NSSE. Love it? Hate it? Puzzled by its recent attention? Happy it is criticized? There is much to like and dislike about NSSE, in addition to concern that expensive benchmark data will be obsolete given NSSE 2.0. This paper takes a critical look at the currently conceived NSSE benchmarks among two higher education types (liberal arts college and regional research university) and reveals benchma...

KSU's results from the 2004 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) yielded solid evidence of the university's provision of a friendly and supportive learning environment for first-year and senior undergraduates. Many of KSU's initiatives to create a facilitative campus environment were operating well according to student respondents to the NSSE. First-year and senior students judged their...

The rise in the ubiquity of wireless internet access and handheld computing devices has opened several avenues for Location-Based and Location-Aware applications. Our work introduces an adaptation of a notification system based on Location-centric events and features. Real-time information can be used in order to increase a users’ comprehension of his environment. Our prototype system, seeVT, p...

Emerging MPI libraries, such as VolpexMPI and P2P MPI, allow message passing parallel programs to execute effectively in heterogeneous volunteer environments despite frequent failures. However, the performance of message passing codes varies widely in a volunteer environment, depending on the application characteristics and the computation and communication characteristics of the nodes and the ...

For a university in regional Australia, a new degree program on offer to a remote campus and access centres, provided a supportive environment for faculty to trial new teaching and learning methods, specifically making use of learning management system (WebCT) for aspects of communication and content. This paper examines the impact this had on the faculty, in particular at the increased usage o...

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