TOWARDS A MORE EQUAL ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION: HYBRID LEARNING

Effect of Hybrid Learning in Higher Education

In recent years, thanks to the development of information and communication technologies, the computer and internet have been used widely in higher education. Internet-based education is impacting traditional higher education as online components increasingly become integrated into facetoface (FTF) courses. The goal of combined internet-based and traditional education is to take full advantage ...

ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION IN WALES A Report to the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales

Towards Equal Rights for Higher-kinded Types

Generics are a very popular feature of contemporary OO languages, such as Java, C# or Scala. Their support for genericity is lacking, however. The problem is that they only support abstracting over proper types, and not over generic types. This limitation makes it impossible to, e.g., define a precise interface for Iterable, a core abstraction in Scala’s collection API. We implemented “type con...

Towards more effective education

The quality of education is of prime importance. Is this quality being achieved effectively? Can education achieve better quality with the current level of resources? Is there an adequate awareness of effectivity in education, and is there sufficient knowledge of the cost of education at the practical level? In the Education Council's view, effectiveness is a valid approach, but not the only on...

Learning How to Swim and Improving Self-Efficacy: Physical Education Needs to be Taken More Seriously

Learning How to Swim and Improving Self-Efficacy: Physical Education Needs to be Taken More Seriously M. Taslimi P. Iraannejaad, Ph.D. Z. Lebaadi, Ph.D. Physical education is not just for improving the functions and well-being of the body, as it can help with the improvement of the psychological functions as well. A physical, and enjoyable, activity such as swimming, as a p...