Nobuko Fujita, PhD

Category: My Research

  • Entering the professorate

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    While in Hong Kong for the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2011) conference, I received a job offer to become Assistant Professor in E-Learning in the Faculty of Education at University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario. This was an exciting moment for me, as I was able to announce this appointment the next day in…

  • Academic workflow: Taking notes on readings, finding notes, writing papers

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    I recently joined the CSCL2011 Conference HK Facebook Group and Stian Håklev’s status update about his academic workflow caught my eye. He uses an impressive collection of technologies– Skim, BibDesk, DokuWiki and Kindle–along with “a bunch of little ‘glue-scripts’.” to integrate his note taking on PDFs, citation metadata, and ideas (see his wiki for details).…

  • Formative assessment, OLMs, and repertory grids

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    This past week, I called on a couple of close colleagues–Cheryl Ann Madeira and Kimberley MacKinnon –at the University of Toronto for a favour. I was looking to find some resources on assessment to inform the design of the interface that we are designing for formative assessment in the Computational Social Science Laboratory (CSSL) at…

  • Settling in and getting on with design, repertory grids, etc.

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    I’ve been in Denmark for about five months now. Ravi is right, it does take about six months in a new country before you feel settled in. Of course, it would have helped to have been able to stay in the same faculty housing the whole time, but we’ve moved twice since we arrived, first…

  • Villa Louis Pasteur: Part 2

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    In an earlier post, I described some things that makes staying in visiting faculty accommodations in Paris more pleasant. In response to a comment that someone found these tips helpful, here’s another post, this time on the very practical matter of braving the public laundromat facilities in France. Back home in Canada, this was a…

  • Oslo

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    Earlier this month, I was at InterMedia, Universitetet i Oslo for a meeting of the Nordforsk Network, Teaching Problem-based Learning in Virtual Learning Environments: Scaffolding Critical Reflection. The Nordforsk Network is coordinated by the University of Aalborg, Denmark and with participants from four Nordic countries. An interesting distinction for those of us from North America…

  • Villa Louis Pasteur: A Primer

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    I’ve had this post as a draft for quite a while. It’s been a few months since we left Paris, but I wanted to post a little primer to make day-to-day life at Villa Louis Pasteur, the faculty housing that was our home away from home in Paris, a little bit easier and a whole lot…

  • Learning Analytics vs. Academic Analytics

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    Stian Håklev : It was a great conference, and I would have loved to see you there, but Vatrapu did an excellent job at presenting (he should get most valued presenter for all the different talks he had to do). It will be interesting to see if they make it an annual event, and where…

  • Learning Analytics and Knowledge 2011 (LAK11)

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    Thanks Ravi for presenting our papers in bone-chilling Banff, Alberta! It was quite a thrill to watch the live feed of the conference from my living room in Copenhagen, Denmark. Being on CET, I was eight hours ahead of MT so it was very late (around midnight). Still, very interesting to simultaneously watch the conference…

  • Postdoctoral research fellowship

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    It’s been a while since I last blogged. The last few months have been a blur. First I moved back to Toronto from Paris, then packed up the family again and moved to Copenhagen. For me, it’s a big change on multiple fronts. There’s not only the culture shock in moving to a foreign country…