In this paper, a successful and fruitful joint project will be presented. The project joins participants from 9 countries and from 15 universities. Since it started in 2001, this project entitled “Software Engineering: Computer Science Education and Research Cooperation” helped participants to gain excellent, up to date educational material, apply modern teaching methods, exchange experiences w...

The UNU School for Land Administration Studies aims to promote the role of land administration worldwide for good governance in developing countries. A key component of the mandate of the School is to develop a worldwide network of academic partners. Each partner in this network contributes with complementary knowledge and experience, yet distribution of this knowledge to local capacity buildin...

This research deals with role playing (RP) aimed at assisting learners to optimize their managerial style. While RP is often used in training sessions, contributions on its evaluations have decreased since the beginning of the 1980s. Although RP as a training method had been criticized for several reasons, RP has the advantage to conciliate theoretical knowledge and practical construction of me...

Modern educational technology is playing a very important role in information engineering discipline in ordinary universities and colleges. The using of modern educational technology can be classified into instinctive stage and rational stage. In the instinctive stage, users have been aware of the importance of those modern assisted teaching methods and make full application already. In rationa...

Courses on Social Informatics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics have been offered since 1992. After 25 semesters, with more than 1200 students (mainly electrical engineering majors) who have taken the courses, our views on the subject, together with a comprehensive report on teaching experiences are now presented in a two volume handbook. We would like to share our notions ...

Accurately assessing the quality of one’s work is a crucial skill for professional designers and design students alike. This paper describes teaching materials that help students self-assess their work in a design course at a large university in the US. Using these materials, students have been successful in evaluating themselves—in 69% of all weekly student submissions, self-assessed scores ma...

Based on kinesthetic learning style theory and interviews regarding teachers’ experiences applying traditional astronomy teaching methods, a mobile digital armillary sphere (MDAS) using augmented reality (AR) was developed for use during astronomical observation instruction. The MDAS enables visual processes and limb movements similar to those that would occur in actual outdoor experiences to b...

Equal participation for people with special needs is an important objective in education politics. Governments have a strong emphasis on enabling education for all citizens. The trend of using e-learning both for on campus and remote delivery of students has the potential of enabling new opportunities for people who previously faced challenges following education. On the other hand, providing o...

The development of information technologies provides a support to traditional teaching and even makes its replacement possible. There are numerous benefits from distance learning systems. Since distance learning is not flawless, the paper discusses its advantages and disadvantages alike. Among the latter are: motivation of teachers, abuse of teaching materials, verification of student knowledge...

The M.A.T.R.I.X (Modalities of Telematic Learning and Inter-university Results that can be Extrapolated to Blended Learning)1 project identified and described the diverse teaching methods and practices applied in a representative sample of virtual and blended learning degree courses taught at different Spanish Universities using the G92 Shared Virtual Campus. The purpose was to extrapolate the ...