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About matthewbower

Professor at Macquarie University.

Research databases

Posted on April 7, 2009 by matthewbower

Today the presenter at a research seminar  explained the difference between research databases offered by the  Macquarie University library. Publisher databases like Informaworld, Science Direct, Sage and Informit were preferred over secondary databases due to their speed and reliability. As … Continue reading →

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ICT Lecture by Dean Groom yesterday

Posted on March 26, 2009 by matthewbower

Yesterday Dean Groom gave an interesting lecture to Macquarie University’s EDUC261 – ICT and Education students. Apparently there are over 200 3D immersive virtual worlds with over 2 million people in each. This includes RPGs (Role Play Games) and MMOs … Continue reading →

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Changes to the 2010 HSC Examinations and Assessments

Posted on March 16, 2009 by matthewbower

A release from the Board of Studies: http://news.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/index.cfm/2009/2/16/Changes-to-the-2010-HSC-Examinations-and-Assessments

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Professor Piet Kommers – a great deal of valuable work

Posted on March 9, 2009 by matthewbower

Professor Piet Kommers has done a great deal of work in the area of technology based learning. His wesite can be found at http://users.edte.utwente.nl/kommers/

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ARROW Discovery Service

Posted on February 19, 2009 by matthewbower

An important resource for any researcher is the ARROW Discovery Service has hundreds of thousands of Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures. The ARROW Discovery Service searches simultaneously across the contents … Continue reading →

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First Post – Link to my thesis

Posted on February 10, 2009 by matthewbower

This is my first post! I just received news that a permanent link to my thesis “Designing for Interactive and Collaborative Learning in a Web-conferencing Environment” has just become available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/26888 It is nice to be out there. If … Continue reading →

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EDUC261 and Blogs

Posted on October 15, 2008 by matthewbower

Weblogs are particularly useful because they allow a person or group to keep an online record of their learning, which can be shared with others anywhere anytime.

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