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Showing 1 to 20 of 437 for “"lectures"”.
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Pentimento : retroactive editing for lectures
… for every single student. These recorded lectures provide a major benefit to both students and authors, but currently present several drawbacks as well. The limitations that exist stem from the method in which lectures are created: using video recorders. Video recordings inherently limit …
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Pentimento : non-sequential authoring of handwritten lectures
… the creation of online educational video lectures such as those of Khan Academy. In these videos, the lecture style is that the educator draws on a virtual whiteboard as he/she speaks. Currently, the type of software that the educator uses is very rudimentary in its functionality and only …
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Using electronic voting systems data outside lectures to support learning
… using Electronic Voting Systems (EVS) within lectures has so far led to the conclusion that EVS is of beneficial value to students’ learning by involving students directly in conversation and deeper reflection. EVS researchers have proposed that using the voting data from EVS outside the …
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Investigating audio classification to automate the trimming of recorded lectures
With the demand for recorded lectures to be made available as soon as possible, the University of Cape Town (UCT) needs to find innovative ways of removing bottlenecks in lecture capture workflow and thereby improving turn-around times from capture to publication. UCT utilises Opencast, which is an …
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Improving searchability of automatically transcribed lectures through dynamic language modelling
Recording university lectures through lecture capture systems is increasingly common. However, a single continuous audio recording is often unhelpful for users, who may wish to navigate quickly to a particular part of a lecture, or locate a specific lecture within a set of recordings. A transcript …
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Improving Searchability of Automatically Transcribed Lectures Through Dynamic Language Modelling
Recording university lectures through lecture capture systems is increasingly common. However, a single continuous audio recording is often unhelpful for users, who may wish to navigate quickly to a particular part of a lecture, or locate a specific lecture within a set of recordings. A transcript …
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Freedom and fatalism in Wittgenstein's “Lectures on Freedom of the Will”
… of the will, primarily as expounded in his “Lectures on Freedom of the Will” (LFW). My overall aim is to show how Wittgenstein works to reconfigure the debates about freedom of the will so that it can be confronted as the kind of problem he thinks it ultimately is: an ethical and existential …
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The Concept of Effective Delivery in The Yale Lectures on Preaching
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:03:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6706634.pdf: 7647506 bytes, checksum: 808e11f0b34c4a56c38abdbe3e84c5ad (MD5) Previous issue date: 1966
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Impact of instant and anonymous questions on participation in large lectures
… the student and teacher experience in large lectures.
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Large lectures are hard: an exploration in meaningful social visualizations for large group communication
Large lectures are a difficult and complicated area of exploration, both technologically and socially. Here is presented a discussion of existing areas of investigation related to large lectures, including fostering crowd engagement, backchannel communication, and various classroom communication …
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What a performance! recognising performing arts skills in the delivery of lectures in higher education
… of new or under-confident lecturers to deliver lectures to large groups of students. In the current climate of consumerisation in education when the performance of lecturers is not only measured by pass rates but also by student evaluations, the findings of this study have significance for both …
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Multifaceted Approach for Teaching Mobile Software Development: Class Experiences With Lectures, Tutorials, and Pair Programming
… we developed an approach that integrates Lectures, hands-on Tutorials, and in-class Pair Programming (PP) sessions (the LTP approach). Although PP has been studied previously in classroom settings, LTP provides an adapted version that better fits the requirements of mobile application …
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Why do students miss lectures? : An exploratory study of a faculty at a post 1992 university
… into reasons for absenteeism specifically from lectures, despite the growing concerns about this behaviour. This thesis attempts to both improve understanding of why students miss lectures in a Faculty at a post 1992 university, and to explain this behaviour in a more conceptualised way. Nine …
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In praise of carbon: Genre and the 1996 Nobel lectures in chemistry by Christian Fredrick Casper
… (1989), this thesis analyzes the three Nobel lectures in chemistry from 1996 to discern the characteristics of ceremonial discourse in science and its relation to scientific ethos. Throughout, the Nobel lectures are analyzed in reference to the original research reports published in the …
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Communication theory vs. performance skills: how do Rowan public speaking professors weave both into class lectures?
… theory and performance skills in their classroom lectures. The researcher conducted one-on-one interviews and classroom observations of public speaking professors at Rowan. Five professors participated in the process. Each professor was asked open-ended questions which were created by the …
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Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university
… the tensions and silences that underlie what lectures do and mean in the lives of participants (both students with diverse language and educational histories, and their lecturers) in the humanities in a time of intense sociopolitical transition in a space envisaged as a contact zone, …
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The text compositional architecture of university lectures: an exploration of genre and periodicity in spoken academic discourse
… for the construction of university-style lectures. In doing so, it employs techniques developed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to investigate how lectures are structured in terms of “genre” and the related issue of what is termed “hierarchy of periodicity”. It applies these …
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Invention in the Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching: The Lecturers' Advice on Gathering and Selecting Sermon Material
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:51:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5900485.pdf: 9566736 bytes, checksum: eefa425baec76e90e6ffee7750f228f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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The influence of video lectures on student engagement in the University of Cape Town's first Massive Open Online Course
… study set out to determine the role that video lectures played in engaging participants with different learning styles in UCT's first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Medicine and the Arts: Humanising Healthcare. A framework based on Grundewald's adaptation of Kolb's Learning Model was …
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