Executive Summary The article describes successful learning methods for teaching about international Information Technology (IT) at two US business schools. The first case is an MBA course that, over the last eight years, built a repository of the “Landscape of IT in Nations” now used by people around the world. The second (combined Masters and BA) course has made use of this repository and int...

Online discussions can be a major aspect of learning and teaching when a course is offered entirely online. Using online discussions can lead to new considerations of the tutor’s role in relation to the students. This article outlines some of the research findings regarding online discussions, and considers these in relation to an online Masters course using a problem based approach. The course...

This paper discusses the experience of teaching Java and Extreme Programming(XP) practices to seniors and masters students familiar with C/C++ in a three credit hour course. Our Software Design and Development course teaches Java and development tools such as JUnit, CVS and Ant as students learn XP and complete both a practice project and an external customer project. The Model-View-Controller ...

* Extracted from the thesis "Estratégias de ensino-aprendizagem na enfermagem análise pela escala de coma de Glasgow", University of Guarulhos, 2006. 1 RN. MSc. in Nursing. Professor of the nursing course at Faculdades Integradas Teresa D'Ávila. Lorena, SP, Brazil. [email protected] 2 Full Professor, Masters' in Nursing Course at University of Guarulhos. Guarulhos, SP, Brazil. mskoizu...

The quality higher education is required for growth and development of country. Professional education is one of the pillars of higher education. Data mining techniques aim to discover hidden knowledge in existing educational data, predict future trends and use it for betterment of higher educational institutes as well as students. The objective of this study is to use prediction technique usin...

In this paper, we describe how Masters students at a university studying Information Systems adapt to Enterprise Modelling. The paper describes an overview of the course and its design and the feedback from the students based on a questionnaire at the end of the course. The feedback indicates that the students found it helpful to be able to select their own cases for their modelling assignment,...

INTRODUCTION The health systems in developing countries face challenges because of deficient monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity with respect to their knowledge, skills, and practices. Strengthening M&E training in public health education can help overcome the gaps in M&E capacity. There is a need to advance the teaching of M&E as a core element of public health education. OBJECTIVES To ...

In the article feasibility of using modern information and communication technologies in creating conducting lectures on general physics at university. The basic didactic methodological requirements for multimedia lectures’ how to find materials Internet, presented slide masters support from course «Thermodynamics statistical physics».