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Designing a Mobile System for Lifelong Learning on the Move
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Gu, X.; Gu, F.; Laffey, J. M. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2011
The Life-long Learning Initiative seeks to fulfil a variety of learning needs for Shanghai citizens. Given the popularity of mobile devices in Shanghai, the ability to provide learning in informal settings through mobile devices is a key objective and challenge of the Initiative. In order to learn how to develop usable learning content for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Mobility, Computer System Design
Revising an Extension Education Website for Limited Resource Audiences Using Social Marketing Theory
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Francis, Sarah L.; Martin, Peggy; Taylor, Kristin – Journal of Extension, 2011
Spend Smart Eat Smart (SSES), a unique website combining nutrition and food buying education for limited resource audiences (LRAs), was revised using social marketing theory to make it more appealing and relevant to LRAs (25-40 years). Focus groups and surveys identified the needs and preferences of LRAs. Needs were cooking, basic health, and…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Focus Groups, Nutrition, Marketing
Rules of Engagement: Developing the Online Tutor
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McGuigan, Aileen; Golden, Lucy – Research in Learning Technology, 2012
This paper considers professional development in a context that is familiar and problematic to teaching teams in tertiary education everywhere, that of delivering online programmes with an ever-decreasing complement of staff. The Teaching Qualification Further Education (TQFE) teaching team at University of Dundee confronted the reality of reduced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions, Educational Policy, Web Based Instruction
Keeping in Touch: Talking to Older People about Computers and Communication
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Dickinson, Anna; Hill, Robin L. – Educational Gerontology, 2007
Computer-based communication has tremendous potential to support older adults. But if people are to use such systems autonomously, it is necessary to move beyond current interfaces and systems and develop devices that fit into the environment of the user. Using a Grounded Theory approach, three focus groups were held and, subsequently, 9 older…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Electronic Mail, Telecommunications, Letters (Correspondence)
Report [of the] Expert Meeting on Intercultural Education, Section of Education for Peace and Human Rights (UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, March 20-22, 2006)
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2006
The Section of Education for Peace and Human Rights of the Division for the Promotion of Quality Education held an expert meeting on Intercultural Education from March 20-22, 2006 at UNESCO Headquarters, bringing together international experts from Australia, Bolivia, Egypt, Finland, Hungary, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa and the…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Educational Quality
Learner Centred Development of a Mobile and iTV Language Learning Support System
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Pemberton, Lyn; Fallahkhair, Sanaz; Masthoff, Judith – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting second language learning, particularly for independent adult learners. It has many characteristics demanded by modern second language (L2) learning theories and is technologically quite sophisticated. However, in order for it to succeed it needs to fit…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Focus Groups, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning