Teaching Economic Principles: Algebra, Graph or Both?

Teaching Nursing Students about the Basic Principles of Infection Control: Programmed Instruction or Lecture Method

Introduction. Programmed instruction (PI) and lecture based learning have been compared in previous studies in the world, but due to special condition of education in nursing, the effects of these two methods have been less investigated in Iranian universities. This study attempts to compare the effect of these two educational methods on nursing students' learning about the basic principles of ...

Teaching Computational Abstract Algebra

In the Spring semester of 1990 we undertook the educational experiment of teaching undergraduate mathematics and computer science students some fundamental notions of algebra by using computers. The course was entitled Computational Abstract Algebra and offered at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a cross-listed mathematics and computer science course. Twelve students enrolled in it, five of ...

Teaching Security Engineering Principles

The design and construction of secure systems cannot be entirely captured in textbooks or class notes, but must be taught as an art which is learned through apprenticeship and practice. This paper describes a course in Secure Systems that uses the Flaw Hypothesis Methodology for penetration testing as a vehicle for motivating and teaching students fundamental principles of security

Principles of Learning and Teaching P- 6 Teaching & Learning Policy Principles of Teaching & Learning

Speed Up, Slow Down or Both? Investigating the Contemporary Cities

Speed as a crucial phenomenon of modernism affects individual and collective life of human being and changes the traits of the places people live in. Increasing speed is the demand of the modern era, though on the other side in recent years there is a contrary incline towards slowing down different aspects of life. In view of this, the dualities in between social features of Speed up and slow d...