the purpose of this paper is to study how the characteristics of successful managers are somehow related to their programme in co-operatives. the study shows there is a significant relationship between managers' characteristics such as innovation, authority and leadership, with managerial skills, self confidence and degree of success. however, there is no correlation between intelligence, ...

Goal Access to Education to all students – migrant students Educational policies aim – migrant students integration and their educational success Access to specialized PL2 classes in primary and secondary schools Identifying the gap Newly arrived migrant students, non-native speakers of Portuguese-insufficient proficiency in Portuguese Schools sometimes have difficulties in offering teaching ac...

To implement real intelligence or adaptivity, the models for intelligent tutoring systems should be learnt from data. However, the educational data sets are so small that machine learning methods cannot be applied directly. In this paper, we tackle this problem, and give general outlines for creating accurate classifiers for educational data. We describe our experiment, where we were able to pr...

This paper proposes methods to create educational Virtual Environments for users with no computer and reading skills. The objective is to outline issues that are critical for the success of an educational Virtual Environment: user interface, navigation, interaction and environment design. We propose solutions to improve the usability and visual quality of environments. Two example environments ...

Educational programs in Medical Informatics and Telemedicine offered at the Politecnico di Milano are described. At present they refers to the (5-years) Laurea Degree, the (3-years) Diploma Universitario Degree, the post-Laurea (3-years) Doctoral Degree, the (1-year) postLaurea Master’s Degree and a Continuing Education program. The general aim of the educational efforts is that to enable the s...

Background Parental involvement is positively associated with students’ educational success. However, research shows that levels of and participation vary considerably, depending on parents’ social economic resources. Understanding more about the kinds matter to students themselves important, as it may help determine how best support those from less advantageous backgrounds.Purpose The aim this...