Portfolio - Papers

Website Design Principles: Researching and Building a Website Evaluation tool.

This project addresses the need for tertiary education institutions to have a straightforward way to evaluate their public website by research and development of a software tool that enables analysis based on best practice principles.

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Internet Marketing and Society

This paper looks at the background and key present developments in internet marketing along with imminent developments and the effect internet marketing has on reshaping society.

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Intelligent Agents: An Education System For The Year 2003

This paper proposes an education system for the next decade that does not have specific classrooms, real or virtual. The basis of this education system is a mentoring, just-in-time learning approach achieved with the help of new and emerging technology."

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Content Analysis: Assessing Bias of Local Newspapers toward Local Learning Institutions

This paper is an exercise in content analysis that is concerned with the perception of a university as more newsworthy than a polytechnic.

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Closing the Gaps: The Digital Divide and Native Americans

The digital divide can be identified as the gap between the haves and have-nots concerning access to the communications technology of the information age. This paper discusses this issue in relation to Native Americans.

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The Impact of Technology on Primary Schools

This paper attempts to look at the impact some technology has had on primary school teaching in New Zealand and propose future threats and opportunities that technology might bring.

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Education and the Digital Campus

This paper examines the use of digital data in the teaching process at a tertiary institution. After a brief introduction on the relevance of data and content, the potential of institutional intranets and multimedia is outlined in relation to the sorts of"

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Intercultural Communication as a Dominant Paradigm

This paper introduces Intercultural Commnucation and reviews related theory.

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Current Communication: UCOL - Universal College of Learning

To analyse and evaluate communications within the Universal College of Learning (UCOL) this paper looks at its structure and function, its environment and the communication between them."

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The Use of the Internet in Vocational Tertiary Education

Education can be viewed as the interaction between a learner, a teacher, knowledge and a problem that the learner is trying to solve. This paper attempts to look at the issues surrounding each of these factors when applied to vocational education using the Internet

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The Relevance of Semiotics to the Internet: How Web Designers use Metaphors in Web Development

This paper looks at how the relatively immature Internet reflects essential components in human- computer interface design. In particular the use of metaphor.

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Teaching Using The World Wide Web

This paper provides an introduction to the use of the Internet as a tool for teaching

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