel Page
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Joining the dots: using structured e-portfolio assignments to enhance reflection
Panos Vlachopoulos & Anne Wheeler
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Embedding Professional Skills in the ICT Curriculum
Brian R. von Konsky, Asheley Jones & Charlynn Miller
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Wiki-based interventions: A curriculum design for collaborative learning
Zainee Waemusa & Andrew Gibbons
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Application of Cytoscape to the Analysis of Diagrams of Mechanisms Underlying Patient Problems
Shaoyu Wang, Laura Surmon, Vicki Langendyk, Iman Hegazi, Tony Succar, Glenn Mason & Wendy Hu
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Innovation via a Thin LMS: A middleware alternative to the traditional learning management system
Marc Wells, David Lefevre & Fotis Begklis
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Implementing Timely Interventions to Improve Students’ Learning Experience*
Sue Whale, Fredy-Roberto Valenzuela & Josie Fisher
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Lecture Capture: Student Hopes, Instructor Fears
Ben Williams, Jeffrey Pfeifer & Vivienne Waller
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