A strategy for the integration of IT-led methods into physics—the SToMP approach

Bacon, Richard; Swithenby, Stephen

doi:10.1016/0360-1315(95)00072-0

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“…It is therefore relatively easy to introduce new editing technology or completed films as an effective learning tool. Or in a subject such as Physics, where visualisation of complex concepts is difficult, visualisation may offer a mechanism for overcoming already identified learning issues (Bacon & Swithenby, 1996;Gillies et al, 1996). The skills necessary to programme visual materials from mathematical equations are normally already available in the subject area, so it is relatively easy to introduce this new aspect to learners.…”

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Developing organisational ‘off‐the‐shelf’ capacity: Continued implications for tutors who wish to increase their re‐use of electronically delivered time‐based media

Calverley

2006

Interactive Technology and Smart Education

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Higher inclusion rate of different media types within technology-supported learning scenarios is becoming more necessary for higher education, as it seeks to attract more technologically-minded students and still offer effective learning. An 'off-the-shelf' model is needed, for making third-party, non-text-based, electronic resources available to academic staff who are building courses, but is shown to still be some way off. Ideally this type of model should allow independent, legal use of such resources by academic staff who rely predominantly on standardised forms of organisational services. When achieved, less-intensive day-to-day support should be required per learning scenario developed so that use of different media types becomes more scaleable than at present. This paper specifically concentrates on aspects related to time-based media (TBM).

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Section: Current Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing organisational ‘off‐the‐shelf’ capacity: Continued implications for tutors who wish to increase their re‐use of electronically delivered time‐based media

Calverley

2006

Interactive Technology and Smart Education

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“…One such project that had used Microcosm was SToMP [4] -a consortium of UK Universities founded in 1992 with HE Funding Council backing, to create electronic resources for the teaching of Physics. This paper examines the experiences of the SToMP team in migrating their materials to reflect on what functionality might still be missing from current Web based learning environments.…”

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Experiences migrating microcosm learning materials

Davis

Bacon

2004

Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia

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Microcosm was an open hypertext system that evolved in the early 1990s, before the advent of the Web. Apart from its success as a research platform it was widely used for presenting interactive educational materials. Since the commercial version of the product ceased to be supported it became necessary for users to migrate their educational materials, generally to the Web. However, the SToMP consortium chose to implement their own environment copying parts of the functionality of Microcosm in order to achieve their educational objectives. This paper examines the motivations of this work in order to understand whether there were features that were available in Microcosm that were not replicated in current Web based solutions.

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Enthusiastic Implementation: Setting the Scene for Evolution and Revolution

Seale¹

2003

Learning Technology in Transition

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A strategy for the integration of IT-led methods into physics—the SToMP approach

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Developing organisational ‘off‐the‐shelf’ capacity: Continued implications for tutors who wish to increase their re‐use of electronically delivered time‐based media

Developing organisational ‘off‐the‐shelf’ capacity: Continued implications for tutors who wish to increase their re‐use of electronically delivered time‐based media

Experiences migrating microcosm learning materials

Enthusiastic Implementation: Setting the Scene for Evolution and Revolution

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