Bruce L. Mann

Bruce L. Mann is a Professor of Educational Technology and Technology Law at Memorial University. Previously he was a Visiting Research Professor in the Faculty of Science at Memorial, a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at McGill University, and a Visiting Fellow in the School of Interactive Multimedia at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. Professor Mann is interested in how auditory cues focus human attention on competing tasks required in interactive programs and online services such as cybersecurity training, active reading tutors, and online dispute resolution. His research on speech cueing in multimedia has been cited in many textbooks and journals. His first book, Perspectives in Web Course Management, was well-received.

Publications

Lawful Trojan Horse
Lawful Trojan Horse
Bruce L. Mann. © 2022. 28 pages.
News outlets don't usually report on training methods in counter-cyberterrorism, particularly lawful trojan attacks. Instead they describe recent cyberterrorist attacks, or...
Delete, Delete, Hang-Up: On Social Media
Delete, Delete, Hang-Up: On Social Media
Bruce L. Mann. © 2022. 18 pages.
Whereas most members of social media are enthusiastically exercising their legal right to express themselves freely, some seem unwilling or incapable of assessing the high risk...
Attitude Training for Police Cadets: Addressing the Problem of Arresting Suspects With a Mental Illness
Attitude Training for Police Cadets: Addressing the Problem of Arresting Suspects With a Mental Illness
Bruce L. Mann. © 2021. 17 pages.
The news has not been good for mental health training programs for police in Australia, Canada, the U.S., and the UK. Police training is seen as inadequate to prepare police...
Applying Internet Laws and Regulations to Educational Technology
Applying Internet Laws and Regulations to Educational Technology
Bruce L. Mann. © 2020. 232 pages.
In today’s modernized society, the use of technology continues to expand rapidly. It has specifically been implemented heavily in educational environments with educators adopting...
Sustained Learning in 4th and 5th Graders but not 7th Graders: Two Experiments with a Talking Pedagogical Agent
Sustained Learning in 4th and 5th Graders but not 7th Graders: Two Experiments with a Talking Pedagogical Agent
Bruce L. Mann, Henry Schulz, Jianping Cui, Shannon Adams. © 2012. 28 pages.
In this chapter, agent movement and temporal speech cueing were designated for empirical study. In Experiment 1 an agent presented students in grades 4 and 5 (n = 133) with...
Speech Cueing on the Web by ‘The Little Dude’: Multimedia Instruction for Young Children
Speech Cueing on the Web by ‘The Little Dude’: Multimedia Instruction for Young Children
Bruce L. Mann, Henry Schulz, Jianping Cui. © 2012. 13 pages.
There is a real need for studies on learning from multimedia with school-age children, even pre-school children. In this research, temporal speech cueing was proposed to help...
Action Research with Internet Database Tools
Action Research with Internet Database Tools
Bruce L. Mann. © 2009. 9 pages.
This chapter will discuss and present examples of Internet database tools, typical instructional methods used with the tools, and implications for Internet-supported action...
Action Research with Internet Database Tools
Action Research with Internet Database Tools
Bruce L. Mann. © 2009. 20 pages.
This chapter will discuss and present examples of Internet database tools, typical instructional methods used with the tools, and implications for Internet-supported action...
Virtual Ethnography and Discourse Analysis
Virtual Ethnography and Discourse Analysis
Bruce L. Mann. © 2008. 12 pages.
This chapter will discuss “virtual ethnography” and how it is supported and shaped by Internet technology.
Selected Styles in Web-Based Educational Research
Selected Styles in Web-Based Educational Research
Bruce Mann. © 2006. 490 pages.
Selected Styles in Web-Based Educational Research is concerned with the most common research styles in Web-based teaching or learning. It is intended for practitioners, educators...
Testing the Validity of the Post and Vote Model of Web-Based Peer Assessment
Testing the Validity of the Post and Vote Model of Web-Based Peer Assessment
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 22 pages.
Two tests of validity were conducted with undergraduate education students on a method of online peer assessment called post and vote. Validity was determined by calculating a...
Research Styles and the Internet
Research Styles and the Internet
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 10 pages.
This chapter aims to encourage you to write about your own online research interests. Two types of research are covered here, idea-based research (IBR) which usually takes the...
Research on Educational Technology Policy in the United States, Australia, Canada and the European Union
Research on Educational Technology Policy in the United States, Australia, Canada and the European Union
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 24 pages.
This chapter aims to show that educational policy issues can influence a researcher’s choices in conducting his or her research on educational technology. General statements from...
Technology Adoption and the Internet
Technology Adoption and the Internet
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 16 pages.
Technology adoption has been a popular research style among educational leaders since the mid-1970s. This chapter is an introduction to research on a few technology adoption...
Case Study Research and Online Learning: Types, Typologies, and Thesis Research
Case Study Research and Online Learning: Types, Typologies, and Thesis Research
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 11 pages.
As a research methodology, case study is very popular among researchers doing investigations of Internet-supported teaching and learning. This chapter will discuss considerations...
An Intrinsic, Quantitative Case Study of WebCT Developers
An Intrinsic, Quantitative Case Study of WebCT Developers
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 10 pages.
An intrinsic case study investigated the claim that distance educators at an Eastern Canadian college (n = 17) with some knowledge of instructional design but a limited technical...
Action Research with Internet Communications Tools
Action Research with Internet Communications Tools
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 16 pages.
This chapter will present some examples of Internet communication tools, instructional methods used with the tools, and implications for Internet-supported action research as a...
Action Research with Internet Database Tools
Action Research with Internet Database Tools
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 11 pages.
This chapter will discuss and present examples of Internet database tools, typical instructional methods used with the tools, and implications for Internet-supported action...
Conducting Formative Evaluations of Online Instructional Materials
Conducting Formative Evaluations of Online Instructional Materials
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 12 pages.
Although most online instructional material probably will never see a formative evaluator, most online get some vetting by an expert in a quality review (a Stage 1). This chapter...
Experimental Research and the Internet
Experimental Research and the Internet
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 22 pages.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s experimental research played a major role in audio-visual research and development (Reiser, 1987, 2002). Experiments were published on the effects...
Effects of Anonymity and Accountability During Online Peer Assessment
Effects of Anonymity and Accountability During Online Peer Assessment
Gunita Wadhwa, Henry Schulz, Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 32 pages.
A 2´2 experiment was conducted to determine the effects of anonymity (anonymous vs. named) and peer-accountability (more-accountable vs. less-accountable) on peer over-marking...
Can Seventh Graders Learn Fractions from a Web-Based Pedagogical Agent? Using Comparison Groups Thre Times Over Several Weeks
Can Seventh Graders Learn Fractions from a Web-Based Pedagogical Agent? Using Comparison Groups Thre Times Over Several Weeks
Shannon Adams, Bruce L. Mann, Henry Schulz. © 2006. 15 pages.
In this study, a Web-based pedagogical agent presented 7th grade students (n = 91) with examples and practice questions involving the multiplication and division of fractions....
Conducting Qualitative Educational Research on the Internet
Conducting Qualitative Educational Research on the Internet
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 10 pages.
“Qualitative research” is sometimes juxtaposed against “quantitative research,” other times against experimental research The view taken in this chapter is that students should...
Virtual Ethnography and Discourse Analysis
Virtual Ethnography and Discourse Analysis
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 18 pages.
This chapter will discuss “virtual ethnography” and how it is supported and shaped by Internet technology.
Correlations Research and the Internet
Correlations Research and the Internet
Bruce L. Mann. © 2006. 10 pages.
This chapter will discuss correlation of online data as a statistical technique to show significance and strength of agreement, and those times when percentiles or even raw data...