In the era of knowledge economy, learning has become increasingly important, it is more and more convenient to acquire the information in a fast way and E-learning has become increasingly popular. Under this trend, the traditional teaching method in the classroom will not be the only choice any longer and the application of E-learning system will be the important trend in the future. In recent ...

So far, cross-language voice conversion requires at least one bilingual speaker and parallel speech data to perform the training. This paper shows how these obstacles can be overcome by means of a recently presented text-independent training method based on unit selection. The new method is evaluated in the framework of the European speech-to-speech translation project TC-Star and achieves a pe...

As educators and teachers pay more attention to the applications of educational technologies and websites to help students achieve satisfactory learning outcomes, it is necessary to develop effective teaching methods integrated with technologies for both teachers and students. This study involved 96 undergraduates from two class sections in an experiment wherein the first class received the int...

The traditional classroom teaching mode is based on the content of the subject, takes the teacher as the center and gives priority to classroom instruction. While PBL (Problem Based Learning) teaching method breaches the traditional mode, combining the basic science with clinical practice and covering the process from discussion to self-study to re-discussion and re-self-study, and students bec...

This position paper proposes the need for researching the use of case teaching method in computing education and subsequently developing a case repository and set of practical tips on how case method can be incorporated into the different computing courses. Keywords—case-based teaching; computing education; case respository; teaching cases

The main purpose of this study is not to compare online and traditional face-to-face instruction merely to prove which one is better, but rather it aims to highlight some of the possible risks and strengths which may help to improve the role of teachers in both methods. The scene consisted of various thematic blocks from a training programme, with teachers who taught two different groups of stu...

The development of competences and practical capacities of students is getting an important incidence into the guidelines of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The methodology applied in this work is based on the education through directed resolution of practical cases. All cases are related to professional tasks that the students will have to develop in their future career. The method ...

The need to support bioinformatics training has been widely recognized by scientists, industry, and government institutions. However, the discussion of instructional methods for teaching bioinformatics is only beginning. Here we report on a systematic attempt to design two bioinformatics workshops for graduate biology students on the basis of Gagne's Conditions of Learning instructional design ...

An essay by Belarusian children’s writers Andrei Zhvalevskyi and Evgenia Pasternak describes the experience of teaching literary skills in workshop “Literature with Authors” (“LISA”), opened 2016 Minsk, as well other educational programmes. The main trainees course are adolescents aged 12–17. authors review write about objectives workshop, methods peculiarities organisation studies, updating th...

A Visualization course offered twice (1997/98 and 98/99) as an elective in the MSc degree on Electronics and Telecommunications at the University of Aveiro is presented. Its contents, bibliography and teaching methods are described. Some difficulties encountered during the preparation and lecturing of this course are identified.