Course Structure and Grading: There will be two 50-minute and one 100-minute class meetings each week. Approximately 75% of the meetings will be devoted to lecture and discussion of ecological concepts, and to computer modeling exercises designed to enhance understanding of ecological models and general principles. The other 25% will involve class discussion of journal articles led by instructo...

Human users trying to plan and accomplish informationdependent goals in highly dynamic environments with prevalent uncertainty must consult various types of information sources in their decision-making processes while the information requirements change as they plan and re-plan. When the users must make timecritical decisions in information-intensive tasks they become cognitively overloaded not...

Currently, in Austria there is a major reform of the final exam (Matura) on the way and will be implemented in 2015. All subjects, Informatics included, will be affected in different forms. The underlying philosophy of this reform is a strong competence orientation, thinking educational processes in terms of students’ outcomes which are based on clear expectations and standardized objectives. T...

Brown PJ. Process-oriented guided-inquiry learning in an introductory anatomy and physiology course with a diverse student population. Adv Physiol Educ 34: 150–155, 2010; doi:10.1152/advan.00055.2010.—Process-oriented guided-inquiry learning (POGIL), a pedagogical technique initially developed for college chemistry courses, has been implemented for 2 yr in a freshman-level anatomy and physiolog...

Traditionally, theoretical foundations in data structures and algorithms (DSA) courses have been covered through lectures followed by tutorials, where students practise their understanding on pen-and-paper tasks. In this paper, we present findings from a pilot study on using the interactive e-book OpenDSA as the main material in a DSA course. The goal was to redesign an already existing course ...

Open online distance learning in higher education has quickly gained popularity, expanded, and evolved, with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as the most recent development. New web technologies allow for scalable ways to deliver video lecture content, implement social forums and track student progress in MOOCs. However, we remain limited in our ability to assess complex and open-ended stude...

The exam is divided in two parts: Project You have to pick a project among the ones proposed below and provide the required deliverables. In addition, you will present your project in a 8-minute talk, followed by 5 minutes of questions. This will account for up to 10 points of your final grade. Questions You will be asked a number of questions concerning the entire course material. This will ac...

The purpose of this study was to identify the performance differences between two groups of Austrian dental students (one with a prior medical degree and one without a medical degree) during their dental school training and final dental licensure examination. A specific aim was to determine if having a medical degree is a predictive factor for dental students' scores on the Austrian Dental Admi...

Xavier University of Louisiana leads the nation in awarding BS degrees in the biological sciences to African-American students. In this multiyear study with ∼5500 participants, data-driven interventions were adopted to improve student academic performance in a freshman-level general biology course. The three hour-long exams were common and administered concurrently to all students. New exam que...

UNLABELLED Background -Assessment of clinical skills of medical students has a central role in medical education yet the suit- able evaluation methods have persistently debated by educators and students. OBJECTIVES To assess perceptions of final year medical students about the Organized Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) METHODS AND MATERIALS: A cross sectional study was performed to assess view...