This article examines how research findings from the field of academic literacies might be used to underpin course design across the broad curriculum of higher education. During the last decade this research has unpacked the complex relationship between writing and learning, and pointed to gaps in students’ and tutors’ understanding of what is involved in writing for assessment. The article tak...

This paper contains two recently discovered pedagogical patterns. The first, Student Tasks First, is a candidate for inclusion in the Patterns for Active Learning and the second, Differential Grading, is a candidate for inclusion in Feedback Patterns. Both involve course design. Student Tasks First tells how to begin the course design process and Differential Grading gives advice about how to d...

This paper describes an experimental course where students develop a (small) system focusing on the interfaces between diierent components of the system. The components are developed independently of each other using Web based documentation and focusing on techniques for modeling and analysis of interfaces. These techniques are supported by prototype tools. 1 Introduction The potentials of the ...

A project-based design course is developed for man-portable power generation via microfabricated fuel cell systems. Targeted audience are undergraduate chemical/process engineering students in their nal year. The course covers 6 weeks, with three hours of lectures per week. Two alternative projects are developed, one focusing on selection of alternatives and one focusing on process optimization...

For designers, featural and functional characteristics of a product are the obvious means to express its functionalities. Usage as intended in a design may be conceived as being mediated by product semantics or affordances. These concepts primarily involve scientific generalisations. Usecues are introduced as a pragmatic design tool. There is a brief discussion of experience with the notion of ...

In this paper, I describe a plausible approach to operationalizing existing definitions of learning management system (LMS) course design from the research literature, to better understand instructor impact on student engagement and academic performance. I share statistical findings using such an approach in academic year 201314; discuss related issues and opportunities around faculty developme...

1 Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Engineering Technology Dept., Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 98225-9086, [email protected] Abstract – This paper describes two, two-course sequences that are vertically integrated through design projects. This integration allows students to learn more effectively, to more easily make connections between topics, and to learn other important skills . Vertic...

For quite some time now, the Internet and its content have been developing in a haphazard way. This is not inherently a bad thing and perhaps it's even unavoidable, but it does have its problems. Web-based languages such as HTML, JavaScript, XHTML, XML, Perl, etc have been standardized into versions, but these standards shift over time because these languages are almost all very new and in many...

Blended or hybrid course design is generally considered to involve a combination of online and classroom activities. However defining blended courses solely based on delivery mode suggests there is nothing more to a blended course than where students meet and how they use technology. Ultimately there is a risk that blended courses defined in this way will not utilize effective strategies that h...