At the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching we are conducting a study of engineering design expertise in which experts engage in the same tasks as students from a series of previous studies. One study goal is to create a continuum of engineering design expertise across a subset of dimensions (e.g., cognitive, process, affective) to describe learners’ growth toward acquiring expertise. W...

The term „pedagogy‟ has become a more commonly used word in English educational circles, but it is an under-used and partially misunderstood concept. It is the aim of this article to explore some of the factors that lead to effective classroom teaching. The medieval view of teaching was one where only subject knowledge was necessary, but the work of social constructivists has led to a more stud...

Allocation of educators to diverse and rapidly evolving educational programmes of study such as those within Computing and under increasingly tighter budgetary constraints is a non-trivial task. Suitability and availability of expertise coupled with a need to limit disruption to existing teaching assignments can often result in first fit solutions that are less than optimal in terms of suitabil...

BACKGROUND Effective teaching requires an understanding of both what (content knowledge) and how (process knowledge) to teach. While previous studies involving medical students have compared preceptors with greater or lesser content knowledge, it is unclear whether process expertise can compensate for deficient content expertise. Therefore, the objective of our study was to compare the effect o...

Background and aims: Evidence-based teaching has the potential to promote processing in learners that leads to better transfer of skills and knowledge to the workplace and contributes to the emergence of adaptive expertise. Research shows that evidence-based teaching strategies are likely to have the largest impact on student results. In this article we have tried to adapt evidence-based teachi...

In today’s knowledge-based economy, having proper expertise is crucial in resolving many tasks. Expertise Finding (EF) is the area of research concerned with matching available experts to given tasks. A standard approach is to input a task description/proposal/paper into an EF system and receive recommended experts as output. Mostly, EF systems operate either via a content-based approach, which...