Online video lectures have been considered an instructional media for various pedagogic approaches, such as the flipped classroom and open online courses. In comparison to other instructional media, online video affords the opportunity for recording student clickstream patterns within a video lecture. Video analytics within lecture videos may provide insights into student learning performance a...

For an autonomous system to provide value (e.g., to customers, designers, or society at large) it must have a reliable method to determine the intended goal. This is the essence of the value-alignment problem: ensuring that the objectives of an autonomous system match those of its human users. In robotics, value alignment is crucial to the design of collaborative robots that can integrate into ...

Textbooks play a pivotal role in language learning classrooms. The problem is, among a wide range of textbooks available, which one is more appropriate for a specific classroom and a group of learners. In order to evaluate ELT textbooks, theorists and writers have offered different kinds of evaluative frameworks based on a number of principles and criteria. This study evaluates one example of s...

This paper is a consideration of the issues associated with the infrastructural aspects, pedagogic considerations and the need to associate the usefulness of technology to enhance the learning experience. This technological path will potentially enhance the learning process, not replace the lecturer or tutor. For lecturers and students, the implications of eLearning are extensive. Increasingly ...

Continuous developments in the electronics industry have led to constantly changing career roles and graduate skills requirements. Students University of Electronic Science Technology China (UESTC) complained that numerous courses electronic engineering are heavily focused on theoretical knowledge is disconnected from needs industry. Thus, an effort toward delivering student-centered educationa...

⎯ All modern communication systems rely on the correct operation of communication protocols that are running in different layers of protocol stacks. Hence, a deep knowledge and understanding of them must be possessed by all communications engineers. Therefore, a basic communication protocols course must be an essential constituent of any higher education communications engineering programme. Au...

A standard problem within universities is that of teaching space allocation which can be thought of as the assignment of rooms and times to various teaching activities. The focus is usually on courses that are expected to fit into one room. However, it can also happen that the course will need to be broken up, or ‘split’, into multiple sections. A lecture might be too large to fit into any one ...

Scaffolding pedagogic excellence in higher education.

We report the results of mining student learning data from SlideTutor – a cognitive tutor in a medical diagnostic domain. The analysis was aimed at finding both individual learning patterns as well as common misconceptions that students possessed. We have discovered that indeed there are distinct learner stereotypes: hint-driven learners, failuredriven learners, and a mixed group of learners th...