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Ron Oliver
Edith Cowan University
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Seeking best practice in online learning: Flexible Learning Toolboxes in the Australian VET sector
Ron Oliver; Ron Oliver
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2001)
This paper describes The Flexible Learning Toolboxes Project , a component of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework for the National Vocational Education and Training System 2000-2004 (AFL Framework). The AFL Framework is designed to support...
Language: English
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Using mobile technologies to support learning in large on campus university classes
Ron Oliver
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2007 (2007) pp. 788–798
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Exploring an Inquiry-Based Learning Approach with First-Year Students in a Large Undergraduate Class
Ron Oliver
Innovations in Education and Teaching International Vol. 44, No. 1 (February 2007) pp. 3–15
This paper describes an exploration of an inquiry-based learning approach undertaken with a group of first-year students in a large undergraduate class. An innovative technology support was used to manage the process and an exploration was...
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Exploring Strategies for Online Teaching and Learning
Ron Oliver
Distance Education Vol. 20, No. 2 (1999) pp. 240–54
Explores strategies for creating online learning environments on the World Wide Web. Describes a framework that identifies elements needed in the design of online learning: course content, learning activities, and learning supports. Concludes that...
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Measuring Users' Performance with Interactive Information Systems
Ron Oliver
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 12, No. 2 (1996) pp. 89–102
The discrete forms of knowledge required for successful use of interactive information systems are investigated. Achievement of three forms of knowledge among novice users of a CD-ROM encyclopedia was examined. Tasks measured users' knowledge and...
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Interactive Information Systems: Information Access and Retrieval
Ron Oliver
Electronic Library Vol. 13, No. 3 (1995) pp. 187–94
Discusses problems facing naive users of interactive information systems (IIS) that have been identified through classroom research. Impediments to successful use of IIS are students' inability to make use of non-text-based information sources and...
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Information Technology Courses in Teacher Education: The Need for Integration
Ron Oliver
Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education Vol. 3, No. 2 (1994) pp. 135–46
Many preservice computer courses do not provide students with certain important skills. Such skills are best developed through instructional programs in teacher education that mirror the models that teachers will be using in their own classrooms....
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Ten More Years of Educational Technologies in Education: How Far Have We Travelled?
Ron Oliver
Australian Educational Computing Vol. 20, No. 1 (June 2005) pp. 18–23
This paper describes the advancements that have occurred in the use of educational technologies over the past ten years (1995-2005) and argues that progress has been slow and reminiscent of the slow progress observed in the previous decade (1985...
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Engaging First Year Students Using a Web-Supported Inquiry-Based Learning Setting
Ron Oliver
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning Vol. 55, No. 3 (March 2008) pp. 285–301
This paper describes a study that explored the utility and efficacy of the application of a Web-based tool to promote learner engagement among first year students in a large class in an undergraduate communications degree. The Web-based tool was...
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Quality Assurance and e-Learning: Blue Skies and Pragmatism
Ron Oliver
Association for Learning Technology Journal Vol. 13, No. 3 (October 2005) pp. 173–187
This paper considers the role of quality assurance in e-learning; reflecting on the conditions necessary for successful e-learning. It reviews some of the current international work on quality assurance in this area and goes on to consider the ways...
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Investigating Mathematics Education Using Multimedia
Jan Herrington; Ron Oliver
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 643–648
In 1830, Warren Colburn gave this advice to teachers wishing to teach children arithmetic: "It is necessary rather to furnish occasions for them to exercise their own skill in performing examples, than to give them rules. They should be allowed to...
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They think they are learning, but are they? Strategies for implementing Web 2.0 to positively impact student learning
Ron Oliver; Katrina Strampel
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2010 (2010) pp. 924–935
University instructors worldwide are implemen ting Web 2.0 technologies into their teaching as a means of improving and enhancing student learning. Although the affordances offered by Web 2.0 technologies appear to provide increased opportunities...
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Developing Generic Skills through On-line Courses
Joe Luca; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1163–1164
Developing generic skills for students in higher education institutions has become a priority issue. Higher education institutions are experiencing continual pressure from government, industry, funding bodies and students, to place greater emphasis...
Topics: Students, Teaching Methods
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Interactions in Audiographics Teaching and Learning Environments
Ron Oliver; Catherine McLoughlin
American Journal of Distance Education Vol. 11, No. 1 (1997) pp. 34–54
Audiographics is a low-cost delivery system for distance learning using a telecommunications link between computers and an audioconferencing medium. A study of the interactions between teachers and 10- to 12-year-old students in Western Australia...
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PROMOTING SELF-REGULATED LEARNING IN AN ON-LINE ENVIRONMENT
Mark McMahon; Ron Oliver
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1299–1305
Self-Regulation has long been seen as a desirable but difficult to achieve instructional aim. This is particularly true of on-line learning, where users have limited instructional support and where attrition rates tend to be greater than in face...
Topics: Cognition
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Interactive Broadcast Television in Australia
Ron Oliver; Mike Grant
Journal of Educational Television Vol. 21, No. 1 (1995) pp. 37–50
Reports on programs in Western Australia where interactive educational television is being used in broadcast modes for distance education and open learning courses. Discusses the impact of the interactivity on the quality of the broadcast programs...
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Exploring the Practise and Development of Generic Skills Through Web-Based Learning
Catherine McLoughlin; Ron Oliver
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 10, No. 3 (2001) pp. 207–225
This article reports on a project that explored the incidental learning achieved through the implementation of a Web-based learning setting. In particular, the study explored the capacity of the environment to develop the generic skills of the...
Topics: Students, Learning Outcomes
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Multimedia, magic and the way students respond to a situated learning environment
Jan Herrington; Ron Oliver
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 13, No. 2 (Jan 01, 1997)
Interactive multimedia is a relatively new educational innovation in primary, secondary and tertiary level classrooms. While the educational community has enthusiastically embraced its potential, relatively little is known about how students learn...
Language: English
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Meeting the needs of gifted and talented students through technology supported distance teaching
Catherine McLoughlin; Ron Oliver
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 14, No. 1 (Jan 01, 1998)
In 1997 an initiative by the Education Department of Western Australia extended the use of audiographic conferencing to provide for talented and gifted students in rural Western Australia. In addition to increasing the access and participation of...
Language: English
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Supporting Teamwork and Collaboration with Online Technologies
Joe Luca; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 1460–1467
Increasingly, teamwork is considered an essential part of the syllabus in higher education to help promote deep and meaningful learning as well as graduate skills such as communication and collaboration. However, in many cases students are unhappy...
Topics: Students
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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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An Instructional Design Framework for Authentic Learning Environments
Jan Herrington; Ron Oliver
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 48, No. 3 (2000) pp. 23–48
The purpose of this study was to: identify critical characteristics of a situated learning environment from the extensive literature base on the subject; operationalize the critical characteristics of a situated learning environment by designing a...
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Investigating Mathematics Education Using Multimedia
Jan Herrington; Ron Oliver
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 643–648
In 1830, Warren Colburn gave this advice to teachers wishing to teach children arithmetic: "It is necessary rather to furnish occasions for them to exercise their own skill in performing examples, than to give them rules. They should be allowed to...
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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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Students’ responses to the use of an Interactive Multimedia Tool for Learning Computer Programming
Kacha Chansilp; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 1739–1746
This paper describes the design the Dynamic Interactive Visualisation Tool in Teaching C (DIVTIC), using multimedia and visual imagery to provide learners with a step-by-step representation of program execution in the C language as a means of...
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Planning a Telelearning Environment To Foster Higher Order Thinking
Catherine McLoughlin; Ron Oliver
Distance Education Vol. 19, No. 2 (1998) pp. 242–64
Discusses audiographic conferencing in Western Australia and describes research that investigated telematics classrooms, with a focus on changing the teaching/learning environment to develop higher-order thinking skills. Results indicate that higher-...
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A Teaching Program in Rural Education: Learning through Experiential Activities
Ron Oliver; Murray Lake
Education in Rural Australia Vol. 6, No. 2 (1996) pp. 1–7
Describes a preservice teacher education course dealing with rural education, based on contemporary learning theories and delivered through telematics at an Australian university. Students learned about teaching and learning with telematics through...
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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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We've thrown away the pens, but are they learning? Using blogs in higher education
Katrina Strampel; Ron Oliver
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2008 (2008) pp. 991–1001
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Exploring The Nature Of Self-Regulated Learning With Multimedia
Sue Stoney; Ron Oliver
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 1999 (1999) pp. 869–874
The study outlined in this paper was part of a larger study that examined the use of interactive multimedia in motivating and engaging adult learners. This paper describes the use of the multimedia microworld to explore and promote the use of self-...
Topics: Multimedia
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A Typology for Identifying Teachers’ Progress in ICT uptake
Ron Oliver; Barney Clarkson
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 317–322
This paper describes the design of an instrument to help identify teachers' level of ICT uptake. The instrument takes the form of a typology matrix comprising four stages in ICT uptake across a continuum describing teachers' levels of dependence....
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Beyond W3C: TruVision- Enhanced online learning for people blind or vision impaired
Frank Bate; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 99–104
This paper describes the design and development of TruVision, an online learning environment designed to enable blind and vision impaired students to develop skills and expertise in elementary and advanced information processing strategies to enable ...
Topics: Training, Educational Technology
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Designing learning environments for cultural inclusivity: A case study of indigenous online learning at tertiary level
Catherine McLoughlin; Ron Oliver
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2000) pp. 58–72
Flexible delivery of educational resources must take account of cultural variables and recognise the specific learning needs, preferences and styles of learners. In designing instruction, there may be a tension between the need to ensure access for ...
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Design Experiments as a Research Methodology for Innovation in ICT
Mark McMahon; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 2026–2033
As educational research moves towards more interpretive paradigms, approaches need to be identified that accommodate the exploratory nature of such research, while maintaining rigorous approaches to data collection and analysis. This paper proposes...
Topics: Research Methods
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The Western Australian Telecentres Network: A Model for Enhancing Access to Education and Training in Rural Areas
Ron Oliver; Gay Short
International Journal of Educational Telecommunications Vol. 2, No. 4 (1996) pp. 311–328
This paper describes the activities and operations of the Western Australian Telecentres Network. The telecentres are small enterprises in rural communities in Western Australia that contain a range of information technology and telecommunication...
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online learning design for dummies: professional development strategies for beginning online designers
Jan Herrington; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1500–1505
Much of the conventional development of Web-based learning environments stems from design strategies that are based on providing delivery of the course content. Contemporary courseware delivery systems encourage teachers to see the design of online ...
Topics: Instructional Materials, Instructional Design, Professional Development
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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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Training Teachers for Distance Education Programs: Using Authentic and Meaningful Contexts
Ron Oliver; Murray Lake
International Journal of Educational Telecommunications Vol. 4, No. 2 (1998) pp. 147–169
This paper describes a project in Western Australia in which teacher-education students needing to learn practical skills of, and a theoretical understanding about, audiographics as an instructional technology, did so in a course where the...
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Exploring Technology-Mediated Learning from a Pedagogical Perspective
Ron Oliver; Jan Herrington
Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 11, No. 2 (August 2003) pp. 111–126
A considerable amount of the effort and enthusiasm that goes into the development and implementation of technology-mediated learning environments often fails to create effective settings for learning. Too often the opportunities and advantages of...
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Interaction Patterns in Teaching and Learning with Live Interactive Television
Ron Oliver; Catherine McLoughlin
Journal of Educational Media Vol. 23, No. 1 (1997) pp. 7–24
Discussion of Live Interactive Television (LIT) focuses on a study conducted in Australia that investigated the form and nature of the interactions evident in school, vocational, and university LIT distance education programs. The study sought to...
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A Framework to Promote Learning and Generic Skills
Joe Luca; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1588–1595
Increasingly, higher education institutions are being pressured by industry, government and funding authorities to better prepare students for the workplace with content specific knowledge as well as professional skills such as communication skills, ...
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Blogging for Learning: Improving Teaching Strategies for Implementing Blogs in Higher Education
Katrina Strampel; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 3100–3105
Worldwide, instructors in higher education are implementing blogging technology in their classrooms to help students articulate and share their learning with peers and experts. . Despite the intended outcomes of deep learning, instructors are often...
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Children's Information Skills: Making Effective Use of Multimedia Sources
Ron Oliver; Lesa Perzylo
Educational and Training Technology International Vol. 31, No. 3 (1994) pp. 219–30
Describes a study of 12-year-old elementary school students in Western Australia that was conducted to investigate the students' capacity to extract meaningful information from nontext sources when using a hypermedia CD-ROM package in an inquiry...
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Curriculum and Learning-Resources Issues Arising From the Use of Web-Based Course Support Systems
Ron Oliver; Catherine McLoughlin
International Journal of Educational Telecommunications Vol. 5, No. 4 (1999) pp. 419–435
Web-based course support systems are essential for supporting online teaching and learning environments. They provide tools to enroll learners, to deliver the course materials to the learners, and to administer and manage the learning. All of these...
Topics: Curriculum, Learning Outcomes
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Using Mobile Technologies and Podcasts to Enhance Learning Experiences in Lecture-Based University Course Delivery
Ron Oliver; Joe Luca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3385–3394
This paper describes a study that sought to explore the use of mobile technologies as a means to enhance the learning experience of students in a tertiary course of study. In particular the study involved the development of podcasting and...
Topics: Educational Technology, Students
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TEACHING METACOGNITIVE REGULATION OF READING COMPREHENSION IN AN ON-LINE ENVIRONMENT
Mark McMahon; Ron Oliver
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2464–2471
This paper examines how to teach Cognitive Self-Regulation. Approaches to enhancing Metacognition are discussed and a model for metacognitive regulation is presented. A strategy of reciprocal teaching is advocated for the development of...
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Using technology to foster reflection in higher education
Katrina Strampel; Ron Oliver
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2007 (2007) pp. 973–982
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Information and Communications Technology Literacy – Getting serious about IT
Ron Oliver; Stephen Towers; Helen Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 862–867
The growing use of information and communications technologies in commerce and industry is once again encouraging debate and questioning of the development of students' skills and knowledge in this domain. Whereas in the past, the debate has centred ...
Topics: Literacy, Networking Technologies, Information Communication Technologies