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Skills Needed for Managing Multimedia Development – Invisible or Visible?
Joe Luca; Pina Tarricone
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1928–1933
All multimedia project managers strive to have projects delivered on time, on budget and to the required quality. In the quest to achieve this success, much research has been performed and literature written about project management techniques to...
Topics: Intelligence, Social Sciences, Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Administration
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A Self-Assessment Tool to Help Learners Develop Teamwork Skills
Mark McMahon; Joe Luca; Christina John
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2913–2920
Teamwork skills and the ability to effectively collaborate with peers continue to be hailed as essential skills by employers and higher education funding authorities, and many employers require new graduates to demonstrate these skills as part of...
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Using Online Forums to Support a Community of Learning
Joe Luca; Catherine Mcloughlin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 1468–1474
Online forums provide an opportunity to enhance community building and promote collaborative dialogue that can help increase the flexibility of learning while motivating students to actively participate in their learning. By enabling peer-to-peer...
Topics: Interaction, Social Studies, Collaboration, Learning Outcomes
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Creating Situational Interest and Motivating Tasks in an e-Learning Environment
Catherine McLoughlin; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2903–2911
Motivational factors have been identified as important variables that impact on students' learning. In this study, the relationship between students' motivational orientation and the quality of learning in collaborative e-learning teams is...
Topics: Students
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Developing Metacognition through Student Contracts
Mark McMahon; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3260–3268
This paper describes an on-line approach to assessment through student contracts that was designed to both address issues of fairness of assessment as well as to promote the planning, monitoring and evaluation integral to enhancing metacognition...
Topics: Students, Assessment
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Scaffolding the Development of Students' Cognitive Self-Regulatory Skills
Joe Luca; Mark McMahon
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1299–1304
Increasingly, universities are being asked by industry, government and funding authorities to help prepare students for industry with appropriate professional and life long learning skills. How can tertiary educators design and implement learning...
Topics: Professional Development, Students
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A Framework to Promote Learning and Generic Skills
Joe Luca; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1588–1595
Increasingly, higher education institutions are being pressured by industry, government and funding authorities to better prepare students for the workplace with content specific knowledge as well as professional skills such as communication skills, ...
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Experiential Learning On-Line:The role of asynchronous communication tools
Catherine McLoughlin; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1273–1278
The needs of learners are changing rapidly and continually in response to an environment that is characterised by change at economic, political and technological levels. There is greater pressure on universities to work more closely with employers...
Topics: Educational Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Professional Development, Students, Virtual Environments
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Creating a web-based knowledge-building team: Design of tasks, scaffolds and social affordances
Catherine McLoughlin; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 4276–4285
In a blended learning environment, where students undertake professional skills development in the workplace, a flexible environment is designed in order to support problem solving in project management. The design of the environment, informed by...
Topics: Professional Development, Learning Outcomes, Students
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Using Mobile Technologies and Podcasts to Enhance Learning Experiences in Lecture-Based University Course Delivery
Ron Oliver; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3385–3394
This paper describes a study that sought to explore the use of mobile technologies as a means to enhance the learning experience of students in a tertiary course of study. In particular the study involved the development of podcasting and...
Topics: Educational Technology, Students
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Implementing Courseware Management Systems: Off-the-Shelf Purchase or In-House Development?
Joe Luca; Arshad Omari
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 390–393
In the past decade there has been a proliferation of courseware management systems being developed and promoted as a means of simplifying the creation and management of instructional websites. Implementing these systems can be resource intensive and ...
Topics: Instructional Design, Integration, Databases
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Supporting Collaborative Learning with Blogs
Joe Luca; Catherine McLoughlin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3711–3714
Bloggers provide an opportunity to help enhance community building and promote that can help increase the flexibility of learning while motivating students to actively participate in their learning. By enabling peer-to-peer interaction, Bloggers can ...
Topics: Learning Outcomes, Communication, Social Studies
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Promoting Student Learning through Peer Tutoring – A Case Study
Barney Clarkson; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1176–1181
The literature abounds with information about peer tutoring and the benefits that it can bring to student learning. This case study sought to explore ways of using peer tutoring to enhance the learning experience of a group of higher education...
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“I just wanted it finished!”: The Transitions of a Novice Project Manager
Barnard Clarkson; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1668–1675
How do you identify quality project managers? Is it possible to rate project managers on a scale, and more importantly once their level has been identified, can their skills be improved? These issues are addressed in this case study by observing the ...
Topics: Developmental Stages
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Courseware Management Tools and Customised Web Pages: Rationale, Comparisons and Evaluation
Mark McMahon; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 687–692
In the rush towards web-based learning, courseware management tools are being promoted as a means of simplifying the creation and management of instructional websites. This paper examines such claims in the light of a unit in Project Management...
Topics: Multimedia, Instructional Design
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Developing professional skills and competencies in tertiary learners through on-line assessment and peer support
Catherine McLoughlin; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 668–673
In professional organisations, employees are called on to evaluate solutions, solve ill-defined problems and engage in decision making based on actual situations and events. To develop such skills, tertiary learners have to learn to engage in tasks...
Topics: Professional Development, Assessment
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Making Teamwork Equitable with Online Technology: A Case Study
Joe Luca; Catherine McLoughlin
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2445–2448
In many higher education institutions, teamwork is considered an essential part of the syllabus in helping to promote deep and meaningful learning as well as professional skills such as communication, collaboration and leadership skills. However, in ...
Topics: Students, Assessment
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Investigating the quality of the student experience online: Social engagement factors
Catherine McLoughlin; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 880–887
An examination of the literature on computer-mediated communication suggests that there are a variety of frameworks and approaches on how to foster positive learning experiences through online delivery. While there are many frameworks that emphasise ...
Topics: Students
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Developing Generic Skills through On-line Courses
Joe Luca; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1163–1164
Developing generic skills for students in higher education institutions has become a priority issue. Higher education institutions are experiencing continual pressure from government, industry, funding bodies and students, to place greater emphasis...
Topics: Students, Teaching Methods
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Rags to Riches and Conflict on the Playground: Contrasting Narratives of E-Learning in an Education Faculty
Geoffrey Lautenbach; Duan Van der Westhuizen; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1700–1707
We have argued before that personal learning experiences and, to a degree, the teaching experiences of lecturers could be seen as directive indicators of their e-learning uptake. We have also proposed that their 'narrative situatedness' is where we...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Supporting Teamwork and Collaboration with Online Technologies
Joe Luca; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 1460–1467
Increasingly, teamwork is considered an essential part of the syllabus in higher education to help promote deep and meaningful learning as well as graduate skills such as communication and collaboration. However, in many cases students are unhappy...
Topics: Students
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Learning with cyberfriends: The development of professional reflectionon- action skills through online partnerships
Catherine Mcloughlin; Joe Luca
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1280–1286
One the crises facing the professions is the scepticism surrounding the nature of professional knowledge and whether individuals can cope with the increased complexity of society and the changing demands of the workplace. Tertiary institutions...
Topics: Students, Planning, Communication
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Developing On-line E-Commerce Business Plans to Provide Students with Context and Job Opportunities
Joe Luca; Catherine McLoughlin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1165–1167
This action research presents a description of how an on-line E-commerce business-planning unit was developed. Initially, an intensive ten-day E-commerce course was developed in collaboration with government, industry and university sectors with a ...
Topics: Business, Planning, Evaluation
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Improving assessment: Rubrics in a tertiary multimedia course
Barney Clarkson; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 297–302
This paper explains how alternative assessment methods were implemented in a first-year tertiary course on web design. The aim was to make assessment clearer for the students to understand, and more focussed, using a rubric—a detailed, criterion...
Topics: Students, Assessment
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Fostering Higher Order Thinking through Online Tasks
Joe Luca; Catherine McLoughlin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1168–1173
Increasingly higher education institutions are being asked to be more pro-active in delivering instruction through on-line facilities, while at the same time being more effective in fostering higher order thinking skills for students. This action...
Topics: Students, Collaboration
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Intensive Ecommerce Business Training Course
Joe Luca; Larry Quick; Renee Ellis
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 1431–1432
The dramatic growth of the Internet and subsequent use of the Internet for Electronic Commerce is fundamentally changing the business paradigm, at both a local and global level. The emergence of the global on-line economy is not only providing...
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Investigating processes of social knowledge construction in online environments
Catherine Mcloughlin; Joe Luca
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1287–1292
On-line forums provide opportunity and potential for collaborative work, dialogue and study that can increase the flexibility of learning while motivating participants. By enabling teacher-learner and learner-learner interaction online systems can ...
Topics: Collaboration, Teachers, Interaction
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“You don’t want to let your team down”: Supporting Student Engagement with an Online Tool
Joe Luca; Barnard Clarkson
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 1452–1459
How do you make students read the readers or even the textbook? If they have read them, have they obtained the necessary concepts or understood the content? How can these concepts be readily checked on a weekly basis? How can excellent solutions...
Topics: Students
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Content, Cultural and Client Issues: A CD-ROM Case Study
Joe Luca; David Wilson; Anna Sinclair
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 1999 (1999) pp. 1152–1156
Producing an educational multimedia CD-ROM in a culturally diverse environment provides a number of challenges. Content collection and validation, client education, choice of multimedia consultants, research into cultural beliefs, cultural sub...
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Explorations in metacognition: The design, development, and implementation of an online teamwork tracking environment
Mark McMahon; Joe Luca
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2007 (2007) pp. 676–685
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Issues involved in developing a project based online unit which enhances teamwork and collaboration
Rob Phillips; Joe Luca; Joe Luca
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 16, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2000)
This paper presents the results of developmental research into the design of an online unit on Interactive Multimedia project management. The decision to offer the unit online was based on a requirement for the unit to be available in external mode, ...
Language: English