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An Educational Panopticon? New Technology, Nurse Education and Surveillance
Michael Epling; Stephen Timmons; Heather Wharrad
Nurse Education Today Vol. 23, No. 6 (2003) pp. 412–18
Web-based learning can be liberating and enhance autonomy and reflection. However, new forms of computer-based learning also have the potential for panoptic surveillance and control of students, practices that are inimical to the values and...
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Analysis of the Pedagogical Attributes of Learning Objects in an attempt to identify Reusable Designs
Richard Windle; Heather Wharrad; Dawn Leeder; Raquel Morales
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2676–2685
This paper describes the development and deployment of a tool designed to analyse and differentiate the pedagogical attributes of a collection of mature reusable learning objects. The tool was developed using an application of IMS Learning Design...
Topics: Learning Objects
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To boldly GLO - towards the next generation of Learning Objects
Dawn Leeder; Tom Boyle; Raquel Morales; Heather Wharrad; Paul Garrud
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 28–33
The session will commence with a demonstration of RLOs currently in use followed by a brief panel discussion of the factors considered crucial for reusability –community of practice, quality assurance, flexibility etc. A major challenge for the next ...
Topics: Learning Objects
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A toolkit for a multilayered, cross institutional evaluation strategy
Heather Wharrad; Raquel Morales; Richard Windle; Claire Bradley
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 4921–4925
Understanding what features of teaching and learning environments and which individual, disciplinary and institutional characteristics promote the successful use of reusable learning objects (RLOs) is important in multiinstitutional projects. The...
Topics: Evaluation, Learning Objects
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A Comparison of CAL with a Conventional Method of Delivery of Cell Biology to Undergraduate Nursing Students Using an Experimental Design
Heather J. Wharrad; Christine Kent; Nick Allcock; Barry Wood
Nurse Education Today Vol. 21, No. 7 (2001) pp. 579–88
In study 1, 12 nursing students attended slide lectures on cell biology; 13 used interactive computer-assisted learning (CAL). Study 2 surveyed 38 students who used CAL to study immunology. Students preferred CAL and felt confident in their grasp of ...
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Sharing and Reuse in OER: Experiences Gained from Open Reusable Learning Objects in Health
Richard J. Windle; Heather Wharrad; Damion McCormick; Helen Laverty; Michael Taylor
Journal of Interactive Media in Education Vol. 2010, No. 1 (2010)
The open educational resource (OER) movement has the potential to have a truly transformative effect on higher education, but in order to do so it must move into the mainstream and facilitate widespread participation in the sharing or creating of...