Trust, transparency, choice and consequence
Seemingly innocuous I notice a pattern and it starts with a seemingly innocuous event like using a loyalty card or visiting a website and then what follows is a narrative about why these particular...
Author: Brad
Open Letter to School District 61 on the use of Google Apps For Education (GAFE)
Thank you for the opportunity to offer feedback relating to the use of GAFE in the classrooms of School District 61. I have two children enrolled in the school system and appreciate the importance...
The Developer’s Role in Academia
ROI I recall a business instructor advising a class of computer science students that outsourcing software development to a country where labour costs could be significantly reduced presented a return on investment that was...
Enabling Stigmergic Collaboration on Open Textbooks – Task Division
Problem Definition Authors cannot easily collaborate with others on a book in Pressbooks. In order for collaboration to occur certain elements need to be present such as “communication, coordination, awareness, task division and conflict resolution” Identifying...
Evolutionary Computation Methods in Modern Cryptography
ABSTRACT Meaningful attempts to produce practical solutions for the problem of an increasingly hostile environment are emerging in evolutionary computation. The problems cryptography faces are in the number and variety of ways it can...
Genetic Algorithms in Education
In online education, there a variety of interactive group activities categorized as collaborative learning. Discussion forums is one such example of a collaborative learning strategy, group/partner project work is another. Where group dynamics play...
Student performance and moral decision making in predictive technologies
Pattern recognition is a well established technique utilized by neural networks in applications that attempt to make predictions on human behaviour within a limited context. ‘Many successful researchers have used Neural Network and Decision...