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Kandlbinder, Peter. "Reconstructing educational technology: A critical analysis of online teaching and learning in the university." Faculty of Education and Social Work. School of Policy and Practice, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1605.
Full textThis thesis argues that it is only through understanding the multiple facets of technology that we are able to determine whether any particular manifestation of technology is educational. The reconstruction of educational technology in this thesis begins by building an understanding of the concept of experiential technology from the work of Heidegger, Dewey and Popper. This provides the conceptual architecture required to research the influence of educational technology in universities, which is interpreted in light of the wider theory of modernisation of society developed by Jürgen Habermas. The critical theory of technology formulated by Feenberg provides the methodological basis for reconstructing an understanding of technology and its impact on student learning. A reconstructive analysis requires a number of situational critiques, which in this thesis review the advice given to academic staff about the use of educational technology. It is through a synthesis of these critiques that this thesis examines whether higher education is undergoing a process of colonisation that has reduced its potential to discuss the values of university teaching and learning. Online learning is taken as a case example that has been embraced by academics for dealing with increasing student numbers and the increasing importance of work-based learning. By shifting from the theory of technology to the practice of the Australian Technology University, this thesis demonstrates that one approach to coping with change in the higher education context is to incorporate business values, have increasingly flexible curricula and focus on workplace skills. This thesis concludes that universities could go a lot further to incorporate the values of higher education into educational technology. In the case of the online learner this would support those distinctive characteristics that encourage a deep approach to learning. Following arguments put forward by Feenberg, it is argued that it is through student participation in technical design that we have the greatest chance of influencing technology’s development to emphasize the values of higher education. As long as academics continue to control the technological decision-making, the delivery and management of information is likely to remain the most common use of online technology. The legitimacy of the academic’s decision to use technology in their teaching increases where there is only a narrow gap between the values of the participants and the reality of their practice. Thus, to be morally just and provide students with the developmental opportunities that will serve them in their later professional and citizenship roles, the online classroom needs to ensure that it provides an autonomy-supporting environment.
Kandlbinder, Peter. "Reconstructing educational technology: A critical analysis of online teaching and learning in the university." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1605.
Full textChain, Jennifer. "A Multilevel Analysis of Student, Family, and School Factors Associated with Latino/a Parental Involvement in the Middle School Learning Environment." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20664.
Full textVattam, Swaroop. "Interactive analogical retrieval: practice, theory and technology." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45798.
Full textOswald, W. Andrew (William Andrew). "Understanding technology development processes theory & practice." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90699.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-77).
Technology development is hard for management to understand and hard for practitioners to explain, however it is an essential component of innovation. While there are standard and predictable processes for product development, many of these techniques don't apply well to technology development. Are there common processes for technology development that can make it predictable, or is it unpredictable like basic research and invention? In this thesis, after building a foundation by looking at product development processes, I survey some of the literature on technology development processes and compare them to a handful of case studies from a variety of industries. I then summarize the observations from the cases and build a generic model for technology development that can be used to provide insights into how to monitor and manage technology projects. One of the observations from the product development literature is that looping and iteration is problematic for establishing accurate schedules which becomes one of the fundamental disconnects between management and engineering. Technologists rely heavily on iteration as a tool for gaining knowledge and combined with other risks, technology development may appear "out of control". To mitigate these risks, technologists have developed a variety of approaches including: building a series of prototypes of increasing fidelity and using them as a form of communication, simultaneously developing multiple technologies as a hedge against failure or predicting and developing technologies they think will be needed outside of formal channels. Finally, I use my model to provide some insights as to how management can understand technology development projects. This gives technologists and non-technical managers a common ground for communication.
by W. Andrew Oswald.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
Cao, Fengshan 1948. "International agricultural technology transfer: Theory and application." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277893.
Full textBerke, Katherine M. (Katherine Marie). "Evaluating investments in information technology : theory versus practice." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10880.
Full textBerthon, Jean-Paul. "Technology or customer orientations : theory and scale development." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9055.
Full textThe issue of the relationship between innovation and market orientation is a vexing yet vital problem for researcher and practitioner alike. The recent strategic management and marketing literatures have featured an ongoing debate concerning these philosophies as guiding templates for the way in which organisations conduct their business activity. This dissertation takes as its theme this central tension. Specifically, it focuses on the dialectic between marketing and innovation. The contrast between serving and creating customers is explored and the sometimes-uneasy relationship between an innovation and a customer orientation is examined in the light of both philosophical origin and contemporary research. From this discussion, a model that provides an inclusive paradigm is developed. The resulting archetypes and their inter-relationships are then discussed and related to the different strategies that firms have used to resolve the tension. The dissertation then explores the dynamics of the change process for several well-known companies, based on the insights generated by the model. Managerial implications of the model are explored, with a particular emphasis on how new technology is changing the desirability of alternative strategies. Having specified and explored the model on a conceptual level, the dissertation then goes on to operationalize the framework. Specifically, a measurement scale to assess the extent to which a firm or a business corresponds to a particular archetype is developed. Tests of reliability and validity are conducted. The results indicate in four clearly defied factors that correspond to the archetypes in the model. The use of the model and scale for management and academics are discussed.
Obeidat, Mohammad AbdulQadir [Verfasser]. "Examining the Adoption of Technology Using the Technology Trade Theory (TripleT) / Mohammad AbdulQadir Obeidat." Munich : GRIN Verlag, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1107189942/34.
Full textVan, Niekerk Johannes Frederick. "Fostering information security culture through intergrating theory and technology." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1404.
Full textBielecki, Paul M. "Rethinking Baudry's apparatus theory in light of DVD technology." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1180533851.
Full textLi, Xitong Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Using web data and services : technology, theory and evidence." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90071.
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Many firms and individuals have been publishing data and services on the Web. It is necessary to develop advanced technology facilitating the use of Web data and services and to understand what impacts on firms and individuals would be. This thesis, composed of three essays, aims to explore (1) what technology could be developed to facilitate using Web data and services, and (2) what theoretical mechanisms are driving the impact of using Web data and services. The first essay describes an advanced technology for using Web services and the other two essays present some theoretical mechanisms and empirical evidences about how consumers are influenced by the data published on commercial webpages. The first essay presents a classification of the data misinterpretation problems that may occur when composing Web services. After the problem scope is identified, it proposes an approach to automatic detection and reconciliation of data interpretation conflicts in Web services composition. To validate and evaluate the approach, the first essay describes a prototype and demonstrates the approach can significantly alleviate the reconciliation efforts for Web services composition. The second essay explores how herding and social media Word of Mouth (WOM) drive product sales when commercial websites disclose the sales data in real-time on the product pages and integrate with social-networking platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter). Using a panel data set consisting of about 500 deals from Groupon.com, the second essay shows both herding and Facebook-mediated WOM lead to additional product sales, whereas Twitter-mediated WOM has no significant impact on sales. More importantly, it documents that herding and Facebook-mediated WOM are complements in driving sales. Given the fact that many commercial websites integrate with social-networking platforms and the importance of social media endorsements, the third essay investigates if online review ratings would affect consumers' decisions of endorsing via Facebook and purchasing products. It builds a stylized Bayesian learning model and derives three hypotheses. The empirical findings largely support the hypotheses. In particular, the results show that a favorable valence of online reviews causes to increase consumers' social media endorsements and the estimated effect is greater when the variance in the review ratings is larger. Moreover, the findings reveal that consumers exhibit different behaviors when they consider endorsing versus purchasing products.
by Xitong Li.
Ph. D.
Leonardi, Paul M. "Organizing technology : toward a theory of socio-material imbrication /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
Full textGrant, Carl L. "Sunday school curriculum materials development blending theory and technology /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBrown, Steven Armenakis Achilles A. "Technology acceptance and organizational change an integration of theory /." Auburn, Ala., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1991.
Full textChou, Shih Yung. "Information Technology Professionals as Citizens: An Expectancy Theory Perspective." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/141.
Full textDelaney, Patrick J. "A grounded theory study of technology appropriation in anaesthesia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/37268/1/Patrick_Delaney_Thesis.pdf.
Full textBon, RJN. "Principal agent theory and blockchain technology: Smart contract applications." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208427/1/Ramon_Bon_Thesis.pdf.
Full textMagalhães, Rosinda M. F. "Essays on skill-biased technology diffusion." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/49471/.
Full textWalmsley, Bradley Desmond. "Using concepts drawn from cognitive theory, setting theory, and activity theory to develop student thinking in technology education classes." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366896.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Education and Professional Studies
Arts, Education and Law
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Fagerberg, Jan Ernst. "Technology, growth and trade : Schumpeterian perspectives." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.254261.
Full textGraf, Thorsten. "Flexible object recognition based on invariant theory and agent technology." [S.l. : s.n.], 2000. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=96086170X.
Full textSorensen, Steen Wernberg. "An actor network theory analysis of innovation, technology and organisation." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/8469.
Full textSztein, Baremberg Gabriella Ana. "Musical time and recording technology: A perspective from music theory." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9595.
Full textJackson, S. "A Cultural Theory Analysis of the Management of Technology Change." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501282.
Full textRazzaghe, Ashrafi Babak 1964. "Making and remaking quantum field theory." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29762.
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In this thesis, I examine two episodes in the history of quantum field theory using different research techniques and historiographic approaches. The first episode occurred during the 1920's and 1930's when quantum mechanics and relativity were being reconciled. I present some of the central developments of that episode using an approach that relates questions asked by physicists to the structures of putative natural kinds upon which they predicated their research. The second episode occurred during the 1960's and 1970's when important features of quantum field theory were given new interpretations that arose from the exchange of methods and insights between particle physics, solid state physics, statistical mechanics and physical chemistry. Research for the second episode was conducted in collaboration with other historians and scientists using novel web-based and database-backed research tools.
by Babak Razzaghe Ashrafi.
Ph.D.
Grahn, Samuel. "Monads in Haskell and Category Theory." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-396843.
Full textNahid, Kaveh. "The development of a true digital hearing aid using custom VLSI technology." Thesis, University of Kent, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358170.
Full textAntalffy, Nikó. "Antimonies of science studies towards a critical theory of science and technology /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/27367.
Full textSmith, John D. "Towards a Theory of Services Supply Chain Management." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1378934675.
Full textShareef, Amina N. "Aligning Technology with Humanity." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1626896521835759.
Full textTopaiboul, Kitja. "Economic growth and technology transfer to Thailand." Thesis, Coventry University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273733.
Full textThompson, Victor F. "Human and social factors affecting technology transfer." Thesis, University of Bath, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332602.
Full textWatson, William R. "Formative research on an instructional design theory for educational video games." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278250.
Full textSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3816. Adviser: Charles M. Reigeluth. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 8, 2008).
Lamar, Andrew. "Bounding surface plasticity theory with backstress decomposition and material memory." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/15857.
Full textSaboe, Michael S. "A software technology transition entropy based engineering model." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/dissert/2002/Mar/02Mar%5FSaboe%5FPhD.pdf.
Full textDissertation supervisor: Luqi. "March 2002." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 15, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Software Engineering, Technology Transfer, Information Theory, Communication Theory, Statistical Mechanics, Dynamical Systems, Control Theory, Learning Curves, Entropy, Information Temperature, Temperature of Software (o Saboe), Technology Transfer Dynamics, Research Management, Diffusion of Innovation, Project Management, Physics of Software Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-489). Also available in print.
Faraday, Peter. "Theory based design and evaluation of multimedia presentation interfaces." Thesis, City University London, 1998. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7563/.
Full textValladolid, Christine. "Meaningfulness and job satisfaction for health care technology workers." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10141727.
Full textHealth care technology workers play an increasingly important role in meeting regulatory requirements, improving patient care and containing health care costs. However, their perceptions of work and job satisfaction are lightly studied in comparison to other health care workers such as physicians or nurses. This exploratory study used heuristic inquiry to investigate the perceptions of health care technology workers with regard to their feelings of task significance, mission valence, work meaning, and job satisfaction.
Nine research participants representing three not-for-profit, secular hospital systems which were selected to have variation in geographic scope and organization size were interviewed. All participants were full-time, senior professional, non-executive, employees with a minimum of five years of experience in health care technology and three years with their current employer.
Thematic analysis revealed themes within four categories: organization culture, organization mission, interactions with clinicians and perceived contribution. These organizations have strong cultures in which staff members police the cultural norms. The inculcation to the culture includes helping health care technology workers connect to the organization’s mission of patient care, and these employees perceive the mission to have high valence. While these employees feel that the mission of patient care is important and valuable, they have a conflicted relationship with physicians who they perceive as resistant to the adoption of new technology. Finally, health care technology workers recognized that their work tasks may not directly impact patient care; however, they felt their contribution was meaningful, in particular when they were able to contribute their unique talents.
Study conclusions and recommendations included how job rotations allowing health care technology workers to work at a care provider site provides an opportunity for health care companies to increase workers’ feelings of task significance and task identity, and therefore, job satisfaction. Contributing one’s unique gift is perceived as meaningful, and workers seek opportunities to do so. Recognizing the importance of these workers and facilitating improved interactions between health care technology workers and physicians particularly with regard to adoption of new technology is seen as critical for ensuring effective and efficient health care delivery.
Athey, Graeme. "Technology, history and pedagogy : exploring the distance between theory and practice." Thesis, University of Bath, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.760877.
Full textBrynjolfsson, Erik. "Information technology and the re-organization of work : theory and evidence." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13687.
Full textPhaup, Kristen Michelle. "Striving toward a critical theory of technology pedagogy in literacy education /." Electronic version (Microsoft Word), 2003. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2003/phaupk/kristenphaup.html.
Full textKo, Pui S. "Dimensions of information technology governance: A study of theory and practice." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1609.
Full textOnik, Mohammad Fakhrul Alam. "Business value of information technology: A complex adaptive systems theory view." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132323/1/Mohammad%20Fakhrul%20Alam_Onik_Thesis.pdf.
Full textAzizi, Neda. "A Process Theory of IT Risk Management Implementation." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/396515.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Info & Comm Tech
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Sevinc, Orhun. "Essays on tasks, technology, and trends in the labor market." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3597/.
Full textZahedi, Vafa Mohammad Hadi. "Endogenous growth: A search model for new technology with applications to international trade." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6443.
Full textGolani, Guruditta. "Theory of linear operators for aggregate stream query processing." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0011876.
Full textSanders, Bryan Philip. "Toward a Unified Computer Learning Theory: Critical Techno Constructivism." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2019. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/901.
Full textBrowne, Elizabeth. "Information communication technology and the management of change in two education institutions." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289243.
Full textAtwa, Mohamed. "Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth and Density Functional Theory Calculations of Trilayer Graphene." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-206117.
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