It is widely accepted in the higher education literature that a student-centred approach is pedagogically superior to a teacher-centred approach. In this paper, we explore the notion of student-centredness as a threshold concept and the implications this might have for academic staff development. We argue that the term student-centred in the Rogerian sense implies a focus on the person of the s...

Highly qualified staff are the key to successful operations management in any organization. In this paper, emphasis is put on problem of planning rotational assignment work tasks a multi-skilled guarantee maintaining their competencies at required level. The aim study propose novel declarative model for proactive allocation whilst taking into account forgetting effect. Sufficient conditions pro...

Student support is an important function in all universities. Most students expect access to support 24/7, but support staff cannot be available at all times of day. This paper addresses this problem, describing the development of an avatar-based system to guide students through the materials provided by a university student employability service. Firstly, students and staff were surveyed to es...

Offering a new course on user-interface design presents several problems for a Computer Science department. As well as building student competency in user interface design and user interface evaluation, the course must give timely feedback to students while ensuring that staff and student workload remains manageable. We developed a course that uses a novel system of tutorials and group work to ...

In the ranking of the teaching effectiveness of staff members through their student feedback scores, there can be a problem if it is perceived to be more difficult to obtain high scores in some courses than others. The result would be, therefore, that staff taking ‘difficult’ courses are disadvantaged. For example, it is often claimed that GEM and courses at the 1000 level are more difficult to...

Concrete Converger + Assimilator = 52% Accomodator + Diverger = 48% Active Reflective Accomodator + Converger = 44% Diverger + Assimilator = 56% Total number of students = 23 Index of Learning Styles Soloman and Felder The comparison of student and staff results from the Index of Learning Style survey are shown in Table 2 and Table 3. Table 2: Student Index of Learning Style Survey Results Proc...

INTRODUCTION Clinical education is an indispensible part of the nursing education. Clinical nurses play an important role in this teaching learning process. The quality and quantity of student-nurse interactions in the clinical area can either facilitate or hamper students' learning. The rationale of this research was to probe into staff nurses' attitudes toward nursing students within the cont...