Facilitating the Lifelong Learning Needs of the Mature Age Community through Learning Object Technology. By understanding learner preferences, needs and requirements, it could be possible to provide opportunities in an online learning environment that will improve the quality, variety and relevance of learning for all. There could be particular benefits for mature-age learners. Curtin has begun to explore the benefits of reusable learning objects with current online learning management systems. ....Facilitating the Lifelong Learning Needs of the Mature Age Community through Learning Object Technology. By understanding learner preferences, needs and requirements, it could be possible to provide opportunities in an online learning environment that will improve the quality, variety and relevance of learning for all. There could be particular benefits for mature-age learners. Curtin has begun to explore the benefits of reusable learning objects with current online learning management systems. This project aims to define the use and application of learning object technology and applies a meta-model of pedagogical design to online learning environments. Outcomes will allow the applications of new methodologies for the effective implementation of complex, intelligent learning environments.Read moreRead less
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354729
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$10,000.00
Summary
Smart Use of Information Technologies (SUITs). The SUITs network will develop critical mass in world-class, leading-edge research into the smart use of information and communication technology (ICT) through integration of research within the dispersed Australian ICT research community and through facilitating international linkages. The network will undertake research applicable in key sectors including the health, education, service, knowledge and media industries. The aim is to establish a h ....Smart Use of Information Technologies (SUITs). The SUITs network will develop critical mass in world-class, leading-edge research into the smart use of information and communication technology (ICT) through integration of research within the dispersed Australian ICT research community and through facilitating international linkages. The network will undertake research applicable in key sectors including the health, education, service, knowledge and media industries. The aim is to establish a higher order of coordination and collaboration in research into ICT applications.
The feasibility study proposed will engage key stakeholders, refine research goals and investigate linkage mechanisms to improve Australia's ICT research and its contribution to economic and social well-being.
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Optimising value for money in software development through standardised cost metrics in the procurement, development and project management phases. Mission critical and complex software projects habitually exceed budget expectations significantly. Regular outsourcing of software development means that procurement specialists, project managers and software engineers require a common understanding of individual system requirement costs to facilitate accord on price. Contemporary techniques for des ....Optimising value for money in software development through standardised cost metrics in the procurement, development and project management phases. Mission critical and complex software projects habitually exceed budget expectations significantly. Regular outsourcing of software development means that procurement specialists, project managers and software engineers require a common understanding of individual system requirement costs to facilitate accord on price. Contemporary techniques for describing and costing requirements fail to directly map into project management structures, leading to ongoing value comparisons that are subjective and unrepeatable. This research will develop the principles to be used by both clients and suppliers to compute earned value from requirements, leading to more accurate assessments and calculations of Value for Money in software projects.Read moreRead less
Ontology Based Multisite Distributed Software Development. Increasingly clients in cities are developing software overseas or in regional centres. The participating companies have found existing centralized software engineering techniques inadequate for multisite development. This project produces new principles and techniques for multisite distributed software development. Thus it proposes a new methodology, a new project management approach, a new workflow tracking technique and a new concept ....Ontology Based Multisite Distributed Software Development. Increasingly clients in cities are developing software overseas or in regional centres. The participating companies have found existing centralized software engineering techniques inadequate for multisite development. This project produces new principles and techniques for multisite distributed software development. Thus it proposes a new methodology, a new project management approach, a new workflow tracking technique and a new concept of software object/component that allows differentiated access. A platform is also developed for use in field studies for validation and benchmarking. The results will help Australia become a provider of software services for international clients and permit devolution to regional centres.Read moreRead less
Intelligent Ontologies: The Genesis of Data Interoperability in the Life Sciences. Access to knowledge is a basic tenant for the advancement of science, and the efficient exchange of information is of fundamental importance. The electronic definition of data in science remains remarkably chaotic and uncoordinated, posing obstacles to data interoperability. This research provides a general approach to the coalescence of enormous and diverse data collections making them accessible to modern data m ....Intelligent Ontologies: The Genesis of Data Interoperability in the Life Sciences. Access to knowledge is a basic tenant for the advancement of science, and the efficient exchange of information is of fundamental importance. The electronic definition of data in science remains remarkably chaotic and uncoordinated, posing obstacles to data interoperability. This research provides a general approach to the coalescence of enormous and diverse data collections making them accessible to modern data mining techniques. We will automatically build active knowledge bases from semantically rich ontologies. The outcomes will be both conceptual and practical, with the creation of an interoperability management model, and the development of exemplar ontologies and databases in molecular biology and in taxonomy, plus associated implementation and access tools.Read moreRead less