The Anatomical Society has developed a series of learning outcomes that 'experts' within the field would recommend as core knowledge outputs for a Master's Degree Programme in Pharmacy (MPharm) within the UK. Using the Anatomical Society core gross anatomy syllabus for medical anatomy as a foundation, a modified Delphi technique was used to develop outcomes specific to pharmacy graduates. A Del...

Syllabi are important educational resources. Gathering syllabi that are freely available and creating useful services on top of the collection presents great value for the educational community. However, searching for a syllabus on the Web using a generic search engine is an error-prone process and often yields too many irrelevant links. In this chapter, we describe our empirical study on autom...

Physical computing covers the design and realization of interactive objects and installations and allows students to develop concrete, tangible products of the real world, which arise from the learners’ imagination. This can be used in computer science education to provide students with interesting and motivating access to the different topic areas of the subject in constructionist and creative...

aspects of arithmetic. Some topics treated as Arithmetic in Syllabus A, are, in Syllabus B, treated as part of the Mathematics curriculum. We now examine these changes, one by one. F: Since the Thirties the use of statistical methode of analysis and representation, in industry, commerce and the social and natural sciences had been growing rapidly. By the early fifties statistical representation...

This course will make use of two websites1. The primary course web1 Read that sentence again. A student came to me at the end of last semester and acted as if I had never mentioned the existence of Scholar. site is at http://mackenab.ece.vt.edu/ece5684s15. At this site, you will find announcements, assignments, these handouts, the course syllabus, and so on. I will also use Scholar, https://sch...

I have taught Introduction to Natural Language Processing several times at Northern Illinois University. Since the students are more interested in the Python code that holds the assignments together than in the NLP content, over time I have cut back on linguistic content and added to the programming content. This year I renamed the course “Introduction to NLP in Python” and spent the first few ...

Introduction Grammar is the description of the regularities in a language. Knowledge of these regularities provides the learner with the means to generate potentially enormous number of original sentences. Grammar teaching can proceed in two ways: covert grammar teaching where the rules are taught to a communicative syllabus and overt grammar teaching where the rules of grammar are presented ex...