For presentation as a keynote address at the Midwest Conference on Student Learning in Economics, Innovation, Assessment and Classroom Research, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, November 7, 2003, and forthcoming as Chapter 11 in W. E. Becker and M. L. Andrews (Eds.), The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Contributions of Research Universities, Indiana University Press, ...

Public health educational pathways in Australia have traditionally been the province of Universities, with the Master of Public Health (MPH) recognised as the flagship professional entry program. Public health education also occurs within the fellowship training of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, but within Australia this remains confined to medical graduates. In recent years, however, w...

Every issue of the journal will carry one or more book reviews. This is a call for reviewers of books. The book reviewed must be of interest to the readers of the journal. That is to say, the book must be within the areas the journal covers. The reviews must be no more than 500 words. Send your review electronically to the book review editor at: [email protected] The IJCIR is an inde...

The Relation of Vocational Training to Academic Education M. Bohlooli Faskhoodi S. Zarghami, Ph.D. Y. Ghaedi, Ph.D. R. Barkhordari, Ph.D. The traditional approach to education advocates a dichotomy between vocational training and academic education. Some scholars contend that the knowledge which resides in minds of individuals is more valuable than hands-on skills, wherea...

Testing the first year students of Informatics at the University of Debrecen revealed that students start their tertiary studies in programming with a low level of programming knowledge and algorithmic skills. The possible reasons which lead the students to this very unfortunate result were examined. The results of the test were compared to the students’ results in the school leaving exams and ...

The advent of internet technology has made digital content widely accessible to everyone. However, previous studies showed that the uptake of e-books has been slow. This study attempts to investigate on the ebook usage of Multimedia University students. An online survey is conducted on 86 students to gauge their perception and acceptance of an e-book . Results showed that e-book usage is still ...

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control mandates the creation of smoke-free environments to protect non-smokers from second-hand smoke and reduce demand for tobacco. We aimed to examine the extent and nature of smoke-free campus policies at tertiary education institutions throughout New Zealand, and examine the policy development process. Stage one comprised an audit and content analysis of...

Despite general agreement among practitioners and educators alike that the application of solid uniform coding guidelines is beneficial, the application of coding standards in computer science education seem to be problematic. We applied interpretive research to arrive at an understanding of the attitude of leturers towards coding standards. We identified five aspects of coding guidelines throu...

The paper starts with a quick overview of blended learning model in tertiary education systems. Model integration is illustrated on the example of Faculty of Technical Sciences in Čačak. It is supported by the results of the survey that was conducted in the period of November 2012 to January 2013 on specimen of 252 examinees. The significant achievement is that the model was well accepted in pr...