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Hewitt, Jim; Brett, Clare; Peters, Vanessa – American Journal of Distance Education, 2007
This article introduces a new computer conferencing metric called Scan Rate, which is a measure of students' and instructors' online reading speed. The term "scan" refers to the practice of either skimming through a message at an unusually rapid pace or reading a message partially and then stopping before the end is reached. It is…
Descriptors: Class Size, Teleconferencing, Reading Rate, Speed Reading
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Spennemann, Dirk H. R.; Atkinson, John; Cornforth, David – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2007
Student computer laboratories are provided by most teaching institutions around the world; however, what is the most effective layout for such facilities? The log-in data files from computer laboratories at a regional university in Australia were analysed to determine whether there was a pattern in student seating. In particular, it was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Centers, Educational Facilities Design
Auld, Glenn – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2002
In a remote Aboriginal Australian (Kunibidji) community, three touch-screen computers containing 96 Ndjebbana-language talking books were made available to children in informal settings. The computers' popularity is explained by the touch screens' form and the talking books' intertextual and hybrid nature. The Kunibidji are transforming their…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Australian Aboriginal Languages, Children, Computer Terminals