INTRODUCTION Context of the Study The Internet is becoming one of the most important tools in the educator's or trainer's toolbox. Internet-based distance education and training have been experimented within many countries. Already, materials and courses, ranging from a simple syllabus to highly structured courses developed by instructional design experts, are available. Some courses are free, ...

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We propose an extension of the Generalized Balanced Academic Curriculum Problem (GBACP), a relevant planning problem arising in many universities. The problem consists of assigning courses to teaching terms and years, satisfying a set of precedence constraints and balancing students’ load among terms. Differently from the original GBACP formulation, in our case, the same course can be assigned ...

A project sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the University of California, Davis, evaluated ten large undergraduate courses offered as both traditional and on-line versions. The on-line versions were typically hybrid models and experience with developing these courses led to an extension of the hybrid model to three components. Two components are on-line, one fully asynchronous and...

Discourse in and about computational linguistics depends on a shared body of knowledge. However, little content is shared across the introductory courses in this field. Instead, they typically cover a diverse assortment of topics tailored to the capabilities of the students and the interests of the instructor. If the core body of knowledge could be agreed and incorporated into introductory cour...

This article is the second work in a series of papers on advancing specification and modelling techniques for goal-based use cases. In this article we highlight major and remaining problems associated with the true semantics of extension points and rejoin points, which are used as branching and return locations for a use case’s alternative interaction courses, and also for the application of UM...

The purpose of this research was to analyzing the perception and technical knowledge of wheat farmers in shoushtar township, Khouzestan province, Iran regarding organic farming products. The research method employed was correlative-descriptive. The population consisted of wheat farmers in Shoushtar township Khuzestan Province of Iran. A random sample of wheat farmers (n = 163) was selected. The...

On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed an outbreak of SARS-COV-2 pneumonia in city Wuhan, China unknown ethology until then, which gave rise to COVID-19. Consequently, area ​​education, emergency remote teaching began as alternative for continuity classes. Thus, adaptation distance learning was necessary due extension physical distancing measures combat spread virus...