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La Novela Mexicana De Temática Homosexual: Defensa De Curso, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio Nov 2011

La Novela Mexicana De Temática Homosexual: Defensa De Curso, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio

Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio, Ph.D

No abstract provided.


Eveleigh Railyards: Building Web-Based Databases For The Community And Students, Sandra Wills, Lucy Taksa Oct 2011

Eveleigh Railyards: Building Web-Based Databases For The Community And Students, Sandra Wills, Lucy Taksa

Sandra Wills

No abstract provided.


Exploring Strategies To Formalise The Description Of Learning Designs?, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills, Shirley Agostinho Oct 2011

Exploring Strategies To Formalise The Description Of Learning Designs?, Ron Oliver, Barry Harper, John Hedberg, Sandra Wills, Shirley Agostinho

Sandra Wills

No abstract provided.


First Fleet In The Y2k, Sandra Wills Oct 2011

First Fleet In The Y2k, Sandra Wills

Sandra Wills

No abstract provided.


Flexible Learning At The Crossroads: Are Our Teachers Ready?, Sandra Wills Oct 2011

Flexible Learning At The Crossroads: Are Our Teachers Ready?, Sandra Wills

Sandra Wills

This paper reflects on managing technological change in teaching and learning, with particular emphasis on staff development. It draws on two national reports in Australia. One report team interviewed senior management in 50% of Australian universities (Wills and Yetton, 1997). The other reviewed 104 nationally funded IT based teaching projects (Alexander et al, 1998). Both make recommendations that have implications for staff development. A number of staff development case studies are described, most practising what they preach by adopting flexible learning techniques in order to teach teachers by example about flexible learning: Project LEAD, Teaching at a Distance, Flexible Delivery …


Gathering The Student's Perception Of Teaching And Learning Environments: A Customisable Email Data Collection Tool, Robert Corderoy, Sandra Wills, Raymond Stace, Albert Ip Oct 2011

Gathering The Student's Perception Of Teaching And Learning Environments: A Customisable Email Data Collection Tool, Robert Corderoy, Sandra Wills, Raymond Stace, Albert Ip

Sandra Wills

No abstract provided.


Elearning For Campus-Based Universities: Engaging The Executive, Rob Ellis, Shirley Alexander, Eddie Gulc, Sandra Wills Oct 2011

Elearning For Campus-Based Universities: Engaging The Executive, Rob Ellis, Shirley Alexander, Eddie Gulc, Sandra Wills

Sandra Wills

eLearning advocates in campus-based universities in Britain and in Australia are having difficulty helping senior budget holders and strategic planners articulate a vision for eLearning in a campus-based experience. Too often sensible plans for embedding eLearning support and infrastructure in the learning and teaching systems of campus-based universities are put to one side because there is insufficient confidence by the executive of being able to justify why such investment is needed. This can be as simple a problem as being unable to talk about eLearning and its contribution to the whole student learning experience convincingly for non-specialists. Further adding to …


First Fleet: Another Byte Of The Apple, Sandra Wills Oct 2011

First Fleet: Another Byte Of The Apple, Sandra Wills

Sandra Wills

The paper outlines the 20 year journey of the First Fleet Database as an exemplar of educational software, from mainframe to microcomputer and now to the web. The database of 778 convicts who arrived on the First Fleet to Australia in 1788 has been an electronic educational resource since 1980. It was developed for the Tasmanian Education Department’s statewide timeshare network by the author of this paper. The data was based on the works of Cobley (1970) and Robson (1973). And in doing so it will show a little piece of Apple’s history. It explores changes in the history of …


Subject Online Survey (Sos): An Online Tool To Support Improvement In Teaching And Learning, Robert M. Corderoy, Raymond J. Stace, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip Oct 2011

Subject Online Survey (Sos): An Online Tool To Support Improvement In Teaching And Learning, Robert M. Corderoy, Raymond J. Stace, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip

Sandra Wills

Traditionally, data relating to the conduct of subjects at the University of Wollongong has been collected for teachers with one main purpose in mind: to provide the teacher with supporting information as to their teaching ability for the purposes of promotion. SOS is a web based system which teachers can use to author customised surveys to collect information about the subject they teach. These surveys are completed anonymously by the students via the web (using randomly generated, survey specific numeric tokens) and the data is automatically collated and returned to the teacher. The teacher may also produce the surveys in …


First Fleet Sails Again, Sandra Wills, Adair Bunnett Oct 2011

First Fleet Sails Again, Sandra Wills, Adair Bunnett

Sandra Wills

No abstract provided.


Architects Win Awards Not Teachers, Sandra Wills Oct 2011

Architects Win Awards Not Teachers, Sandra Wills

Sandra Wills

No abstract provided.


Sos: Supporting Academics In Improving Their Teaching Through A Customisable Subject Online Survey, Robert Corderoy, Raymond Stace, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip Oct 2011

Sos: Supporting Academics In Improving Their Teaching Through A Customisable Subject Online Survey, Robert Corderoy, Raymond Stace, Sandra Wills, Albert Ip

Sandra Wills

No abstract provided.


The Power Of Three Plus One: Developing An Electronic Readings Service, Sandra Wills, Craig Littler Oct 2011

The Power Of Three Plus One: Developing An Electronic Readings Service, Sandra Wills, Craig Littler

Sandra Wills

The multiple roles and skills required to create online learning environments challenge traditional organisational structures that are currently based on relatively autonomous functional units. At the University of Wollongong, the staged development of an electronic readings service demonstrates the ‘power of 3+1’ through the formation of collaborative partnerships between three principal university support units as per the theme of this conference: * Flexible Learning Centre known at UoW as the Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources (CEDIR), * Information Technology Services (ITS) and * Library, plus… one other important unit, our Print and Distribution Centre.


We Go Everywhere Man..., Sandra Wills Oct 2011

We Go Everywhere Man..., Sandra Wills

Sandra Wills

No abstract provided.


An Evolutionary Approach To Strategic Planning For Elearning, Sandra Wills, Kate Bowles Oct 2011

An Evolutionary Approach To Strategic Planning For Elearning, Sandra Wills, Kate Bowles

Sandra Wills

Although all Australian universities have University-level strategic plans as well as Learning and Teaching plans plus underpinning Information Technology plans, it is estimated that only 11% of universities have a separate plan for eLearning. Instead eLearning is often integrated into either an Information Technology Plan or a Learning and Teaching Plan. As a result, the specific needs of eLearning can be overlooked, underestimated or tokenized. The University of Wollongong has undertaken a process of interviews and consultation with committees, deans, managers, academics, students and support staff to develop a coherent strategic and educational vision for the use of eLearning, that …


Learning Design For Online Role Play Versus Simulation, Sandra Wills Oct 2011

Learning Design For Online Role Play Versus Simulation, Sandra Wills

Sandra Wills

One outcome of Project EnROLE, an ALTC project to encourage uptake of online role play, is a refined learning design for simulation: Simulation Triad. The triad represents design decisions according to emphasis placed on Roles versus Problems versus Rules.


Rethinking Reusability: Implications From A Longitudinal Study Of Online Role Play In Australian Higher Education, Sandra Wills Oct 2011

Rethinking Reusability: Implications From A Longitudinal Study Of Online Role Play In Australian Higher Education, Sandra Wills

Sandra Wills

In a study about designing “reusable e-learning activities”, the author used online role play as a containable, but pedagogically rich, sample. 53 online role plays in Australian higher education were identified and tracked between 1990 and 2006 (Wills, 2010). As a result of interviews and surveys, it was calculated that 45 role plays were a reuse of another role play, demonstrating that the topic of reusability is an important one in higher education. However, there were only eight instances of reuse of the same role play itself (18%). Predictably these eight instances were a reuse within the same discipline. Meanwhile, …


Nature And Convention: Defining A Spoken Language In Aristotle’S De Interpretatione, Charlene Elsby Sep 2011

Nature And Convention: Defining A Spoken Language In Aristotle’S De Interpretatione, Charlene Elsby

Charlene Elsby

No abstract provided.


Projecting Pornography, Enacting (In)Equality, And Mexican Modernity, Ageeth Sluis Jul 2011

Projecting Pornography, Enacting (In)Equality, And Mexican Modernity, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

If pornography proves a problematic avenue within women’s bid for sexual liberation and equality today, how then has this historically been constructed? In an attempt to determine the role of pornography within articulations of women’s sexual (in)equality, I use a banned pornographic magazine published in 1930s Mexico as the starting point for a broader examination of the relationships between female sexual visibility and modernity, and sexual normativity and the state. Employing the Foucaultian methodology of genealogy, I trace popular representations of female sexuality as well as civic discourse on sexual prohibitions through space (from the USA and Europe to Mexico) …


Researching And Understanding European Union Law: Introduction To The Eu, Jennifer Allison Jun 2011

Researching And Understanding European Union Law: Introduction To The Eu, Jennifer Allison

Jennifer Allison

This presentation provides a brief introduction to the EU legal system. It presents a timeline of the formation and accession treaties, as well as a brief description of the EU's legislative and judicial bodies. It was the first presentation offered during a daylong EU Legal Research workshop at the 2011 AALL annual meeting in Philadelphia.


Aristotle On The Incidental Sense, Charlene Elsby May 2011

Aristotle On The Incidental Sense, Charlene Elsby

Charlene Elsby

No abstract provided.


Memories Of A New Age: Carlos Castaneda’S Anthropological Journeys Into Sacred Space, Ageeth Sluis Mar 2011

Memories Of A New Age: Carlos Castaneda’S Anthropological Journeys Into Sacred Space, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

No abstract provided.


Actions Speak Louder Than Words - Nixon's Effect On School Desegregation, Demetri L. Morgan Feb 2011

Actions Speak Louder Than Words - Nixon's Effect On School Desegregation, Demetri L. Morgan

Demetri L. Morgan, Ph.D.

A review of Preisdent Richard Nixon’s deeds rather than his rhetoric or policy stances, illuminates a previously under investigated reality that Nixon’s education civil rights record has been the most progressive and beneficial for the education of students of color to date. How can this be? As this presentation will outline, Nixon’s rhetoric and stances on education were symbolic measures to appease both the ‘silent majority’ and conservative southern democrats, which Nixon identified as vital to his election aspirations in the 1968 presidential campaign. This political ploy eventually collided with Nixon’s efforts to acquiesce to his campaign mantra and governing …


From Luke To John: Lazarus, Mary, And Martha In The Fourth Gospel, Keith L. Yoder Dec 2010

From Luke To John: Lazarus, Mary, And Martha In The Fourth Gospel, Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

Here I examine John’s Raising of Lazarus and Anointing of Jesus texts and explore literary parallels with Luke’s Lazarus and Mary/Martha texts. I show first that there is a significant and orderly array of such parallels between the Luke and John texts, constituting strong evidence of inter-textual influence between Luke and John. I then show that this relationship is literary rather than oral, and that the literary dependence flows from Luke to John. This paper was not accepted for presentation by the panel moderator.  
NOTE of 2 July 2017: I will be revising this essay this year to take …