Patterns of use of an agent-based model and a system dynamics model: The application of patterns of use and the impacts on learning outcomes

Kate Thompson; Peter Reimann

Computers & Education Vol. 54, No. 2 (February 2010) pp. 392–403

A classification system that was developed for the use of agent-based models was applied to strategies used by school-aged students to interrogate an agent-based model and a system dynamics model. These were compared, and relationships between...

Language: English

Seeing the System: Dynamics and Complexity of Technology Integration in Secondary Schools

Sarah K. Howard; Kate Thompson

Education and Information Technologies Vol. 21, No. 6 (2016) pp. 1877–1894

This paper introduces system dynamics modeling to understand, visualize and explore technology integration in schools, through the development of a theoretical model of technology-related change in teachers' practice. Technology integration is a...

Collaborative Process Analysis Coding Scheme (CPACS): Examining the Macro- and Micro- Level of Students’ Discourse in a Virtual World

Shannon Kennedy-Clark; Kate Thompson

International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments Vol. 4, No. 2 (April 2013) pp. 19–49

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the value of using discourse analysis to understand users’ interactions in a scenario-based virtual environment. This study investigated six dyads’ synchronous discourses while they worked side-by-side to...

Designing, using and evaluating learning spaces: the generation of actionable knowledge

Paul Flynn; Kate Thompson; Peter Goodyear

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 34, No. 6 (Dec 18, 2018)

Digital educational technologies, like communication technologies more generally, can undermine the tyranny of distance. If we are not careful, we can slip into thinking that they make space and place irrelevant. This is not the case, as the papers...

Language: English

Collaborative learning by modelling: Observations in an online setting

Peter Reimann; Kate Thompson; Miriam Weinel

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2007 (2007) pp. 887–897

Discovering indicators of successful collaboration using tense: Automated extraction of patterns in discourse

Kate Thompson; Shannon Kennedy‐Clark; Penny Wheeler; Nick Kelly

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 45, No. 3 (May 23, 2014) pp. 461–470

This paper describes a technique for locating indicators of success within the data collected from complex learning environments, proposing an application of e-research to access learner processes and measure and track group progress. The technique...

Working the system: Development of a system model of technology integration to inform learning task design

Sarah K. Howard; Kate Thompson; Jie Yang; Jun Ma

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 50, No. 1 (January 2019) pp. 326–341

There has been extensive investigation into factors affecting digital technology integration in learning and teaching, but the complexity of integration continues to elude understanding. Thus, questions about how digital technologies can be best...

The impact of study load on the dynamics of longitudinal email communications among students

Shahadat Uddin; Kate Thompson; Beat Schwendimann; Mahendra Piraveenan

Computers & Education Vol. 72, No. 1 (March 2014) pp. 209–219

With the advent of information technology, emails have gained wide acceptability among students as an asynchronous communication tool. According to the current pedagogy literature the overall trend of the use of email communication by university...

Language: English

4FAD: A framework for mapping the evolution of artefacts in the learning design process

Juan Muoz-Cristbal; Davinia Hernndez-Leo; Lucila Carvalho; Roberto Martinez-Maldonado; Kate Thompson; Dewa Wardak; Peter Goodyear

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 34, No. 2 (Apr 27, 2018)

A number of researchers have explored the role and nature of design in education, proposing a diverse array of life cycle models. Design plays subtly different roles in each of these models. The learning design research community is shifting its...

The synthesis approach to analysing educational design dataset: Application of three scaffolds to a learning by design task for postgraduate education students

Kate Thompson; Lucila Carvalho; Anindito Aditomo; Yannis Dimitriadis; Gregory Dyke; Michael A. Evans; Maryam Khosronejad; Roberto Martinez‐Maldonado; Peter Reimann; Dewa Wardak

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 46, No. 5 (Sep 01, 2015) pp. 1020–1027

The aims of the Synthesis and Scaffolding Project were to understand: the role of specific scaffolds in relation to the activity of learners, and the activity of learners during a collaborative design task from multiple perspectives, through the...