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Do Colleges And Universities Need Ethics Officers?, John B. Bennett Apr 2003

Do Colleges And Universities Need Ethics Officers?, John B. Bennett

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

An article discussing the need for strong ethical controls within institutions of higher education.


Situated Learning, Distributed Cognition: Do Academics Really Need To Know?, Anne Murphy Jan 2003

Situated Learning, Distributed Cognition: Do Academics Really Need To Know?, Anne Murphy

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The dominant approach to the study of learning throughout most of the twentieth century was to view learning as cognitive only, as if it were a process contained in the mind of the learner, decontextualised from the lived-in world. There is now, however, a growing interest in the study of learning as situated in a specific time, place and social activity – as ‘situated learning’ – and to view the locus of learning not as in the brain of the single individual (person-solo) but as ‘distributed’ among person, language, artefacts, activities and environment (person-plus) (see Lave and Wenger, 1999; …