College-based case studies in using PowerPoint effectively

Using PowerPoint.

PowerPoint is a very flexible program and, for the most part, there is no right and wrong way to do things. Views expressed here are those of the authors and the methods used have been tried and tested. There are three articles in the series. The first article looks at the design issues that need to be considered when preparing a PowerPoint presentation. The second article will concentrate on t...

Using concept mapping principles in PowerPoint.

The use of linear PowerPoint templates to support lectures may inadvertently encourage dental students to adopt a passive approach to learning and a narrow appreciation of the field of study. Such presentations may support short-term learning gains and validate assessment regimes that promote surface learning approaches at the expense of developing a wider appreciation of the field that is nece...

KAIO: MULTIMODAL DISCUSSION (POWERPOINT ORAL PRESENTATION) PowerPoint

Using Case Studies in Research

Case study as a research strategy often emerges as an obvious option for students and other new researchers who are seeking to undertake a modest scale research project based on their workplace or the comparison of a limited number of organisations. The most challenging aspect of the application of case study research in this context is to lift the investigation from a descriptive account of ‘w...

Effectively Testing of Timed Composite Systems using Test Case Prioritization

A composite system consists of several components which can be developed separately and deployed in distributed environments. Executing test cases on such kind of systems requires more effort due to their size and their distributed environments. A critical issue is to prioritize efficient test cases to be firstly executed. We present in this paper a framework to generate test cases and to selec...