An Experiment in Clinical Teaching

Teaching 4th Graders Concepts Related to Sustainable Development: An Experiment

In order to show that some of the shortcomings of current 4th grade curriculum in meeting contemporary needs of the society, especially in regard to sustainable development, can be met via teaching, a short course consisting of deliberations on key concepts in sustainable development was designed and carried out on a sample of 58 students of both genders. The pre- and post-test comparisons reve...

An experiment in agent teaching by subject matter experts

This paper presents a successful knowledge acquisition experiment in which subject matter experts that did not have any prior knowledge engineering experience succeeded to teach the Disciple-COA agent how to critique courses of action, a challenge problem addressed by the DARPA’s High Performance Knowledge Bases program. We first present the COA challenge problem and the architecture of Discipl...

An Experiment in Teaching Database Concepts Independent of Software Platform

This paper examines Information Systems teaching, as opposed to training, in the context of a Database Concepts course. The course was developed using the IS 2002 model curriculum as a guide, with specific effort made to focus on teaching students fundamental concepts and techniques while using a branded RDBMS software package as a tool for instruction. The course was taught by the same instruc...

Learning and Teaching: An Experiment in Promoting Quality

The paper is a reflection on the experience of the development and early years of what was a unique Australian experiment to enhance the quality of learning and teaching in universities. That experiment was the development and funding of a national institute for learning and teaching in higher education, known in its later years as the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment