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- Bradley, Linda, 1961, et al.
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A Design for Intercultural Exchange – An Analysis of Engineering Students’ Interaction with English Majors in a Poetry Blog
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Ingår i: Second language teaching and learning with technology: views of emergent researchers. - 9781908416001
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Web based writing platforms allowing for exchanges across the world are increasingly being used in education. These recent forms of textual practice are highly related to conditions offered by the technology, allowing users, who previously were primarily consumers, to become producers of text. This chapter investigates student interaction over a blog in an intercultural student exchange between native speakers and nonnative speakers of English in higher education analysing and interpreting poetry. The groups of students involved in this study belong not only to different academic disciplines, but also differ in terms of nationality and language background. In the blog posts, the students’ cultural voices are heard, offering a meeting between very contrasting groups. Scrutinising the student postings, the threaded discussions show ways that students thematise content and meaning in the poems. The results show that there are a number of features at play in an intercultural environment where language and translation issues are prominent parts of the student discussions, offering extended perspectives to the students’ initial views. Collaborative efforts in such a diverse environment are important when negotiating meaning and extending students’ understanding of poetry.
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- Bradley, Linda, 1961, et al.
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Language learning in a wiki: Student contributions in a web based learning environment
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Ingår i: Themes in Science and Technology Education. - 1792-8788. ; 3:1-2, s. 63-80
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Emerging social writing platforms offer possibilities for language learners to collaborate around joint assignments. One such environment is the wiki, generally hosting two prominent modes of usage, web pages and discussion forums. This study investigates software engineering students’ use of a wiki as an integrated tool within the frames of a language course. The purpose of the case study was to investigate the student interaction in a student driven design setting and what the implications are for language learning in such an environment. The findings show that the two modes of interaction host primarily three types of activity, contributing and writing together, evaluating and peer reviewing, and arguing and discussing. These three activities convey different ways of collaborating and sharing text online. Once a group had chosen a mode for their collaboration, they tend to stay with it throughout their work.
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- Bradley, Linda, 1961, et al.
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Rationalities of collaboration for language learning in a wiki
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Ingår i: ReCALL. - 0958-3440. ; 22:2, s. 247-264
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For language learning, online environments allowing for user generated content are becoming increasingly important since they offer possibilities for learners to elaborate on assignments and projects. This study investigates what wikis can do as a means to enhance group interaction, when students are encouraged to participate in constructing text and exchanging peer response. The research focus is on exploring what interaction unfolds in the wiki and how it promotes language learning, from a sociocultural perspective. This interaction is framed both by affordances in the wiki but also by what is expected from students as language learners in an English for Specific Purposes class environment. The analysis has a multilevel approach, focusing on patterns of interaction and the nature of feedback. The study shows that collaboration becomes specifically interesting from a language learning perspective. In the findings, on the student wiki pages there are numerous contributions relating to both local language and global content. Revising co-constructed text opens up possibilities for the students to evaluate existing contributions and it also provides opportunities for them to suggest constructive changes. In addition, with the environment being web based, we discuss certain benefits arising from the fact that it allows for user-generated content.
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- Rystedt, Hans, 1951, et al.
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Developing nursing expertise in simulation-based learning environments
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Ingår i: Collaboration and Learning in Virtual Environments. - 9513914208 ; , s. 87-108
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The work of nurse anaesthetists is carried out in a highly technological environment, where patient care is provided in close collaboration with other members of hospital staff. The expertise of these nurses and how this is developed is of vital importance. Furthermore, the use of computerised pedagogical tools to support learning within an educational setting is of special interest. The main aim of this paper is to investigate how the use of one of these tools, a simulation based learning environment, can contribute to learning in the domain of anaesthesia care. The study is carried out within the framework of socio-cultural theory. From this perspective, learning is viewed as being situated in communities of practice, where interaction between individuals, and between artefacts and individuals, is considered as central in the learning process. Here, we will present results from a study of how trainee nurse anaesthetists use computer simulations and discuss issues concerning their learning processes. The planning, implementation and debriefing phases of one training session are scrutinised with respect to the framing of problems and implications for learning. The results support the assumption that work in computer based learning environments can influence assessment procedures and decision making skills in significant ways, and that computer-based learning environments provide productive means for goal directed collaborative learning activities.
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- Rystedt, Hans, 1951-, et al.
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Introducing simulation technologies in nurse education : a nursing practice perspective.
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Ingår i: Nurse education in practice. - : Elsevier BV. - 1873-5223 .- 1471-5953. ; 1:3, s. 134-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Computer simulations have been widely used for training purposes and proliferate in nursing and medicine. To take account of the multifaceted nature of nursing, a participatory design approach was applied in which nursing practice was utilized as a point of departure for exploring the educational value of the new technologies. In an empirical study, nurses with different degrees of experience were interviewed about those tasks within nursing that they perceived as difficult to learn, and how simulation technologies might contribute to learning the management of these. Six aspects of expertise emerged:judging the patient's health status; monitoring care interventions; prioritizing and carrying out interventions efficiently; communicating with patients and their relatives; cooperating with other members of the staff; and managing complexity. Most aspects include dynamic and complex features, and simulations were judged to be useful for capturing these and, subsequently, for training. Other aspects, such as focusing on human interaction, were assessed to be less prolific. Compared to traditio nal teaching media, the dynamic featuresof simulations were judged to be most useful. Training with simulations was regarded as complementary to other forms of instruction, and the curricular integration of simulations decisive in determining their cont ribution to learning in nurse education.
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