An essay by Belarusian children’s writers Andrei Zhvalevskyi and Evgenia Pasternak describes the experience of teaching literary skills in workshop “Literature with Authors” (“LISA”), opened 2016 Minsk, as well other educational programmes. The main trainees course are adolescents aged 12–17. authors review write about objectives workshop, methods peculiarities organisation studies, updating th...

This work deals with the development of android-based financial studio, an integrated application for calculating tax, pension, zakat, and loan. Financial studio can facilitate employers of any department and other individuals. The application is developed using MIT app inventor-based android platform. The financial studio has four computational modules, namely: (i) tax, (ii) pension, (iii) zak...

City University of Hong Kong has initiated a studio approach to teaching, starting with modules in introductory science and engineering. Studio teaching replaces the traditional large-group lecture, small-group tutorial and separate laboratory work with an integrated approach. It utilises computer-based teaching materials that emphasise multimedia and interactive learning. This paper describes ...

This paper reflects on Lancaster University’s software design studio, an approach for teaching software engineering that favours practical experimentation over traditional lectures. The studio has been running for two years at Lancaster. In the paper, we reflect on how students have used modeling as part of the studio experience. Our findings show that, given the freedom, students make heavy us...