Search results for author:"David Hobbs"
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Finding out the intention of a user of Educational Hypermedia
Duncan Mullier; David Hobbs; David Moore
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 794–799
Hypermedia has been identified as a promising medium for education. However, it is beset with problems concerning the complexity of navigation and meeting the individual needs of the user. This paper is concerned with a domain-independent metric...
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A Neural-Network system for Automatically Assessing Students
Duncan Mullier; David Moore; David Hobbs
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1366–1371
This paper is concerned with an automated system for grading students into an ability level in response to their ability to complete tutorials. This is useful in that the student is more likely to improve their knowledge of a subject if they are...
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Identifying and Using Hypermedia Browsing Patterns
Duncan Mullier; David Hobbs; David Moore
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 11, No. 1 (2002) pp. 31–50
Hypermedia offers benefits for users who wish to find information and users who wish to learn about a particular topic (Jonassen & Grabinger, 1991). However, hypermedia is also plagued by drawbacks that were identified early in its inception ...
Topics: Navigation, Multimedia
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Civilization in the 21st Century
David F. Lancy; David DeBry; Megan Andrew-Hobbs
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) p. 1821
We will report on the evolution of an on-line course. The Civilization/Humanities course had its origins in the reform of the university's General Education curriculum in 1994-95. It was one of several classes created to replace existing...
Topics: Curriculum
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Learning Style Theory and Computer Mediated Communication
Hilary Atkins; David Moore; Dave Hobbs; Simon Sharpe
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 71–75
This paper looks at the low participation rates in computer mediated conferences (CMC) and argues that one of the causes of this may be an incompatibility between students' learning styles and the style adopted by CMC. The main learning style...