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Mental tactility: the ascendance of writing in online management education
A qualitative study of online management education and the role of writing as an indicative measure of thinking and learning. Established educational models, such as Dale\u27s Cone of Experience, are expanded and redeveloped to illustrate the central role of writing as a critical thinking process which appears to be increasing, rather than decreasing, with the advent of online multimedia technology. In an environment of increasing reliance on audiovisual stimulus in online education, the authors contend that tertiary educators may witness an ascendance or re-emergence of writing as central to the academic experience. This may be both supply and demand driven. Drawing on a study of two undergraduate units in the Bachelor of Commerce and applying hermeneutics to develop challenging insights, the authors present a case for educators to remain conversant with the art of teaching writing, and to promote writing to improve educational outcomes. <br /
Persistent Contextual Values as Inter-Process Layers
Mobile applications today often fail to be context aware when they also need
to be customizable and efficient at run-time. Context-oriented programming
allows programmers to develop applications that are more context aware. Its
central construct, the so-called layer, however, is not customizable. We
propose to use novel persistent contextual values for mobile development.
Persistent contextual values automatically adapt their value to the context.
Furthermore they provide access without overhead. Key-value configuration files
contain the specification of contextual values and the persisted contextual
values themselves. By modifying the configuration files, the contextual values
can easily be customized for every context. From the specification, we generate
code to simplify development. Our implementation, called Elektra, permits
development in several languages including C++ and Java. In a benchmark we
compare layer activations between threads and between applications. In a case
study involving a web-server on a mobile embedded device the performance
overhead is minimal, even with many context switches.Comment: 8 pages Mobile! 16, October 31, 2016, Amsterdam, Netherland
Where are your Manners? Sharing Best Community Practices in the Web 2.0
The Web 2.0 fosters the creation of communities by offering users a wide
array of social software tools. While the success of these tools is based on
their ability to support different interaction patterns among users by imposing
as few limitations as possible, the communities they support are not free of
rules (just think about the posting rules in a community forum or the editing
rules in a thematic wiki). In this paper we propose a framework for the sharing
of best community practices in the form of a (potentially rule-based)
annotation layer that can be integrated with existing Web 2.0 community tools
(with specific focus on wikis). This solution is characterized by minimal
intrusiveness and plays nicely within the open spirit of the Web 2.0 by
providing users with behavioral hints rather than by enforcing the strict
adherence to a set of rules.Comment: ACM symposium on Applied Computing, Honolulu : \'Etats-Unis
d'Am\'erique (2009
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CS Circles: An In-Browser Python Course for Beginners
Computer Science Circles is a free programming website for beginners that is
designed to be fun, easy to use, and accessible to the broadest possible
audience. We teach Python since it is simple yet powerful, and the course
content is well-structured but written in plain language. The website has over
one hundred exercises in thirty lesson pages, plus special features to help
teachers support their students. It is available in both English and French. We
discuss the philosophy behind the course and its design, we describe how it was
implemented, and we give statistics on its use.Comment: To appear in SIGCSE 201
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