Examining the five‐stage e‐moderating model: Designed and emergent practice in the learning technology profession

This paper highlights the need for learning technologists to establish their ‘academic legitimacy’ within the complexities of online learning and teaching practice. Frameworks such as the ‘five stage e‐moderating model’ can be useful in developing the knowledge base but there are dangers in them becoming too reified within an increasingly commodified higher education (HE) environment. The paper calls for greater professional reflexivity and contestation within learning technology practice and concludes by inviting the Alt‐J readership to engage in a critical debate with regard to these issues

On reification: A reinterpretation of designed and emergent practice ‐ a reply

We welcome the response of Chris Tompsett and Graham Alsop to our article (Lisewski and Joyce, 2003). Within its ‘stricter analysis’, it is thoughtful and incisive, presenting an interesting critique of our ideas. However, we cannot help but think that the authors have missed the point. Indeed, if we wish to be mischievous we woidd argue that their response is an exemplar of some of the concerns we wanted to raise in our original article

An analysis of preferences of sixth grade elementary pupils in the field of language.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Attitudes of mothers and fathers of schizophrenic patients.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Robotic air vehicle. Blending artificial intelligence with conventional software

The Robotic Air Vehicle (RAV) system is described. The program's objectives were to design, implement, and demonstrate cooperating expert systems for piloting robotic air vehicles. The development of this system merges conventional programming used in passive navigation with Artificial Intelligence techniques such as voice recognition, spatial reasoning, and expert systems. The individual components of the RAV system are discussed as well as their interactions with each other and how they operate as a system

Changes in Mean Global Physical Parameters of Blazhko RR Lyrae stars -- Derived from Multicolor Photometry

We developed an Inverse Photometric method (IPM) to determine global physical parameters of RR Lyrae stars exclusively from multicolor light curves (S\'odor, Jurcsik & Szeidl, 2009, MNRAS, 394, 261). We showed that for good quality photometric observations of unmodulated RRab stars, the IPM gives similarly good results as direct Baade-Wesselink analyses do, but without the need for spectroscopic measurements. In the course of the development, we payed special attention to the applicability of the IPM for modulated RR Lyrae stars. Since there is no simultaneous spectroscopic radial velocity and photometric observations of any Blazhko star with good phase coverage both in pulsation and modulation, which would allow spectroscopic Baade-Wesselink analysis, the IPM is the only possibility today to study changes in the global physical parameters of Blazhko RR Lyrae stars during the modulation cycle. With the IPM, we have studied the extensive multicolor light curves of 4 Blazhko RRab stars we observed with the 24-inch telescope of the Konkoly Observatory during the past 5 years in the frame of the Konkoly Blazhko Survey. Small but unambiguous changes in the pulsation-averaged mean temperature, mean radius and mean luminosity have been detected in each star. Results on these Blazhko stars (SS Cnc, DM Cyg, RR Gem, and MW Lyr) are shown in this paper.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure. Appeared in STELLAR PULSATION: CHALLENGES FOR THEORY AND OBSERVATION: Proceedings of the International Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1170, pp. 294-298 (2009

New Results of the Konkoly Blazhko Group

During the recent years the Konkoly Blazhko Group (PIs Johanna Jurcsik and B\'ela Szeidl, co-workers \'Ad\'am S\'odor, Zsombor Hurta and several undergraduate, graduate students) published new important results of Blazhko variables in 15 reviewed Journal articles. These results utilize multicolor CCD observations obtained with an automatic 60 cm telescope, and also previously unpublished Konkoly archive photometric data. Our light curves are the most extended multicolor data-sets ever obtained for a Blazhko variable, the observations cover each phase of the pulsation and the modulation as well. We have detected many previously unknown features of the light curve modulation, and based on the different band's observations we also revealed the underlying variations of the mean physical parameters during the Blazhko cycle. In my contribution the main achievements of the Konkoly Blazhko Group are summarised.Comment: in "Stellar Pulsation: Challenges for Theory and Observation", Eds. J. Guzik and P. Bradley. (5 pages, 5 figures

Cruise Report C-137 : scientific activities undertaken aboard SSV Corwith Cramer, Miami - Little San Salvador - Jamaica - Honduras - Miami, February 7 - March 17, 1995

Miami, FL - Little San Salvador - Jamaica - Honduras - Miami, February 7 - March 17, 1995This cruise report outlines the scientific research and academic program conducted on board SSV Corwith Cramer during C-137. It consists of a list of student projects completed during this cruise and data that are being incorporated into long-term studies of the SEA staff and associated researchers. The bulk of this report was written at sea. It is not intended to represent a final analysis or interpretation of data generated during C-137. C-137 was a very successful cruise in every respect. Research operations provided a wealth of rich and varied information. The weather was perfect for sailing and sampling for most of the cruise, with only the last leg proving challenging to staff, students, sails, and ultimately, the engine. We were able to complete a great number of stations during C-137, many using the new Carousel sampling device and a-frame. This equipment is changing the way in which cruises and sampling programs can be planned and conducted by SEA, while retaining the educational value of traditional equipment such as the mechanical bathythermograph