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Gerald L. Stokka and Thomas R. Falkner, Preventive herd health program, Kansas State University, November 1998

Addressing the challenges of a new digital technologies curriculum: MOOCs as a scalable solution for teacher professional development

England and Australia have introduced new learning areas, teaching computer science to children from the first year of school. This is a significant milestone that also raises a number of big challenges: the preparation of teachers and the development of resources at a national scale. Curriculum change is not easy for teachers, in any context, and to ensure teachers are supported, scaled solutions are required. One educational approach that has gained traction for delivering content to large-scale audiences are massively open online courses (MOOCs); however, little is known about what constitutes effective MOOC design, particularly within professional development contexts. To prepare teachers in Australia, we decided to ride the wave of MOOCs, developing a MOOC to deliver free computing content and pedagogy to teachers with the integration of social media to support knowledge exchange and resource building. The MOOC was designed to meet teacher needs, allowing for flexibility, ad-hoc interactions, support and the open sharing of resources. In this paper, we describe the process of developing our initiative, participant engagement and experiences, so that others encountering similar changes and reforms may learn from our experience.Rebecca Vivian, Katrina Falkner and Nickolas Falkne

Coding Across the Curriculum: Resource Review

Final Report (Match 2015) Published online October 2015Katrina Falkner & Rebecca Vivia

Unifying static and dynamic approaches to evolution through the Compliant Systems Architecture

©2004 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.Support for evolution can be classified as static or dynamic. Static evolvability is principally concerned with structuring systems as separated abstractions. Dynamic evolvability is concerned with the means by which change is effected. Dynamic evolution provides the requisite flexibility for application evolution, however, the dynamic approach is not scalable in the absence of static measures to achieve separation of abstractions. This separation comes at a price in that issues of concern become trapped within static abstraction boundaries, thereby inhibiting dynamic evolution. The need for a unified approach has long been recognised but existing systems that attempt to address this need do so in an ad-hoc manner. The principal reason for this is that these approaches fail to resolve the incongruence in the underlying models. Our contention is that this disparity is incidental rather than fundamental to the problem. To this end we propose an alternative model based on the Compliant Systems Architecture (CSA), a structuring methodology for constructing software systems. The overriding benefit of this work is increased flexibility. Specifically our contribution is an instantiation of the CSA that supports unified static and dynamic evolution techniques. Our model is explored through a worked example in which we evolve an application’s concurrency model.Falkner, K.; Detmold, H.; Howard, D.; Munro, D.S.; Morrison, R.; Norcross, S

Scalable surveillance software architecture

Copyright © 2006 IEEEVideo surveillance is a key technology for enhanced protection of facilities such as airports and power stations from various types of threat. Networks of thousands of IP-based cameras are now possible, but current surveillance methodologies become increasingly ineffective as the number of cameras grows. Constructing software that efficiently and reliably deals with networks of this size is a distributed information processing problem as much as it is a video interpretation challenge. This paper demonstrates a software architecture approach to the construction of large scale surveillance network software and explores the implications for instantiating surveillance algorithms at such a scale. A novel architecture for video surveillance is presented, and its efficacy demonstrated through application to an important class of surveillance algorithms.Henry Detmold, Anthony Dick, Katrina Falkner, David S. Munro, Anton van den Hengel, Ron Morriso

Pensamentos em ação

Two musician sociologists asked themselves this question: how can four guys who have never met and who have no written music, meet, shake hands, and start playing in a way that sounds like they’ve been working together for years. Faulkner and Becker decided to answer this question with field research. Because they lived 3,000 miles apart they cooperated via e-mail, thus preserving a record of the creative scientific process as it really occurs.Key words: music, repertoire, fieldwork methods.Dois músicos sociólogos se fizeram a seguinte pergunta: como quatro caras que nunca se encontraram e que não têm nenhuma música escrita, apertam as mãos, e começam a tocar de uma forma que parece que eles estão trabalhando juntos há anos? Faulkner e Becker decidiram responder a pergunta com pesquisa de campo. Porque viviam a 3.000 milhas de distância eles cooperaram via email, preservando, assim, um registro do processo científico criativo como ele realmente ocorre.Palavras-chave: música, repertório, métodos depesquisa de campo