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Publication date: 1 May 1996

Bob Duffy

‘Toto, something tells me we're not in Kansas anymore.’ So says young Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), opening her farmhouse door in MGM's The Wizard of Oz (1939). Said farmhouse…

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‘Toto, something tells me we're not in Kansas anymore.’ So says young Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), opening her farmhouse door in MGM's The Wizard of Oz (1939). Said farmhouse, carried off into the sky by a tornado, has just landed with a jarring thud. But not back in dull and dusty Kansas USA, the sepia‐toned realm we've experienced for the first twenty minutes of the movie. Dorothy has opened her front door on an entirely new landscape, a stunning Technicolor Eden.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 14 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 March 1997

Bob Duffy

The ‘single biggest problem’ on the World Wide Web, Netscape wunderkind Marc Andreessen tells The Washington Post, is ‘information overload’. The implication: how is the user…

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The ‘single biggest problem’ on the World Wide Web, Netscape wunderkind Marc Andreessen tells The Washington Post, is ‘information overload’. The implication: how is the user supposed to home in on exactly the right info when the Web harbours such vast volumes of unruly content?

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The Electronic Library, vol. 15 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 January 1997

Bob Duffy

‘Earth's largest bookstore’, as its proprietors term it, is accessible only through the World Wide Web.

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‘Earth's largest bookstore’, as its proprietors term it, is accessible only through the World Wide Web.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 15 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 June 1996

Bob Duffy

You don't need to be a rocket scientist or a Unix programmer to realise that the World Wide Web is an invaluable platform for global outreach. Virtually any enterprise — public or…

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You don't need to be a rocket scientist or a Unix programmer to realise that the World Wide Web is an invaluable platform for global outreach. Virtually any enterprise — public or private, non‐profit or for‐profit, large or small — can make use of it to great advantage.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 14 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 25 January 2013

Vicki Holmes, Wilma Clark, Paul Burt and Bart Rienties

Information and Communication Technology offers powerful Web 2.0 tools that can benefit learners with different learning preferences. The rise of video streaming, the increased…

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Information and Communication Technology offers powerful Web 2.0 tools that can benefit learners with different learning preferences. The rise of video streaming, the increased proliferation of ‘on demand’ televisual media and new smartphone streaming opportunities have generated a range of web-based media that may usefully support teachers and learners in accommodating these varied learning styles. At the same time, media streaming technologies such as YouTube have distinct drawbacks for students, teachers and their institutions, particularly in relation to appropriate content and the ethical issues around the uploading of student materials to a public repository.

Two studies are reported. In Study 1, two case studies of how teachers engaged students with a media-streaming system called Box of Broadcasts (BoB) are discussed using principles of design-based research. The result from the first case study indicated that BoB provided an improved efficiency for teachers who filmed students’ presentations in a second language. The second case study illustrated how the integration of BoB into their classroom teaching led a psychology teacher to think differently about students and the design and delivery of teaching and learning resources. In Study 2, the use of a qualitative semi-structured interview approach with eight teachers indicated that staff felt that BoB was beneficial in supporting pedagogic practice. Furthermore, staff highlighted the opportunities for dialogue about theory, reality and practice that video materials offered to students as added value. Key limitations for some staff in their use of BoB as a support for video-enriched pedagogic practice were the restricted level of available content on BoB, some difficulties relating to the skills required for creating and using clips and technical stability when using clips.

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Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Mobile Applications: Smartphones, Skype and Texting Technologies
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ISBN: 978-1-78190-509-8

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Publication date: 1 June 2007

Bob Sang

This paper details the emergence of a user‐led movement focused on self‐management that is beginning to transcend the usual categories of patient, carer and user. It argues that…

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This paper details the emergence of a user‐led movement focused on self‐management that is beginning to transcend the usual categories of patient, carer and user. It argues that this coalition will begin to drive integrated care, by putting citizens at the centre of a working partnership with providers and practitioners, and by providing the leadership that will enable an integrated service system through co‐creation and collaborative learning.

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 15 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 1 June 2008

Melanie Henwood and Bob Hudson

The adult social care system will increasingly be characterised by ‘personalisation’. Maximising choice, control and power over the support services that people access is to be…

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The adult social care system will increasingly be characterised by ‘personalisation’. Maximising choice, control and power over the support services that people access is to be achieved principally by development of personal budgets. Already there are signs that the Government wants to extend the model from adult social care and to apply it to other areas of public service. The most obvious areas where the model could be transferred are health services (particularly in respect of long‐term conditions), and support for disabled children and their families. This article draws on findings from an in‐depth study on self‐directed support commissioned by the Department of Health. It highlights some of the challenges and opportunities which arise for authorities attempting to engage with personalisation and to develop more integrated responses to people's support needs. It is clear that the ‘Total Transformation’ to which many aspire will not be achieved overnight, but equally this is an area of policy change which cannot simply be left to the enthusiasts.

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 16 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 31 October 2017

Anthony Keating

Sexual crime in the Irish Free State was more than an issue of law, it carried ideological importance in a nation that legitimised itself as a beacon of Celtic Catholicism whilst…

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Sexual crime in the Irish Free State was more than an issue of law, it carried ideological importance in a nation that legitimised itself as a beacon of Celtic Catholicism whilst struggling to maintain credibility in a contested post-colonial landscape. The nation’s police force, An Garda Síochána, had a central role in preserving the nation’s reputation for piety. This chapter explores the views of two of An Garda Síochána’s most senior officers regarding female sexuality and sexual crime; features that were to influence the level of protection and justice Ireland’s women and children were afforded under law.

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Environmental Criminology
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-377-9

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Publication date: 19 August 2009

Bob Sang

The policies of personalisation and choice have reawakened the underlying policy debates about the relationship between the ideologies of service reform and the implementation of…

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The policies of personalisation and choice have reawakened the underlying policy debates about the relationship between the ideologies of service reform and the implementation of policies that affect disadvantaged people. Service users themselves are responding through a range of initiatives that link self‐management, personal budgets, advocacy and the emerging aspiration for ‘co‐production’. By bringing together learning from a community of practitioners this paper identifies both the opportunities for partnership, including with multi‐disciplinary teams, and the threats of new forms of testing that have deep roots in social policy debates. In so doing it begins to identify the real choices that users, citizens and professionals now face.

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 17 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 8 February 2013

Bob Duckett

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Reference Reviews, vol. 27 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0950-4125

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