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Gaganpreet Jhajj added a new discussion topic Open AI Hide and Seek in the group COMP667 Multiagent Systems- Gaganpreet Jhajj added a new discussion topic MAS in Transit Systems - REM in the group COMP667 Multiagent Systems
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- James Davidson commented on the file Circuit 5B: Remote-Controlled Robot - Unleashing Robotic Mobility
- Joan Oladunjoye created a wiki page Reflections on the first few sections of unit 5
- Moamen Ahmed published a blog post Unit 7 Learning Diary - UltimateXI Advisor
- Ben Heard created a wiki page Ben Heard - Assignment 4 (Wonderland) all documentation
Athabasca University bids a deeply reluctant farewell to Peter Scott in the vilest attack yet by...
By Jon Dron February 2, 2023 - 5:02pmYou may have heard that the president of Athabasca University, Peter Scott, was replaced yesterday with Alex Clark, erstwhile Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at AU. This was a complete surprise - no, utter shock - to everyone at AU, from...A guide to the Student Server
Started by Kimberly Lindsay in the group COMP 266 January 29, 2022 - 3:15pm Replies (9) Last reply by Shivam Vyas April 20, 2022 - 3:43pmPosted to group: COMP 266Hey everyone, I really struggled with this incredibly simple task for way too long and had a lot of responses that didn't fully answer my questions, so I made a quick reference guide for the newbies who aren't sure how to upload their .html files to...POST - MAS metamodel
Started by Duncan Robertson in the group COMP667 Multiagent Systems July 24, 2023 - 8:28pm Replies (1) Last reply by Oscar Lin July 26, 2023 - 10:36amPosted to group: COMP667 Multiagent SystemsIn this post I want to talk about a recent paper about MAS metamodels. A metamodel is an abstraction that describes the information that is required for a model of the entities and relationships in the MAS domain. In their paper, Viana et al...
Unit 1
Last updated April 30, 2023 - 5:51pm by Lilith Richter-StephensonI found this unit informative one the differences between Java and other languages I have previously used. Having used both Python and C in previous programming, I am excited to learn more about Java and discover the different benefits and...The DIKW hierarchy as interpeted by ChatGPT
By Eugene Griffin 4 May 2023 @ 8:42pm Comments (2)www.researchgate.net - The DIKW hierarchy Many web-based resources discuss DIKW, Li & Duan's [1] paper explored the usage of DIKW by ChatGPT [2]. The process, as interpreted by [2], provides valuable insight into the extraction and interpretation of Data,...-
Fetch-Decode-Execute Cycle: If you're a visual learner you'll want to watch this video
Last updated March 3, 2023 - 4:11pm by KevinThe Fetch-Execute Cycle: What's Your Computer Actually Doing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5JC9Ve1sfI Preparing for peer review
By Christopher Daniel February 9, 2021 - 4:56pmI plan to conduct peer review based on what Elbow has identified as the four qualities being reviewed in a criterion-based feedback (253-254) and interpret each standard to match the requirements under the writing rubric for MAIS 606.My latest paper: On the Misappropriation of Spatial Metaphors in Online Learning
By Jon Dron 3 January 2023 @ 12:49pmjournal.otessa.org - This is a link to my latest paper, published in the closing days of 2022. The paper started as a couple of blog posts that I turned into a paper that nearly made an appearance in the Distance Education in China journal before a last-minute regime...Decoding Prehistoric Art
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown January 16, 2018 - 10:01amANTH 277 Students: Check out this CBC Ideas episode about prehistoric art http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/old-masters-decoding-pre-historic-art-with-jean-clottes-1.4487646Can GPT-3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input?
By Jon Dron 2 July 2022 @ 12:48pmhal.archives-ouvertes.fr - Brilliant. The short answer is, of course, yes, and it doesn't do a bad job of it. This is conceptual art of the highest order. This is the preprint of a paper written by GPT-3 (as first author) about itself, submitted to "a well-known...Unit 2: Food for Thought
Started by Gregory McDonald September 19, 2022 - 10:17am Replies (8) Last reply by Abeba Yitbarek October 8, 2022 - 12:19pmFood for thought for Unit 2 (as copied from the Instructor's Notebook): 1. How much do you personally trust the various search engines? What are some of the benefits of a popular search engine? What are some of the pitfalls. 2. Describe the...We need help: Athabasca University is facing an existential threat from the government of Alberta
By Jon Dron 5 August 2022 @ 4:26pm Comments (1)www.youtube.com - This video from Peter Scott, president of Athabasca University, is a clear, eloquent, and passionate plea to save our university and the education of its students from imminent destruction at the hands of a brutal, self-serving, short-sighted...We shape our buildings and, afterwards, our buildings shape us: some lessons in how not to build an...
By Jon Dron August 14, 2022 - 1:44pmThis is an analysis of the problems that currently beset Athabasca University and a plea to prevent it but, more generally, it is a discussion of the ways that the decisions we have made affect who we are, and how we develop.Communities we live in and serve: universities and places
By Jon Dron October 6, 2022 - 10:55pmVoluntourism, geoarbitrage, and digital nomadsReasons to be Cheerful is among my first ports of call for news most mornings because I hate to start the day on a negative or banal note. The news is mostly good, but it's never trivial, cute, or...
Unit 5 - Javascript Learning Diary
By Hassan Jasim in the group COMP 266 August 25, 2022 - 2:15pmPosted to group: COMP 266In this unit, I tackled JavaScript more in-depth. I defined 4 functions that I was going to develop, created workflow diagrams for each and pseudo code for them as well. This was a little different than what I am normally used to as with most...Thanks @demetriosnAB for your generous offer. We completely misunderstood that you wanted to help...
By Jon Dron August 8, 2022 - 10:00amDear Demetrios NicolaidesYou say,“I’ve offered to provide any kind of assistance that the university needs. They haven’t asked for any.”This is very kind! I am sorry for all the very, very, very bad thoughts I have been...My latest paper, "Learning, Technology, and Technique", now online in the Canadian...
By Jon Dron 10 August 2022 @ 7:50pmcjlt.ca - This is my latest paper, Learning, Technology, and Technique, in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (Vol. 48 No. 1, 2022). Essentially, because this was what I was invited to do, the paper shrinks down over...The limits and limitations of business requirements
By Jon Dron July 28, 2022 - 4:11pmAthabasca University's Digital Governance Committee recently got into a heated debate about whether and why we should support Zoom. It was a classic IT manageability vs user freedom debate and, as is often the way in such things, the suggested...
Conway, Kyle. How To Read Like You Mean It (AU Press, 2023)
By Mark A. McCutcheon 1 December 2023 @ 10:33amwww.aupress.ca - I can't highly enough recommend this new, open-access book by communication studies professor Dr Kyle Conway. Every student--and anyone who has been perplexed by a difficult read--should read Conway's concise, lively guide to active, engaged...Unit 6 Learning Diary - UltimateXI Advisor
By Moamen Ahmed November 27, 2023 - 9:49amAttached is a PDF version of the learnig outcomes for easier readability.In Unit 6, I incorporated jQuery to improve the clarity and manageability of my code, making it more dynamic. The thoughtful planning outlined in my Unit 6 Proposal helped...Unit 3: Our troubled relationship with the wilderness
By Sydney Carroll October 15, 2023 - 7:38pmWilliam Cronon tests our understanding of the relationship between nature and people with his article, The Trouble with Wilderness. He explains that there is a duality in the human perspective with nature and this could be considered a romantic...Preprint - The human nature of generative AIs and the technological nature of humanity:...
By Jon Dron 9 October 2023 @ 12:09pmwww.preprints.org - Here is a preprint of a paper I just submitted to MDPI's Digital journal that applies the co-participation model that underpins How Education Works (and a number of my papers over the last few years) to generative AIs (GAIs). I don't know whether it...My Learning diary
By Sadiki Rungo September 15, 2023 - 9:06pmIn unit 0 I was introduced on what to expected from the course, the tutors and fellow students. I learned how important it is to complete every requirement of the unit in order to get a full mark. I was confused especially about...
10 minute chats on Generative AI - a great series, now including an interview with me
By Jon Dron 11 September 2023 @ 5:12pmwww.monash.edu - This is a great series of brief interviews between Tim Fawns and an assortment of educators and researchers from across the world on the subject of generative AI and its impact on learning and teaching. The latest (tenth in the series) is with...Differences between a library search engine and a public search engine
By Kyla James July 31, 2023 - 1:13pmAs we near the end of the semester, we are asked to complete a literature review as our final assignment. This entails a vast amount of time researching a topic and comparing commonalities and differences between sources. As we embark on this...ENVS461 blog 8 unit 7 Gender, enclosure, and subsistence
By Chaoran Chen July 25, 2023 - 3:15amRauna Kuokkanen argues that the importance of the traditional economies of indigenous communities extends beyond the economic sphere.Rauna Kuokkanen also argues that it is incorrect to suggest that indigenous or subsistence...
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