Creating Minimalist Instruction

John Carroll

International Journal of Designs for Learning Vol. 5, No. 2 (Nov 03, 2014)

The early 1980s were disruptive for computing. In many countries, the set of persons who regularly used computing expanded rapidly from a tiny and homogeneous set of data processing professionals to include nearly everyone. The dawn of the “new user”...

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Drama, Digital Pre-Text and Social Media

John Carroll; David Cameron

Research in Drama Education Vol. 14, No. 2 (May 2009) pp. 295–312

This article presents a case study of Australian secondary school students as co-creators of a dramatic pre-text, using online and mobile media to develop an improvisation-based drama that introduces a textual study. Integrating recognised dramatic...

Evaluating coursework in computer games degrees: Students and assessors as virtual characters

Barry Ip; Martin Capey; Andrew Baker; John Carroll; John Carroll

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2009)

This paper explores a relatively new area in the design and development of assessment procedures for the evaluation of coursework and student performance on computer and video games degrees. Emphasis is placed on an assessment which involves the...

Fostering an Informal Learning Community of Computer Technologies at School

Lu Xiao; John M. Carroll

Behaviour & Information Technology Vol. 26, No. 1 (2007) pp. 23–36

Computer technologies develop at a challenging fast pace. Formal education should not only teach students basic computer skills to meet current computer needs, but also foster student development of informal learning ability for a lifelong learning...

A Case Library for Teaching Usability Engineering: Design Rationale, Development, and Classroom Experience

John M. Carroll; Mary Beth Rosson

Journal on Educational Resources in Computing Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2005)

Case studies of professional software development practices describe how real (or realistic) projects are planned and executed. Cases provide engaging models of the activities and materials of software development to students and other novice...

Distributed Collaborative Homework Activities in a Problem-Based Usability Engineering Course

John M. Carroll; Hao Jiang; Marcela Borge

Education and Information Technologies Vol. 20, No. 3 (September 2015) pp. 589–617

Teams of students in an upper-division undergraduate Usability Engineering course used a collaborative environment to carry out a series of three distributed collaborative homework assignments. Assignments were case-based analyses structured using a ...

Orientation of Undergraduates toward Careers in the Computer and Information Sciences: Gender, Self-Efficacy and Social Support

Mary Beth Rosson; John M. Carroll; Hansa Sinha

ACM Transactions on Computing Education Vol. 11, No. 3 (October 2011)

Researchers have been working to understand the factors that may be contributing to low rates of participation by women and other minorities in the computer and information sciences (CIS). We describe a multivariate investigation of male and female...

Re-Appropriating a Question/Answer System to Support Dialectical Constructivist Learning Activity

John M. Carroll; Yu Wu; Patrick C. Shih; Saijing Zheng

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 64, No. 1 (2016) pp. 137–156

Learning can be engaged by dialectic, that is, by identifying pros and cons that inhere in propositions, and more generally, by raising questions about the validity of claims. We report here on a classroom case study of dialectical constructivist...

Frameworks for Sharing Teaching Practices

John M. Carroll; Mary Beth Rosson; Dan Dunlap; Philip Isenhour

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 8, No. 3 (2005) pp. 162–175

In many organizations, collaborating with peers, sharing resources, and codifying know-how are not typical facets of work activity. For such organizations, knowledge management support must help people identify and orient to opportunities for...

Using Noncontingent Reinforcement to Increase Compliance with Wearing Prescription Prostheses

Sarah M. Richling; John T. Rapp; Regina A. Carroll; Jeanette N. Smith; Aaron Nystedt; Brook Siewert

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis Vol. 44, No. 2 (2011) pp. 375–379

We evaluated the effects of noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) on compliance with wearing foot orthotics and a hearing aid with 2 individuals. Results showed that NCR increased the participants' compliance with wearing prescription prostheses to 100% ...

wConnect: Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community

Mary Beth Rosson; Hansa Sinha; Dejin Zhao; John Carroll; Craig Ganoe; Jan Mahar

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 12, No. 4 (2009) pp. 87–97

We describe our work on seeding and building a developmental learning community for recruiting and retaining women in educational programs and careers related to computing and information science (CIS). Our approach is explicitly participatory: we...

MOOsburg: Multi-User Domain Support for a Community Network

John M. Carroll; Mary Beth Rosson; Philip L. Isenhour; Christina Van Metre; Wendy A. Schafer; Craig H. Ganoe

Internet Research Vol. 11, No. 1 (2001) pp. 65–73

Explains MOOsburg, a community-oriented MOO that models the geography of the town of Blacksburg, Virginia and is designed to be used by local residents. Highlights include the software architecture; client-server communication; spatial database;...