Variability in the use of mobile ICTs by homeworkers and its consequences for boundary management and social isolation by Donald Hislop, Carolyn Axtell, Alison Collins, Kevin Daniels, Jane Glover, Karen Niven

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‘Credit where credit’s due’: encouraging and rewarding self directed learning through technology homework by Andrew R. Hine, Jonathan Pine

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The demand for labour in a textile local labour market with particular reference to twilight workers and homeworkers by Kathleen Wray

“…The demand for twilight workers and homeworkers is an under-researched area, while the appropriateness of the segmented labour market model is open to questioning. …”
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"We are not working at home, but are at home, during a pandemic, attempting to work”: Exploring experiences of homeworking and work-life balance during the Covid-19 crisis by Cheryl Travers, Karen Maher, Gail Kinman, Nicola Bateman

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Social support in the workplace between teleworkers, office-based colleagues and supervisors by Alison Collins, Donald Hislop, Susan Cartwright

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Association of after school sedentary behaviour in adolescence with mental wellbeing in adulthood by Mark Hamer, Thomas E. Yates, Lauren Sherar, Stacy Clemes, Aparna Shankar

“…We investigated the association between after-school sedentary behaviours (screen time and homework) in adolescence with mental wellbeing in adulthood when participants were aged 42.Participants (n=2038, 59.2% female) were drawn from The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). …”
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Individual and group work with nonstandard problems in an ordinary differential equations course for engineering students by Svitlana Rogovchenko, Yuriy Rogovchenko, Stephanie Thomas

“…Students presented three sets of solutions: individual solutions produced in the first tutorial, individual solutions submitted as a homework, and solutions submitted after the discussion with peers in small groups during the second tutorial. …”
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In pursuit of a ‘Whole Brain’ approach to undergraduate teaching: implications of the Herrmann brain dominance model by Mathew Hughes, Paul Hughes, Ian Hodgkinson

“…Drawing on the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument and the theory of ‘whole-brain’ teaching, we find a suite of teaching methodologies that are generic across learning styles—tutorials, group work, firm-oriented case studies, game playing, reading journal papers, handouts, PowerPoint slides, in-class examples, in-class short exercises, and videos—and find a group of teaching methodologies—lectures, seminars, people-oriented case studies, creative problem-solving, reading textbooks, guest speakers, in-class small group exercises, homework, role play, problem-based learning, self-directed learning, project-based learning, and class debates—that target and develop specific learning styles. …”
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Making the most of pre-class assignments by Pablo Ballesteros-Perez, M. Carmen Carmen Gonzalez-Cruz, Adrian Tagg, Daniel Mora-Melia

“…However, getting the students to read and work on their assignments is easier said than done, and many lecturers feel compelled to set in-class tests and quizzes in order to lure the students to fulfil their homework tasks. However, in-class tests and quizzes are also time-expensive, both inside and outside the classroom, and they are not exempt of other disadvantages. …”
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Context specific associations of physical activity and sedentary behaviour with cognition in children by Daniel Aggio, Lee Smith, Abigail Fisher, Mark Hamer

“…Sports/physical activity club attendance (B 0.6; 95% CI 0.2, 1.1), homework (B 0.5; 95% CI 0.0, 0.9) and objectively measured sedentary time (B 0.8; 95% CI 0.1, 1.4) at age 7 were positively associated with cognition at age 11 in final models. …”
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Experiments with electronic examinations over the Internet by Pete Thomas, Blaine Price, Marian Petre, Linda Carswell, Mike Richards

“…The UK’s Open University (OU) has been using the Internet on a regular basis for transporting student assignments (homework) between student, tutor and the university. …”
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“Is this a new dawn for accessibility?” A qualitative interview study assessing teleworking experiences in adults with physical disabilities post Covid-19 by Betsy Lake, David Maidment

“…However, the importance of choice to work in-office, of implementing additional physical and virtual work adjustments, and of flexible work patterns to remove barriers to accessibility when homeworking was emphasised. Active efforts by employers to create an inclusive and flexible work culture were identified as crucial to ensure that integration and professional development of employees with disabilities, understanding of disability experience, and normalisation of accessibility needs are not diminished by the decreased visibility incurred by teleworking. …”
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Supplementary information file for “Is this a new dawn for accessibility?” A qualitative interview study assessing teleworking experiences in adults with physical disabilities post... by Betsy Lake, David Maidment

“…However, the importance of choice to work in-office, of implementing additional physical and virtual work adjustments, and of flexible work patterns to remove barriers to accessibility when homeworking was emphasised. Active efforts by employers to create an inclusive and flexible work culture were identified as crucial to ensure that integration and professional development of employees with disabilities, understanding of disability experience, and normalisation of accessibility needs are not diminished by the decreased visibility incurred by teleworking. …”
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