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Item Open Access A constructivist framework for a model of short-term professional development for science teachers(International Council of Associations for Science Education) Perera, Sean; Stocklmayer, SusanThis is a synopsis of an Interactive Poster for the ICASE World Conference STE 2010 ... This poster presents a constructivist framework for a model of short-term professional development, which was offered to secondary school science teachers in Australia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Despite the popular view maintained in the literature, it was found that one-day workshops could be modelled on constructivist principles and can indeed facilitate conceptual change in the teachers. Based on observational data, interviews with the workshop designers and 38 teachers, it is possible to offer here a three-part constructivist framework for short-term professional development.Item Open Access A portrait of the law school as realist kindergarten(Slideshare) Maharg, PaulPresentation to the Legal Education and Scholarship: Past Present and Future Workshop in Honour of William Twining, 20.10.10. IALS, University of London.Item Open Access Access & equity in the provision of primary health care services in rural and remote Australia(Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI), The Australian National University) Humphreys, John S; Wakerman, John; Perkins, David; Lyle, David; McGrail, MatthewItem Open Access Access & equity in the provision of primary health care services in rural and remote Australia(Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI), The Australian National University) Wakerman, JohnItem Open Access Access and equity in the provision of primary health care services in rural and remote Australia(Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI), The Australian National University) Wakerman, John; Humphreys, JohnPresentation to the Department of Health & Ageing, Canberra 16 May, 2013Item Open Access Access to legal work: the experiential learning demension(Slideshare) Maharg, PaulPresentation to Access to Legal Work Experience Workshop, Legal Services Board, London, 10.6.10.Item Metadata only Achieving improvements in healthcare quality & performance: Roles & responsibilities for federal agencies(Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI), The Australian National University) Mittman, BrianItem Open Access Advocacy - What works(Queensland University of Technology, 2013-10-30) Kingsley, DannyThis workshop is aiming to address the question: ˜How do we make Open Access part of the publishing culture (everyday practice) of a researcher/academic?". The discussion will include some theoretical background on the diffusion of innovations. Current issues in open access will be explored including: discipline trends towards different open access options, publishing trends, the level of market penetration of open access journals versus use of repositories and a view to the future. Marketing methods like identifying natural points in the research cycle, increasing the appeal of the repository, identifying target audiences and overcoming barriers will be covered. Participants will be encouraged to bring examples from their own experience, as this will be an interactive discussion on selling the open access message. The questions being addressed will include: What methods of demonstrating the benefits of open access are working? Do mandates help or hinder?Item Open Access Affect and legal education: emotion in learning and teaching the law(Slideshare) Maharg, PaulSlides used at the Society of Legal Scholars conference, Cambridge, 2011 to introduce our upcoming book on Affect, co-edited by Caroline Maughan and published by Ashgate.Item Open Access AFSCET - Association Française de science des Systèmes Cybernétiques cognitifs Et Techniques(Australian National University, 2013-09-08) Bricage, PierreEvery day, engineers, managers, teachers, researchers, politicians, face tasks of great complexity. To be efficient their action has to articulate the apprehension and conceptualisation of complex situations what supposes good descriptions and operating models. This assertion does not encounter many objections but is difficult to put into practice. Indeed, rare are the places where models can be developed, tested, confronted and improved without exclusion or dogmatism. We need cognitive and technical tools to think and act in our complex world. One of the main goals of AFSCET is to be a place for explanation, discussion and confrontation of practices and teachings from diverse horizons through a trans-disciplinary way of thinking. Debates are anchored in the Systemic Approach which is rooted into the information theory and Cybernetics. Systemics favours inter-disciplinary approaches, just as sciences of complexity and sciences of cognition did afterwards. That results in one of the most remarkable scientific developments of the last quarter of century.Item Open Access Alcohol control policies (AMPs) in Indigenous communities in Queensland: Is a focus on supply control sustainable?(Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI), The Australian National University) Clough, AlanItem Open Access Are current primary health care funding arrangements getting us where we want to go?(Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI), The Australian National University, 2015) Hall, JaneItem Open Access As curious an entity: building digital resources from context, records and data(Australasian Association for Digital Humanities) Lewis, Antonina; Jones, MichaelThis paper explores new ways of conceiving and building linked digital resources for researchers and the community which more effectively support the exploration, discovery and reuse of digital objects and research data (qualitative and quantitative). It stems from an examination of our work on the Saulwick Archive (including the Saulwick Age‐Poll, focus group discussions, and more) as well as our ongoing involvement with the Australian Data Archive. As the technical capacity to store and disseminate digital objects grows and as quantitative research data become more discoverable and accessible, two issues are evident: the sometimes limited conception of what is required to ensure quantitative data remain useful and understandable through time, and; (in Australia at least) the general lack of equivalent preservation and dissemination relationships with qualitative research communities, including the Humanities. These are connected – the well documented reluctance of qualitative researchers to deposit research data within archives, based on fears of missing context and the resulting ‘misuse’ or ‘misinterpretation’ of data, is itself partially founded in the specific context of past (primarily quantitative) data archiving practice. Dealing with these challenges is necessarily collaborative. In the case of the Saulwick Archive, the eScholarship Research Centre, The University of Melbourne Archives, and Australian Data Archive are working together. This ensures we can source valuable expertise in the specific (but connected) conceptual and technical requirements for dealing with three interdependent ‘layers’ of information objects: context, records, and data. The paper will also use these concepts more broadly, exploring how the shortcomings in records and context management evident in past approaches to data archiving can be addressed; and how an integrated but modular approach to the collaborative management of interrelated context, records, and data can contribute to the development of richer and more sustainable information infrastructure for researchers.Item Open Access Assessing legal professionalism in simulations: the case of SIMPLE(Slideshare) Maharg, PaulSlides for the presentation to OUC, Barcelona, June 2012.Item Open Access Automatic extraction of topic hierarchies based on WordNet(Australasian Association for Digital Humanities) Brey, Gerhard; Vieira, MiguelThe aim of the research described here is the automatic generation of a topic hierarchy, using WordNet as the basis for a faceted browser interface, with a collection of 19th-century periodical texts as the test corpus. Our research was motivated by the Castanet algorithm, which was developed and successfully applied to short descriptions of documents. In our research we adapt the algorithm so that it can be applied to the full text of documents. The algorithm for the automatic generation of the topic hierarchy has three main processes: Data preparation, wherein data is prepared so that the information contained within the texts is more easily accessible; Target term extraction, wherein terms that are considered relevant to classify each text are selected, and; Topic tree generation, wherein the tree is built using the target terms. We evaluated samples of the resulting topic tree and found that over 90% of the topics are relevant, i.e. they clearly illustrate what the articles are about and the topic hierarchy adequately relates to the content of the articles. Future work will address problems resulting from mis‐OCRed words, erroneous disambiguation, and language anachronisms. Faceted browsing interfaces based on topic hierarchies are easy and intuitive to navigate, and as our results demonstrate, topic hierarchies form an appropriate basis for this type of data navigation. We are confident that our approach can successfully be applied to other corpora and should yield even better results if there are no OCR issues to contend with. Since WordNet is available in several languages, it should also be possible to apply our approach to corpora in other languages.Item Open Access Beyond the lowest common denominator: designing effective digital resources(Australasian Association for Digital Humanities) Vetch, PaulAs the web has become the de facto medium of the Digital Humanities, we have seen enormous advances in the ‘functional ambition’ of the online resources that characterise the discipline. Increasingly, digital humanities outputs strive not simply to disseminate primary sources, but to supply a nexus of rich contextual materials and functionality: allowing the user to control editorial perspectives, digitally curate objects, and apply tools for real‐time analysis and visualisation. But, the web, as a medium, is a mutable sand; consider the variety of web browsers and platforms, in regular use today, and the rate at which they change. Web applications are increasingly provisional and ephemeral; the more use we make of exciting, current technology, the more fragile the outputs we produce. All that we can be sure will prevail, in time, are the primary sources (text, images) digitised and stored according to accepted standards. For all the creative work that goes into the delivery of digital editions and archives, it is a disappointing reality that simple democratised access to primary sources often remains the ‘lowest common denominator’ of the Digital Humanities. How do we progress the field, allowing our users to better understand the potential of ubiquitous technologies for display and interaction for their own areas of research? How do we ensure that the effort expended on building delivery environments for digital humanities research outputs will have a lasting impact across subject disciplines? The discussion will address issues of usability, user centred design, and functional design specific to the Digital Humanities, focusing on experimental work carried out across a number of projects at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London (in particular the online version of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson; the Gough Map; and the Online Chopin Variorum Edition).Item Open Access Breeding Ethereal Cosmological Monsters: The Unavoidable Resurrection of the Boltzmann Brains. Paper presented at the Frankenstein 2018, Two Hundred Years of Monsters Conference. ANU, 12-15 September 2018(The Australian National University, 2018-09) Martín, Mario DanielBoltzmann Brains are a metaphor for observers of the universe that may appear spontaneously in the space void, check out its surroundings, and disappear back into the quantum foam. They are theoretical monsters that emerge from equations. They were proposed in the late 20th century to test the limits of Ludwig Boltzmann’s statistical mechanics definition of entropy. Even when Boltzmann himself only speculated about the unlikely event of the spontaneous fluctuation of a universe which starts with low entropy (such as ours), the hypothetical entities were named after him because he reformulated the Second Law of Thermodynamics to define entropy statistically. In the early 21rst century the Boltzmann Brains metaphor was used also to address issues with theories that predicted an infinite and eternal universe, such as eternal inflation, which in fact predicts infinite multiverses with these characteristics. It was also linked to the anthropic principle and the so-called measurement problem in cosmology. In this last case, the entities were an instrument to discriminate between cosmological models. The consensus is that theories predicting Boltzmann Brains as the more likely observers of the universe are “bad” or wrong ones. In this conference paper I reviewed the development of these disembodied entities in cosmology, and explored its uses in popular science and other disciplines. I l also presented my own creative reinterpretation of Boltzmann Brains in a novel that also deals with two big 21rst century monsters: climate change and general artificial intelligence.Item Open Access Building a community: the experience of RLadies(The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, The Australian National University., 2019-02) Kuhnert, Petra; Richardson, AliceItem Open Access Building better systems of care for Indigenous Australians with chronic disease(Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI), The Australian National University) Brown, AlexItem Open Access Building Capacity to Cope with Ethical Dilemmas in Legal Practice Through Teaching 'Giving Voice to Values' Techniques(Conference Organising Committee, 2014) Curran, LizThis panel presentation will be a basic introduction for a more detailed session on Saturday with Viv Holmes, Anneka Ferguson (in absencia) which will discuss the theory, practice, research and student responses that informs our courses. In the context of Recommendations 6 and 7 Critical issues and challenges are presented. How can teachers challenge students to explore ethical dilemmas emerging in all area of practice be they commercial, property, consumer and civil law? How can we as teachers not just teach students to identify ethical issues but also assist them in building the tools necessary to actively and appropriately deal with such dilemmas? In the ANU Legal Workshop (delivered in a blended mode with face to face and on-line teaching) the professional legal training course for graduates to become admitted to legal practice, we use Mary Gentile’s ‘Giving Voice to Values’ (GVV) approach. This will be briefly explained. I have taught ethics in an undergraduate context and am now teaching at graduate levels and see more opportunities using the GVV approach. In Legal Workshop’s Ethics subject and in a subject, ‘Professional Development’ (PM) that supports key practice areas, we use GVV to engage students at a deeper level so they learn about themselves and their working environment. The key GVV approach is to equip students with not only the ability to identify an ethical problems but also strategies to enable them to act on their ethical duties. Our aim is to build the students’ resilience, build their capacity to act ethically and speak up appropriately and wisely. During my section of the panel presentation, I will ask the audience to participate by doing the first exercise students undertake- a Professional Development Journal Entry. This activity is based on GVV’s ‘Tale of Two Stories’ and requires students to recall and then reflect on a time in their lives when they have, and have not, ‘spoken’ their values. The activity is a useful lead-in to tackling ethical issues in legal workplace scenarios as the course progresses (tomorrow’s session). This activity starts the reflective practice conversation and flags issues that emerging lawyers face in responding ethically. In student debriefs some of our students (many of whom work in legal practice as para-legals, judges associates, waitressing, marketing and fact food outlets etc.) indicate they already often encounter unethical practice and that examining the reasons why they speak or do not speak out is useful for the later exercises. The discussion also has scope for teachers to share their experiences, values and ethical dilemmas and how they did or not deal with them. In the follow-up session on Saturday we will explore how the GVV approach enables students to develop and practise skill for acting ethically. It is suggested a similar activity could be used in undergraduate level to start reflective practice and the values and ethics discussion with students earlier.