This blog is a quick (i.e. not comprehensive) introduction to blogging for educators, with hands-on steps for getting started in using MovableType as well as some conjecture on using MT in different educational contexts.
Using behavioral (psychophysics) and brain imaging (fMRI) techniques, the lab focuses
on studying what drives the ability of the human brain to change with experience and
establish effective long-term memory
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858-867(May 2009)The benefit of PowerPoint™ is continuously debated, but both supporters and detractors have insufficient empirical evidence. Its use in university lectures has influenced investigations of PowerPoint’s effects on student performance (e.g., overall quiz....
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35-44(January 2009)The purpose of this study was to create and evaluate personalised virtual learning spaces (PVLSs) in a course that was previously delivered face-to-face only. The study addressed three related questions: (1) Can a PVLS successfully be introduced into a....
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17-33(August-September 2004)A number of pedagogies and approaches are often quoted in the e-learning literature – constructivism, communities of practice, collaboration – but we suggest that much of what is described could more easily be explained in terms of didactic and behavio....