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What Spaces? Designing Authentic, Sustainable Online Learning Spaces For Children With Diabetes, Shirley Agostinho, Richard Sprod, Barry Harper
What Spaces? Designing Authentic, Sustainable Online Learning Spaces For Children With Diabetes, Shirley Agostinho, Richard Sprod, Barry Harper
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
This paper presents a work-in-progress of how social networking, Web 2.0 and emerging communication technologies might be successfully used to support authentic self-management education for children aged 11-13 years who are living with Type 1 diabetes. The study employs a mixed-method approach that has been adopted within a Design Based Research framework. This paper explains the research problem, the theoretical framework that will underpin the study and the overall research design.
Establishing Design Principles For Online Synchronous Literacy Learning For Indigenous Learners, Michelle J. Eady, Anthony Herrington, Caroline Jones
Establishing Design Principles For Online Synchronous Literacy Learning For Indigenous Learners, Michelle J. Eady, Anthony Herrington, Caroline Jones
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Synchronous learning has the potential to provide literacy and essential skills training to Indigenous learners living in remote and isolated communities. Although there is considerable research completed in the area of internet-based learning technologies in general, there is very little research in the area of online synchronous learning opportunities for remote Indigenous learners. This paper presents the results and theoretical framework of the first and second phases of a four phase design-based research approach that aims to establish design principles to guide the future development of synchronous online literacy services for Indigenous learners living in remote Australian communities.
The Teenage Expertise Network: The Online Availability Of Expertise, Nicola F. Johnson
The Teenage Expertise Network: The Online Availability Of Expertise, Nicola F. Johnson
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Young people of the 21st century are, like no other generation before, immersed in a technologicallyrich environment. It is not surprising then that these young people have developed a wealthof expertise in the use of digital technologies. Whilst this is the case, understandings of how theseyoung people have gained this expertise in these contemporary techno-cultural contexts is limited. Thedesign of the Teenage Expertise Network (TEN) follows principles of ethnographic research adaptedto an online environment. The small sample of teenaged technological experts in this study claimed that technological like "expert-like" practices have been shaped and brought about via informal (and someformal) …