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Mike Sharples
Researcher at Open University
Publications - 271
Citations - 16333
Mike Sharples is an academic researcher from Open University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Educational technology & Synchronous learning. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 263 publications receiving 15585 citations. Previous affiliations of Mike Sharples include Oxford Brookes University & University of Sussex.
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The New Writing Environment
Mike Sharples,Thea van der Geest +1 more
TL;DR: This book discusses writing, Speaking, Drawing, and the Distribution of Meaning in Architects' Communication, as well as two Investigations into Intelligent Text Processing and Detecting Stylistic Inconsistencies in Collaborative Writing.
Personal Inquiry: linking the cultures of home and school with technology mediated science inquiry
TL;DR: The Personal Inquiry (PI) project as discussed by the authors aims to help young people aged 11-14 to understand themselves and their world through a process of active scientific inquiry across formal and informal settings, where children use new methods of Scripted Inquiry Learning, implemented on ultra-mobile PCs and classroom technologies, to gather and assess evidence, conduct empirical research and engage in informed debate.
Proceedings Article
Training novel phonemic contrasts: a comparison of identification and oddity discrimination training
TL;DR: This comparison, in which Mandarin-Chinese speakers were trained to pronounce the English /r/-/l/ phonemic contrast, provides preliminary evidence to support the use of discrimination tasks in addition to identification tasks to add variety to HVPT.
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Design processes of a citizen inquiry community
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the process of designing an online community for citizen inquiry, the "Weather-it" citizen inquiry community, which is intended to engage and support people in initiating and joining sustainable citizen-led investigations.