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2018, Open and Distance Education in Australia, Europe and the Americas
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Nearly 50 years ago, urged universities to become aware of life 'beyond the stable state ' and Toffler (1970) predicted that the information age would force academia to accommodate an 'accelerating pace of change.' Their prescient observations about the future have characterized American higher education for nearly 50 years, perhaps best exemplified by the role distance education (DE) has played in this process. DE's remarkable progression in the US arena began well before the electronic era, extending over a 225-year period. It is a phenomenon that perhaps represents the most significant transformation within academe in a millennium, presenting exciting opportunities and formidable challenges. This chapter offers a descriptive analysis and commentary of key aspects of DE at the post-secondary level in the US, with perspectives gained from the author's 35 years of scholarship and practice in the field. Caleb Phillips can be credited as the 'father' of distance education in the US, who in 1728, advertised in the Boston Gazette that any persons in the country desirous of learning shorthand could be sent weekly lessons via the postal service, and be as well instructed as those living in Boston. Anna Tucker, founder of the Bostonbased Society to Encourage Study at Home (1873-1897), might be considered the 'mother' of American correspondence education. In 1883, Illinois Wesleyan College founded the Correspondence University, and
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Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2010
Video games are complex, emergent systems that are difficult to design and test. This difficulty invariably leads to failures being present in the game, negatively impacting the play experience of some. We present a taxonomy of possible failures, divided into temporal and non-temporal failures. The taxonomy can guide the thinking of designers and testers alike, helping them expose bugs in the game. This will lead to games being better tested and designed, with fewer failures when released.
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2014
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Journal of Pragmatic Constructivism, 2022
A problem is not an objectively existing thing. It cannot be found in the world. We do not know what a problem looks like. We do not know if it is black, noisy, dancing or sleeping' H. Nørreklit, 1991, p. 38 Being a young and hopeful PhD student in the early 1990s, it was kind of a revelation to meet professor Nørreklit's work on problems and problem recognition (H. . Here we found some of the answers to a very specific problem; how to do proper research in an action-and problem-oriented research setting? Professor Nørreklit skechted out a conceptualising method, where we could see ourselves and our research in a paradigm with a theory and some methods that were much better suited for the kind of research problems we were confronted with. That was theory and method that was much better suited to our projects, than the kind of semipositivist, deductive and naïve realist methods offered by the traditional business school establishment. By taking an outset in real-life problems and looking at them through the lens of the conceptualising method, it was possible to do proper research that simultaneously could benefit the field in question. Our university (Aalborg University) pride itself of being a university where problem-based learning and problem-based research are at the centrepiece of all teaching and research activities and our projects followed that problem-oriented path. Therefore, the analysis of the problem as we found it in professor Nørreklits's work came in handy. Finally, we had something that we found meaningful, relevant, and useful in a problem-oriented research context. In the following I will take a closer look at the problem of problem and show how problem can be conceptualised and through that form the basis for problem-based research and problem-based learning.
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