We describe the establishment of bioinformatics in Germany and give an overview of current bioinformatics education in this country, from the perspective of the practitioner. The aim of this study is to demonstrate development of a strong bioinformatics education at German universities and research institutes during the last years. Beginning with a definition of the multi-disciplinary field bio...

Attempts to demonstrate a relationship between students’ approaches to studying in higher education and their perceptions of their academic context have been bedevilled by limitations of the research instruments and the problem of aggregating students’ perceptions and approaches across different course units. The extended version of the Course Experience Questionnaire (Wilson et al., 1997) and ...

Context: In Higher Education where online courses are offered, one need is to predict the number of courses to be open. At date, some types of models have been used for this goal, such as models based upon machine learning, statistical and softcomputing approaches. Goal: To propose a softcomputing model for predicting the number of online courses (NOC) needed from the number of students enrolle...

The purpose of this research was to find the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy in practical courses among physical education teachers. 124 male and 76 female physical education teachers were randomly selected. Bar-on Emotional and Selfefficacy job Questionnaires were used to evaluate the teachers’ attitudes. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to investigate the...

Software engineering is a rapidly changing discipline, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. This pace of change brings both problems and opportunities to universities that teach software engineering. Engineers are no longer satis ed with one or two initial university education experiences, but by necessity are becoming lifetime learners, with frequent trips back to educational...

Since the 1960’s there have been calls for reforms in teacher education programs to reflect the growing diversity represented in our nation’s schools. One response is multicultural education courses aimed at addressing attitudes and beliefs about diversity. Such courses have received mixed reviews. Some research has reported that pre-service teacher’s attitudes and beliefs were changed in a pos...

The use of Internet for distance education has received increasing attention over the past few years. But the real challenge of adapting this technology for engineering education is to facilitate the laboratory experiments via Internet. This paper discusses the software and hardware requirements of virtual courses/laboratories to provide interactive environment for designing and conducting clas...

Web-based distance instruction is growing in popularity. As more courses and programs go online, instructional methods and technologies are changing to meet new demands. These courses and instructional methods need be evaluated to determine their quality and to aid in their development. An instrument that measures the quality of student interaction within courses could play a useful role in thi...

This paper describes a project, supported and funded by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education, which is directed to the design and implementation of seven, new, cutting-edge courses for a degree program in Informatics. The focus for the project was that the courses improve the quality of education and training in line with the needs of the ICT labour market to build an economy based on knowledge ...