Many Australian tertiary institutions provide support for academic staff in the design and development of online teaching and learning resources, often employing a centralised unit staffed with educational and instructional designers, multimedia and online developers, audio/video producers and graphic artists. It is not unusual for these units to have evolved from print-based distance education...

This article discusses a research/teaching collaboration between Perkins+Will and the University of Cincinnati and a unique design studio that was initiated as part of this collaboration. The studio investigated the relationships between performance-driven design, computational design techniques, integration of analysis tools with the design process and digital fabrication for a building facade...

The Comprehensive English Regents Exam, also referred to as the English Language Arts (ELA) Examination, is a widely used measure of student achievement in the K-12 system in New York, yet it is not without criticism. One concern is that the ELA Regents Exam may be contributing to the widening of the gap in graduation rates between English language learners (ELLs) and English-proficient student...

This paper offers a rationale for gradual privatization in transitional economies through studying property rights structures and the nature of Chinese collective enterprises. First, we pose a puzzle for existing theories of property rights, and then we provide a theoretical model for determining the optimal ownership arrangements for transitional economies. This theory argues that ownership ar...

Collaborative modeling is an approach aimed at enhancing productivity in Systems Design. Such an approach brings together stakeholders with varying degrees of skills and knowledge. Although much attention has been paid to the models created, little empirical work has focused on the modeling process itself, especially its evaluation. This raises the question whether an approach for analyzing and...

Advances in semiconductor process and design technology enable the design of complex system chips. Traditional IC design, in which every circuit is designed from scratch and reuse is limited to standard-cell libraries, is more and more replaced by a design style based on embedding large reusable modules, the so-called cores. This core-based design poses a series of new challenges, especially in...

the research aimed to apply the taguchi method for techno-economical evaluation of cr+6 removal using the electro-coagulation process with the aid of two different coagulants (fecl3 and pac). taguchi orthogonal array l27 (313) was applied for analyzing the effect of four variables including initial ph, reaction time, current density and coagulant types in an attempt to improve the chromium remo...