Designing an intermediate-level introductory legal Spanish course

Designing, implementing, and evaluating an introductory course on virtual learning in the Covid-19 pandemic era

Background & Objective: The sudden outbreak of Covid-19 affected the educational systems worldwide and highlighted the necessity of students' virtual education. Therefore, the present study aimed to compile, implement, and evaluate an introductory course on virtual learning for medical students. Materials & Methods: The present scholarly research was conducted in four stages: 1) needs assessme...

Predicting Academic Performance in an Introductory College-Level IS Course

This study describes a model to predict academic performance in an introductory college-level information systems course. We base the model on one developed by Eskew and Faley (1988) to predict grades in accounting classes. We collected data from students in four sections of an introductory college-level IS class at a single university. Motivation and GPA predict performance. Prior related cour...

An introductory course on Visualization

A Visualization course offered twice (1997/98 and 98/99) as an elective in the MSc degree on Electronics and Telecommunications at the University of Aveiro is presented. Its contents, bibliography and teaching methods are described. Some difficulties encountered during the preparation and lecturing of this course are identified.

Computability in an Introductory Course

The programming approach to computability presented in the textbook by Kfoury, Moll, and Arbib in 1982 has been embedded into a programming course following the textbook by Abelson and Sussman. This leads to a course concept teaching good programming practice and clear theoretical concepts simultaneously. Here, we explain some of the main points of this approach: the halting problem, primitive ...

Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics : An intermediate level course Richard