Re-Envisioning Learning, Re-Engaging the Literature

E-Learning Professional Development: 'Re-Envisioning' pedagogy in schools

In search of ‘authentic pedagogy’ our longitudinal three year study (2002-04, funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Scheme) with children and teachers in Years 3, 5 and 7 of Tasmanian Government and Catholic Education Schools is providing a rich data set from teacher questionnaires and classroom observations. The problem is to identify the variables and their relationships in the sp...

Re-engaging with engagement

REPRIV: Re-Envisioning In-Browser Privacy

In this paper, we present REPRIV, a system for managing and controlling the release of private information from the browser. We demonstrate how always-on user interest mining can effectively infer user interests in a real browser. We go on to discuss an extension framework that allows third-party code to extract and disseminate more detailed information, as well as language-based techniques for...

Re-Envisioning Data Description Using Peirce's Pragmatics

Given the growth in geographical data production, and the various mandates to make sharing of data a priority, there is a pressing need to facilitate the appropriate uptake and reuse of geographical data. However, describing the meaning and quality of data and thus finding data to fit a specific need remain as open problems, despite much research on these themes over many years. We have strong ...

BEK: Re-Envisioning In-Browser Privacy

Web applications must use special string-manipulating sanitization functions on untrusted user data, but writing these functions correctly is error prone and time consuming. We present a domain-specific imperative language, BEK, that is expressive enough to capture real web sanitizers used in the Internet Explorer XSS Filter and the Google AutoEscape framework. We exhibit a translation from the...