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- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post Assignment 3
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post Assignment 2
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post Food for thought Unit 8
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post food for thought Unit 7
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post food for thought Unit 6
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post food for thought Unit 5
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post food for thought Unit 4
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post Food for thought Unit 3
- Jakub Olszewik published a blog post COMP 361 Assignment 3 Reflection
- Jakub Olszewik published a blog post COMP 361 Assignment 1 ReflectionComments
- Richard Sullivan Andison
Hello Jakub,
I had similar issues when classifying events as external, temporal, or state; I often found myself indecisive in deciding where one event ended and the other began. If an event was too broad, it would seemingly fit into multiple categories, but if things got too granular, the table would become too dense for any meaningful insight. The overall scope in which events are broken down seems to be somewhat important; in general, I chose a broad a scope as possible for each event as, during this stage, it didn't feel in the spirit of adaptive development to predict each step of an event this early on. One method I found to be helpfull was finding an existing car-sharing system that already exist; I was able to find a website for one and structured much of my events according to how the system structured it's webpage.
food for thought Unit 5
UNIT 5 Chapter 10 Q: What happens when you have sensor error in your system? What if your sensor incorrectly tells you that the robot is far from a wall but in fact it is not? What about vice versa? How might you address these...Conservatism of Expectations
The Explorations of Style blog post titled “Conservatism of Expectations” discusses the topic of the graduate level decision to either challenge or submit to the standard practices of academic writing. The author highlights that academic...Why Citing is a Key Feature in Academic Writing
"Why is citing a key feature in academic writing, and how does this feature strengthen my writing?" When we analyzed Appadurai's Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination last week, the author defined the parameters of...Determine whether the environmental or socioecological issue you have chosen for your Case Study is...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is best understood as a wicked problem, not a tame one. According to Rittel and Webber’s (1973) framework, wicked problems are characterized by complex interdependencies, lack of definitive solutions, and...Unit 9: Mobility Comparison
Comparing public transit mobility in Western Europe and the United States shows clear differences in how people move. Western Europe relies heavily on public transportation, walking, and cycling, with dense transit networks, compact urban design,...The Literature Review and Critical Review
After learning about the literature review, I can appreciate its similarities to the critical review, and how the latter prepares a student to write a (often more complex) literature review assignment. Both works emphasize objectivity. Your own...Unit 7: Sand mining Biogeochemical
By Ariana MorinBiogeochemical Systems Affected Water cycle Sand mining alters riverbeds and coastal areas, changing water flow, increasing sedimentation, and reducing groundwater recharge. Soil nutrient cycle Removing sand disrupts sediment transport and...Developing an Academic Tone, Style and Word Choice
When deciding how to give your writing a more academic style, there are countless points to mention that would provide a formal sound. Students should consider word choice, tone, and formatting in order to achieve a cohesive, academic style. In this...Gordon Nash Weblog Unit 1 Food For Thought
By Gordon NashUnit 1: Introduction to Robotics Reflection: Reading the first three chapters of the book was a good primer for the course. The discussion about early robots, which were at the cutting edge of technology at the time, indicated...
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post Assignment 3
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post Assignment 2
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post Food for thought Unit 8
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post food for thought Unit 7
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post food for thought Unit 6
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post food for thought Unit 5
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post food for thought Unit 4
- Sumit Saharawat published a blog post Food for thought Unit 3
- Jakub Olszewik published a blog post COMP 361 Assignment 3 Reflection
- Jakub Olszewik published a blog post COMP 361 Assignment 1 ReflectionComments
- Richard Sullivan Andison
Hello Jakub,
I had similar issues when classifying events as external, temporal, or state; I often found myself indecisive in deciding where one event ended and the other began. If an event was too broad, it would seemingly fit into multiple categories, but if things got too granular, the table would become too dense for any meaningful insight. The overall scope in which events are broken down seems to be somewhat important; in general, I chose a broad a scope as possible for each event as, during this stage, it didn't feel in the spirit of adaptive development to predict each step of an event this early on. One method I found to be helpfull was finding an existing car-sharing system that already exist; I was able to find a website for one and structured much of my events according to how the system structured it's webpage.
The Roles of AI in English Learning: A Three-Level Model as a Learning Theory
By Hyeyung ParkThe Roles of AI, a three level model, a learning theory, computational learning theoryMAIS 606 - Fall, 2025
Academic Writing For Graduate Students- Jon Dron on Terrifyingly Horrific: The Monk as Gothic Foundation. (): Most of my paper library got left on the other side of the Atlantic some 18...
Terrifyingly Horrific: The Monk as Gothic Foundation.
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis is somewhat of a staple when studying Gothic literature–maybe not to the extent of Shelley’s Frankenstein–but essential to the inquiry nonetheless. An interesting theory that I had not known of was...
Yiming's wiki page for COMP 444
Last updated by Yiming ZangHi everyone, my name is Yiming Zang, this will serve as my weblog for COMP 444, I will post my progress here throughout the course. I am very excited to share my experiences with you all.-
Reflections on Assignment 2.
Last updated by Joan OladunjoyeAssignment 2 Reflection: Project 1: Animals and their Respective Sounds: Files linked with this project: Main.java and AnimalTest.java. This challenge question is mapped to the following learning objectives: articulate the... Athabasca University bids a deeply reluctant farewell to Peter Scott in the vilest attack yet by...
By Jon DronYou may have heard that the president of Athabasca University, Peter Scott, was replaced yesterday with Alex Clark, erstwhile Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at AU. This was a complete surprise - no, utter shock - to everyone at AU, from...A guide to the Student Server
Posted to group: COMP 266Hey everyone, I really struggled with this incredibly simple task for way too long and had a lot of responses that didn't fully answer my questions, so I made a quick reference guide for the newbies who aren't sure how to upload their .html files to...POST - MAS metamodel
Started by Duncan Robertson in the group COMP667 Multiagent Systems Replies (1) Last reply by Oscar LinPosted to group: COMP667 Multiagent SystemsIn this post I want to talk about a recent paper about MAS metamodels. A metamodel is an abstraction that describes the information that is required for a model of the entities and relationships in the MAS domain. In their paper, Viana et al...-
Unit 1
Last updated by Lilith Richter-StephensonI found this unit informative one the differences between Java and other languages I have previously used. Having used both Python and C in previous programming, I am excited to learn more about Java and discover the different benefits and... 
The DIKW hierarchy as interpeted by ChatGPT
By Eugene Griffin 4 May 2023 @ 8:42pm Comments (2)www.researchgate.net - The DIKW hierarchy Many web-based resources discuss DIKW, Li & Duan's [1] paper explored the usage of DIKW by ChatGPT [2]. The process, as interpreted by [2], provides valuable insight into the extraction and interpretation of Data,...-
Fetch-Decode-Execute Cycle: If you're a visual learner you'll want to watch this video
Last updated by KevinThe Fetch-Execute Cycle: What's Your Computer Actually Doing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5JC9Ve1sfI Preparing for peer review
I plan to conduct peer review based on what Elbow has identified as the four qualities being reviewed in a criterion-based feedback (253-254) and interpret each standard to match the requirements under the writing rubric for MAIS 606.My latest paper: On the Misappropriation of Spatial Metaphors in Online Learning
By Jon Dron 3 January 2023 @ 12:49pmjournal.otessa.org - This is a link to my latest paper, published in the closing days of 2022. The paper started as a couple of blog posts that I turned into a paper that nearly made an appearance in the Distance Education in China journal before a last-minute regime...Can GPT-3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input?
By Jon Dron 2 July 2022 @ 12:48pmhal.archives-ouvertes.fr - Brilliant. The short answer is, of course, yes, and it doesn't do a bad job of it. This is conceptual art of the highest order. This is the preprint of a paper written by GPT-3 (as first author) about itself, submitted to "a well-known...Unit 2: Food for Thought
Food for thought for Unit 2 (as copied from the Instructor's Notebook): 1. How much do you personally trust the various search engines? What are some of the benefits of a popular search engine? What are some of the pitfalls. 2. Describe the...We need help: Athabasca University is facing an existential threat from the government of Alberta
By Jon Dron 5 August 2022 @ 4:26pm Comments (1)www.youtube.com - This video from Peter Scott, president of Athabasca University, is a clear, eloquent, and passionate plea to save our university and the education of its students from imminent destruction at the hands of a brutal, self-serving, short-sighted...We shape our buildings and, afterwards, our buildings shape us: some lessons in how not to build an...
By Jon DronThis is an analysis of the problems that currently beset Athabasca University and a plea to prevent it but, more generally, it is a discussion of the ways that the decisions we have made affect who we are, and how we develop.
