Conceptual Linking: Ontology-based Open Hypermedia

This paper describes the attempts of the COHSE project to define and deploy a Conceptual Open Hypermedia Service. Consisting of • an ontological reasoning service which is used to represent a sophisticated conceptual model of document terms and their relationships; • a Web-based open hypermedia link service that can offer a range of different link-providing facilities in a scalable and non-intrusive fashion; and integrated to form a conceptual hypermedia system to enable documents to be linked via metadata describing their contents and hence to improve the consistency and breadth of linking of WWW documents at retrieval time (as readers browse the documents) and authoring time (as authors create the documents)

Conceptual Linking: Ontology-based Open Hypermedia

This paper describes the attempts of the COHSE project to define and deploy a Conceptual Open Hypermedia Service. Consisting of • an ontological reasoning service which is used to represent a sophisticated conceptual model of document terms and their relationships; • a Web-based open hypermedia link service that can offer a range of different link-providing facilities in a scalable and non-intrusive fashion; and integrated to form a conceptual hypermedia system to enable documents to be linked via metadata describing their contents and hence to improve the consistency and breadth of linking of WWW documents at retrieval time (as readers browse the documents) and authoring time (as authors create the documents)

The Shape of Thought: Subject, Executor, Author

Descartes conspicuous realisation in the 17th century that reason alone could not validate itself led inexorably to the idea that God must be the form of metaphysical force that could supply the ultimate support that would allow us to know our own thoughts for certain. Similarly, Hume’s extraordinary insight in the 18th century that our experiences are not intrinsically connected in terms of how we enjoy them led him to require that something natural (viz. Nature itself) must be posited to hold them together and put us back into the world of common sense. This paper takes its departure from these self-supporting Cartesian and Humean claims and then tries to show how various other intellectual ideas and developments can be explained using a set of more general circular arguments (both virtuous and the vicious) that are framed in broadly Žizekian terms

Action Replay: Theorising the Enhancement of Learning Experience through Portable Technological Delivery Systems

This refereed international conference paper was written at the invitation of the organising committee of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ICTE 2002). The paper reported on research undertaken in conjunction with a funded project for the Centre for Education and Learning Technology at Goldsmiths to evaluate theoretical and practical uses of technology in the curriculum through contextual 'shifts' in site. The paper showed how portable technologies (eg Audio Guides, PDAs, mobile phones) allied to innovative pedagogic methods can enhance learning; extending learning from its traditional sites in school to everyday spaces (shopping arcades, streets, etc). The first section of research showed how altering the format of information delivery by using such things as ATGs, PDAs, can enhance student experience within the spatial paradigm of the university. It demonstrated that if human beings are guided by the need to make and mark, plot and plan, situate and sign significant spaces, then more innovative forms of teaching are required to expose how these spaces work to influence our understanding of the world. The second section showed how we could make shifts in the context of delivery by changing learning spaces to transmute 'communication into an original journey' (De Certeau, 1984: xxi). Here handheld technologies were investigated in spatial contexts to move beyond the standardised fields of educational encounter, thus '�shifting' us to embrace new public arenas (e.g. high street, shopping centre, arcade) for educational purposes (Benjamin, 2002). These spaces reveal how (and where) the cultures of consumerism that we need to analyse (whether in anthropology, sociology, politics or design) are enacted. This piece of work provided the basis of consultancy work for Espro Information Technologies Ltd (Israel) [www.espro.com], a leader in the field of software and hardware for international museums

Using the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms - 34 (CCAPS-34) to Predict Premature Termination in a College Counseling Sample

Swift and Greenberg (2012) observed that variables influencing the decision to drop out fluctuate according to the primary presenting problem, the amount of structure in therapy, the length of treatment, and the clinical setting. Due to these reports, researchers may focus on predictors of premature termination (PT) in treatment settings where the unique situational characteristics may have an idiosyncratic influence on the decision to withdraw from services (Phillips, 1985; Swift & Greenberg, 2012). The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine client characteristics that impact dropout in University Based Clinics (UBC). Results from the logistic regression analysis indicated higher levels of social anxiety and lower levels of pretherapy functional impairment reduced the probability of PT. Findings from the Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis suggested higher levels of hostility and generalized anxiety may predict an increase the dropout rate even when accounting for the protective influence of social anxiety and higher levels of pretherapy functioning. Lastly, results from the Survival Analysis suggested the risk of PT was lowest during the early stages of counseling and steadily increased for clients who remained in services. These findings indicate that higher levels of social anxiety and lower levels of pretherapy functioning may partially attenuate the risk of PT as clients progress along the episode of care. Results from this analysis were triangulated against the existing PT literature and implications for teaching, practice, and future research are discussed

High Flight - The Poetry of John Magee

John Magee, a young pilot who died at the age of 19 in an air crash in 1941,left an iconic sonnet which has become known to thousands of airmen since his death. This programme explored Magee's short life, and the resonances created by the 14 lines of his famous poem, "High Flight