Scholars writing books that are widely used to support teaching in higher education may be undervalued due to a lack of evidence of teaching value. Whilst sales data may give credible evidence for textbooks, it may poorly reflect educational uses of other types of books. As an alternative, this article proposes a method to automatically search for mentions of books in online academic course syl...

The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus methodology has been used to represent legal information at different levels such, e.g., European Directives, and their transpositions into national legislations. In this paper we point out the main issues of this approach, and extend it to account for a further level, the Acquis Principles level.

This paper describes the main features of our tool called “Legal Taxonomy Syllabus”. The system is an ontology based tool designed to annotate and recover multi-lingua legal information and build conceptual dictionaries on European Directives.

Indexes such as bookmarks and recommendations are helpful for accessing multimedia documents. This paper describes the 3D Syllabus system, which is designed to visualize indexes to multimedia training content along with the information structures. A double-sided landscape with balloons and cubes represents the personal and group indexes, respectively. The 2D ground plane organizes the indexes a...

Language learning research in Japan has categorized students’ motivational orientations as multifaceted and leaning towards extrinsic orientations. Meanwhile, as self-determination theory correlates intrinsic motivation to academic success, we argue that enhancing intrinsic motivation is necessary to foster autonomous learners. Many studies categorize motivational orientations, but rarely, have...

With the significant growth in the number of available electronic documents on the Internet, intranets, and digital libraries, the need for developing effective methods and systems to index and organize E-documents is felt more than ever. In this paper we introduce a new method for automatic text classification for categorizing E-documents by utilizing classification metadata of books, journals...

OFFICE HOURS: 1-2 MWF. TEXT: None. I will try to point out the sections of some relevant books, which will address the corresponding material we cover. Some of these books are listed below in bibliography. PREREQUISITE: Math 310 (first course in Linear Algebra), and Stat 401 (Introduction to Probability) or equivalent courses. Basic knowledge of graphs is welcome, (some parts of MCS 261), but n...

Small print The syllabus for the course is defined by the Faculty Board Schedules (which are minimal for lecturing and maximal for examining). Please note that, throughout, ring means commutative ring with one. I should very much appreciate being told of any corrections or possible improvements and might even part with a small reward to the first finder of particular errors. This document is wr...