Purpose – To describe a way of teaching industrial ecology (IE) and to show some tools that may help for the IE teaching. Design/methodology/approach – In the paper, the development of lectures, practical lessons and projects on real industrial ecosystems are described. Also the teaching materials used are described. Findings – The presented methodology for teaching IE has been a good means for...

Lots of practical experience is needed when teaching the science of building materials. However, practical experience requires a well-equipped laboratory, trained technicians and consumes students' time. This paper describes a comprehensive program developed in the department of Civil Engineering at the Technion, Israel, to improve the teaching capability of building materials by improving the ...

This article describes the affordances of social media and networks for online Elementary German courses that have been taught at the University of Pennsylvania since 2010. These online courses were created to provide students the opportunity to take Elementary German as part of the language requirement for Penn credit during the summer months when students are away from campus. Like their face...

Students can contribute to the design and development phases of eLearning projects, and also learn through the process. This study focused on two projects at a university in Hong Kong (development of Pharmacy eCases, and the establishment of an eLearning Assistants scheme) in which students designed, wrote and developed teaching materials with space to show initiative. Evaluation strategies inc...

Regardless of the job description and duties, for every engineer, it is essential to understand how data is acquired and analyzed. Therefore, the implementation of an instrumentation laboratory in an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering curriculum is necessary. A laboratory specialized in instrumentation provides students with hands-on experiences – a component missing from many traditional cou...

We describe the resourcing, development, use and evaluation of interactive multimedia courseware in language and linguistics teaching and learning at three institutions of higher education in Edinburgh who collaborated on thèClick and Listen' project. It also addresses several topics, arising from our experiences with`Click and Listen', some that are of relevence to CAL generally and others tha...

In order to get more people to use and understand simulation, improved teaching of simulation to beginners is important. The panel members share their experience in teaching the classic systems of simulation, used for several decades, to novice students.

With the development of the Internet and the growth of online resources, bioinformatics training for wet-lab biologists became necessary as a part of their education. This article describes a one-semester course 'Applied Bioinformatics Course' (ABC, http://abc.cbi.pku.edu.cn/) that the author has been teaching to biological graduate students at the Peking University and the Chinese Academy of A...