Digital Technologies and Cognitive Development Or (2009)
Can our theories of learning help us understand what people are doing when they learn through interaction with networked, integrated, interactive digital technologies?
A Theory of Learning for the Mobile Age (pre-print) (2008)
Mike Sharples, Josie Taylor, Giasemi Vavoula
‘A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability....
E-Assessment using Latent Semantic Analysis (2008)
Debra Haley, Pete Thomas, Bashar Nuseibeh, Josie Taylor, Paul Lefrere
E-assessment is an important component of e-learning and e-qualification. Formative and summative assessment serve different purposes and both types of evaluation are critical to the pedagogical...
The Learning Grid and E-Assessment using Latent Semantic Analysis (2008)
Debra Trusso Haley, Pete Thomas, Bashar Nuseibeh, Josie Taylor, Paul Lefrere
email: [D.T.Haley, P.G.Thomas, B.Nuseibeh, J.Taylor] [at] open.ac.uk
Towards a Task Model for Mobile Learning: a Dialectical Approach (2008)
Josie Taylor, Mike Sharples, Giasemi Vavoula, Jenny Waycott
mobile learning; Our approach to understanding mobile learning begins by describing a dialectical approach to the development and presentation of a task model using the sociocognitive engineering...
Mole Sumner Taylor, Peter Twining, Tamara Sumner, Josie Taylor
INTRODUCTION When forecasting the learning situation of the future, we often envision students working with a wide array of on-line tools -- ranging from standard office productivity tools, to...
Towards a task model for mobile learning: a dialectical approach (2006)
Taylor, Josie, Sharples, Mike, O'Malley, Claire, Vavoula, Giasemi, Waycott, Jenny
Our approach to understanding mobile learning begins by describing a dialectical approach to the development and presentation of a task model using the socio-cognitive engineering design method. This...
A Theory of Learning for the Mobile Age (2006)
Sharples, Mike, Taylor, Josie, Vavoula, Giasemi
Our aim is to propose a theory of learning for a mobile society. It encompasses both learning supported by mobile devices such as cellular (mobile) phones, portable computers and personal audio...
A Theory of Learning for the Mobile Age (2006)
Sharples, Mike, Taylor, Josie, Vavoula, Giasemi
Our aim is to propose a theory of learning for a mobile society. It encompasses both learning supported by mobile devices such as cellular (mobile) phones, portable computers and personal audio...
The Learning Grid and E-Assessment using Latent Semantic Analysis (2005)
Haley, Debra, Nuseibeh, Bashar, Thomas, Pete, Taylor, Josie, Lefrere, Paul
E-assessment is an important component of e-learning and e-qualification. Formative and summative assessment serve different purposes and both types of evaluation are critical to the...
This case study describes the multipurpose use of scenarios in a large multinational research project (MOBIlearn) whose aims are to design and develop a pedagogically sound mobile learning...
McAndrew, Patrick, Clow, Doug, Taylor, Josie, Aczel, James
Knowledge Management (KM) and knowledge sharing are important factors that support lifelong learning, and enable people to continue developing throughout their careers. The concept of a Community of...
A task-centred approach to evaluating a mobile learning environment for pedagogical soundness (2004)
The focus of this paper is how to evaluate the pedagogical soundness of a mobile learning environment in which many users (both teachers and learners) may not have previously encountered mobile...
An e-Learning Research Agenda (2004)
Taylor, Josie, Rodden, Tom, Anderson, Anne, Sharples, Mike, Luckin, Rose, Conole, Grainne, ...
This document was produced following a consultation process conducted with the academic community in the UK in 2004, and a subsequent workshop which was held with a group of academics at Bletchley...
The conundrum of categorising requirements: managing requirements for learning on the move (2004)
Haley, Debra, Nuseibeh, Bashar, Sharp, Helen, Taylor, Josie
This paper reports on the experience of eliciting and managing requirements on a large European-based multinational project, whose purpose is to create a system to support learning using mobile...
The conundrum of categorising requirements: managing requirements for learning on the move (2004)
Haley, Debra, Nuseibeh, Bashar, Sharp, Helen, Taylor, Josie
This paper reports on the experience of eliciting and managing requirements on a large European-based multinational project, whose purpose is to create a system to support learning using mobile...
E-Assessment using Latent Semantic Analysis (2003)
Haley, Debra, Thomas, Pete, Nuseibeh, Bashar, Taylor, Josie, Lefrere, Paul
E-assessment is an important component of e-learning and e-qualification. Formative and summative assessment serve different purposes and both types of evaluation are critical to the pedagogical...
E-Assessment using Latent Semantic Analysis (2003)
Haley, Debra, Thomas, Pete, Nuseibeh, Bashar, Taylor, Josie, Lefrere, Paul
E-assessment is an important component of e-learning and e-qualification. Formative and summative assessment serve different purposes and both types of evaluation are critical to the pedagogical...
Establishing user requirements for a mobile learning environment (2003)
Helen Sharp, Josie Taylor, Andreas Löber, Dirk Frohberg, Daisy Mwanza, Elena Murelli
This paper presents the rationale, challenges, successes and results of activities to establish the requirements for a mobile learning environment. The effort is part of a European-funded research...
Narrative Evolution: Learning from Students' Talk about Species Variation (2001)
Luckin, Rosemary, Plowman, Lydia, Laurillard, Diana, Stratfold, Matthew, Taylor, Josie, Corben, Sara
Learners do not always enjoy productive interactions with Multimedia Interactive Learning Environments. Their attention can be distracted away from the educational focus intended by designers and...
Narrative Evolution: Learning from Students' Talk about Species Variation (2001)
Luckin, Rosemary, Plowman, Lydia, Laurillard, Diana, Stratfold, Matthew, Taylor, Josie, Corben, Sara
Learners do not always enjoy productive interactions with Multimedia Interactive Learning Environments. Their attention can be distracted away from the educational focus intended by designers and...
Affordances for learning in a non-linear narrative medium (2000)
Laurillard, Diana, Stratfold, Matthew, Luckin, Rose, Plowman, Lydia, Taylor, Josie
A multimedia CD makes an impressive resource for the scholar-researcher, but students unfamiliar with the subject-matter may not always work so effectively with such a resource. Without any narrative...
Affordances for Learning in a Non-Linear Narrative Medium (2000)
Laurillard, Diana, Stratfold, Matthew, Luckin, Rosemary, Plowman, Lydia, Taylor, Josie
A multimedia CD makes an impressive resource for the scholar-researcher, but students unfamiliar with the subject-matter may not always work so effectively with such a resource. Without any narrative...
Affordances for Learning in a Non-Linear Narrative Medium (2000)
Laurillard, Diana, Stratfold, Matthew, Luckin, Rosemary, Plowman, Lydia, Taylor, Josie
A multimedia CD makes an impressive resource for the scholar-researcher, but students unfamiliar with the subject-matter may not always work so effectively with such a resource. Without any narrative...
Peering through a Glass Darkly: Integrative evaluation of an on-line course (2000)
Josie Taylor, Mark Woodman, Tamara Sumner, Canan Tosunoglu Blake
In this study we describe a wide-spectrum approach to the integrative evaluation of an innovative introductory course in computing. Since both the syllabus, designed in consultation with industry,...
Designing multimedia for learning: Narrative guidance and narrative construction (1999)
Lydia Plowman, Rosemary Luckin, Diana Laurillard, Matthew Stratfold, Josie Taylor
Narrative is fundamental to the ways we make sense of texts of all kinds because it provides structure and coherence, but it is difficult to see how this works in the context of multimedia...