The aim of the JUSTEIS project over the first three cycles (1999-2002) was to examine the uptake and use of electronic information services in higher education in the UK, so that planning of JISC services could be informed by trends in usage and evidence of specific needs. The objectives were to: 1) examine what services were used by students and academic staff, and how senior library staff pla...

Student surveys across the world have highlighted that students are dissatisfied with the feedback they receive on their assignments and many institutions have been putting plans in place to address this issue. Much of this work has focused on improving the quality of written comments. This paper takes a different perspective. It argues that the many diverse expressions of dissatisfaction with ...

This paper addresses the communication barrier exists among courses linked with prerequisite by proposing an active feedback system so that the instructor teaching the prerequisite can proactively report the student performance at each detail subject level and make it available to instructors requiring the course as prerequisite. It serves three purposes: (1) the instructors receiving such info...

Since the turn of this century, engineering programs in Australia and the United States have been motivated by accrediting bodies such as IEAust and ABET to include multidisciplinary teaming in their curriculum. Yet, the reality of teaching interdisciplinary teaming requires both instructors and students to navigate institutional and social structures of engineering programs that are neither fl...

1 Dervis Z. Deniz, Eastern Mediterranean University, IT R&D Center, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Eng., Gazimagusa, N. Cyprus, via Mersin-10, Turkey [email protected] 2 Mustafa Uyguroglu, Eastern Mediterranean University, Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Eng., Gazimagusa, N. Cyprus, via Mersin-10, Turkey [email protected] 3 Hakan Yavuz, (IT R&D Center), Telsim, North Cyprus,...

The use of electronic media and tools is central to many higher education teaching and learning strategies, but adoption of new technology is more often negatively received by staff, although enthusiastically embraced by students. Longer term, it has been questioned whether universities will meet the needs of shifting knowledge-based societies and increasingly diverse student populations. Barri...

This paper presents the results of a descriptive longitudinal study which aimed to identify student paramedic perceptions of case based learning used in the clinical curriculum of the Bachelor of Emergency Health (BEH) degree at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Case based learning and its integration within clinical curriculum is an important part of undergraduate paramedic education at ...

The provision of stand-alone, web-based materials is one way of making language and academic skills support for first-year students accessible, flexible, and more or less permanently available. “Writing in Subject Areas” is a web-based resource developed at Monash University in Australia to facilitate students’ transition to the kinds of thinking and writing valued in higher education. The rese...

Digital media have unique potential to amplify student voice in both high school teacher preparation and academic development for college faculty. This paper applies narrative analysis to participant descriptions of how three uses of digital media amplify student voice in the context of a single higher education consortium: (1) high school students and prospective high school teachers use email...