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- Chad Cherry published a blog post Project Proposal, Portable Wildlife Detector for Backcountry CampingComments
- Chad Cherry published a blog post Project Proposal, Portable Wildlife Detector for Backcountry CampingComments
- Chad Cherry published a blog post Project Proposal, Portable Wildlife Detector for Backcountry CampingComments
- Chad Cherry published a blog post Project Proposal, Portable Wildlife Detector for Backcountry CampingComments
- Chad Cherry published a blog post Project Proposal, Portable Wildlife Detector for Backcountry CampingComments
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...
Project Proposal, Portable Wildlife Detector for Backcountry Camping
By Chad Cherry April 18, 2024 - 3:26pm Comments (1)a directional, and portable wildlife detection system using a Raspberry Pi 4 that will use an IR filtered camera and IR illuminators to detect the infrared reflection of an animals eyesMixed Methods Research
By Hyeyung Park April 14, 2024 - 1:01pmThe term paradigm is a way of looking at or researching phenomena, a worldview, a view of what counts as accepted or correct scientific knowledge (Cohen et al., 2018, p. 8). Pragmatism is defined in the following:A worldview or philosophy that...Human-centredness
By Hyeyung Park April 10, 2024 - 4:11pmHuman-centred learning analytics Learning analytics is defined as “measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts for understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it...Unit 6: JQuery Uses
Posted to group: COMP 266Here is my Learning Diary and ZIP file for Unit 6:In this unit, I learned how to use JQuery libraries to add dynamic content to my website. The three implementations I went for were quite complex.The most challenging one to add was an audio...My Programming Journey
By Mahmooda Malik February 21, 2024 - 9:53amOver the years I had to take many difficult courses and the intension behind every course was to challenge myself. I got admitted in university of Calgary in the year 2006 in the engineering program but only after a week I decided to quit...Study Strategy
By Mahmooda Malik February 19, 2024 - 9:56pmThis is how I am studying for this course. I took this class thinkihng that it will be an intoductory but little that I know that it is going to overwhelm me. At times I felt really overwhemed and this is how I started studying. The...Introductory Java Class-
By Mahmooda Malik February 13, 2024 - 2:59pmI read some of the previous blogs about Comp 268 course and I totally agree with everyone that this class started off pretty easy and I thought I was grasping the course until I hit the last assignment. Where we are asked to design a...Unit 7. The Indigenous Economy
By Sydney Carroll January 28, 2024 - 1:47amI think the idea of an Indigenous economy sheds light on how self serving our own economic system truly is. Reading the work of Rauna Kuokkanen makes one realize that our system relies on an environment with limitless consumer good output and the...Unit 7
By Moamen Ahmed November 27, 2023 - 9:52amAttached is a PDF version of the proposal for easier readabiity.Unit 7 API ProposalIn this integrated approach, we aim to enhance the existing player cards in UltimateXI Advisor by integrating an external API that provides detailed player...Unit 4: The Christchurch Earthquakes
By Sydney Carroll November 6, 2023 - 7:13pmOver the last 3 months I have called the South Island of New Zealand home, more specifically the city of Christchurch. Christchurch gained attention around the world over a decade ago when two earthquakes struck the city in September 2010 and...
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- Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts
