Preface In artificial-intelligence research, the probabilistic-network, or (Bayesian) belief-network framework for automated reasoning with uncertainty is rapidly gaining in popularity. The framework provides a powerful formalism for representing a joint probability distribution on a set of statistical variables. In addition, it offers algorithms for efficient probabilistic inference. At presen...

The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is the premier competition in computing science for secondary education. The competition problems are algorithmic in nature, but the IOI Regulations do not clearly define the scope of the competition. The international olympiads in physics, chemistry, and biology do have an official syllabus, whereas the International Mathematical Olympiad has mad...

Purpose – With the significant growth in electronic education materials such as syllabus documents and lecture notes, available on the internet and intranets, there is a need for robust central repositories of such materials to allow both educators and learners to conveniently share, search and access them. The purpose of this paper is to report on the work to develop a national repository for ...

Syllabuses are used to ensure consistency between educational institutions. A modularized syllabus contains weightages assigned to different units of a subject. Different criteria like Bloom’s taxonomy, learning outcomes etc., have been used for evaluating the syllabus coverage of a question paper. But we have not come across any work that focuses on syntactic text similarity evaluation of unit...

Recently, scientific knowledge has grown explosively because of rapid advancements that have occurred in academia and society. Because of this dramatic expansion of knowledge, learners and educators sometimes struggle to comprehend the overall aspects of syllabi. In addition, learners may find it difficult to discover appropriate courses of study from syllabi because of the increasing growth of...

1 Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, 33-207, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 Abstract  This paper details how a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology identified and codified a set of goals for engineering education, which can serve as the basis for curricular improvement and outcome based assessment. The res...

The increasing bureaucratisation of the New South Wales [NSW] Board of Studies [BOS], the statutory body responsible for curriculum determination in NSW, has led to a tightening of curricular controls and the further marginalisation of teacher participation in curriculum decision-making processes. The prevalence of acontextual mandated curriculum change initiatives compromises teacher professio...

The value of a person’s life work is difficult to discern, much less to evaluate or to become a source of wisdom, if we reflect upon that work from the limited perspectives of our own experience or the dominant religious and educational theories of the day. Oral history provides a way to listen to another closely, to analyze that person’s life and work in relation to a larger context, and to dr...

Public attitudes toward animal welfare have improved with growing social affluence, and veterinarians are increasingly expected to be informed about animal welfare in a broader sense than health alone. However, animal welfare has not been a traditional component of the veterinary curriculum. To help address this lack, the World Society for the Protection of Animals(WSPA) and the University of B...