(some of) Stephen Bostock's documents

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    1. Distance Learning Notes on Multimedia and Hypermedia
    2. The models of learning implied by some Special Needs software
    3. Evaluation of authoring tools
    4. Learning Needs Analysis for Cyberspace Literacy
    5. Instructional design by Robert Gagné
    6. An example of instructional design of courseware
    7. Project management of large and small multimedia projects
    8. Courseware engineering
    9. Multimedia Authoring (by Fred Riley)
    10. Uses of computers in education and training
    11. A review of two books on computer mediated communication
    12. Production rules - notes on video
    13. Online group working
    14. Learning Styles - notes
    15. Writing a strategy for integrating IT into teaching and learning
    16. Constructivism in mass Higher Education: a case study
    17. Case study: small group discussion in a large online course
    18. Online resources for Keele MSc in IT
    19. Computer Assisted Assessment - A brief review prior to some experiments
    20. Reviews of Virtual Learning Environments, Jan 2000
    21. Types of Web authoring tools (a Keele workshop)
    22. Computer Assisted Assessment - experiments in three courses (Keele workshop 9 May 2000)
    23. Staff skills for IT, Teaching and Learning
    24. My portfolio for the UMIST Teaching and Learning Technology (EFFECTS) CPD programme
    25. Mind map for interactive multimedia
    26. Criteria for reviewing student web sites (updated 2002)
    27. Evaluation checklist based on Alessi & Trollip
    28. Evaluation checklist based on MEDA
    29. Criteria for evaluating web sites based on Tweddle et al.
    30. Peer assessment - a review  see also Bostock S.J. 2001 Student Peer Assessment in the HE Academy resources database
    31. The Keele Learning & Teaching Strategy and Schools
    32. Peer assessment: principles, a case, and computer support, paper at LTSN-ICS workshop, Warwick, April  5-6th 2001 (pdf file of handout)
    33. Computer based assessment - notes for workshop May 9, 2001
    34. Report on Keele web services for learning, Summer 2001
    35. Audit of student IT skills, Summer 2001
    36. In praise of medians: averages, aggregation, and adjustment  (Bostock, S.J. and Brough, M.D.) Educational Developments 2.3, 2001 (pdf file) and here is the spreadsheet for adjusting marks (.xls file for Excel 2003)
    37. Online resources to help students evaluate online resources Educational Developments 2.2, 2001
    38. A review of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), Educational Developments 3.1, 2002 at www.seda.ac.uk
    39. Gender and other Factors in student online activity Stephen Bostock and Wu Lizhi, Conference paper at  Learning and Teaching Online, Guangzhou, China, January 2001. There are also slides of the presentation.
    40. Guidelines for local peer observation of teaching (Computer Science Dept.)
    41. A review of guidelines and resources on designing accessible web pages.
    42. A handout for Issues in Coursework Assessment, a talk to the regional meeting of the LTSN-ICS February 2002 at NEWI (pdf)
    43. Keele University Innovation Project Report, Web Support for Student Peer Review, July 2002 (pdf file)
    44. Gems from the LTSNs Educational Developments 4.1 2003
    45. Achieving more by doing less J Hartley and S Bostock Educational Developments 4.1, 2003 (pdf file, for version 5 reader)
    46. Bostock, S.J. 2003 The ELT programme at Keele, a talk at the TLTP3 EFFECTS workshop Supporting staff Embed Learning Technologies, Coventry University, 23 Jan 2003
    47. Advice on Evaluating and Citing web sites
    48. Gems of the LTSN web sites, part 2. Educational Developments 4.2 2003
    49. Guidelines for peer observation of teaching (.rtf file)
    50. Book review: Laurillard's Rethinking University Education, 2nd edition
    51. Book review: Learning and Teaching on the World Wide Web, Wolfe, C.R.
    52. Book review: Dyslexia and Information and Communications Technology 2002 2nd ed. Anita Keates
    53. Strengthening the links between teaching and research - an opportunity being missed November 2003, updated April 2005, version 6 (as .rtf file for word processors)
    54. S.J. Bostock 2004 Online resources on plagiarism deterrence and detection Educational Developments 5.3
    55. S.J. Bostock 2004 Doing Research in the Real World, a book review for Nurse Researcher (Word doc)
    56. S.J. Bostock 2004 Supporting and Assessing Professional Values in Specialist Faculty Programmes A conference poster at ICED04, Ottawa, June (PowerPoint)
    57. S.J. Bostock 2004 Motivation and electronic assessment, pp. 86-99, chapter 9 in Effective Learning and Teaching in Computing, eds Irons, A. and Alexander, S., Routledge Falmer: London (.rft file)
    58. S.J. Bostock, P. Bailey, and J. Smith 2003 Values in the ELT programmes - their role and assessment. Conference presentation, SEDA Conference, Birmingham November (PowerPoint)
    59. Interactivity in large lectures using an innovative, appropriate technology (2Meg PowerPoint 2003 file) by Stephen Bostock: conference presentation at STLHE2004, June, Ottawa.
    60. Bostock, S. J. and Wu Lizhi 2005 Gender in Student Online Discussions, IETI 42 (1) 73-86 (.pdf file)
    61. Issues Relating to IPR/Copyright for Teaching and Course Materials (Keele only)
    62. Bostock S.J. Real-time voting: activity and interactivity in large student groups, invited paper to Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Annual Conference, Belfast 9-10 June 2005 (PowerPoint)
    63. Bostock S.J. 2005 e-learning, learning and e. (ppt) Keynote presentation to conference Health Care Education: Advances and innovations, Inaugural Conference of Education Evaluation Research Group, 23 June, Stone, Staffordshire
    64. Bostock S.J., Roberts, P., Bashford, L. and Mahon, M. 2005 Student use of interactive whiteboards in problem-based learning (ppt) Poster at ALT-C 2005, Manchester, September 2005
    65.  VLE’s – Don’t Panic! Educational Developments Issue 4.4 (2004)
    66.  Intermediate technology for interactivity and feedback (.pdf) by Stephen Bostock & Ian Stimpson, presentation at a national conference around The Higher Education Academy’s theme of Assessment, with particular focus on feedback. London, 23 May 2006.
    67. Bostock S.J. Practitioner tools for designing blended learning, paper to the First Annual Blended Learning Conference, 15th June 2006, University of Hertfordshire (a .pdf of slides, with links to other .pdfs of the design tools)
    68. Bostock S.J. How to design a blended learning course , a presentation at New Perspectives for e-Learning, 12 July 2006, Keele (a .pdf of PowerPoint slides with links to 3 other .pdf documents) See also a later blended design form.
    69. A Student Guide to the Plagiarism Regulations 2010-11
    70. Assessment criteria grids (Nov 2006) and a short version (Jan 2007)
    71. Bostock S.J., Hulme J.A. and Davys M. A. 2006 Communicubes: Intermediate technology for interaction with student groups, p321-333 in Audience Response Systems in Higher Education, applications and cases, ed by D.A. Banks, 2006 Information Science Publishing (.pdf file)
    72. The ICED 2006 conference workshop: Cultural issues in the academic development of a new degree programme in Sri Lanka, by Stephen Bostock, Keele University, UK and Deepthi Bandara, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Here are the slides and the workshop proposal. (all pdfs)
    73. A 20 question Audit of inclusivity in the curriculum  (Approved Keele ARC in Spring 2006)
    74. Methods of Data Capture in PBL Supporting problem-based learning with technology, a Poster at ASME 2007, by Stephen Bostock, Paula Roberts, Lindsay Bashford, Mike Mahon, Amelia Rout, Adrian Molyneux
    75. e-Teaching: engaging student through technology 2007 (SEDA Paper 119)
    76. Discussion paper:Teaching spaces for the 21st century
    77. Using Turnitin as a Method of Teaching Originality in Academic Writing. Lucy Betts, Stephen Bostock, Tracey Elder and Mark Trueman, 2007. HEA Conference : Innovative technologies to support the learning and teaching of psychology.
    78. A discussion paper on research-informed learning at Keele: Research Skills in the Undergraduate Curriculum, 18-10-07
    79. A discussion of graduate attributes and generic skills, or principled capabilities (14 July 2009)
    80. Stephen Bostock and Alan Wright 2010, slides for ICED 2010 as a PDF
    81. Notes on writing module Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
    82. Employability Skills and Graduate Attributes - a letter to colleagues, 12 August 2010
    83. Some documents I wrote for Keele University, archived here.
    84. Modeling Assessment Processes Across A University And Introducing Technology-Based Innovations by Dr Stephen Bostock and Mr Matthew Street 2011, ICICTE conference presentation and peer-reviewed Proceedings (PDF file). Here are the ICICTE presentation slides (PPT) and as a PDF
    85. Project STAF, technology supporting assessment and feedback, a poster for the Solstice conference, June 2011
    86. E-learning and virtual learning environments (PDF) by Stephen Bostock, chapter 9 in Teaching Made Easy, A manual for health professionals,Mohanna, K., Cottrell, E., Wall, D. and Chambers, R. (eds), 2010, Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 3rd ed.
    87. Bostock, S. J. 2011, SEDA recognition of overseas programmes: overseas development, Educational Developments, 12.2, p 22-23, June (PDF)
    88. Preparing To Teach by Graham Gibbs and Trevor Habeshaw, first published in 1989, this second edition was in 1992. I made this file from material provided to me by Trevor Habeshaw plus some scans of the paper book. It is made available by permission of the authors under a Creative Commons licence. (3.3M PDF file)
    89. A letter to the THE 15-11-2011 defending the use of intended learning outcomes (on THE web site)
    90. My 'personal profile' for the 2008 NTFS winners book (PDF)