Abstract—Course timetabling problems occur every semester in a university which includes the allocation of resources (subjects, lecturers and students) to a number of fixed rooms and timeslots. The assignment is carried out in a way such that there are no conflicts within rooms, students and lecturers, as well as fulfilling a range of constraints. The constraints consist of rules and policies s...

There was considerable evidence that a subject's psychological status may influence respiratory sensations and that some subjects may experience respiratory symptoms regardless of the presence of a respiratory disease. The objective of this study was to determine the association between occupational stress and respiratory symptoms among lecturers. This cross sectional study was conducted in Uni...

We focus on a timetabling problem of university makeup classes and construct a scheduling system based on man-machine interaction which enables to reveal the essential and additional information of the problem domain. In this problem, makeup classes which are requested by the lecturers have to be scheduled to a specified time slot under the hard/soft constraints, e.g., schedules of the lecturer...

Aim This study set out to gain insight into views held by children's nursing students, lecturers and clinically based nurse mentors about interprofessional education (IPE). Method A qualitative research design was undertaken. Small focus groups were held with pre-registration children's nursing students, and semi-structured interviews with university lecturers and clinically based nurse mentors...

Ebook readers have received a mixed press, with some hailing them as the future of reading and others believing that they will never be popular. The study outlined here aims to understand the attitudes of, and issues of importance to, lecturers in UK academia, with a view to improving the design of ebook readers for education in the future. An evaluation of five portable devices is presented, i...

In 1835 when the Foundation Chair in Anatomy and Physiology was estab lished, the Foundation Professor, Dr J L Drummond, had the entire responsibility for all pre -clinical studies. For this task, we today employ seven-professors, 25 readers, senior lecturers and lecturers, four research officers, two research assistants, 39 technicians, six clerical officers and one computer programmer, 84 peo...

In Catalonia (Spain), each university is required by law to offer lecturers a learning framework. This requirement is met by specialized centers: at our technical university, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) this center is the Institute for Education Sciences (ICE), to which the authors of this article belong. This institute offers training to both new and senior lecturers. This train...

This paper presents a case study of an academic course for preservice computer science teachers that focus on teaching the discipline. The paper specifies and explains the rationale behind the development of the course and its explicit objectives. Achievement of the objectives is explained by describing the subject and content of the lessons, the types of activities integrated into the lessons ...

This article illustrates Conceptual Graph networks representing the content of courses to help students understand, relate, compare, memorize and retrieve many of their concepts. It shows that the ontology of WebKB-2 and its FL notation could be exploited by lecturers to create normalized representations in a scalable way and relatively quick way. They also permit the students to complement the...