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Affordances of Online Technologies: More than the Properties of the Technology
David Day; Margaret Lloyd
Australian Educational Computing Vol. 22, No. 2 (December 2007) pp. 17–21
This paper argues that concepts derived from affordance theories are highly useful in understanding the role of online technologies in learning. However, it is suggested that the value of this approach is maximised when the focus is moved away from...
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Using Digital Logs to Reduce Academic Misdemeanour by Students in Digital Forensic Assessments
Harjinder Lallie; Phillip Lawson; David Day
Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice Vol. 10, No. 1 (2011) pp. 255–269
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Bennett's Millpond
Colleen Karl; David Haase; Judy Day
Science Teacher Vol. 71, No. 5 (May 2004) pp. 36–37
In a rural Eastern North Carolina county, a team of students and teachers has come together to explore the scientific dynamics of a historic millpond. This article talks about the Bennett's Millpond Environmental Learning Project. The project...
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Statistics Lessons from the Study of Mate Selection
H D. Day; David D. Marshall; Linda J. Rubin
Teaching of Psychology Vol. 25, No. 3 (1998) pp. 221–24
Describes the demonstration of DYASIM, a program that performs various statistical computations to assess the degree of similarity of dyadic data, in classroom settings to illustrate the conceptual difficulties associated with measuring dyadic...
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Improving Instruction and Reducing Costs With a Web-based Learning Environment
Beverly Woolf; David Hart; Roberta Day; Beatrice Botch; William Vining
International Conference on Mathematics / Science Education and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 410–415
An electronic learning environment manages homework assignments for more than 3,000 students in large enrollment courses at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Originally developed to fulfill a critical need in the Chemistry Department, the...
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Mobile Affordances and Learning Theories in Supporting and Enhancing Learning
Kathryn MacCallum; Stephanie Day; David Skelton; Michael Verhaart
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Vol. 9, No. 2 (April 2017) pp. 61–73
Mobile technology promises to enhance and better support students' learning. The exploration and adoption of appropriate pedagogies that enhance learning is crucial for the wider adoption of mobile learning. An increasing number of studies have...
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OWL: An Integrated Web-based Learning Environment
Beverly Woolf; Roberta Day; Beatrice Botch; William Vining; David Hart
International Conference on Mathematics / Science Education and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 106–112
OWL (Online Web-based Learning) is an electronic learning environment developed for General Chemistry and currently being adopted by other disciplines. Basic OWL provides a powerful, web-based electronic homework model used by thousands of students...
Topics: Evaluation, Tutoring, Students
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Change in Ambulatory Ability of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy
Steven M. Day; Yvonne W. Wu; David J. Strauss; Robert M. Shavelle; Robert J. Reynolds
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology Vol. 49, No. 9 (September 2007) pp. 647–653
This study aimed to determine the probability that a child with cerebral palsy (CP) will lose or gain ambulatory ability through adolescence and young adulthood. We analyzed retrospectively data from 1987 to 2002 on Californians with CP initially...
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Effects on Student Achievement in General Chemistry following Participation in an Online Preparatory Course: ChemPrep, a Voluntary, Self-Paced, Online Introduction to Chemistry
Beatrice Botch; Roberta Day; William Vining; Barbara Stewart; Kenneth Rath; Alan Peterfreund; David Hart
Journal of Chemical Education Vol. 84, No. 3 (March 2007) pp. 547–553
ChemPrep was developed to be a stand-alone preparatory short-course to help students succeed in general chemistry. It is Web-based and delivered using the OWL system. Students reported that the ChemPrep materials (short information pages,...