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...

Artificial Intelligence in Business: Technocrat Jargon or Quantum Leap?

Anna M. Burford; Harold O. Wilson

This paper addresses the characteristics and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) as a subsection of computer science, and briefly describes the most common types of AI programs: expert systems, natural language, and neural networks....

Reconstructing a School's Past Using Oral Histories and GIS Mapping

Marsha Alibrandi; Candy Beal; Ann Thompson; Anna Wilson

Social Education Vol. 64, No. 3 (2000) pp. 134–40

Describes an interdisciplinary project that incorporated language arts, social studies, instructional technology, and science where middle school students were involved in oral history, Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping, architectural...

Criticality and the exercise of politeness in online spaces for professional learning

Cate Watson; Anna Wilson; Valerie Drew; Terrie Lynn Thompson

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 31, No. 1 (October 2016) pp. 43–51

This research examines masters-accredited online professional learning aimed at fostering criticality and a disposition to collective professional autonomy. Drawing on a model of online learning conceived as a nexus of cognitive, social and teaching ...

Language: English

Confronting an Augmented Reality

Danny Munnerley; Matt Bacon; Anna Wilson; James Steele; John Hedberg; Robert Fitzgerald

Research in Learning Technology Vol. 20 (2012)

How can educators make use of augmented reality technologies and practices to enhance learning and why would we want to embrace such technologies anyway? How can an augmented reality help a learner confront, interpret and ultimately comprehend...

Computer-Assisted Intervention for Children with Low Numeracy Skills

Pekka Rasanen; Jonna Salminen; Anna J. Wilson; Pirjo Aunio; Stanislas Dehaene

Cognitive Development Vol. 24, No. 4 (2009) pp. 450–472

We present results of a computer-assisted intervention (CAI) study on number skills in kindergarten children. Children with low numeracy skill (n = 30) were randomly allocated to two treatment groups. The first group played a computer game (The...