dear editor program directors need to evaluate educational programs to ensure their quality (1). the results of a survey conducted in tehran university of medical sciences (tums) in early 2012 showed that program evaluation was not an established process in the majority of schools. it was at best a stand-alone project focusing on a single course or a particular component of it with no structure...

Process considerations are a central part of the material for a software engineering course; they are also central to accomplishing full-lifecycle, team-based systems development projects in such a course. This paper discusses the ways in which we have achieved an e ective process structure within an academic context of full-year project courses. The key features are a kernel project plan and a...

Process considerations are a central part of the material for a software engineering course; they are also central to accomplishing full-lifecycle, team-based systems development projects in such a course. This paper discusses the ways in which we have achieved an e ective process structure within an academic context of full-year project courses. The key features are a kernel project plan and a...

dear editor, as a current phd student working on my dissertation entitled “developing a nursing handover process program in pediatric ward: an action research,” i interviewed nurses and students and found that they had little knowledge about the ethical and legal principles of nursing handover and expressed their dissatisfaction about this process. one of the reasons for this problem, they expr...

This paper describes a final-year Master ́s course in large-scale software development. A number of issues such as closeness to an application domain and executing the software on a real target system are stressed in order to imitate an industrial environment. The experience gained from the course is discussed. In particular, effort data (in terms of man-hours) from the course are presented, bot...

We present a detailed plan to teach Entity-Relationship modeling in an undergraduate course in Database Systems. The course syllabus fulfills the requirements of a first database course in the IS 2002 model curriculum. It is designed to be offered on-line for self-paced learning within the 15 weeks of a regular term. Our goal is to ensure the scope of coverage and the quality of delivery, and a...