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Publication Open AccessJournal ArticleAgainst the odds: Teaching writing in an online environment(Association for Academic Language Learning, 2013); ;Patterson, HelenCollins, MartinThis paper outlines an approach to teaching academic writing in an online mode. The Pathways Enabling Course at the University of New England (UNE) was launched in 2008 and has provided us with a cohort of students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds who often lack the social capital necessary to write successfully in an academic context. These academic literacy units have been developed and taught by Academic Language and Learning (ALL) staff at UNE. As the Pathways students are external, there is a danger that they will not engage with the unit content and learning environment. The challenge has been to adapt writing pedagogy to the online environment, subject to the constraints of the tools that are available in the learning management system (Moodle). In the five years that this program has been offered, we have developed some key strategies that provide appropriate, scaffolded teaching and learning activities to develop academic writing in the online environment. This involves the innovative use of the available tools to successfully engage students in writing activities. Our primary teaching tools included Moodle’s database activity, which we integrated with other online activities to generate substantial student engagement, participation and interactivity. We believe our approach offers a valuable opportunity for ALL professionals and students to interact online, producing written work that can be shaped through corrective feedback and redrafting. We present some samples of student work and show how, with appropriate feedback and learning resources, students can develop their proficiency in academic writing to improve their chances of academic success.1406 538 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Journal ArticlePublication GeoGebra in Teaching and Learning Introductory StatisticsThis article discusses the special opportunities for teaching statistics that technology offers teachers who aim to provide rich learning experiences for their students. These opportunities involve automation of many activities such as quickly organising data, computing measures, and generating graphs. By automating the tasks of computing statistics or generating data, technology facilitates students' ability to visualise abstract concepts, affording an opportunity to focus on conceptual understandings and data analysis. This article also examines how GeoGebra can be integrated into the curriculum and learning process of introductory statistics to engage college students in cycles of investigation including (a) managing data (b) developing students' knowledge for understanding specific statistical concepts, (c) performing data analysis and inference, and (d) exploring probability models. Recommendations are included for ways mathematics educators can engage college learners in developing their knowledge for exploring data concepts and doing statistics with GeoGebra.1200 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Journal ArticlePublication The Implications of Personal Internet Search for Theories of Global Civil Society(Common Ground Publishing, 2012)Liljeblad, JonathanIn the growing information expanse of cyberspace, personal internet search is a permutation of internet search technology designed to help netizens navigate and locate relevant content. The epistemological implications of personal internet search for public discourse troubles Eli Pariser, who asserts that such technology isolates users in individual "filter bubbles" with personalized and competing views of reality. While accessible to popular audiences, Pariser's arguments are also provocative for scholarly studies of public discourse, including politics. This paper responds to this challenge with respect to one area of this discourse: global civil society. This paper contends that Pariser's arguments are useful, but that a deeper expansion of theoretical literature will provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between internet search and public discourse; and that such nuances will outline epistemological implications of personal internet search relevant not just to public discourse but also for theories of global civil society.788 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Book ChapterPublication Online Delivery for Effective Learning Experience: Consideration and Conceptualization for Further AdvancementTeaching and learning via online delivery is increasingly becoming a norm for many higher education institutions worldwide. This alternative form of learning is characteristically unique and serves a number of purposes - for example, it is cost effective and convenient for full-time workers who wish to pursue academic studies, part time. Consequently, the acceptance of this mode has led to a rethinking in pedagogical strategies for educators and researchers alike. Educators and researchers have developed and used a myriad of innovations (e.g., animated pedagogical agents) to stimulate students' interests, intellectual curiosities, and to enhance critical thinking skills. Despite the effectiveness and advantages of online delivery, there are a number of pressing issues for continuing consideration and research development. Notably, one aspect that has received appreciable emphases is the cultivation of a social milieu, online, that may yield characteristics reflective of a traditional, face-to-face (FTF) classroom. Note worthy of this, for example, is a need for us to create a sense of realism (e.g., dynamic interaction) in students' learning. In a similar manner, there is recognition for educators to emulate a learning climate that binds learners, disregard of time and geographical differences. This feat, in our view, is not simplistic and entails a number of complexities that require continuing conceptualization. The main tenet of this chapter details a brief theoretical overview of online delivery in higher education contexts, and three identified issues that relate dialectically to this pedagogical approach to teaching and learning: (i) experiential feelings of realism; (ii) the facilitation, if possible, of critical thinking skills in an online learning climate; and (iii) the importance of cognitive overload in the presentation of information for online learning. We conclude this chapter with a scoping of recommendations for continuing research development and advancement. There are, in this analysis, a number of pressing issues for educators and researchers to consider - for example, how does the paradigm of online delivery relate to individuals' cognitive processes for learning?1090 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Thesis DoctoralPublication Potential for Remote Monitoring of Cattle Movement to Indicate Available Biomass(2015) ;Roberts, Jessica Jane; ; ; ; There is a call for sustainable intensification of agricultural industries to cope with impending challenges to future food demand and production. Beef and sheep meat production in Australia is dominated by grazing production systems, and equates to the largest land use of the country. Pasture utilisation by livestock can be a major limiting factor in grazing production systems, through under- or over-grazing. This thesis aims to identify if spatio-temporal information from livestock tracking devices can be used to understand livestock-biomass interactions in a rotational grazing system. The specific goal was to determine if this spatio-temporal data might be related to pasture characteristics (particularly biomass quantity) and potentially used as an indicator of the state of the pastures being grazed. Cattle were tracked with GPS for detection and monitoring of specific behaviours including, distance moved, time spent grazing, stationary or travelling, spatial dispersion and social dispersion. Behaviours were compared with declining pasture availability, monitored with an active optical sensor. This thesis explores the behaviour of cattle in three grazing situations.2736 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Open AccessJournal ArticleProtein profiles of enzymatically isolated rumen epithelium in sheep fed a fibrous diet(BioMed Central Ltd, 2019-01-25) ;Bond, J J ;Donaldson, A J; ; ; ;Wheeler, DBackground: The rumen wall plays a major role in efficient transfer of digested nutrients in the rumen to peripheral tissues through the portal venous system. Some of these substrates are metabolised in the epithelium during this process. To identify the specific proteins involved in these processes, we used proteomic technologies. Protein extracts were prepared from ventral rumen tissue of six sheep fed a fibrous diet at 1.5× maintenance energy requirements. Using a newly developed method, we were able to enzymatically isolate the epithelial cells from underlying tissue layers, thus allowing cytosol and membrane fractions to be independently analysed using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC S/MS).
Results: Using our procedure we identified 570 epithelial proteins in the Ovis aries sequence database. Subcellular locations were largely cytosolic (n = 221) and extracellular (n = 85). However, a quarter of the proteins identified were assigned to the plasma membrane or organelle membranes, some of which transport nutrients and metabolites. Of these 91 were transmembrane proteins (TMHMM), 27 had an N-terminal signal peptide (signalP) and TMHMM motif, 13 had a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor and signalP sequence, 67 had beta (β) strands or 17 β strands and a transit peptide sequence, indicating the identified proteins were integral or peripheral membrane proteins. Subunits of the 5 protein complexes involved in mitochondrial cellular energy production were well represented. Structural proteins (15%), proteins involved in the metabolism of lipids and proteins (26%) and those with steroid or cytokine action were a feature of the proteome.
Conclusion: Our research has developed a procedure to isolate rumen epithelium proteins from the underlying tissue layers so that they may be profiled using proteomic technologies. The approach improves the number of proteins that can be profiled that are specific to the epithelium of the rumen wall. It provides new insights into the proteins of structural and nutritional importance in the rumen epithelium, that carry out nutrient transport and metabolism, cell growth and signalling.1384 143 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Conference PublicationPublication Reconceptualising student experience: Creating inter-connections between the curricular, co-curricular and technologies into a seamless place of learning(Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), 2013) ;Kek, Megan; ;Counter, ViviennePadro, FernandoIn 2012, University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia, piloted the Student Personalised Academic Road to Success (SPARS) initiative. SPARS is a student-centred framework that offers personalised academic learning support and resources to enhance student success. The framework is underpinned by Chickering & Reisser's (1993) vectors of development and Bronfenbrenner's (1979) integrative ecological approach in development, situated on Tait's (2000) student support framework for open and distance learning (ODL). It further adds a layer of connection to student engagement (Kuh et al, 2007). The framework facilitates a repositioning of student experience by marrying the co-curricular (professional) and curricular (academic) 'places' of learning harnessed by technologies (core learning and student management systems) - three common milieus - that Pascarella and Terenzini (2005) call the interconnections that are more likely to produce a more effective educational experience. SPARS provides a personalised 'place' of learning for all students, across the various phases of the student learning journey, from first inquiry to post graduation. It does this by pulling all relevant academic, administrative and personal resources situated 'outside classrooms' to facilitate students' learning 'inside classrooms'. The analytics of these systems provide affordances for on-going development strategies and reporting. The accompanying proposed assessment framework, (figure 2,) will generate assessment data based on measurable outcomes that consider external and internal priorities for the individual student and the university as a whole. The interconnectedness of different 'places' will position students well in today's world where true power of learning is making sense and use of information.988 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Journal ArticlePublication The World Trade Organization Obligations and Legislative Policy: Choices in Developing Countries for BiotechnologyMany developing and least-developed nations are exporters of conventional agricultural products, and such products have traditionally been free of genetically modified (GM) material in the international market. Now the scenario has changed, and they are facing issues for international market access. These countries have had genetically modified products introduced into their markets without their consent or knowledge. For example, it has been reported that soybean farmers in Argentina have used unlicensed ('brown bagged' in GM crop parlance) genetically engineered seed from Brazil, and that Bt cotton was in the fields in India before any governmental approval. Research on seeds smuggled in from other countries indicates that a regulated seed market would be safer than the current illegal market. When people adopt GM crops in a free-for-all atmosphere, it holds potential dangers.2334