Book Review: Learner-Centered Pedagogy: Principles and Practice

Book review for “Orthognathic Surgery: Principles, Planning and Practice”

Editorial Recently, my close friend, Farhad Naini (London, UK), published a textbook entitled “Orthognathic Surgery: Principles, Planning and Practice” [1]. Though there have been many textbooks for orthognathic surgery, this textbook is unique. There are 61 chapters and 95 contributing authors. The book begins with a wonderful introductory chapter on the historical background of orthognathic s...

Learner-centered Technical Review in Programming Courses

In this paper, our experience in developing learner-centered technical review techniques in programming courses is described. To better serve educational purposes, our learner-centered technical reviews define review artifact, review outcomes, expectation and format, etc according to the levels of programming course. Our learner-centered technical reviews have been proven to be very effective i...

Applying Learner-Centered Design Principles to UML Sequence Diagrams

The Unified Modeling Language has been shown to be complex and difficult to learn. The difficulty of learning to build the individual diagrams in the UML, however, has received scant attention. In this paper, we consider the case of the UML sequence diagram. Despite the fact that these diagrams are among the most frequently used in practice, they are difficult to learn to build. In this paper, ...

Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education (Book Review)

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Book Review: Computer Forensics: Principles and Practices