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- Stanley Nguyen published a blog post COMP 266 Unit 5 Program Designs
- Stanley Nguyen published a blog post COMP 266 Unit 5 Idea Review
- Stanley Nguyen published a blog post COMP 266 Unit 4 Learning Diary
- Stanley Nguyen published a blog post COMP 266 Unit 3 Learning Diary Entry
- Adam Gendron replied on the discussion topic Future projects?
- Yiming Zang added a new discussion topic Yiming's Final Project Proposal
- Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 7
- Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 5&6
- Michel Desmarais published a blog post COMP361 - Assignment 2 Reflections
Yiming's wiki page for COMP 444
Last updated September 1, 2024 - 2:10pm by Yiming ZangHi everyone, my name is Yiming Zang, this will serve as my weblog for COMP 444, I will post my progress here throughout the course. I am very excited to share my experiences with you all.-
Reflections on Assignment 2.
Last updated January 5, 2024 - 5:17am by Joan OladunjoyeAssignment 2 Reflection: Project 1: Animals and their Respective Sounds: Files linked with this project: Main.java and AnimalTest.java. This challenge question is mapped to the following learning objectives: articulate the... Athabasca University bids a deeply reluctant farewell to Peter Scott in the vilest attack yet by...
By Jon Dron February 2, 2023 - 5:02pmYou may have heard that the president of Athabasca University, Peter Scott, was replaced yesterday with Alex Clark, erstwhile Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at AU. This was a complete surprise - no, utter shock - to everyone at AU, from...A guide to the Student Server
Started by Kimberly Lindsay in the group COMP 266 January 29, 2022 - 3:15pm Replies (9) Last reply by Shivam Vyas April 20, 2022 - 3:43pmPosted to group: COMP 266Hey everyone, I really struggled with this incredibly simple task for way too long and had a lot of responses that didn't fully answer my questions, so I made a quick reference guide for the newbies who aren't sure how to upload their .html files to...POST - MAS metamodel
Started by Duncan Robertson in the group COMP667 Multiagent Systems July 24, 2023 - 8:28pm Replies (1) Last reply by Oscar Lin July 26, 2023 - 10:36amPosted to group: COMP667 Multiagent SystemsIn this post I want to talk about a recent paper about MAS metamodels. A metamodel is an abstraction that describes the information that is required for a model of the entities and relationships in the MAS domain. In their paper, Viana et al...-
Unit 1
Last updated April 30, 2023 - 5:51pm by Lilith Richter-StephensonI found this unit informative one the differences between Java and other languages I have previously used. Having used both Python and C in previous programming, I am excited to learn more about Java and discover the different benefits and... The DIKW hierarchy as interpeted by ChatGPT
By Eugene Griffin 4 May 2023 @ 8:42pm Comments (2)www.researchgate.net - The DIKW hierarchy Many web-based resources discuss DIKW, Li & Duan's [1] paper explored the usage of DIKW by ChatGPT [2]. The process, as interpreted by [2], provides valuable insight into the extraction and interpretation of Data,...-
Fetch-Decode-Execute Cycle: If you're a visual learner you'll want to watch this video
Last updated March 3, 2023 - 4:11pm by KevinThe Fetch-Execute Cycle: What's Your Computer Actually Doing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5JC9Ve1sfI Preparing for peer review
By Christopher Daniel February 9, 2021 - 4:56pmI plan to conduct peer review based on what Elbow has identified as the four qualities being reviewed in a criterion-based feedback (253-254) and interpret each standard to match the requirements under the writing rubric for MAIS 606.My latest paper: On the Misappropriation of Spatial Metaphors in Online Learning
By Jon Dron 3 January 2023 @ 12:49pmjournal.otessa.org - This is a link to my latest paper, published in the closing days of 2022. The paper started as a couple of blog posts that I turned into a paper that nearly made an appearance in the Distance Education in China journal before a last-minute regime...Can GPT-3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input?
By Jon Dron 2 July 2022 @ 12:48pmhal.archives-ouvertes.fr - Brilliant. The short answer is, of course, yes, and it doesn't do a bad job of it. This is conceptual art of the highest order. This is the preprint of a paper written by GPT-3 (as first author) about itself, submitted to "a well-known...Unit 2: Food for Thought
Started by Gregory McDonald September 19, 2022 - 10:17am Replies (8) Last reply by Abeba Yitbarek October 8, 2022 - 12:19pmFood for thought for Unit 2 (as copied from the Instructor's Notebook): 1. How much do you personally trust the various search engines? What are some of the benefits of a popular search engine? What are some of the pitfalls. 2. Describe the...We need help: Athabasca University is facing an existential threat from the government of Alberta
By Jon Dron 5 August 2022 @ 4:26pm Comments (1)www.youtube.com - This video from Peter Scott, president of Athabasca University, is a clear, eloquent, and passionate plea to save our university and the education of its students from imminent destruction at the hands of a brutal, self-serving, short-sighted...We shape our buildings and, afterwards, our buildings shape us: some lessons in how not to build an...
By Jon Dron August 14, 2022 - 1:44pmThis is an analysis of the problems that currently beset Athabasca University and a plea to prevent it but, more generally, it is a discussion of the ways that the decisions we have made affect who we are, and how we develop.Communities we live in and serve: universities and places
By Jon Dron October 6, 2022 - 10:55pmVoluntourism, geoarbitrage, and digital nomadsReasons to be Cheerful is among my first ports of call for news most mornings because I hate to start the day on a negative or banal note. The news is mostly good, but it's never trivial, cute, or...
Unit 5 - Javascript Learning Diary
By Hassan Jasim in the group COMP 266 August 25, 2022 - 2:15pmPosted to group: COMP 266In this unit, I tackled JavaScript more in-depth. I defined 4 functions that I was going to develop, created workflow diagrams for each and pseudo code for them as well. This was a little different than what I am normally used to as with most...Thanks @demetriosnAB for your generous offer. We completely misunderstood that you wanted to help...
By Jon Dron August 8, 2022 - 10:00amDear Demetrios NicolaidesYou say,“I’ve offered to provide any kind of assistance that the university needs. They haven’t asked for any.”This is very kind! I am sorry for all the very, very, very bad thoughts I have been...My latest paper, "Learning, Technology, and Technique", now online in the Canadian...
By Jon Dron 10 August 2022 @ 7:50pmcjlt.ca - This is my latest paper, Learning, Technology, and Technique, in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (Vol. 48 No. 1, 2022). Essentially, because this was what I was invited to do, the paper shrinks down over...
unit 2 html website
By Ofure Eigbire-Molen October 31, 2024 - 8:42pm<!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> <title>Tetravon Inc. - Home</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" /></head><body> <div id="header">...Assignment 3 Reflections
By Celine Grasdal September 25, 2024 - 8:49pmAssignment 3 Reflections The storyboard took the most time to complete as I am not great at drawing, so it was a slow process for me. However, I realizes as I worked through the storyboard that it was not just about creating visuals but really...Applet program on our web page
By John Howe August 23, 2024 - 4:41pmIs JS the only option for writing small applications for our websiteUnit 2 Learning Diary
By Celine Grasdal in the group COMP 266 August 17, 2024 - 11:30pmPosted to group: COMP 266This unit, I focused on achieving several key learning outcomes:Applying a structured approach to identifying the needs, interests, and functionality of my website.Writing well-structured, easily maintained, standards-compliant, and accessible...Useful Piezo Buzzer sounds
By Michael Akpan July 30, 2024 - 3:39pm Comments (3)Hi everyone, I am completing my final project and I have a component that requires using the piezo buzzer for alerts/notifications and I noticed while going through some recent project proosals that there are some alarm type systems or projects...
