Most European Schools are involved in designing learning–oriented curriculums in the process of adapting to the EHEA framework. The ESUP of the University Pompeu Fabra has launched adaptation projects with varying degrees of change in the teaching methodology. In this work two experiences are compared. On the one hand, courses in the engineering management area were fully adapted to an active l...

E-learning is a new and rapidly evolving discipline. Particularly, e-learning environments have become a topic of research and study. This paper presents an investigation related to e-learning and the development of virtual learning environment WebINFO made by an interdisciplinary team at the University of La Plata. Some experiences within university scope using this kind of technology are also...

In order to make strategic decisions, the new leadership team at the College of Agriculture at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona conducted a series of focus group interviews with its students, faculty, and staff members. The purpose of this qualitative study was to poll the opinions of these important stakeholders to improve the teaching-learning process in the college, to pro...

parents in Tudor and Stuart times, and Antonia Fraser, in her The weaker vessel (Weidenfeld, 1983) tells numerous stories of passionate marriages. The Stonian interpretation has now been reinforced by Miriam Slater's anatomy of a seventeenth-century gentry family, the Verneys. Slater's is a bleak view indeed. She does not see the Verney family in the Stuart age as a "human socializing and nurtu...

When trying to synthesize information from multiple sources and perform a statistical review to compare them, particularly in the medical research field, several statistical tools are available, most common are the systematic review and the meta-analysis. These techniques allow the comparison of the effectiveness or success among a group of studies. However, a problem of these tools is that if ...

Ideally, prediction rules (including classifiers as a special case) should be published in such a way that readers may apply them, for example to make predictions for their own data. While this is straightforward for simple prediction rules, such as those based on the logistic regression model, this is much more difficult for complex prediction rules derived by machine learning tools. We conduc...

In the present knowledge economy, individuals, particularly working adults, need to continuously acquire purposeful knowledge and skills so they can better contribute towards addressing society’s ever-changing developmental challenges. In the developing world however, few opportunities exist for working adults to acquire such new learning experiences through the formal education sector, and thi...