Technology-Enhanced Research: Educational ICT Systems as Research Instruments

Richard Cox

Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 16, No. 3 (October 2007) pp. 337–356

Determining the potential of educational information and communications technology for enhancing teaching and learning is the subject of a great deal of research activity. This paper argues that the technologies employed to enhance learning can also ...

Representation construction, externalised cognition and individual differences

Richard Cox

Learning and Instruction Vol. 9, No. 4 (1999) pp. 343–363

This article discusses the cognitive differences between reasoning with self-constructed external representations (ERs) and reasoning with presented representations (e.g. textbook diagrams). Examples of ERs produced by subjects solving reasoning...

Language: English

Educating the American Archivist for the Twenty-First Century

Richard J. Cox

Journal of Education for Library and Information Science Vol. 34, No. 1 (1993) pp. 3–73

Five articles consider archival education in the United States. Topics include a proposed graduate program in archival studies and its relationship to the profession's history; the integration of theory, methodology, and practice; educational...

Twenty Years On: Reflections on "Supporting the Use of External Representations in Problem Solving"…

Richard Cox; Paul Brna

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education Vol. 26, No. 1 (2016) pp. 193–204

We reflect upon a paper we wrote that was published in 1995 (20 years ago). We outline the motivation for the work and situate it in the state of the art at that time. We suggest that a key contribution was to highlight the need to provide support...

Researching Archival Reference as an Information Function: Observations on Needs and Opportunities

Richard J. Cox

RQ Vol. 31, No. 3 (1992) pp. 387–97

Reviews research and writing on reference services in archives. Topics discussed include user studies of archives; the accuracy and efficiency of archival reference; the impact of technology on research in archives; interaction between researchers...

The American Archival Profession and Information Technology Standards

Richard J. Cox

Journal of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 43, No. 8 (1992) pp. 571–75

Discussion of the use of standards by archivists highlights the U.S. MARC AMC (Archives-Manuscript Control) format for reporting archival records and manuscripts; their interest in specific standards being developed for the OSI (Open Systems...

The Ethics of Teaching

Richard J. Cox

portal: Libraries and the Academy Vol. 16, No. 2 (2016) pp. 247–261

Ask any tenure-stream or tenured faculty member about how well prepared he or she was for entering the academy, and you will get a clear sense of a lack of preparation. One estimate is that only about 50 percent received any training for university...

Readers Write: Shults on "Computers and Academic Survival': Some Questions." TETYC 13 (1986): 178-83

David Shults; Don Richard Cox

Teaching English in the Two-Year College Vol. 14, No. 3 (1987) pp. 170–73

Offers comments on an article appearing in a recent issue of this journal in which the writer argued that word processing enhances student writing performance. Includes a response by the article's author, Don Richard Cox. (FL)

Reinventing the Information Professions and the Argument for Specialization in LIS Education: Case Studies in Archives and Information Technology

Richard J. Cox; Edie Rasmussen

Journal of Education for Library and Information Science Vol. 38, No. 4 (1997) pp. 255–67

Considers the need for specialization in library and information science education as opposed to a more generalized entry degree, and presents two case studies to further discuss the issue, one in archival science and one in information systems and...

Hacking Blackboard: Customizing Access to Library Resources through the Blackboard Course Management System

Lynda M. Kellam; Richard Cox; Hannah Winkler

Journal of Web Librarianship Vol. 3, No. 4 (2009) pp. 349–363

Academic libraries have long been trying to gain access to users through their favorite online spaces, such as social networking sites. In this article a project of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's University Libraries, which...

Vicarious Learning from Dialogue and Discourse

Richard Cox; Jean McKendree; Richard Tobin; John Lee; Terry Mayes

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 27, No. 6 (1999) pp. 431–58

Examines learning in the domain of sentence parsing and syntax tree-diagram construction to assess whether subjects could learn "vicariously" from recordings of interactions between a previous student and a tutor. Findings indicate that reusable...