Search results for author:"David Millard"
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PeerPigeon: A Web Application to Support Generalised Peer Review
David Millard; David Newman; Patrick Sinclair
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 3824–3836
Peer Review (or Peer Assessment) is an important technique in learning, but can be difficult to support through e-learning systems due to the complexity and variety of peer review processes. In this paper we present PeerPigeon, a Web 2.0 style...
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Perceptions of School Children of Using Social Media for Learning
Robert Blair; David Millard; John Woollard
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 227–237
Abstract: Social media is lauded as a powerful tool for informal learning, and a tool of choice for teenagers. This paper reports on the findings of a survey of 384 secondary school pupils in the UK (aged 11-17) over a 12 week period. Our findings...
Topics: Adolescents, E-Learning Trends and Innovations (social learning, mobile, augmented etc.)
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Perceptions of School Children of Using Social Media for Learning
Robert Blair; David Millard; John Woollard
International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 16, No. 2 (April 2017) pp. 105–127
** Invited as a paper from E-Learn 2014 ** Abstract: Social media is lauded as a powerful tool for informal learning, and a tool of choice for teenagers. This paper reports on the findings of a survey of 384 secondary school pupils in the UK ...
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A Framework for Semantic Group Formation in Education
Asma Ounnas; Hugh C. Davis; David E. Millard
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 12, No. 4 (2009) pp. 43–55
Collaboration has long been considered an effective approach to learning. However, forming optimal groups can be a time consuming and complex task. Different approaches have been developed to assist teachers allocate students to groups based on a...
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Teaching the Grid: Learning Distributed Computing with the M grid Framework
Robert Walters; David Millard; Philip Bennett; David Argels; Stephen Crouch; Lester Gilbert; Gary Wills
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 2234–2241
A classic challenge within Computer Science is to distribute data and processes so as to take advantage of multiple computers tackling a single problem in a simultaneous and coordinated way. This situation arises in a number of different scenarios,...
Topics: Computer Sciences
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A Delivery Engine for QTI Assessments
Gary Wills; Jonathon Hare; Jiri Kajaba; David Argles; Lester Gilbert; Dave Millard
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 3, No. 2008 (Jul 16, 2008)
The IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) standard has had a restricted take-up, in part due to the lack of tools. This paper describes the â??ASDELâ?? test delivery engine, focusing upon its architecture, its relation to item authoring and...
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The HumBox: Changing educational practice around a learning resource repository
David E. Millard; Kate Borthwick; Yvonne Howard; Patrick McSweeney; Charlie Hargood
Computers & Education Vol. 69, No. 1 (November 2013) pp. 287–302
The HumBox is a learning resource repository for the Humanities educational community in the UK. Over the last three years the challenge for HumBox has been to act as not only a shared library for its community, but also to change the working...
Language: English
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A persistent infrastructure for augmented field trips
Mark Weal; Don Cruickshank; Danius Michaelides; David Millard; David De Roure; John Halloran; Eva Hornecker; Geraldine Fitzpatrick
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1026–1033
This paper describes an approach to the provision of pervasive field trips where a persistent infrastructure is provided, upon which teachers can easily create novel pervasive experiences for children. The physical infrastructure is briefly...
Topics: Teachers
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Delivery of QTIiv2 Question Types
Gary B. Wills; Hugh C. Davis; Lester Gilbert; Jonathon Hare; Yvonne Howard; Steve Jeyes; David Millard; Robert Sherratt
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education Vol. 34, No. 3 (June 2009) pp. 353–366
The IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) standard identifies 16 different question types which may be used in online assessment. While some partial implementations exist, the R2Q2 project has developed a complete solution that renders and...
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An E-Learning Framework for Assessment (FREMA)
Gary B. Wills; Christopher P. Bailey; Hugh C. Davis; Lester Gilbert; Yvonne Howard; Steve Jeyes; David E. Millard; Joseph Price; Niall Sclater; Robert Sherratt; Iain Tulloch; Rowin Young
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education Vol. 34, No. 3 (June 2009) pp. 273–292
This article reports on the e-Framework Reference Model for Assessment (FREMA) project that aimed at creating a reference model for the assessment domain: a guide to what resources (standards, projects, people, organisations, software, services and...
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Mapping the e-Learning Assessment Domain: Concept Maps for Orientation and Navigation
David Millard; Yvonne Howard; Christopher Bailey; Hugh Davis; Lester Gilbert; Steve Jeyes; Joeseph Price; Niall Sclater; Robert Sherratt; Iain Tulloch; Gary Wills; Rowin Young3
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2770–2775
Concept or Topic Maps have long been used as a method of categorising and organising information about a domain. Building them can help people conceptualise an area and spot trends or gaps, and as a presentation method they quickly provide an...