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Electronic support for learning and assessment:
coherence, consistency and content reusability - Cobham, D.C.
Higher Education institutions employ information
systems (IS) to support learning and assessment. A
number of drivers affect the degree to which these
systems add value to the educational experience.
This paper investigates some of the key drivers and
decisions that can affect the success of these
ventures. It draws from a number of case studies in
the UK and focuses on those aspects of IS that
support the delivery of courses. In particular it
focuses on the use of learning outcomes to assess
student performance in a unit and analyses early
feedback from a pilot project to use a virtual
learning environment to facilitate this assessment
methodology.
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Who are the IS professionals? Blurring the distinction between systems creators and users - Edgar-Nevill, D.; Cobham, D.C.
Conventional wisdom requires all those “professionals” working in a related area are supported by a
professional body overseeing the work of these people and promotes the use of best-practice.
Despite society’s increasing dependency on software and information systems, the certification and
accreditation of practitioners working in this area has been slow to have any impact. Membership of
professional bodies is not generally required. Symptomatic of this lack of professional focus is the
range of different professional bodies claiming to represent the interests of the IS professional.
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Constructive alignment: reflections on implementation - Cobham, D.C.; Jacques, K.
Higher Education institutions are increasingly paying close attention to the alignment between curriculum outcomes and assessment strategies. Both university curricula and student assessment are increasingly being defined and driven by learning outcomes. At the same time, information systems have become a fundamental and essential part in supporting learning and assessment. In particular, a great deal of interest has been expressed in intranet-hosted learning environments to support the educational experience. Most commercial learning environments use either modules of study or assessment submissions as the fundamental unit of construction. This results in a failure to record performance by individual learning outcome. There...
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Observations on developing undergraduate games computing
curricula - Cobham, D.C.; Doughty, M.
This paper summarises the salient features in the
development from inception to maturity of a
Games Computing curriculum. It highlights
some of the pointers and pitfalls for curriculum
developers who are considering embarking upon
or the enhancement of a Games Computing
curriculum. The research centres on the
BSc(Hons) programme currently titled "Games
Computing", hereafter referred to as "the
programme", offered by the Faculty
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Business information systems: analysis, design and practice (5th Edition) - Curtis, G.A.; Cobham, D.C.
Book Description
Helps students to gain a comprehensive understanding of how information systems can aid the realisation of business objectives.
The book covers BIS from a business, technical and systems development perspective.With balanced and clear coverage of the more technical systems aspects of BIS and the softer, more managerial topics together with an analytical approach, this well-established (5th edition) text provides a solid coverage of the topic from systems, design analysis and planning to data mining, business intelligence and knowledge management.
Companion website includes multiple choice questions, hints to help you answer the questions in the book, weblinks, an online glossary and...
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Research issues in constructing geographic ontologies for environmental data discovery and exploitation - Wilkinson, G.G.; Cobham, D.C.
One of the key problems in establishing the European spatial data infrastructure will be semantic interoperability. Effective access to geospatial data sets for cross border environmental applications will depend critically on shared understanding of geospatial concepts in a multi-lingual multi-cultural context. This paper explores semantic issues relating to some common environmental terms used in describing land cover including linguistic, temporal, space scale and cultural aspects. These issues need to be tackled by computer scientists in order to support high level semantic web applications supporting European environmental monitoring and protection. The use of ontology modelling to establish relationships between different land...
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Distributed systems, EDI and the organization - Curtis, Graham; Cobham, David
This book provides a clear and concise overview of Information Management covering the key aspects of infrastructure, design, information assets and managing information. Part 1 explores the diversity and changing nature of managing the information management function. Part 2 investigates the role of information as an organizational resource. Part 3 focuses on managing organizational data and information. Part 4 examines the role of information management in organizational strategy and change.
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Electronic support for learning and assessment: a learning outcome driven approach - Cobham, D.C.
Abstract
Higher Education institutions increasingly are
employing information systems to support
learning and assessment. In particular, a great
deal of interest has been expressed in intranethosted
learning environments that support the
educational experience. At the same time,
university curricula and student assessment
are increasingly defined and driven by
learning outcomes. Most intranet-based
learning environments use modules of study as
the fundamental unit of construction. This
results in a failure to record performance by
learning outcome. There is therefore a
mismatch between current educational
thinking and the information systems that
support the processes.
This paper presents the findings of a pilot
project that focuses on the building of a virtual
learning environment that utilises learning
outcomes in framing the delivery model...
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