This paper provides a summary account of Activity-Centred Analysis and Design (ACAD). ACAD offers a practical approach to analysing complex learning situations, in a way that can generate knowledge that is reusable in subsequent (re)design work. ACAD has been developed over the last two decades. It has been tested and refined through collaborative analyses of a large number of complex learning situations and through research studies involving experienced and inexperienced design teams. The paper offers a definition and high level description of ACAD and goes on to explain the underlying motivation. The paper also provides an overview of two current areas of development in ACAD: the creation of explicit design rationales and the ACAD toolkit for collaborative design meetings. As well as providing some ideas that can help teachers, design teams and others discuss and agree on their working methods, ACAD has implications for some broader issues in educational technology research and development. It questions some deep assumptions about the framing of research and design thinking, in the hope that fresh ideas may be useful to people involved in leadership and advocacy roles in the field.
Task analysis is the systematic study of how users complete tasks to achieve their goals. This knowledge ensures products and services are designed to efficiently and appropriately support those goals.
"a beautiful article. There's code, there's math. There are many plotted examples using a variety of different plotting techniques (in total, representing a 2d array as data, or in black/white, or with a terrible 'jet' colormap, or as a 3d terrain."
Altmetric measurements derived from the social web are increasingly advocated and used as early indicators of article impact and usefulness. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic scientific evidence that altmetrics are valid proxies of either impact or utility although a few case studies have reported medium correlations between specific altmetrics and citation rates for individual journals or fields. Finally, the coverage of all the altmetrics except for Twitter seems to be low and so it is not clear if they are prevalent enough to be useful in practice.
Explosionen in Kraftwerken, Krankenhäusern und Rüstungsanlagen erschüttern seit Tagen die Islamische Republik. Sind sie Teil einer asymmetrischen Attacke?
This book is an interactive introduction to the theory and applications of complex functions from a visual point of view. However, it does not cover all the topics of a standard course. In fact, it is a collection of selected topics and interactive applets that can be used as a supplementary learning resource by anyone interested in learning this fascinating branch of mathematics.
The notes cover introduction to proofs, axioms of fields, complex numbers, some topology, and limits, continuity, derivatives, integrals, sequences and series. For teaching proof writing, many proofs contain in red color parts of proofs that should not be written down but should be thought.
Streamlining the incident post-mortem process is key to helping teams get the most from their post-mortem time investment and learn from previous issues. Read on to learn why you should conduct post-mortems, best practices to follow, and what blameless post-mortems are all about.
In this post, the Netflix Performance Engineering team will show you the first 60 seconds of an optimized performance investigation at the command line, using standard Linux tools.
To assist European universities to become more mature users and custodians of digital data about their students as they learn online, the SHEILA project will build a policy development framework that promotes formative assessment and personalized learning, by taking advantage of direct engagement of stakeholders in the development process.
Here, as much for my convenience as anyone else's, is a list of the theorems that have appeared here, with links. Bézout's theorem The intermediate value theorem Vinogradov's three primes theorem Van der Waerden's theorem The square root of 2 is irrational The binomial theorem The Banach-Tarski paradox Eulerian circuits Bachet's duplication formula Lagrange's theorem…
J. Tane. Formal Concept Analysis, Third International Conf., ICFCA 2005-Supplementary Volume, page 62--78. IUT de Lens, Universite d Artois, (February 2006)
R. Jäschke, A. Hotho, C. Schmitz, and G. Stumme. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, volume 4604 of LNCS, Sheffield, England, (July 2007)