Notes from the Transcription Desk: Visualising Public Engagement

Visualising mutual engagement

Being creative is a key part of a healthy lifestyle, contributes to our wellbeing, and is an inherently social activity (Csikszentmihalyi, 1991). There are many definitions and understandings of creativity (see Sternerg, 1991, and Boden, 1994 for an overview) ranging from cognitive and computational models (e.g. Boden, 2003; Wiggins, 2006) which help us to understand the mechanics of human crea...

From the Director’s Desk

From the Other Side of the Desk: notes on teaching about race when racialised

This paper examines complexities involved in the classroom application of critical pedagogy and antiracism education. It examines the concept of border crossing as a tool for progressive classroom teaching. In educational theory, difference is seen as an analytic tool that students use to examine the ways in which dominant cultures create practices of terror, inequality and exclusions. It has a...

Designing Game-Based Service Desk towards User Engagement Improvement

Along the implementation of Information Technology (IT), there are incident, request, problem, and event. According to this, organizations need to implement a function which can be a single point to provide communication between IT service provider and IT users. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) mentions service desk as a function to operate solution of this matter. But, rece...

From the Guest Editor's Desk.

Treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndromes Selection of the treatment plan for a patient with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) depends upon the prognosis for the disease course. Currently, the best approach for assessing prognosis is to utilize the International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS). The IPSS incorporates the results from three types of analyses—the levels of blood counts, the percent of...