Visual History Project: an Image Map Authoring Tool Assisting Students to Present Project Information

Phil Holifield

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3054–3059

Abstract: The Visual History Project is a means to help students produce an interactive web-based display to show off their project work as an electronic portfolio piece. It doesn’t require a web server to work, although many more people can access ...

Computer Assisted Assessment: All those in favour tick here.

Gavin Sim; Phil Holifield

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 2991–2994

This paper examines the attitude of students towards the introduction of computer assisted assessment (CAA). Two first year undergraduate modules were selected, one from computing and one from technology with a total sample size of 164 students. The ...

Topics: Students

Tracker: A tool to improve student retention

Phil Holifield; Guy Heatley

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1753–1758

Abstract: The Tracker student attendance monitoring system has been developed in response to departmental and institutional concerns about student dropout from higher education courses. The Tracker tool aims to monitor the student attendance...

Topics: Students

Using Heuristics to Evaluate a Computer Assisted Assessment Environment

Gavin Sim; Janet C Read; Phil Holifield

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 635–642

Focusing on the usability of the software, this paper reports the findings from an expert evaluation of a single, off the shelf, computer assisted assessment environment with an emphasis on the context in which it is being utilised. The aim of the...

Topics: Assessment, Evaluation

Establishing a Virtual University: A Pakistan Case Study

Gavin Sim; Naveed Malik; Phil Holifield

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 5160–5165

There is a growth in demand for education and the conventional universities in Pakistan are faced with a shortage of faculty and limited capacity. This paper examines the introduction of a virtual university into the educational market in Pakistan...

Topics: Educational Technology

Implementation of a Virtual Computing Environment created with User Mode Linux

Guy Heatley; Phil Holifield; Jim Ingham

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1557–1562

This paper describes User-mode Linux (UML) and discusses the theory and implementation of the creation a networked "laboratory suite" of UML instances on a single host, allowing them to communicate with each other and the outside world, and allowing ...

Topics: Students, Research Methods, Virtual Environments

Challenges in Developing Multimedia Assessment Objects

Gavin Sim; Stephanie Strong; Phil Holifield

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4379–4384

Assessment is often regarded as one of the weakest links in e-learning systems which usually offer a limited range of question styles. This paper examines the implications of developing multimedia assessment objects to be integrated into...

Topics: Assessment, Learning Objects, Multimedia

Implementation of Computer Assisted Assessment: Lessons from the Literature

Gavin Sim; Phil Holifield; Martin Brown

Association for Learning Technology Journal Vol. 12, No. 3 (September 2004) pp. 215–229

This paper draws attention to literature surrounding the subject of computer-assisted assessment (CAA). A brief overview of traditional methods of assessment is presented, highlighting areas of concern in existing techniques. CAA is then defined,...

Heuristic Evaluations of Computer Assisted Assessment Environments

Gavin Sim; Janet C Read; Phil Holifield; Martin Brown

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 896–905

Focusing on the usability of the software, this paper reports the findings from an expert evaluation of three, off the shelf, computer assisted assessment environments. The aim of the study was to identify whether significant usability problems...

Topics: Computers, Assessment, Evaluation, Human Computer Interaction, Research Methods