Search results for author:"Chris Brook"
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Online technologies, a sense of community and gifted learners
Chris Brook
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1740–1743
This paper presents a current study of the ways that online technologies might be used to develop homogenous group settings for gifted and talented elementary school aged children. Specifically this study seeks to explore student sense of community...
Topics: Educational Technology, Community
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Achieving synergies through generic skills: A strength of online communities
Barnard Clarkson; Chris Brook; Chris Brook
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 23, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2007)
Educators are often torn between impositions of the institution in which they work and the imperatives of their individual courses or units and the impact this tension might have on student satisfaction with the learning experience. It is common to...
Language: English
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Online learning communities: Investigating a design framework
Chris Brook; Ron Oliver
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 19, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2003) pp. 139–160
This paper reports the development of a design framework intended to support and guide online instructors in the development of a learning community. The study was guided by an investigation of contemporary literature focused on the community...
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Exploring system factors that influence community development in online settings
Chris Brook; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1969–1976
This paper presents an exploration of the community experience in online settings where the development of a learning community was a key instructional aim. The inquiry used the Learning Community Development Model (Brook & Oliver, 2003) to guide...
Topics: Community
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Theory, classroom practice and ICT: Exploring the connections
Chris Brook; Barnard Clarkson
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1618–1625
This paper reports the findings of a study that sought to explore the connections between contemporary teaching and learning literature, classroom practice and teacher use of information and computer technologies. A random sample of 12 schools...
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The Learning Community Development Model: A lens for exploring community development in online settings
Chris Brook; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1744–1753
This paper presents an exploration of the community experience in online settings where the development of a learning community was a key instructional aim. The inquiry used the Learning Community Development Model (Brook & Oliver, 2003) to guide...
Topics: Community
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Exploring the development of learning communities in online settings
Ron Oliver; Chris Brook
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 192–197
This paper discusses the notion of community as an outcome of working within an online environment. In particular the paper explores the concept of users' development of a sense of community as an outcome of working within an online environment...
Topics: Community, Professional Development
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Scaffolding the scaffolders: When tutors say they will when they won't
Barnard Clarkson; Chris Brook
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1652–1659
This paper reports the third stage of a longitudinal case study exploring the ongoing development of a core undergraduate unit in interactive media offered through an Australian university. For several years the outcome of this unit had been marked...
Topics: Tutoring, Learning Outcomes, Developmental Stages, Students
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Whose standards?: Asking students to generate the marking key in a multimedia unit
Barnard Clarkson; Chris Brook
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2074–2081
Abstract: This paper investigates the learning experience of adult learners engaged in an online learning environment that utilises constructivist principles. In particular this paper explores students' responses to increasing the authenticity of...
Topics: Students
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Online Learning Communities: Exploring the impact of group size on community development
Chris Brook; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 2518–2525
This paper reports and investigation into factors that impact on community development among learners engaging in online learning where the principles of collaborative learning are considered key instructional strategies. This investigation sought...
Topics: Community
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Designing For Online Learning Communities
Chris Brook; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1494–1500
This paper investigates the development of sense of community among learners engaging in online learning where the principles of collaborative learning are considered key instructional strategies. In particular this paper explores the development of ...
Topics: Learning Outcomes, Community
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A Focus on Graduate Attributes: aligning policy, practice and learning in an undergraduate multimedia subject
Barnard Clarkson; Chris Brook
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4715–4722
It is often challenging in tertiary settings to generate assessments and activities which embody sufficient authenticity and yet still satisfy University assessment requirements about identifiable individual contributions and so on. This paper...
Topics: Assessment, Students
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Scaffolding: some unplanned consequences of addressing student satisfaction
Barnard Clarkson; Chris Brook
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2407–2414
This paper reports an on going study aimed at enhancing the learning quality of undergraduate courses through the application of quality instructional practices derived from the literature. Earlier stages of the study involved developing authentic...
Topics: Students