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Malcolm Field
Future University Hakodate
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Starting from Scratch – Lifting the Educational Resource Curse
Ian Frank; Malcolm Field
Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 1402–1407
We apply the economics analogy of the “resource curse” to education, suggesting that an abundance of technology can actually correlate negatively with outcome. Our situation in a “regional” technology-focused university is that students are not, in...
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Crossing the Discipline Divide: Building Learning Contexts
Malcolm Field; Michael Vallance; Toshio Yamamoto
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 84–89
In this paper we discuss the continuing, iterative process of creating an inter-disciplinary course linking Communication and Design Technology. Although technology is an integral component of the university’s vision for current and future curricula,...
Topics: Communication, Students
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Closing The Loop: Towards A Low-Cost “LAN” (Learning through Authentic Narrative) Infrastructure for Community and Cross-Cultural Empowerment
Ian Frank; Malcolm Field; Dominic Bagenda; Kenichi Shiiya
Global Learn 2011 (Mar 28, 2011) pp. 491–500
We present an unconventional “whole system” approach to Open Educational Resources (OERs). Whereas a significant proportion of existing OER content creation can be categorised as “top-down”, we advocate a perspective that privileges the bottom-up ...