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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Design and technology"”.
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Multiprocessor communications: Design and technology
… be divorced from issues of traffic modeling and implementational constraints. In this dissertation, we examine these issues and present new perspectives of various aspects of network design. We first concentrate on the problems that arise from synchronization accesses. In these situations, …
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A study of designerly activity in secondary design and technology
… of the study reported here was to research designerly activity in secondary design and technology as pupils aged 14 designed but did not make products for the future. Four research questions drove this study: (a) What are the features of the classroom interactions that support pupil's design …
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Interactive media for enhancing learning and creativity in design and technology education
… of interactive media to enhance learning and creativity in Design and Technology education. The work focuses on A level which is a stage at which autonomous learning becomes a significant part of the subject's pedagogy.</p> <p>This research is interdisciplinary in nature, bringing together …
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Instructional Design and Technology Student and Instructor Perceptions Regarding Collaborative Learning Groups
… study was to discover how college-level learners and instructors perceive collaborative group learning in regard to value and benefit, role of the instructor, and factors that contribute to positive and negative collaborative experiences. A non-experimental study provided information about …
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Citation Context Analysis of Theory Use in Instructional Design and Technology Academic Articles
… to define relationships across articles and develop arguments by building on the work of others. This study explores citation of theory symbols in Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) academic articles. The term theory symbol is used to define a concept that, after its original …
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A phenomenological study of pre-service teachers' subject knowledge in secondary design and technology
… of subject knowledge by pre-service teachers of Design and Technology (D&T) in secondary schools in England. In doing so it aimed to throw light on their lived experience of developing subject knowledge whilst on placement in schools. It was anticipated that this would help to identify the …
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A Framework to Determine the Status of Documented Artifacts Related to Instructional Design and Technology
… from the historic method, information seeking, and the history of IDT were used in conjunction with systems thinking to create a framework to determine the status of documented artifacts related to the history of IDT. The study used the following steps: (a) conduct a literature review in order …
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An examination of the contribution of the ‘starting point approach’ (SPA) to primary design and technology
The starting point approach (spa) to design and technology education presented in this thesis, is intended to stimulate children’s ideas and to allow projects with different purposes to be designed and made in one class. The projects all originate from a common starting point. The approach is …
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Instructional Design and Technology Through the Years: A Bibliometric Analysis of Educational Technology Research and Development (ETRandD) Journal
… in 4K, the field known as Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) today has a long history, marked by constant evolution since the 1920s. The field has been thrust into the spotlight by the COVID-19 pandemic. This bibliometric analysis examines research articles from the Educational …
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Embracing the future of land transportation : valuing flexibility in design and technology options for autonomous vehicle developments in Singapore
… fully autonomous vehicles in Singapore, and proposes flexible design and development strategies to maximize value creation. This approach recognizes the uncertainties associated with emerging technology domains, and illustrates how an adaptive policy can enable the policymaker to apply …
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Survey and Case Study Analyses of the Professional Preparation of Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) Graduates for Different Career Environments
Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) professionals practice their skills in a broad range of career environments and job roles. Each career environment has lists of competencies and unique knowledge and skill requirements that may or may not be communicated to students, since IDT programs do …
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An evaluation of the implementation of the design and technology curriculum in selected secondary schools in Kapiri Mposhi district: a context input process and product (CIPP) model.
… the education sector from 2015 to 2022, and the failure rate of learners in the Design and Technology subject has increased from 2016 to 2022. Thus the purpose of the study was to evaluate the implementation of the Design and Technology curriculum in selected secondary schools in Kapiri …
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CAD and creativity at Key Stage 3 : towards a new pedagogy
… decades there has been a major shift in the Design and Technology curriculum in secondary schools away from manual techniques and towards digital processes and products. CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing) is not only commonplace it is also embedded into the English …
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Online studios and digital literacy skills among undergraduate students: An Activity Theory Perspective
… largely attributed to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent rise in online education and the use of emerging technology tools . Consequently, the prevailing discourse no longer revolves solely around the feasibility of online education as a tool but pivots towards an inquiry into …
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Dynamic process simulation for the design of complex large-scale systems with respect to the performance of multiple interdependent production processes
… research developed a methodology to assess the design of complex large-scale products with respect to the performance of their production processes. In complex large-scale projects, physical and functional relationships among the product systems and components, along with concurrency and …
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Investigating the Alignments Between Scholarly and Popular Texts in Design: A Content Analysis
… the alignments in the use of theory, principles and guidelines in instructional design books and popular books on design. The review of literature was conducted in three parts. The first part of the literature review was a general review of literature and it was conducted on cognitive information …
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Variables involved in the uptake or downfall of studies related to technological subjects : a case study in Maltese state secondary schools
The link between exposure to the subject of Design and Technology in middle State schools and students’ perception of the subject and their gender was studied in an undergraduate dissertation (Stellini, 2017). This study is extended further in the paper by Stellini and Pulé (2019) and in this …
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