Search results for author:"Dennis Dicks"
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Evaluation of a High-end Distance Delivery MBA Program
Dennis Dicks
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 254–261
The John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, in partnership with IATA, addresses the need for new skills in aviation management through its International Aviation MBA, an intensive program requiring that industry executives...
Topics: Evaluation, Schools, Business
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Computer-Mediated Communication and Shared Learning
Dennis J. Dicks
Canadian Journal of Educational Communication Vol. 21, No. 1 (1992) pp. 33–44
Discussion of computer-mediated communication focuses on techniques developed to help groups of people communicate effectively, including cooperative learning, team building, groupware for cooperative work, decision support systems, organizational...
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Instructional designers at work: A study of how designers design
Dennis Dicks; Cindy Ives; Cindy Ives
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 34, No. 2 (Mar 25, 2009)
Instructional design (ID) in its short life has been dominated by behaviourist approaches despite critique focusing on issues of practice as well as theory. Nonetheless, little research has addressed two fundamental questions: “What constitutes good ...
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Imagining a Science of Instructional Design
Dennis Dicks; Franca Garzotto; John Hedberg; Yong Zeng
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 960–965
Instructional design (ID) in its short life has been dominated by behaviorist approaches (e.g. Dick and Carey and ISD models) despite critiques focusing on issues of practice as well as theory. In the past decade, a number of alternative approaches...
Topics: Information Sciences, Instructional Design
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Planning for Integrating Teaching Technologies
Mandie Aaron; Dennis Dicks; Cindy Ives; Brenda Montgomery; Brenda Montgomery
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 30, No. 2 (Jun 15, 2004)
Teaching technologies offer pedagogical advantages which vary with specific contexts. Successfully integrating them hinges on clearly identifying pedagogical goals, then planning for the many decisions that technological change demands. In examining ...
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Search-and-Retrieval Tools in E-learning Applications: An Empirical Comparison of Search Engines and Topic Maps in an Educational Context
Steven Shaw; Vivek Venkatesh; Gretchen Lowerison; Dennis Dicks; Dai Zhang
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 435–442
This paper reports on an investigation focusing on improving the reliability and efficiency in current database-oriented search-and-retrieval mechanisms in e-learning applications through the use of topic map technology (ISO/IEC 13250). The...
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An Empirical Evaluation of Topic Map Search Capabilities in an Educational Context
Dennis Dicks; Vivek Venkatesh; Steven Shaw; Gretchen Lowerison; Dai Zhang
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 1031–1038
Our investigations focus on improving the reliability and efficiency in current database-oriented search-and-retrieval mechanisms through the use of topic map technology (ISO/IEC 13250). This paper reports on the development, implementation and...
Topics: Educational Technology, Evaluation, Students
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Topic Maps: Adopting User-Centred Indexing Technologies in Course Management Systems
Vivek Venkatesh; Steven Shaw; Dennis Dicks; Gretchen Lowerison; Dai Zhang; Roukana Sanjakdar
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 18, No. 3 (July 2007) pp. 429–450
This article provides an empirical evaluation of an indexing technology, topic maps (ISO 13250), in the context of an academic task in a higher education context. Topic maps are a form of indexing that define and display the interrelationships...
Topics: Evaluation, eLearning, Cognition, Educational Technology, Computer Sciences
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Cultural Differences in Using Search-and-Retrieval Technologies in E-Learning Contexts: An Exploratory Study of Arab and North American Learners’ Use of Topic Maps
Vivek Venkatesh; Roukana Sanjakdar; Steven Shaw; Dennis Dicks; Gretchen Lowerison; Dai Zhang
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4694–4699
This paper follows up on studies reported in Dicks et al.(EdMedia 2004) and Shaw et al. (ELearn 2004), both of which focused on improving the reliability and efficiency in current database-oriented search-and-retrieval mechanisms in e-learning...