David Parsons

The Software Developer Cycle: Career demographics and the market clock

2015

The software development community includes people from a wide spectrum of age and experience. While the industry itself is constantly evolving with new languages, tools and methods, developers themselves are advancing through their careers. A …

A Theory-ology of mobile learning : operationalizing learning theories with mobile activities

2016 · Unitec Research Bank (Unitec Institute of Technology)

Theory is often neglected when planning and analysing mobile learning projects, beyond perhaps a brief but unexamined list of learning theories in the introductions to articles.
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\nTheory is, however, important since it underpins the expectations of …

Mobile Participatory Simulation of COVID-19 Transmission Using the micro:bit

2021

This article reports on a study that used micro:bits to create a mobile participatory simulation of COVID-19 infection. It outlines the motivations, design and implementation of the simulation as well as providing some reflections on …