Report on Work at Brunel University

Quality assurance for distance learning: a case study at Brunel University

Brunel University currently has four distance learning MSc courses, with over 500 students registered, and one undergraduate distance learning course. Some have been running for over five years, and well-established practices have been developed and provide a basis of support for the university. Quality assurance in the university has always been considered in three, equally important, ways: th...

leadership styles of tefl instructors at gilan university and their effects on the students attitudes and motivation

the subjects of the study are only the tefl teachers and students at gilan university. to obtain the desired data, a questionnaire which was based on the theories and disecussions gathered, was used as the main data gathering instrument. to determine the degree of relationship between variables, covariance and pearson product moment correlation coefficient were the formulas applied. the data we...

Report on Two events at ICE-TCS, Reykjavik University

(SCS). As usual at this time of the year, teaching-related matters took centre stage and occupied most faculty members , especially since we had just welcomed our third intake of well over 300 new computer science students. However, many of us at the Icelandic Centre of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science (ICE-TCS) will remember the first week of the new academic year for two events show...

Mechanical translation work at the University of Michgan

Multimedia at Work Editor : Tiziana Catarci University of Rome

tem provides integrated support for spatiotemporal and semantic queries for video.1 A knowledge base—consisting of a fact base and a comprehensive rule set implemented in Prolog— handles spatio-temporal queries. These queries contain any combination of conditions related to direction, topology, 3D relationships, object appearance, trajectory projection, and similaritybased object trajectories. ...