Business process management (BPM) has become widely accepted within business community as a means for improving business performance. However, it is of the highest importance to incorporate BPM as part of the curriculum at the university level education in order to achieve the appropriate acceptance of the method. Goal of the paper is to determine the current state of education in business proc...

Modern recognition systems require high-accuracy low-complexity methods. We explore a polynomial network approach to recognition problems. Traditionally, polynomial networks have been difficult to use for recognition because of either low accuracy or problems associated with large training sets. We detail a new training method that solves these problems. For identification, the method partition...

Most supervised image classification methods need pure pixels for training, which complicates training when pure pixels are scarce. In these cases, it can be difficult to obtain a sufficiently large number of representative training samples to accurately estimate the spectra of the classes. The direct use of ‘almost pure’ pixels is not advisable. These cause the estimated mean to be biased and ...

This study aimed to analyze the academic standards of teaching physical education methods according to competencies fields, identify student/teacher teaching competencies in motor expression teaching methods syllabus according to quality academic standards and designing teaching competencies evaluation form for student/teacher in fourth grade, Education Department, Faculty of Physical Education...

Innovative teaching methods to address emerging practice needs are critical components of effective occupational therapy education. Experiential learning strategies can enhance skill development and translation of knowledge into OT clinical practice. In addition, skills such as coaching may provide important links to health promotion practices. Thirty-two occupational therapy students took part...

In Becker (1997), I called attention to economists' lack of interest in the teaching of economics and the plunging number of majors in economics within the United States. Six years later I reported on the growth in economists' interest in the teaching of economics and an apparent turnaround in the number of majors (Becker, 2003). For instance, when economics degrees were at a relative high of 2...

“Buy an identity or surprise your senses” are in short a few from the results of the course “Design for a specific Theme” by 4th grade students Industrial Design Engineering at Twente University. The theme in the title of this course is philosophical, based on the theory of globalization of German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. It came out that the structure of this course was particularly suita...

Over the past few years the question of whether the lecture is an effective teaching method has been one of the most heatedly debated topics in the field of higher education. While research on the effectiveness of lectures has been carried out since at least the 1960s, the value of the lecture has been increasingly questioned recently for a number of reasons that include waning lecture attendan...

Prior research that examined the effectiveness of face-to-face versus various computer-assisted teaching methods has resulted in “no significant differences.” However, this research was conducted without the benefit of a theoretical model that could be tested empirically with structural equation modeling techniques. The purpose of this paper is to develop such a model that will be operationaliz...

The growth of internet and the evolution of supporting infrastructures motivated universities and other educational institutions to adopt new teaching methods. These unsupervised methods are focused on the dissemination of the educational material and the evaluation of the users through tests and activities. The user behavior is not monitored and the performance of users cannot be reasoned in m...