Commentary on Section 264 of ITAA 1936: commissioner may require information and evidence
Dabner, Justin
2007-01-01
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Support to e-learning activities has undergone a transition from simple web-based solutions to complete and integrated Learning Management Systems. Such transformation had an important, maybe unwanted and probably almost unnoticed side-effect: the closure to the outside world. We discuss why that happens and whether it is a desirable or necessary feature. We outline the consequences of such fact on e-learning in general, and on the dream of an open society in particular. Finally, we propose some solutions that allow keeping the necessary protection features while allowing for a more open sharing of learning resources.
The annotation of web pages, and the possibility to share the notes with others, seems to be a powerful tool. Although several tools already provide such possibility, they are not as widely popular as one would expect them to be. We try to explain this fact, and propose a novel architectural approach that is, in our view, particularly suited to some particular domain such as e-learning. We also present a tool that implements the proposed architecture.
The present Technical Reports contains two complementary papers describing our experience with a system for delivering traditional lectures through computers and computer networks.
Learning and studying are very often connected with reading printed materials. In this paper we describe some implementation issues of a common task – printing a document, when applied in a mobile environment. In a non-mobile context this task is simple and is usually taken for granted, but the introduction of a palmtop/laptop equipped with a wireless-LAN card makes the task less trivial. To fulfil the requirements placed by the mobility a system should consider some location-time-dependant data.
We present an HTTP-based discussion tool that allows in-context asynchronous interaction. Our prototypal system can be integrated in any HTTP-based e-learning platform. It allows to annotate web pages, and to share the notes with the teacher, with (a selected group) of other students, or to keep them as personal notes.
With the advances in mobile technologies it is already possible to support learners and teachers activities on the move. Nevertheless the interoperation between a Learning Information Systems and mobile technology is still weakly explored. We analyzed the functionalities that should be provided by e-learning and m-learning and present them in a general mobile learning platform. It is extension to traditional LMS and thus able to provide all possible e-learning services and additional specific services to the mobile users. Such a system should have three main functionalities Context Discovery , Mobile Content Management and Presentation Adaptation and Packaging and Synchronization .
Using metadata is very important for achieving best results in finding and reusing e-learning material. Metadata are however effective only if there is a common agreement on the terminology used. Defining an ontology is a way out, but creating a good ontology and reaching a consensus on it is a non trivial task. In this paper, we claim that an ontology for Computer Science can be extracted as a side-result from the work made by an ACM committee on Computer Science curricula. We extracted the ontology, and we suggest that it could/should be used for defining metadata on e-learning material that is concerned with the Computer Science domain. We provide both an XML and a DAML+OIL representation of the ontology. Also, we suggest a possible way to navigate the metadata that allows enriching each lesson with a set of related material automat...
The paper aims to describe in some details a system called Mobile Eldit (m-Eldit) that is under development at the University of Trento, Italy. It is a mobile version that can be accessed from mobile devices like PDAs, of an existing language learning platform, developed at the European Academy of Bolzano, Italy. The paper also gives description of the theoretical bases behind the system – a general architecture for supporting mobile learning.
With the advances in mobile technologies it is already possible to support learners and teachers activities on the move. We analyzed the functionalities that should be provided by a general mobile learning platform and identified a problem that is weakly studied by previous research, namely offline usage of learning material (hoarding of content). Hoarding can use some of the techniques that are used by different caching and pre-fetching schemas, but in most cases the goal of the last two is to reduce latency time, bandwidth consumption and/or servers workload, while in hoarding the aim is to improve the accuracy of set selection. Caching and pre-fetching content are problems that are considered widely since the introduction of Internet for mass usage, still hoarding is not so well explored. We want to study the parameters that could h...
We report the findings of a project aimed at introducing Interactive Whiteboards in schools (both primary and secondary). We focussed on the early phases (installation, introduction, training, first use). We find that there are indeed problems that need to be tackled before one can hope to obtain the good results that are promised by the marketing hype.
