Electronic Book of Network Security: Introduction to Network Security

Technology is now widely used in a variety of educational support situations to improve the quality of education. It can be used to redress the imbalances of the old system and help in developing new teaching and learning strategies. The basis of this project is to design and develop an electronic book (E-book) tutorial to teach the basics of network security. E-books are developed with the intentions of overcoming the limitations of paper books. They have the advantages over paper books in that they are dynamic, reactive and able to provide the same features as well as new features such as hyper-linking, multimedia technology, digital annotating, digital book-marking and searching function. This project will pay particular attention to features and functionality of the e-book rather that the contents of the book. This project will involve the development of software application that will combine multimedia elements such as high-quality sound, text, photo images, two and three-dimensional graphics and animation into learning environment. The E-book will be created using Macromedia Authorware. In order to add interactivity and enhance the user interfaces to the e-book, Macromedia F1ash MX and Adobe Photoshop will be used. Finally, there will also be a quiz section for the user after they read the e-book

Study behaviours in an increasingly digital world: Learning habits, top tips and 'study hacks' questionnaire survey

In response to recent changes in the higher education market, student performance and competitor activity, The Open University has developed strategic objectives around a shift to developing ‘digital by design’ modules and the development of new digital tools to improve student success rates. In order to design effective tools, this initial piece of research was designed to understand more about students’ current study behaviours. The survey was built on a framework with student success at the centre, and generated a great deal of rich, qualitative data about how current distance learning students approach their study. The data was analysed using a thematic analysis, and produced a number of interesting themes. These included a variety of digital personas; priorities when organising study sessions; note-taking methods and reasons for making notes; and boundaries. The practical applications of these findings are some embryonic concepts for new tools and digital spaces for students that encourage the development of successful study behaviours. These concepts are being developed in conjunction with a rigorous research plan

Recurrent mathematical model of the process of automatic navigational markup of audiobooks

We propose a mathematical model and a recurrent algorithm to perform the automatic navigational markup of audiobooks by their exact text electronic equivalent. This approach allows to convert unmarked audiobooks into DAISYbooks for people with visual impairments. A speech synthesizer converts each markup fragment of the text of the book into an audio signal. We search an audio fragment closest to the speech synthesizer audio signal in specific borders of the audiobook using the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm. As a result, we automatically obtain the markup of the audiobook. We investigated statistical characteristics of markup errors

An Investigation into the development of a software tool for design of book pages

A method of designing a readable book that does not require the user to have expert knowledge of book layout is studied and implemented by designing a computer software program. Traditional book design techniques are researched and the findings are used to plan the software\u27s workflow and functionality. The concept is based on the use of pre-defined typographic options that the user can choose from to meet the particular needs of an individual book project. Other features guide the user through the book design process using a step-by-step approach. A working demonstration version of the soft ware concept is developed and presented to a group of graphics-industry professionals who have various degrees of graphic and book design experience. Their feedback is reported using a questionnaire. Upon evaluating the responses, the software concept is found to be a very successful solution to the problem

Entire Issue Volume 26, Number 1

Complete issue of Vol. 26, No. 1 of The Primary Source

Current-Traditional Rhetoric and the Hodges Harbrace Handbook: A Study in the Disconnect Between Theory and Practice

In the 1980s and 1990s, current-traditional rhetoric (CTR) was a popular topic in rhetoric and composition scholarship as the field justified its move away from CTR in an attempt to offer more authentic and process-based forms of writing instruction. Since that time, however, scholarship on the topic has decreased, likely because scholarship has dismissed CTR as a viable composition pedagogy. Though CTR is no longer a popular topic in scholarship, it should still be addressed in scholarship because there are still writing instructors who utilize it to teach writing as a prescriptive, form-first endeavor that minimizes the role of audience and purpose. This dissertation argues that CTR still exists, and as such, should receive more attention in composition scholarship. One of the reasons that CTR still exists is because the conditions that gave rise to it still exist, but most important here is that CTR still exists because it is perpetuated through textbooks, particularly the purported best-selling textbook of all time, the Hodges Harbrace Handbook. This dissertation traces the origins of the Hodges Harbrace Handbook as well as the history of John C. Hodges, the text’s initial author, as a means of illustrating the ways that a pedagogical theory, CTR, which has been dismissed in scholarship, continues to make its way into composition classrooms. This dissertation also discusses the problematic implications of the text’s continued use in college composition classrooms and proposes public pedagogy as one possible alternative to CTR because of its ability to reintroduce the components of writing that are removed in CTR

The Unruliness of Rules

Analytical jurisprudence depends on a posited relation between rules and morality. Before we may answer persistent and important questions of legal theory - indeed, before we can even know what those questions are - we must understand not just the operation of rules but their operation in relation to morality. Once that relationship is formulated, we may then come to terms with the likes of inductive reasoning in Law, the role of precedent, and the fit, such as it is, between Natural Law and Positivism as well as even the coincidence (or lack thereof) between inclusive and exclusive positivism. That is the thesis of The Rule of Rules ( Rules ). Professors Larry Alexander and Emily Sherwin of the University of San Diego School of Law have written what would be (and what may be) a prolegomenon. They use the rules-morality d uality to reveal a cleavage in the Law that could intimate the ultimate moral impossibility of Law. So their critique is comprehensive. The cleavage, or gap, they identify is a function of rules\u27 operation as the bases of authoritative settlement and it is authoritative settlement that responds to what a primitive, prelegal, community lacks.3 An account of Rules\u27s contribution must engage the authors\u27 conception of the rules-morality tension because that tension provides the lens through which the authors build a jurisprudence, or at least a jurisprudential perspective. This Review considers the cogency of their conclusions if they have posited the rules-morality tension accurately and asks some of the questions required to determine whether their formulation can support the weight they would impose on it