John Hurst's Research Interests
1. Research Interests and Areas
- Persistent Programming
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Literate Programming
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MonAtar: The Unit Description Avatar
This program is a web script that maintains unit
description for the Faculty of Information Technology.
Users are required to authenticate using the Monash
Directory Service, and they can then edit and approve
unit descriptions as appropriate. The complete
literate program is available on-line.
- Computer Systems
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Computer Education Exploring issues in making the
learning process for computing and IT students more effective
and efficient. You can also see my
local mirror of the CERG site.
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ICTEd Project
An AUTC-funded project to explore and disseminate innovative
and/or best practice teaching in Information and Communications
Technology.
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PIAVEE
Platform Independent Agent-based Virtual Educational Environment.
Making development and dissemination of on-line course
materials hassle-free.
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Document Technologies XML
and Stuff
- Formal Specification
These projects are not classified by level, but could be
undertaken at a range of levels: Honours, Masters, Doctorate;
depending upon aims and scoping.
- (This section under review)
3. Recent Publications
- Sheard, J., Postema, M., Markham, S. and Hurst, J.,
Time versus utility: What IT staff say about the educational
use of the Web, Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2001, Tampere,
Finland, June/July 2001.
- Carbone, A., Mitchell, I., Gunstone, R., Hurst, A.J.,
Designing Programming Tasks to Elicit Self-management
Metacognitive Behaviour, International Conference on
Computers in Education (ICCE2002), Auckland, New Zealand,
December 2002.
- Sheard, J., Ceddia, J., Tuovinen, J., and Hurst, A.J.,
Determining Website usage time from interactions: data
preparation and analysis, Journal of Educational Technology
Systems vol.32, no.1, pp.101-121, 2003.
- Sheard, J., Ceddia, J., Tuovinen, J., and Hurst, A.J.,
Inferring student learning behaviour from website
interactions: A usage analysis, Education and Information
Technology, vol.8, no.3, pp.245-266, Sep
2003.
- Hurst, A.J., MonAtar: The Monash Unit Description
Avatar, International Conference on Computers in Education,
Hong Kong, Dec 2003.
- Markham, S., Krishnamurthy, S., Casey, D., Hurst, A.J.,
Chetty, M., PIAVEE - A Pedagogy-Independent Education
Environment, International Conference on A Learning and
Teaching, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004.
4. Recent Seminars
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Experiences with the Monash Avatar Seminar presented
at the Faculty of Communication and Information Technologies,
Swinburne University, Hawthorn, on 4 Nov 2005.
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Peer Review of Teaching Seminar presented at the
Caulfield campus of the Faculty of Information Technology,
Monash University, Caulfield, on 1 April 2005; subsequently
repeated at RMIT, Melbourne, on 20 May 2005.
