This paper provides a brief review of the history of deaf education in Australia, Australian Sign Language (Auslan), and Auslan interpreting. A panel of Australian deaf university students from diverse linguistic and educational backgrounds provides insights into their perceptions of sign language interpreting provision in university lectures. They commented on their interpreting preferences af...

BACKGROUND Electronic Voting Systems have been used for education in a variety of disciplines. Outcomes from these studies have been mixed. Because results from these studies have been mixed, we examined whether an EVS system could enhance a lecture's effect on educational outcomes. METHODS A cohort of 127 Year 5 medical students at the University of Adelaide was stratified by gender, residen...

1 Lampros K Stergioulas, Department of Communication Systems, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, [email protected] 2 Bernd Simon, Department of Information Systems, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien), A-1090 Vienna, Augasse 2-6, [email protected] 3 Hassan Ahmed, Department of Communication Systems, Lancaster Univer...

In this work, we propose a novel method for vocabulary selection which enables simultaneous speech recognition systems for lectures to automatically adapt to the diverse topics that occur in educational and scientific lectures. Utilizing materials that are available before the lecture begins, such as lecture slides, our proposed framework iteratively searches for related documents on the World ...

Lectures can be enriched by engaging students with active learning components. Classroom response systems (CRSs), which run on the mobile electronic devices of students, make “clicker” principle more accessible, facilitate engagement in lecture hall, and are well-suited to promote formative assessment. Opposite direct verbal interaction, lecturers receive evaluate replies from take those into a...