Adj Assoc Prof John Hurst - Researcher Profile

Biography

John Hurst is an adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology.

Related Links:

• John Hurst's Research homepage

Research & Supervision Interests

• Computer Education Exploring issues in making the learning process for computing and IT students more effective and efficient.

  • Judy Sheard and I have teamed up with Silvia Edwards and Peter O'Shea at QUT for a project entitled "Changing the Culture of Teaching and Learning in ICT and Engineering: Facilitating Research Professors to be T&L Leaders". This has been funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council ($530K over 2.5 years).

  • PIAVEE has moved on. It is being re-engineered into a new system IVEE. IVEE (short for IntelliVEE, or Intelligent Virtual Educational Environment) is characterized by a more open approach to indexing, and uses the IBM UIMA framework to achieve this. It also uses a lightweight web browser client architecture, rather than PIAVEE's heavy native code clients. A new website is being constructed.

  • Check this on-line, dynamic publication database of all CERG publications.

  • PIAVEE Platform Independent Agent-based Virtual Educational Environment. Making development and dissemination of on-line course materials hassle-free.

  • ICTEd Project An AUTC-funded project to explore and disseminate innovative and/or best practice teaching in Information and Communications Technology.

• Document Technologies XML and Stuff. These web pages that you are reading now are rendered dynamically from XML sources using a custom-built cgi script. You can read about the Python cgi script as a literate program.

• Literate Programming: See the separate web page for more detail.

• Persistent Programming
• Formal Specification
• Computer Systems

Keywords

Computing education, Document processing, Document technologies, Literate programming, Web technologies

Qualifications

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

PHD

Institution: University of New South Wales

Year awarded: 1976

ENGINEERING

Institution: University of Adelaide

Year awarded: 1970

SCIENCE

Institution: University of Adelaide

Year awarded: 1969

Publications

Books

Hurst, A.J. (ed), 1997, The Proceedings of the Second Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, ACM, New York NY USA.

Doran, M., Hurst, A.J., 1997, The footy pool software system, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Boondao, R., Hurst, A.J., Sheard, J.I., 2012, Cultural influences on personalized e-learning systems, in Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, eds Norbert M Seel, Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 874-875.

Journal Articles

Sheard, J.I., Carbone, A., Hurst, A.J., 2010, Student engagement in first year of an ICT degree: Staff and student perceptions, Computer Science Education [P], vol 20, issue 1, Routledge, Oxford UK, pp. 1-16.

Boondao, R., Hurst, J., Sheard, J.I., 2009, Understanding cultural influences: Principles for personalized e-learning systems, International Journal of Behavioral, Cognitive, Educ..., vol 1, issue 1, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Paris France, pp. 66-70.

Sheard, J.I., Ceddia, J.D., Hurst, J., Tuovinen, J., 2003, Determining website usage time from interactions: data preparation and analysis, Journal of Educational Technology Systems, vol 32, issue 1, Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., Amityville USA, pp. 101-121.

Sheard, J.I., Ceddia, J.D., Hurst, J., Tuovinen, J., 2003, Inferring student learning behaviour from website interactions: a usage analysis, Education and Information Technologies, vol 8, issue 3, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell USA, pp. 245-266.

Conference Proceedings

Firmin, S., Sheard, J.I., Carbone, A., Hurst, A.J., 2012, An exploration of factors influencing tertiary IT educators' pedagogies, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference, 31 January 2012 to 03 February 2012, Australian Computer Society, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 157-166.

Markham, S.J., Krishnaswamy, S., Hurst, A.J., Cunningham, S., Gillick, B.J., 2011, The human dimension in implementing educational technology, Proceedings of Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011, 28 March 2011 to 01 April 2011, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Chesapeake VA USA, pp. 174-179.

Goncu, C., Marriott, K.G., Hurst, A.J., 2010, Usability of accessible bar charts, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Diagrams: Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, 9 August 2010 to 11 August 2010, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 167-181.

Krishnaswamy, S., Markham, S.J., Hurst, A.J., Cunningham, S., Saeedzadeh, B., Gillick, B.J., Labbe, C., 2010, iCALT: Intelligent context-aware learning and teaching environment, Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 05 July 2010 to 07 July 2010, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 352-354.

Carbone, A., Hurst, A.J., Mitchell, I.J., Gunstone, R., 2009, An exploration of internal factors influencing student learning of programming, Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Computing Education Conference, 19 January 2009 to 23 January 2009, Australian Computer Society Inc, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 25-34.

Sheard, J.I., Carbone, A., Markham, S.J., Hurst, A.J., Casey, D.P., Avram, C.P., 2008, Performance and progression of first year ICT students, Proceedings of the Tenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2008), 22 January 2008 to 25 January 2008, Australian Computer Society Inc., Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 119-127.

Chhetri, M.B., Krishnaswamy, S., Markham, S.J., Hurst, A.J., Casey, D.P., 2004, An agent supported virtual educational environment, Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services, 27 September 2004 to 29 September 2004, Austrian Computer Society, Indonesia, pp. 603-612.

Krishnaswamy, S., Markham, S.J., Chhetri, M.B., Hurst, A.J., Casey, D.P., 2004, PIAVEE - a pedagogy-independent education environment, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 30 August 2004 to 01 September 2004, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 440-444.

Krishnaswamy, S., Markham, S.J., Chhetri, M.B., Hurst, A.J., Casey, D.P., 2004, Pedagogical views of a virtual educational system, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education 2004, 30 November 2004 to 03 December 2004, Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd, Altona Vic Australia, pp. 1293-1298.

Carbone, A., Mitchell, I., Gunstone, D., Hurst J., 2002, Designing programming tasks to elicit self-management metacognitive behaviour, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education, 03 December 2002 to 06 December 2002, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 533-534.

Sheard, J., Miller, J., Ramakrishnan, S., Hurst, J., 2002, Student satisfaction with a web-based anonymous feedback system, AusWeb02: The Web Enabled Global Villiage: Proceedings of AusWeb02: The Eighth Australian World Wide Web Conference, 05 July 2002 to 10 July 2002, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW Australia, pp. 405-415.

Carbone, A., Hurst J., Mitchell, I.W., Gunstone, D., 2001, Characteristics of programming exercises that lead to poor learning tendencies: Part II, Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 25 June 2001 to 27 June 2001, ACM Order Department, New York NY USA, pp. 93-96.

Sheard, J., Postema, M., Markham, S., Hurst, J.J., 2001, Time versus utility: what IT staff say about the educational use of the Web, Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, 25 June 2001 to 30 June 2001, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Norfolk USA, pp. 1705-1711.

Carbone, A., Hurst, A.J., Mitchell, I., Gunstone, R., 2000, Principles for Designing Programming Exercises to Minimise Poor Learning Behaviours in Students, The Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2000), Melbourne VIC Australia, 4-6 December 2000, The Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 26-33.

Carbone, A., Hurst, A.J., Mitchell, I., Gunstone, D., 1999, The Student Learning Experience: Characteristics of Programming Tasks that Lead to the Poor Learning Behaviours, 1999 HERDSA Annual International Conference, Melbourne VIC, 12-15 July 1999, p. 45.

Lin, H., Hurst, A.J., 1998, Ambiguities in Napier88 Expressions, The Fifth IDEA International Workshop, Fremantle WA, 7-10 February 1998, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 98-105.

Hurst, A.J., 1997, The Monash Napier compiler(s), The Fourth IDEA International Workshop, Magnetic Island Australia, 17-20 May 1997, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 44-46.

Other

Hurst, A.J., Markham, S.J., Carbone, A., Eley, M.G., Ellis, A.E., Lynch, K.E., Munro, J., Sheard, J.I., Tuovinen, J.E., 2005, AUTC ICTEd Project - Stage 2 Report, Australian University Teaching Committee (AUTC), Australia, pp. 1-23.

Hurst, A.J., 2004, MonAtar: The Monash Unit Description Avatar, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (ANCE), Norfolk USA, pp. 93-101.

Lynch, J., Collins, F.E., Hurst, A.J., 2002, Teaching ICT: The ICT-ED Project.

Hurst, A.J., Carbone, A., Eley, M.G., Ellis, A.E., Hagan, D.L., Markham, S.J., Sheard, J.I., Tuovinen, J.E., Lynch, J., Collins, F.E., 2001, Teaching ICT - The ICT-Ed Project - The report on learning outcomes and curriculm development in major university disciplines in information and communication technology, Commonwealth of Australia, Australia, pp. 1-186.

Hurst, A.J., 1998, Millenium Bug, Channel 7 Today/Tonight, Channel 7, Vic Australia.

Grants

Title:

Distributed Systems & Software Engineering Centre.

Investigators:

Abramson, D, Rosenberg, J, Hurst, A, Mingins, C, Meyer, B, Hassan, M, Tari, Z, McKemmish, S

Funding:

(1998 - 1999). Monash University.

Title:

The culture of teaching and learning in ICT & engineering: Facilitating research professors to be T&L Leaders.

Investigators:

Hurst, A

Funding:

(2009 - 2013). Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Completed Supervision

Student:

Carbone, A.

Program of Study:

Principles for desiging programming tasks: how task characteristics influence student learning of programming. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Mitchell, I (Main), Hurst, A (Associate).

Student:

Doube, P.

Program of Study:

Multimedia and motivation in the learning of introductory computer programming. (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Hurst, A (Main).

Student:

Goncu, C.

Program of Study:

GraVVITAS: accessible graphics for visually impaired people. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Marriott, K (Main), Hurst, A (Associate).

Student:

Kao, S.

Program of Study:

Transformation of Free Form Text to Structural Text. (Masters) 2004.

Supervisors:

Hurst, A (Main), Zukerman, I (Associate).

Student:

Miller, J.

Program of Study:

Diffusion of innovation in computer science education: a case study in Thailand. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Prpic, J (Main), Hurst, A (Associate).

Student:

Patterson, A.

Program of Study:

TOOL SUPPORT FOR INTRODUCTORY SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION. (PHD) 2002.

Supervisors:

Rosenberg, J (Main), Hurst, A (Associate), Kolling, M (Associate).

Student:

Sheard, J.

Program of Study:

An investigation of student behaviour in web-based learning environments. (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Hurst, A (Main), Fisher, J (Associate).