Student sectioning is the problem of assigning students to particular sections of courses they request while respecting constraints such as course structures, section limits, and reserved spaces. Students may also provide preferences on class times and course alternatives. In this paper, three approaches to this problem are examined and combined in order to tackle it on a practical level: stude...

abstract   background and purpose: traditional lecture-based teaching has been long used to transit theoretical knowledge to the participants. due to some problems of this didactic approach, some believe that integration within an active method is more valuable in nursing education. in this study, we hypothesized that integrating lecture-based teaching within clerkship course would enhance nurs...

Learning practical nursing skills is an important part of the baccalaureate in nursing. However, many newly qualified nurses lack practical skill proficiency required to ensure safe patient care. The invasive skill peripheral vein cannulation (PVC) is particularly challenging to learn and perform. This study explored conditions influencing nursing students' learning and performance of the techn...

In the context of an Agent and Multi-Agent Systems course, satisfying the students demands for hands-on practice presents an interesting challenge. Educators have reported a variety of environments and techniques they use in order to increase active learning. In this paper we record our experience using NetLogo as part of the practical coursework that students need to carry out within an Intell...

Recently, an increase of employment pressure on the graduates has made higher demands on talents cultivation in colleges and universities. Those versatile talents with a sound theoretical basis and rich practical skills will deservedly become the objective of talents cultivation in colleges and universities, because they can gain more popularity in the society. Computer Network is the core cour...

Students studying a distance education course on introductory object-oriented programming are provided with a set of practical activities to support their learning. Each practical activity consists of a set of tasks to be worked through at home over a specified period of time. Whilst students are provided with considerable guidance on how to approach their practical work we have no knowledge of...

Introduction. Quality assessment of medical student’s knowledge and way of practical and laboratory teaching is one of the priority studies in medical Education. The aim of this study is going over these skills in different majors of Babol Medical University, in order to improve the Quality and Circumstances of education. Methods. This descriptive- analytical study was performed as cross-secti...

the Medical Council of India (MCI) prescribes the theory and practical curriculum for all medical subjects taught in the undergraduate medical course in India. Pharmacology for the basic medical degree (MBBS) course is taught for 18 months during the second and third year of the course. Currently, animal experiments are taught to students in the practical classes, and they have to perform these...

In most computer science curricula, formal reasoning about program correctness is taught separately from practical programming, and is thus by most students considered a purely theoretical activity. It has been a challenge to convince students of the practical applicability of formal methods. We present here an effort to apply Invariant Based Programming (IBP), a visual and practical program co...