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E-mail:boydg@vax2.concordia.ca
Address: Education Department, LB-579, Concordia University,
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Dr. Gary McIntyre Boyd is Professor of Education, Liaison Director
Educational Technology Doctoral Programme, and co-director with Dr. Vladimir
Zeman of the Centre for System Research and Knowledge Engineering at Concordia
University, Montreal Canada. also Associate Director Academic Liaison
AudioVisual Dept.  LANGUAGES
1.1 Collaborative Cybersystemic Modelling as an R & D strategy. The main thrust of my research and graduate teaching has been and is, to argue for and demonstrate the value of prescriptive, discursively collaborative cybersystemic modelling as a research and development strategy for Educational Technology viewed as a "Science of the Artificial" -akin to Architecture, Engineering, clinical-psychology, and management. Significance in terms of influence: There are two target audiences a) My practical concerns here have been the importance of flexible access, and of aesthetics, of guidance, and of learner-interaction in successful distance education operations. Theoretically, my work indicates that distance researchers and higher education curriculumn developers, and b) Developmental researchers and change-agents working with socio-technical educative systems to improve human performance and satisfaction. I was invited by the International Society for System Science, and their editor Tom Mandel to contribute to their forthcoming primer for educating people about systems science. <http://www.newciv.org/ISSS_Primer/cybersys.html > This I have done from time to time over the past two years. Also my educational cybernetics website has been linked by several other educational websites in this field. In the past decade this evolving cybersystemic theory has been tested modified and validated by over three hundred Ed. Tech graduate students who have used it to model instructional and educational systems in which they have been actors. In particular, a number of my former students have reported successfully using versions of my cybersystemic modelling approach, in their consulting and development work in CEGEPS, at CN, at CAE/Canadair, in the Malaysian Educational Broadcasting system, etc. Publications: The prescriptive collaborative cybersystemic modelling methodology is explained, and examples of first-cut modelling exercise by various students are given on my Educational Cybernetics Website: <http://artsci-ccwin.concordia.ca/edtech/ETEC606/homepage.html>. Refereed Conference Proceedings Publications: 1994 Boyd, G. M. "Computer-supported Selves-in-system Modelling for Better Learning Organisations"" pp. 167-174 in Trappl, R. (Ed.)Cybernetics and Systems 94 .Singapore, World Scientific. 1992 Boyd Gary M. "Practical Emancipatory Computer-mediated Research" Proceedings of the Seventh Canadian Symposium on Instructional Technology, Montreal, May 1992. Ottawa, NRC. Canada. NATO Workshop:1992 G.M. Boyd Invited contributor of: "Computer-mediated Collaborative Organizational Development." to the NATO Workshop Sienna Italy 22-26 Sept. on Organizational Learning and Technological Change. 1.2 Distance and Flexible Learning Support Research I have been interested in and involved in distance education at SGWU and Concordia for three decades. At first in connection with telecast courses in French as a second language, and a videotaped Canadian communications course, Later I was involved with Concordia's CANAL consortium membership, and our work on the evolution of various telecourses. My work with Computer Mediated Communication for instruction started in 1971 when I used paired terminals to record live tutorials between tutors and students to asses the requisite variety requirements for an intelligent machine tutor. The results indicated that the requisite variety requirements for a successful tutor are very high indeed. The only feasible answers to this involve the use of both peer tutoring and Intelligent Agents so that students and software TOGETHER provide requisite control variety for each other. -education in cyberspace is a plausible way to provide the indefinitely large "Lebensraum" requirements for all human ethno-cultures to learn live eco-symbiotically together . Conference Proceedings publication: 1994 Boyd, G.M. "Selves-in-system modelling as a strategy for computer Supported Distance Education" 6p. in Burke T.M. (ed.)Proceedings of the Material Management Training Command Conference on Distance Education for the Canadian Military. Ottawa, DND Canada. 1.3 Electrotech Developmental Research This work is the main connection with the TL-NCE project 5.9-MILES. What is being researched is how to build electrotechnology (motors, drives, op-amps, etc)simulations and learning conversation support applications deliverable via the WWW (e.g. as part of a virtual university). (see TL-NCE <http://www.telelearn.ca/> Refereed Conference Proceedings Publications: 1992 Mulema D. Zielinska E. Boyd G. Joos J. "Reactions a l’introduction de la simulation dans les manipulations de laboratorie en electrotechnique collegial" in Sauve' L.(ed.) the Proceedings of the 1991 CIPTE Conference Magog Quebec. Quebec, Presse de L'Univ. de Quebec. 1991 Boyd G.M. Joos G. Mulema D. Zielinska I.E. " A study of Enhancements needed for more viable electronics Technologist Education "Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference ,Purdue IEEE/ASEE(1991). Recent Presentations: TL-NCE conf. November 1997 QuAtTTs ""(poster) TL-NCE conference Nov. 1996 demonstration of PIM-SIM WWW-Shockwave deliverable simulation. < http://www.article19.com/portfolio/pimsim/>1.4 Learning Community development Research (This relates to TL-NCE 5.0) A community is held together by allegiance to symbols and ritual ways of relating. Potlach communities (like science) are held together by the ritual of ceremoniously but freely giving your best ideas, and best criticisms, to the community. Trader communities are held together by the ritual of market bargaining. Religious communities are held together by liturgy etc. Communities are needed primarily to make life meaningful - they sustain the desire to go on desiring and surviving, and secondarily to make it enjoyable. Pluralistic allegiance is essential for requisite variety for long-term survival. A current and historically recurrent problem is that one community, in the present case the global business community, has become excessively predominant. The challenge to educational technology is to use the new media to restore greater pluralism of communal allegiance and performance. Publications "RESEAU VIRTUEL COMMUNAUTAIRE pour les organismes de developpement de l émployabilite' et de l'aide a la recherche d émploi." 1997 Boyd, G. M. " "Distributing Real Learning Conversations With Virtual Money". Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Computers In Education of China, Shanghai, Nov. 1997. pp.97-106. Publishing House of Electronics Industry. ISBN 7-5053-4486-2. 1997 Boyd, G.M. "Bartering and Gaming for Education on the Web with Non-convertible Virtual Currency" Paper given at the I.C.D.E. conference Penn State Univ. (supposedly to be on the ICDE website version of the conference proceedings). 1996 Abrami, P. Schmid, R. Boyd, G. , EVALNET/QUEVNET a proposal for a network of educational media and projects evaluation made to SSHRC Canada. Educational Technology Graduate Programme Concordia University. 1996 Sauve' L. (ed.& translation) Boyd, G.M. & Lambert M.H. Garakani,T. Fontaine-O'Connell D. Besoins et contributions possibles des membres, SAVIE Groupe de tache 4b rapport finale. Quebec. URL <http://WWW.SAVIE.QC.CA> Workshop: 1992, CSCW92 Toronto Oct. 31 Workshop contribution: "Interdisciplinary Sustenance for Computer Supported Co-operative Work"
2.1 Multiple Perspectives strategies for Educative Systems R&D. This is a programme of theoretical work done with my Co-director of the Centre for Systems Research and Knowledge Engineering, Dr. Vladimir Zeman of the Concordia Philosophy Dept. and other members of the Centre. The fundamental idea is that of the "complementarity of multiple perspectives" inspired by Nils Bohr's complementarity (particle view and waves view) theory, combined with Ross Ashby's "law of Requisite Variety" and perspectives from Wittgenstein and Kant etc. So far, this approach to sciences of the artificial has been influential in promoting enough academic discussion at various systems conferences, to make us feel that the line of enquiry is important and worth continuing. Refereed Conference Proceedings publications: (accepted June 1995) Boyd, G. & Zeman V. "multiple Perspective co-Channel Communications as a Knowledge and Attitude Reform tool for A Sustainable Civilization" in Burkhardt H. (ed.) Proceedings of the Ryerson Conference on Knowledge Tools for a Sustainable civilisation(in press). 1994 Boyd, Gary & Zeman, Vladimir "Flexible Theoretical Coherence; the way to build more useful and evolutionary cybernetic learning-systems theory" In Lasker, G. (Ed.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Systems Research. Baden Baden, Intl. Inst. Advanced Studies in Sys. Res. & Cybernetics. 1993 Boyd, Gary "Aesthetic Critique as a Universal Knowledge Tool "pp. 174-178 in Burkhardt H. (Ed.) Universal Knowledge Tools and Their Applications., Toronto, Ryerson Univ. 1993 Boyd, Gary "Multiple Perspectives for Innovation in Learning Organisations" in Lasker G. (Ed.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Systems Research .Baden Baden, Intl. Inst. Advanced Studies in Sys.Res. & Cybernetics. 1993 Boyd, Gary & Zeman, Vladimir "Generative Concepts as Universal Knowledge Tools" pp. 60-69 in Burkhardt H. (Ed.) Universal Knowledge Tools and Their Applications, Toronto, Ryerson Univ. 1992 Zeman V. Grogono P. Mitchell P.D. Boyd G.M. " Multiple Representations in Interactive Instruction" Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Technology & Education, Paris, France March 1992. Vol.1 pp. 138-140. Austin Texas, Univ. of Texas at Austin Press. 2.2 Evolutionarily Emergent Communicontrol Levels for Explanation Design and Evaluation of Educative Cybersystems Following on the work of Mario Bunge, and Wiener & Shannon, and Ackoff & Emery, Boulding, Maslow, Bloom, and many others. I have constructed a theoretical model of the evolutionarily emergent levels system which is perhaps one of the most useful extant, for cybersystemic modelling of educational sub-systems for developmental research ventures. The influence of this work so far has largely been through presentations at conferences, through the discussions with the Dutch Systems Group, and through its use by my students. The ultimate target community is researchers and designers and developers of educational technology systems ventures. Major impacts are probably five to twenty years away. Refereed Journal Publications: (Accepted April 1997) Boyd, G.M. "The Identification of Levels of action Through the use of Stratified Computer-communications media; Towards the `THOUGHTACTORIUM'" Systemica vol. 13 (in press). (accepted May 1996) Boyd, Gary M. "Excavating the Emergent Levels of Cybersystemics, with a View to Concerted Progressive Action "Systemica vol. 12, 1, (in press). 2.3 Conversation Theory, and Intelligent Tutoring Systems. The metaphor of a conversation among learner-teachers can be extended both theoretically as a basis for Artificial-Life learning models, and practically as a basis for designing and researching people-machine system learning. I have built on my years of association with Gordon Pask and his Conversation Theory, and the variants by Mildred Shaw, Terry Winograd, and Harri-Augstein & Thomas into my own prescriptive theory for the design of learning-support systems. Pask's Conversation Theory has been theoretically and practically influential (e.g. two Festschrift special issues of international Journals have been devoted to the offspring of his work- and I contributed to both). Refereed Journal Publications:(accepted Feb. 1998 -in Press) Boyd, G.M. "Reflections On The Conversation Theory Of Gordon Pask" International Journal of Human Computer Systems. 1993 Boyd, Gary m. "Educating Symbiotic P-individuals through Multi-level Conversations" Systems Research vol. 10, pp. 113-128. 1992 Miao, Yu & Boyd, Gary M. "Conversation Theory & Second Language Lexical Acquisition" Can. Jour. Educational. Comm'ns. Vol. 21,no. 3. Winter 1992, pp. 177-193. 1992 Boyd Gary McI. & Mitchell P. David " How can Intelligent CAL Better Adapt to Learners? "Computers and Education, vol. 18. 1, 23-28.
David Goforth PhD. 1997. Asst. Prof. Computer Science Laurentian Univ.
Marcy Slapcoff 1998. International Civil Rights organization.
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