This paper discusses business games as teaching tools in Technology Management (TM). The discipline’s traditional teaching methods, while appropriate for the dissemination of foundational knowledge, do not provide the optimal platform for students to link abstract concepts and real-world problems. We suggest that business simulation games are an effective way to engage students in TM topics; th...

The author compares the relative successes of two different teaching techniques in seminars for a first year university course in Finance. This paper tests to see if there is one overriding approach that enables all students to learn effectively in seminars or whether different students benefit from different teaching techniques. An experiment will be carried out on a subset of a first year Fin...

As learning is seen to be a social process as well as an intellectual activity in which teachers work in active partnership with students, “Teaching by Joint Presentation” (TJP) project sought to investigate what a humanistic concept of teacher-student joint presentation and critical inquiry can evoke in the language classroom within Chinese context. 289 college English literature learning stud...

This paper,based on the “knowledge,ability and quality”,establishes knowledge integration modular curriculum system. For the first time in Henan Province,this paper creates a professional ability standard module for tourism management,establishes the diversified teaching method which possesses the characteristics of teaching process integration. To enhance the learning assessment method of stud...

Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching technique in which authentic, real-world projects are used as the primary vehicle to drive the student’s learning experience. This technique has been found to be very effective, but its overall adoption rate is relatively low, in part due to teachers’ unfamiliarity with how to best use technology to successfully implement it. This research study involv...

Learning a foreign language takes time and effort. In the last few years, too much emphasis has been placed on oral communication skills and English teachers make their students speak English without paying enough attention to grammatical accuracy. As a result, while students’ ability in terms of fluency has improved, they often cannot communicate appropriately in English due to a lack of gramm...

Elevated rates of failure in Engineering courses at the university level, in addition to the difficulty in attracting new students to courses in this area have made it necessary to implement new and innovative measures to invert this trend. ‘EDBI’ (Ensino à Distância Baseado na Internet) is a project conceived with the purpose of increasing school success and capturing the interest of the stude...

Assessment of environmental impact is one of the main courses of environmental science and engineering subject, according to its features of comprehensiveness and practicalness, combine the requirements of engineers of environmental impact assessment, teachers should renew the teaching content, strengthen the case teaching, so to keep the classroom teaching and practical teaching synchronous. T...

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) technologies have been proven useful in assisting western classical singing training. Jingju (also known as Beijing or Peking opera) singing is different from western singing in terms of most of the perceptual dimensions, and the trainees are taught by using mouth/heart method. In this paper, we first present the training method used in the professional jingju ...

The present paper attempted to evaluate the improving trends of teaching methods by examining their impact on the learning concepts and perception of students of the Concept Schools located in the Baldia Town, Karachi Pakistan. For this purpose, three research questions were formulated; 1) what sorts of teaching methods have been used for the students during the period of 2008 to 2012?; 2) What...