Z39.50 and the OPAC Network in Europe (ONE) Project

Neil Smith

Information Services & Use Vol. 16, No. 3 (1996) pp. 189–97

Discusses the use of the Z39.50 standard for information retrieval in the British Library's efforts toward networked information retrieval and online public access catalogs in cooperation with the European Union and other countries. OSI (open...

Evaluation of Biomedical Science Students Use and Perceptions of Podcasting

Katie Smith; Neil P. Morris

Bioscience Education Vol. 22, No. 1 (July 2014) pp. 3–15

The use of podcasting in higher education has escalated in recent years. The aim of this case study was to analyse undergraduate student use and perceptions of lecture audio recordings in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Leeds. ...

Tools for supporting the teaching and learning of data modelling

Pete Thomas; Kevin Waugh; Neil Smith

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 4014–4023

This paper describes three software tools that have been developed to help students learn to produce entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs) in the context of data modelling. The primary tool, called the Exerciser, presents a student with a series of...

Topics: Tutoring, Students

Automatically Assessing Graph-Based Diagrams

Pete Thomas; Neil Smith; Kevin Waugh

Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 33, No. 3 (September 2008) pp. 249–267

To date there has been very little work on the machine understanding of imprecise diagrams, such as diagrams drawn by students in response to assessment questions. Imprecise diagrams exhibit faults such as missing, extraneous and incorrectly formed...

A revision tool for teaching and learning sequence diagrams

Pete Thomas; Kevin Waugh; Neil Smith

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5454–5460

This paper describes a software tool that has been developed to help students learn to produce UML sequence diagrams (SDs) in the context of object modelling. The tool, called the SD-Exerciser, developed from an earlier tool for learning about...

Topics: Students, Learning Objects

A Simple Publishing Interface For Learning Object Repositories

Stefaan Ternier; David Massart; Frans Van Assche; Neil Smith; Bernd Simon; Erik Duval

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 1840–1845

This paper reports on a new work item of the CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technologies that concerns the standardization of a software protocol for publishing learning objects to digital repositories. This standardization project draws on research ...

Topics: Learning Objects

Cyberbullying: Its Nature and Impact in Secondary School Pupils

Peter K. Smith; Jess Mahdavi; Manuel Carvalho; Sonja Fisher; Shanette Russell; Neil Tippett

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Vol. 49, No. 4 (April 2008) pp. 376–385

Background: Cyberbullying describes bullying using mobile phones and the internet. Most previous studies have focused on the prevalence of text message and email bullying. Methods: Two surveys with pupils aged 11-16 years: (1) 92 pupils from 14...

Using Wheelchair Sports to Complement Disability Awareness Curriculum among College Students

Neil R. Lundberg; Ramon B. Zabriskie; Kevin M. Smith; Keith W. Barney

Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education Vol. 23 (2008) pp. 61–74

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a campus-wide intramural wheelchair sports program on attitudes toward people with disabilities. The sample consisted of 126 participants at a large, western university. A quasi-experimental...

Focusing on ICT in Rural and Regional Education in Australia

Chris Reading; Andrew Fluck; Sue Trinidad; Howard Smith; Greg Shaw; Neil Anderson; Catherine McLoughlin; Bruce White

Australian Educational Computing Vol. 21, No. 2 (December 2006) pp. 20–24

National priorities set by an Australian ministerial taskforce provide clear guidelines to develop pedagogy that integrates ICT. Although these guidelines do not specifically address rural and regional school needs, the two priorities: promoting...

Questioning Chemistry: The Role of Level, Familiarity, Language and Taxonomy

Susan Rodrigues; Neil Taylor; Margaret Cameron; Lorraine Syme-Smith; Colette Fortuna

Science Education International Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 2010) pp. 31–46

This paper reports on data collected via an audience response system, where a convenience sample of 300 adults aged 17-50 pressed a button to register their answers for twenty multiple choice questions. The responses were then discussed with the...

The Development of Virtual World Tools to Enhance Learning and Real World Decision Making in the Australian Sugar Farming Industry

Neil Cliffe; Joanne Doyle; Helen Farley; Janette Lindesay; Adam Loch; Tek Maraseni; Torben Marcussen; Neil Martin; Shahbaz Mushtaq; Jenny Ostini; Kate Reardon-Smith; Roger Stone

International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning (iJAC) Vol. 7, No. 3 (Oct 13, 2014) pp. 17–23

In farming, the outcome of critical decisions to enhance productivity and profitability and so ensure the viability of farming enterprises is often influenced by seasonal conditions and weather events over the growing season. This paper reports on a ...

Gathering the Views of Children and Young People to Inform Practice in a Psychological Service

Shona Alexander; Neil Brown; Kait Farmer; Jenny Fraser-Smith; Kirstie McClatchey; Vibeke McKeown; Ali Sangster; Isabel Shaver; Jenny Templeton

Support for Learning Vol. 29, No. 4 (November 2015) pp. 359–369

This paper describes the process employed by a psychological service to gather the views of children and young people using guided discussion groups and questionnaires. Pupils in the guided discussion groups were asked to identify issues that affect ...