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Increasing Engagement Through Explicit and Implicit Gamification in Higher Education (2022)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N., & Grey, S. (2022). Increasing Engagement Through Explicit and Implicit Gamification in Higher Education. In O. Bernardes, V. Amorim, & A. Carrizo Moreira (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Influence and Effectiveness of Gamification in Education (662-681). Hershey, Pa.: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4287-6

Engagement is essential in higher education but can be problematic to achieve. Successful games are, at their core, designed to be engaging experiences. In attempts to increase engagement in learning, there has been an increase in playful learning, g... Read More about Increasing Engagement Through Explicit and Implicit Gamification in Higher Education.

Increasing engagement through explicit and implicit gamification in higher education (2022)
Book Chapter
Grey, S., & Gordon, N. A. (2022). Increasing engagement through explicit and implicit gamification in higher education. In O. Bernardes, V. Amorim, & A. Carrizo Moreira (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Influence and Effectiveness of Gamification in Education (662-681). Hershey, Pa.: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4287-6.ch032

Engagement is essential in higher education but can be problematic to achieve. Successful games are, at their core, designed to be engaging experiences. In attempts to increase engagement in learning, there has been an increase in playful learning, g... Read More about Increasing engagement through explicit and implicit gamification in higher education.

Dependability Analysis Using Temporal Fault Trees and Monte Carlo Simulation (2021)
Book Chapter
Edifor, E., Gordon, N., & Walker, M. (2021). Dependability Analysis Using Temporal Fault Trees and Monte Carlo Simulation. In W. Zamojski, J. Mazurkiewicz, J. Sugier, T. Walkowiak, & J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Theory and Engineering of Dependable Computer Systems and Networks (86-96). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76773-0_9

The safety and reliability of high-consequence systems is an issue of utmost importance to engineers because such systems can have catastrophic effects if they fail. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a well-known probabilistic technique for assessing the... Read More about Dependability Analysis Using Temporal Fault Trees and Monte Carlo Simulation.

Technologies for analysing and improving healthcare processes (2020)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. (2020). Technologies for analysing and improving healthcare processes. In W. Leal Filho, T. Wall, A. Azul, L. Brandli, & P. Özuyar (Eds.), Good Health and Well-Being. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95681-7

The right to a healthy life is a natural expectation and recognised as a human right (WHO, 2017) – and is further recognised as such in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, where Goal 3 focusses on “good health and well-being” (United Na... Read More about Technologies for analysing and improving healthcare processes.

Learning technologies for learning in health and well-being (2020)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. (2020). Learning technologies for learning in health and well-being. In P. Gökcin Özuyar, W. Leal Filho, T. Wall, A. Marisa Azul, & L. Brandli (Eds.), Good Health and Well-Being. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95681-7

The United Nations (U.N.) Sustainable Goal 3, for healthy lives and promoting well-being, notes that 45% of all countries have less than one physician per 1000 people, that figure rising to 90% for less developed countries (United Nations, 2018). Giv... Read More about Learning technologies for learning in health and well-being.

Emerging challenges for HCI : enabling effective use of VR in education and training (2020)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N., & Brayshaw, M. (2020). Emerging challenges for HCI : enabling effective use of VR in education and training. In L. Bozgeyikli, & R. Bozgeyikli (Eds.), Virtual reality : recent advancements, applications and challenges. Gistrup, Denmark: River Publishers

This chapter considers some of the challenges in providing effective virtual reality (VR) environments for teaching and training, where users are encouraged and enabled to be truly engaged in their learning. One approach is to use inquiry-based learn... Read More about Emerging challenges for HCI : enabling effective use of VR in education and training.

A hybrid evaluation approach and guidance for mHealth education applications (2017)
Book Chapter
Aljaber, T., & Gordon, N. (2018). A hybrid evaluation approach and guidance for mHealth education applications. In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Advances in Usability and User Experience (282-290). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60492-3_27

© Springer International Publishing AG 2018. Mobile health education applications (MHEAs) are used to support different users. However, although these applications are increasing in number, there is no effective evaluation framework to measure their... Read More about A hybrid evaluation approach and guidance for mHealth education applications.

A guidance and evaluation approach for mHealth education applications (2017)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N., & Aljaber, T. (2017). A guidance and evaluation approach for mHealth education applications. In Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Technology in Education; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (330-340). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58515-4_26

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. A growing number of mobile applications for health education are being utilized to support different stakeholders, from health professionals to software developers to patients and more general users. There... Read More about A guidance and evaluation approach for mHealth education applications.

Requirements capture analysis for MOOCS in higher education (2015)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. A., & Brayshaw, M. (2015). Requirements capture analysis for MOOCS in higher education. In A. Mesquita, & P. Peres (Eds.), Furthering Higher Education Possibilities through Massive Open Online Courses (107-125). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8279-5.ch005

One of the attention grabbing headlines in the last two years has been of hundreds of thousands of students enrolling on MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) that are being offered by some of the world's top Universities. Large numbers of students are... Read More about Requirements capture analysis for MOOCS in higher education.

Motivating and engagaging students through technology (2015)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N., Grey, S., & Brayshaw, M. (2015). Motivating and engagaging students through technology. In J. Hawkins (Ed.), Student Engagement: Leadership Practices, Perspectives and Impact of Technology (25-43). Nova Science Publishers

© 2015 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. This chapter will consider what we mean by student engagement, and how students may be motivated through appropriate pedagogy - that is through teaching approaches and related assessment. We will focus in particul... Read More about Motivating and engagaging students through technology.

Sustainable development as a framework for ethics and skills in higher education computing courses (2014)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. (2015). Sustainable development as a framework for ethics and skills in higher education computing courses. In W. Leal Filho, L. Brandli, O. Kuznetsova, & A. Maria Finisterra do Paço (Eds.), Integrative Approaches to Sustainable Development at University Level (345-357). Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10690-8_24

The impact of sustainable development on the curriculum remains variable, and in some disciplines the inclusion is considered by some to be inappropriate or not relevant. This paper considers the ways in which sustainable development can be embedded... Read More about Sustainable development as a framework for ethics and skills in higher education computing courses.

Technology-enhanced learning in higher education: Tribes and territories (2014)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N., & Brayshaw, M. (2014). Technology-enhanced learning in higher education: Tribes and territories. In V. Zuzevičiūtė, E. Butrimė, D. Vitkutė-Adžgauskienė, V. V. Fomin, & K. Kikis-Papadakis (Eds.), E-Learning as a Socio-Cultural System: A Multidimensional Analysis (224-236). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6154-7.ch013

© 2014 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. This chapter explores issues that affect the uptake and integration of Technology in Higher Education, developing a framework to overcome some of the barriers. Technological adoption varies across discipline... Read More about Technology-enhanced learning in higher education: Tribes and territories.

Safety Analysis of a Remote Patient Monitoring System with a Guideline Based Decision Support (2013)
Book Chapter
Al-Qora'n, L., Sharvia, S., Papadopoulos, Y., & Gordon, N. (2013). Safety Analysis of a Remote Patient Monitoring System with a Guideline Based Decision Support. In Global Telemedicine and eHealth Updates: Knowledge Resources (527 - 531). International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth

Home Telehealth systems are used to help in the management of chronic conditions by patients themselves. Effective safety analysis tools are needed to ensure reliability and safety of these high risk systems. We hereby explain how Hierarchically-Perf... Read More about Safety Analysis of a Remote Patient Monitoring System with a Guideline Based Decision Support.

E-services and the digital divide: The role of tertiary education in improving public engagement and trust in e-delivery of services (2010)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. A. (2010). E-services and the digital divide: The role of tertiary education in improving public engagement and trust in e-delivery of services. In Handbook of Research on E-Services in the Public Sector: E-Government Strategies and Advancements (244-250). Information Science Reference. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-789-3.ch019

This chapter considers aspects relating to the role of tertiary (i.e. higher) education in improving the engagement of the public with government provided E-services. Some of the issues considered include those of tackling the digital divide - which... Read More about E-services and the digital divide: The role of tertiary education in improving public engagement and trust in e-delivery of services.

Enabling personalised learning through formative and summative assessment (2009)
Book Chapter
Gordon, N. A. (2009). Enabling personalised learning through formative and summative assessment. In Technology-Supported Environments for Personalized Learning: Methods and Case Studies (268-284). Information Science Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-884-0.ch015

This chapter considers some ways in which personalised learning can potentially be delivered by means of appropriate assessment and the use of associated technologies. Recognising that for many students, learning is driven by summative assessment, th... Read More about Enabling personalised learning through formative and summative assessment.