Teaching Transdisciplinarity Appropriately for Students’ Education Level

Teaching Cryptography to Continuing Education Students

Knowledge of mathematical foundations of Cryptography is of paramount importance for students wanting to succeed in graduate degree programs in Computer Science with concentration in security. Cryptography, a relatively new field, has yet to establish a core set of topics and the optimal sequence of their presentation to prepare students for a career in the field of IT security. This paper pres...

Neuroscience in education: The challenges of transdisciplinarity

The recent years of brain research have seen the emergence of a new synthesis between two different disciplines, neuroscience and education. Recent results suggest that a solid knowledge of factors influencing the brain’s maturationand development-related changes may help to construct optimal learning conditions. It is well known that many different factors may contribute to the brain’s state a...

Can Students Edit Their Learner Model Appropriately?

We investigate whether students can edit their learner model appropriately considering: (i) evidence about the model contents; (ii) accuracy of self-assessment; (iii) type of information in the model; (iv) level of knowledge.

Teaching the Library to Students of Higher Education

The academic library and its digital transformation are ignored in graduate programs of higher education administration, which train a significant number of postsecondary professionals. A course in scholarly communications in the digital age recently introduced at one such program includes an invitation to aspiring administrators to study the contributions of the library to the ways that facult...

Collaborative Education: an innovative method of teaching undergraduate nursing students