We evaluated the effectiveness of tutorials in a post-registration nursing degree course in Hong Kong. We utilised multiple research methods within an overall action research paradigm: a pre/post experimental design, non-participant observation of tutorials, journal keeping by tutors and student interviews. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of tutors’ teaching styles on students’ ...

Students embarking on a bioscience degree course, such as Animal Science, often do not have sufficient experience in mathematics. However, mathematics forms an essential and integral part of any bioscience degree and is essential to enhance employability. This paper presents the findings of a project looking at the effect of mathematics tutorials on a cohort of first year animal science and man...

Many people learn how to use complex authoring applications through tutorials. However, user interfaces for authoring tools differ between versions, platforms, and competing products, limiting the utility of tutorials. Our goal is to make tutorials more useful by enabling users to repurpose tutorials between similar applications. We introduce UI translation interfaces which enable users to loca...

This study examined the effectiveness of a series of Web-based, multimedia tutorials on methods of human body composition analysis. Tutorials were developed around four body composition topics: hydrodensitometry (underwater weighing), dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, bioelectrical impedance analysis, and total body electrical conductivity. Thirty-two students enrolled in the course were random...

Complexities of present systems or SoC designs are forcing the movement to a higher level of abstraction than RTL. With most of the system containing a large portion of software, the present languages, methodologies and tools are not adequate to tackle system-level design. SystemC is a C++ class library aimed at modelling systems with hardware and software content at many different levels of ab...