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Weekend Notes: Eyetracking and Determining Reading

By Jared Stein | Published: March 13, 2011
This weeks’ readings took me deeper into eye tracking of reading, as I sought to verify that current research on eye tracking of web site usage is not necessarily related to or relevant for reading research. Nielsen and Pernice’s 2010 book, “Eyetracking Web Usability” is already a classic for web designers, and though Nielsen’s work [...]
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10-Article Analysis: Rational, theory, questions

By Jared Stein | Published: February 7, 2011
I’ve analyzed ten articles on the topic of reading, hypertext, and cognitive load, looking at the articles’ rational, theoretical framework, and research questions. That document is available on Google Docs to invited users. I found this particular task useful in identifying not only the structure of the articles, but also to narrow focus to these [...]
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Levy Article on Reading and Attention

By Jared Stein | Published: February 6, 2011
 Levy, D. M. (1997). I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Reading and Attention in Digital Libraries. Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Digital libraries (pp. 202-211). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This paper explores the changing view of attention and reading, contextualizing it in modern technology developments. “…a particular constellation of technology developments and [...]
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DE Research Week 4 Readings

By Jared Stein | Published: February 1, 2011
Garrison, D. R. (1997). Computer conferencing: the post-industrial age of distance education. Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 12(2), 3-11. Recognizes the power of computer conferencing –especially asynchronous online forums–as compared to live, synchronous conversation. This distinguishes a new era of distance education, a post-industrial era. “…computer conferences may be globally accessible but are not [...]
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DE Research Week 2 Readings

By admin | Published: January 18, 2011
Holmberg, B. (1995). Theory and practice of distance education. Library (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. This article examines distance learning through the conversation metaphor, a theory of teaching and learning which focuses on the friendly, conversational, and personal transactions between students and instructors. This theory fits well into a student-centered view of teaching and [...]
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Three articles on reading hypertext from the 90s

By admin | Published: January 17, 2011
I’ve begun a harvest of research literature concerned with online (hypertext) reading and cognitive load. I initially ordered my reading list by discovery, but, a half dozen articles later, wish I had collected broadly, first, and began moving backwards from more recent publications. The following three articles are from the 90s, concerned primarily with comparison [...]
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3 Articles Orbiting Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem

By Jared Stein | Published: January 26, 2010
I’ve posted these annotations to the class’s Google Doc for Jon Mott’s IPT 692R course, but wanted to archive them here as well. These 3 article annotations seemed relevant in the discussion of Bloom’s 2 sigma problem: Cohen, A. (1987). Instructional Alignment: Searching for a Magic Bullet. Educational Researcher, 16:8, 16-20. Cohen reviews and expands [...]
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