This paper evaluates a studio-based teaching model in a core first year subject of a traditionally delivered IT degree at an Australian university. It reports on first year students’ reactions to four aspects of the studio-based teaching and learning environment: the physical learning space, IT tools and infrastructure, teaching philosophy, and portfolio assessment. Data was obtained through on...

L'Università di Padova, nell?ambito della propria politica di promozione dell?internazionalizzazione, offre numerose possibilità per trascorrere un periodo di studio o lavoro all'estero. I vari programmi di mobilità, nell'ambito dei quali muoversi, sono elencati sul portale dell'Ateneo, consultando la voce Esperienze internazionali [1] dedicata agli studenti. Studiare all'estero [2] I responsab...

In an interaction design studio students develop interactive products with emphasis on collaboration, creativity and method use. Typically the goals of interaction design studios are to let students acquire the practical skills to apply theories and methods from relevant courses in the context of a real-world problem, and to develop their collaborative and organizational abilities that will be ...

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) improve engineering productivity through powerful abstractions and automation. To support the development of DSLs, the software language engineering (SLE) community has produced various solutions for the systematic engineering of DSLs that manifest in language workbenches. In this paper, we investigate the applicability of the language workbenches GEMOC STUDIO a...

Investigations were carried out in the Department of Conservation of Painting and Polychrome Sculpture and in the Screen Printing Studio of the Faculty of Art at Nicolaus Copernicus University. Concentration of the vapours of organic solvents was measured in 2 workshops: the Art Conservation Studio and the Screen Printing Studio. This study attempts to evaluate the work environment in both stud...

This article explores the pedagogical experience of a group of graduate planning students with diverse undergraduate backgrounds in a degree capstone studio. The studio concentrates on the “shrinking” village of Morrow, Ohio. Following a brief overview of the shrinking cities literature, the article discusses the specific issues of economic decline facing the Village of Morrow and its populatio...

sturbi cognitivi. La valutazione di efficacia della AAT nel danno cognitivo è frequentemente influenzata da un disegno sperimentale scarso, da cui non emergono evidenze conclusive. Scopo di questo studio era di verificare l’effetto clinico di una AAT a medio termine con cani in pazienti ambulatoriali con lieve danno cognitivo da malattia di Alzheimer (AD) verso un gruppo controllo. Metodi. Lo s...

The article addresses the issue of transition from secondary school to university, presenting POT project (guidance and mentoring pathway) as a case study research. actions pathway accompanied students involved in reflecting on their future employment, terms professional dispositions career prefigurations. One tools used was Professional/Personal Development Plan (PDP). qualitative analysis wri...

We describe how to build a professional portable portrait studio that can be used with any consumer camera. The studio allows effortless off-line chroma-key insertion of backgrounds. Digital consumer cameras are designed for delivering acceptable images in typical outdoor or small room situations. The cameras fail when tungsten filament lamps are used. The built-in flash tube is too weak to fil...