http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:9637 The 18 minutes video programme includes conversations with various people concerning children's art and its value, both children and adults, one of whom is the artist, Michael Leunig. It's produced at the Centre for Flexible Leaning, Macquarie University, video concept and co-curators by Margaret White and Christine Stevenson, direction and editing by Fabian Astore. 2010-10-08T05:01:37.787Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:8306 Virtual Geology Excursions is an entirely online postgraduate unit, targeted at practising secondary science teachers. The primary aim of the unit is to raise awareness of ICT rescources and how they can be used to enhance secondary teaching in the earth sciences, and to give teachers the confidence and technical skills to find, evaluate, adapt and create resources for use in their classrooms. The philosophy and structure of the unit are discussed, as is the challenge of developing an effective online unit suitable for professional education. 2010-06-03T23:10:23.842Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:6040 Conference held on the 28-29 November 2002. 2010-05-21T05:10:06.894Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2197 This paper reports on a research project investigating the deployment of two different wikis in two Masters of IT subjects. As well, two different learning task designs were used (weekly whole class extension question tasks versus semester long group projects) providing further basis for comparison and contrast within the project. Data collection mechanisms included a 22 item student survey, interviews with academics and observations on student contributions to the wikis. Key results regarding students' patterns of behaviour, the impact of learning task design upon contributions, the effect of training, and the quality of the wiki applications themselves are discussed. Based on these results, a set of 12 principles for implementing wiki based learning tasks are recommended. 2010-03-23T15:39:39.291Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:6913 Students are becoming accustomed to using the Internet as an information source that supplements or replaces the normal institutional and classroom handout. However, the use of full electronic books through the Internet or CD instead of a printed full text book is a uniquely different experience, not only for these students but also for academics and their institutions. This study describes the initiative of constructing, publishing, prescribing and using an online text book for use by students in a postgraduate accounting course at an Australian university. The experience provides valuable insights that suggest the need for changes to hardware and software facilities in homes, offices and learning institutions, to students' expectations, and to purchase interfaces and text display, before electronic text books can be readily accepted as an alternative learning tool. It is encouraging from the accounting students' feedback that there was no strong evidence of rejection of the e-book as a learning tool, despite the current technological difficulties associated with its use. This is a positive sign for the hopefully not too distant future use of this learning tool in accounting education. 2010-03-22T08:15:30.869Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4872 The use of public pages for study units helps to promote strategic aims of the university in the provision of information gateways, ease of access to and global sharing of information, marketing, student decision making and the promotion of e-learning. Using a case study and examples the paper will show why and how a team of people with skills in graphic and web design, educational development, e-learning and content expertise marry the requirements of aesthetics, functionality and content to develop a series of public pages, including splash pages, to establish a visual identity for and textual information about a unit of study. 2010-03-22T07:20:05.833Z ]]>