Disciplinary Interests: open education
Dr. David Neville
Deutsch Digital is a Web-based software program developed to deliver adaptive and scalable instruction to German language students. The software dynamically generates instruction based on student feedback while drawing on Flash learning modules and QuickTime audio files stored on the server. Important student data (e.g., student response time and answers) are stored in the database for later data mining, evidence-based evaluation, and software fine-tuning. The software can be adapted for use with other languages and language emphases (e.g., German for Engineers).
David O. Neville is assistant professor of German Language and Literature and Director of Language Learning Technologies at Elon University. He holds a Ph.D. in German Language and Literature, with an emphasis in Medieval Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis, and a M.S. in Instructional Technology from Utah State University. Dr. Neville's research interests include interactive instructional tool building, advanced interactive multimedia design, problem-based learning (PBL), cognitive load theory (CLT), digital game-based learning (DGBL), online collaborative learning, computer-assisted language learning (CALL), medieval German language and literature, medieval Franciscan theology and mysticism, medieval paleography and codicology, and text and image in medieval manuscripts.
Eve Gray, Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town; International Policy Fellow, OSI Budapest
Eve Gray
International Policy Fellowship, Open Society, Budapest, Open Information Group: Sustainability Models for Open Access Social Science Research Publication in Africa: Policy and Practice, The project aims to examine research policy in South Africa and map its impact on the publication and dissemination of research. An investigation of the impact of research dissemination will in turn lead to an evaluation of the effectiveness of the delivery of development goals articulated in national and institutional research policy., Open Access publication will be explored as a potential way of overcoming the economic, geographical, and political barriers to research publication in and out of Africa. Given the general level of impoverishment of African universities and shortfalls in ICT infrastructure, the project will investigate the policy interventions and practical strategies that might enhance the sustainability of effective and high-quality research dissemination in Africa and the advocacy programmes that would be needed to get buy-in from policy-makers and the scholarly community for the expansion of Open Access scholarly publishing programmes.
Eve Gray is an International Policy Fellow with the Open Society Institute, Budapest in the Open Information Working Group. She is based in Cape Town and is affiliated to the Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town, as an Honorary Research Associate.
Stephen Carson
Stephen Carson is Senior Strategist at MIT OpenCourseWare.
