Outputs (1085)

Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users (2015)
Journal Article

This paper seeks to understand linguistic formality through the identification and measurement of contextual features. Using an adapted sociometric methodology to combine systemic functional linguistics and sign linguistics, a survey identifies the e... Read More about Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users.

EDITORIAL: Ideas in mobile learning (2015)
Journal Article

The contributions for this Special Collection on ‘Ideas in Mobile Learning’ expand on the trends explored in the successful ‘Bristol Ideas in Mobile Learning Symposium’ which ran on the 6th and 7th March, 2014 (see Cloudworks, 2014; BIML, 2014). Four... Read More about EDITORIAL: Ideas in mobile learning.

Investigating social presence in the voice-based chat room and the text-based forum in the Chinese online learning context (2015)
Thesis

Social presence has long been considered to be a key factor in enhancing learning in online contexts (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2000; Gunawardena & Zittle, 1997; Kehrwald, 2010; Ko, 2012; Tu, 2002b). New modes of online interaction, however, requi... Read More about Investigating social presence in the voice-based chat room and the text-based forum in the Chinese online learning context.

Angela Carter's 'Bristol Trilogy': A gothic perspective on Bristol's 1960s counterculture (2015)
Book Chapter

The zone of possibility in citizen led ‘hybrid cities’ (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The work reported in this position paper explores the development of citizen led ‘hybrid cities’ in which augmented and social web technologies mediate learning and innovation in what we term the Zone of Possibility. An example of a Hybrid Stokes Cro... Read More about The zone of possibility in citizen led ‘hybrid cities’.

KnowBrain: An online social knowledge repository for informal workplace learning (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Patterns of practice and design: Towards an agile methodology for educational design research (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Primary pre-service teachers and engineering students learning to teach science - A match made in heaven or hell? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The ‘Children as Engineers’ project brought together 10 primary Initial Teacher Training students and 10 Under-Graduate Engineering students to teach one of ten design challenges to 300 children in classrooms using the European ‘Engineer’ materials.... Read More about Primary pre-service teachers and engineering students learning to teach science - A match made in heaven or hell?.

Growth of conventions shows geeks have always wanted to meet up IRL (2015)
Journal Article

A discussion of the rise of fan conventions, and the positive connections these build between fandom, academia and gaming / science fiction and fantasy gaming professionals

The analysis and containment of organized crime in New York City and beyond: an interview with James B. Jacobs (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with James B. Jacobs was conducted during 2014. As a law student at University of Chicago in the early 1970s, Jacobs conducted a participant observation study at Stateville Penite... Read More about The analysis and containment of organized crime in New York City and beyond: an interview with James B. Jacobs.