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Otago Biodiversity Data Management Project Part 2: A Qualitative Report
When a life scientist pointed to a pile of unpublished, uncatalogued reports, stacked untidily on the floor of his office, he unwittingly started a series of conversations that were to bring the Library and many researchers ...
Troubling plagiarism: University students' understandings of plagiarism
In this thesis, I report on a doctoral study that examined undergraduate university students’ understandings of plagiarism. The thesis addresses a gap in the existing plagiarism research since much of the literature on ...
The impact of the VERT virtual reality system on teaching and learning associated with radiation therapy planning skills in the second year of the Bachelor of Radiation Therapy
The Department of Radiation Therapy, University of Otago Wellington recently acquired VERT, an immersive, virtual reality, radiation therapy simulation-based training system. The department has been integrating the system ...
Reflecting on Culture in Medicine: Second-year medical students' online discussions
This thesis reports on a qualitative study of the role of reflection in the development of second year medical students’ intercultural competence. Reflective capacity is an important professional competency and is crucial ...
Experiences of critical thinking, critical action and critical being in health science tutorials
Critical thinking remains one of the most debated topics in higher education. On the premise that graduates still leave higher education with limited thinking skills and that critical thinking concepts are now diffuse and ...
Cultivating student thinking and values in medical education: What teachers do, how they do it and who they are
As part of their medical education, a student medic needs to develop the thinking and values essential to practice. This is so they can be the best doctor that they are able: to serve their clients, their profession and ...
Robert Gibbings (1889-1958): An Inventory of his Work in Special Collections, University of Otago
Irish-born Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was an incredibly talented artist, engraver, and author. He traveled widely and spent a lot of time in the South Pacific; he even visited Dunedin in the 1940s. Special Collections at ...
The misalignment between the expectations of fashion students, fashion tertiary educators, and the fashion industry
What motivates students to study fashion design? What employment opportunities are there in the fashion design industry for fashion graduates? These are some of the core questions raised in this thesis. Fashion design ...
Census of Alexander Shaw's Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth in the three voyages of Captain Cook to the Southern Hemisphere, 1787 (2015)
This is an attempt to corral all known copies of Alexander Shaw's Tapa Cloth book (1787) held in institutions around the world.
My main objective was to track down institutional copies of Shaw’s work so that scholars ...
Developing Critical Thinkers in Higher Education: A Vygotskian Perspective
Despite critical thinking being an avowed aim of higher education, we currently have little understanding of how students develop as critical thinkers.
This qualitative study focused on the in-depth learning experiences ...