Kolb Interrupted : An investigation into students' experience of an experiential learning approach to entrepreneurship education

Entrepreneurial activity is widely regarded as a primary driver of socio-economic development. Alongside structural and systemic support, entrepreneurship education is a critical factor in improving entrepreneurial activity. While entrepreneurship education initiatives abound, little is understood about the effectiveness and pedagogical basis of these programmes, especially from the perspective of the student. This thesis focuses on a case study of a South African programme of entrepreneurship education designed around Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle. The research employs a phenomenographic framework to identify the qualitatively different ways in which students experience this experiential learning approach to entrepreneurship education. This research shows that students' ways of experiencing learning can be characterised in one of two ways; a superficial way of experiencing learning in which students takes on a less sophisticated and surface view of learning, and an immersed way of experiencing learning in which students' engage in a deep and sophisticated manner. These ways of experiencing learning suggest two ways in which Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle is interrupted; firstly, at the point of concrete experience, and secondly, at the point of reflective observation. This study makes a contribution to knowledge by examining experiential learning from the perspective of the student, and shows how programmes of entrepreneurship education can be better designed, in order to have an impact on entrepreneurial activity and socio-economic development

Pervasive and standalone computing: The perceptual effects of variable multimedia quality.

The introduction of multimedia on pervasive and mobile communication devices raises a number of perceptual quality issues, however, limited work has been done examining the 3-way interaction between use of equipment, quality of perception and quality of service. Our work measures levels of informational transfer (objective) and user satisfaction (subjective)when users are presented with multimedia video clips at three different frame rates, using four different display devices, simulating variation in participant mobility. Our results will show that variation in frame-rate does not impact a user’s level of information assimilation, however, does impact a users’ perception of multimedia video ‘quality’. Additionally, increased visual immersion can be used to increase transfer of video information, but can negatively affect the users’ perception of ‘quality’. Finally, we illustrate the significant affect of clip-content on the transfer of video, audio and textual information, placing into doubt the use of purely objective quality definitions when considering multimedia presentations

Cutting the Gordian knot: a historical and taxonomic revision of the Jurassic crocodylomorph Metriorhynchus

Figure 3. Metriorhynchus brevirostris holotype MHNG V-2232. A, anterior view; B, posterior view. See text for anatomical abbreviations.Published as part of Young, Mark T., Brignon, Arnaud, Sachs, Sven, Hornung, Jahn J., Foffa, Davide, Kitson, James J. N., Johnson, Michela M. & Steel, Lorna, 2021, Cutting the Gordian knot: a historical and taxonomic revision of the Jurassic crocodylomorph Metriorhynchus, pp. 510-553 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192 (2) on page 535, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa092, http://zenodo.org/record/701700

The taxonomy, mode of life and ecology of the callovian crocodiles from the East Midlands of England

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LEO and its Applications: The Beginning of Business Computing

LEO was the world’s first business computer. It was built by J. Lyons & Co., a catering company, to meet its own needs and led the way for several years with its succession of integrated applications. Developments are placed in the context of the technological constraints of the early years of electronic stored-program computing. 1

Widening participation in science education: the potential for distance learning to deliver programmes of study in foundation level science

The College of Science (COS) at Wits University in South Africa has been running a successful access course to the faculty of Science for over ten years. In this time, more than 370 BSc graduates have emerged from this programme. However, this programme offers access to only 200 students per year. The COS decided to broaden access to its programmes by making its existing courses in physics, chemistry, biology, earth sciences and mathematics available in open learning format. This article provides the rationale and description of the project and presents some early findings on the research into the piloting of this programme in its first year. SAJHE Vol.18(1) 2004: 382-39

Book Review ~ Keeping Students in Higher Education: Successful practices and strategies for retention. Authors: D. Moxley, A. Najor-Durack and C. Dumbrigue

I agree entirely with the authors’ notion of student retention that permeates this book, namely that: “Retention is not merely keeping students in higher education. It is also about helping each student develop as a successful student, navigating some of the most important years of adult life.” However, this important idea is contained among a somewhat bewildering array of ideas on the complex topic of retention in the higher education sector