James Madison College is a residential college of public affairs and liberal education at Michigan State University, offering sophisticated multidisciplinary programs in the social sciences founded on a model of liberal education. The college prepares students for law school, graduate study, decision-making roles in public and private enterprise, and careers in government, media, politics, soci...

In teaching epidemiology, confounding is a difficult topic. The authors designed active learning objects (LO) based on manipulable three-dimensional (3D) plots to facilitate understanding of confounding. The 3D LOs help illustrate of how confounding can occur, how it generates bias and how to adjust for it. For the development of the LOs, guidelines were formulated based on epidemiology and the...

Microelectronics teaching content is extremely wide and diverse, rich in different types of devices, circuits and systems, layers of abstraction, and design tradeoffs. We propose to use Featureion, and design tradeoffs. We propose to use Feature Diagrams for specification and structuring of microelectronics teaching content at different layers of abstraction starting from organization of teachi...

Students are characterized by different learning styles, focusing on different types of information and processing this information in different ways. One of the goals of a Web-based education system is that all the students can learn despite their different learning styles. To achieve this goal we have to detect how students learn. We propose the use of Bayesian Networks to detect the learning...

The poster will summarize and illustrate the most typical errors that appear in the presentations of newcomers, but also in the newspapers and even in the research papers where the statistical results are discussed. Although every classification is inevitably a simplification of the real situation I have divided typical errors into six big groups for the sake of clarity: unsuitable method for a...

The paper describes the analysis of user location and time stamp information automatically logged when students receive and interact with electronic updates from the University’s virtual learning environment. The electronic updates are sent to students’ mobile devices using RSS feeds. The mobile reception of such information can be received in three dimensions of context: time, location and act...

There are very few medical ethics courses in British medical schools which are a formal part of the clinical curriculum. Such a programme is described in the following, along with the way in which the long-term curriculum committee of the University College and Middlesex HospitalJointMedical Schoolwas persuaded to make it compulsoryforfirst-year students. Pedagogical lessons which have been lea...

Wil is a writer, teacher, learning technologist and keen language learner. teachers in using classroom and web technology, and written e-learning materials for or who are used to the traditional 'teacher and class' model of education. and online learning, in the hands of a welltrained teacher, both delivery methods. Setting plays a crucial role in effective teaching, and learning and eLearning ...

With mobile devices and wireless networks, new possibilities evolve to improve the interaction between teacher and students in class. The paper introduces the idea of DONUT, a Distributed annOtation tool for Notebook University Teachware, which is going to be developed within the NUSS (Notebook University Stuttgart) project and integrated into an existing framework for application sharing. DONU...

Adult learners require alternative learning opportunities to enable them to work and still be able to upgrade their education. This dual format course, combining online and face-to-face components, was developed to meet the need of students to complete a prerequisite undergraduate level neuroanatomy and neurophysiology course while attending a program that included fly-in weekends (seven) and o...