User:Nesbit

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This user comes from British Columbia.
This user comes from Vancouver.
This user is left-handed.
This user is skeptical of MBTI, regarding it as pseudoscience.
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John C. Nesbit is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, where he specializes in the fields of educational psychology and educational technology. His primary research interests are self-regulated learning with multimedia, evaluation of multimedia learning resources, and methods for analyzing learner interactions with multimedia. He is an avid wikipedian, has published 20 journal articles, 4 book chapters, and over 20 peer-reviewed conference papers. Nesbit is a co-investigator in the Learning Kit project funded by the Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Among other projects, he is currently using eye-movement data to study how learners read concept maps. His Erdős number is 6.

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[edit] Why I do Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an excellent example of how knowledge can be socially constructed. The editing and discussion tools constitute a collaborative knowledge building environment that stands as an alternative model to threaded asynchronous conferences, collaborative annotation systems, blogs, and software development systems.

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