Evaluating assessment using n-dimensional filtering

Chris Boyne; Jon Dron; Richard Mitchell

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 268–274

This paper describes the use of the CoFIND (Collaborative Filter in N Dimensions) system to evaluate two assessment styles. CoFIND is a resource database which organises itself around its users' needs. Learners enter resources, categorise, then rate ...

Topics: Students

The evaluation of forms of assessment using n-dimensional filtering

Jon Dron; Chris Boyne; Richard Mitchell

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 3, No. 4 (2004) pp. 21–28

** Invited as a paper from E-Learn 2002 ** This paper describes the use of the CoFIND (Collaborative Filter in N Dimensions) system to evaluate two assessment styles. CoFIND is a resource database which organizes itself around its users’ needs....

Topics: Students

Digital Students Across Europe

Diana Andone; Jon Dron; Chris Boyne; Lyn Pemberton

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1741–1748

This paper presents the results of a study performed in four European universities designed to identify the unique features of 'digital students', as a move towards building a customized model of an eLearning environment. What does it mean to be a...

Topics: eLearning, Students

CoFIND: steps towards a self-organising learning environment

Jon Dron; Phil Siviter; Chris Boyne; Richard Mitchell

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 146–151

This paper reports on the ongoing development of CoFIND (Collaborative Filter in N Dimensions), a web-based system designed to form the basis of a self-organising learning environment, where individual acts of learners combine to organise a...

E-Learning Environments for Digitally-Minded Students

Diana Andone; Jon Dron; Lyn Pemberton; Chris Boyne

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2007) pp. 41–53

While most existing online learning environments cater for needs identified during the 1990s, a new generation of digital students has emerged in the developed world. Digital students are young adults who have grown up with digital technologies...

Topics: Computers, Communication, eLearning, Information Communication Technologies, Networking Technologies

CoFIND- an Experiment in N-dimensional Collaborative Filtering

Richard Mitchell; Phil Siviter; Chris Boyne; Jon Dron

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 301–306

This paper reports on the development of CoFIND, a web-based n-dimensional collaborative filtering system that seeks to guide learners to relevant resources based upon not only the content of the resources but the qualities exhibited by those...

Topics: Collaboration

Website Evaluation System: Collaboratively Discovering what makes a Website Good

Jon Dron; Phil Siviter; Chris Boyne; Richard Mitchell

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 685–686

This short paper examines a method for the collaborative discovery of metadata, one of several uses of CoFIND (Collaborative Filter in n dimensions) first presented at WebNet 99 (Dron et al 1999). We will discuss an implementation of the system...

Topics: Collaboration, Evaluation