Ursula Armitage
Position: Research Student
Email: u.armitage@city.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7040 4126
Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8859
Room: E523
Biography
Ursula joined the Centre as a PhD student in October 2001. She is supervised by Steph Wilson and Helen Sharp. Her PhD topic concerns navigational design issues in educational electronic texts and she is currently undertaking experimental studies to investigate this. She graduated from the University of Leeds in 2000 with a BSc in Cognitive Science. After graduating she worked as an analyst in a management consultancy for six months, and then went on to do contract work until starting the PhD.
Key publications
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Armitage, U., Sharp, H. and Wilson, S. (2004). Navigation and Ownership for Learning in Electronic Texts: An Experimental Study. Electronic Journal on e-Learning, Vol 2,1, p19-30. Available Online.
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Armitage, U., Wilson, S and Sharp, H. (2004). Can Creating Navigation Aids Benefit Learning with Electronic Texts? To appear in International Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE).
Armitage, U., Wilson, S and Sharp, H. (2004). Navigational freedom and Knowledge Development in Electronic Texts. Presented at ED-MEDIA 2004, Lugano, Switzerland. AACE. p991-998.
Armitage, U, Wilson, S and Sharp, H. (2004). Learner Created Contents Lists in Educational Electronic Texts: An Experimental study. Presented at ED-MEDIA 2004, Lugano, Switzerland. AACE. p985-990.
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Armitage, U., Wilson, S. and Sharp, H. (2003). The Effects of Navigation Aids on Ownership for Learning with Electronic Texts. European Conference on E-Learning, 2003, w.w.associates, Glasgow, UK, p47-58.