We describe the structure, topics, and activities used in teaching a first-year seminar course in statistical literacy. This course is entirely structured around current affairs, although common themes emerge that reflect the core material for most quantitative literacy courses. Special emphasis is given to the computing and calculating used in the course to illustrate key concepts. This approa...

Course objectives: At the end of this course you should be able to: • Recognise the types of functional groups which can be prepared by catalytic asymmetric methods discussed in the course; • Use this knowledge in planning the synthesis of enantiomerically enriched compounds from given prochiral starting materials; • Outline the scope and limitations of any methods you propose, with respect to ...

In an attempt to align required general education courses in foreign language with students’ most likely applications for language and culture knowledge, a fourth-semester survey course entitled Spanish in the Professions: Bilingualism in the U.S. has been developed at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. This article describes the rationale for the course, the curriculum developed, aut...

This study explored e-learning problems and solutions reported by 223 students with disabilities, 58 campus disability service providers, 28 professors, and 33 e-learning professionals from Canadian colleges and universities. All four groups indicated, via online questionnaires, problems with: accessibility of websites and course/learning management systems (CMS); accessibility of digital audio...

An elective course on optoelectronic materials and devices offered at the University of San Diego is described. Main topics include band structure, semiconductor alloys, optical processes, photodetectors, light emitting diodes, laser diodes, fiber optics, and quantum wells. Laboratory projects and innovative pedagogical aspects of the course are also discussed. 2003 Optical Society of America ...

the purpose of the present study is to measure male and female students’ attitudes towards social studies course and to investigate its relationship with students’ exam anxiety in public high schools of the first and fifth areas of isfahan. students have different interpretations and attitudes toward school materials. curriculum developers must plan the curriculum based on real and valid data g...

Purpose: The goal of this work was to develop further the educational platform of the Internet Students Teaching Centre (ISTC) the e-learning system based on the available state-of-the-art internet technologies (HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL) with the possibility to generate the personalised PDF documents. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents the process of working out the educational materi...