The authors have developed an interactive environment for the creation and maintenance of dynamic, active multimedia-based teaching mechanisms. The Environment is designed to be user-friendly and to facilitate the creation of educational material. This tool has already been used to create courses in Multi Dimensional Signal Processing (MDSP) by researchers working together while geographically ...

Teaching Stochastic Finance on a basic level, e.g. to undergraduates or even in school is a task which is hard to fulfil with common continuous theory. It takes a lot of mathematical prerequisites, sometimes it is not even possible to introduce them since the level of education among students is too low. This is one of the main reasons for the use of discrete asset models to describe financial ...

In the last three issues of JOOP [1-3] we discussed problems with and possible solutions for teaching object-oriented programming to beginners. One area mentioned as a problem was programming environments. We claimed, in fact, that the programming environment is, in a teaching context, crucially important. After we made that claim in an earlier column, I received several e-mails from people dis...

1 Ming T. Tham, Dept. of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, England, [email protected] 2 Richard W. Jones, School of Engineering, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, England. [email protected] Abstract Process Control is acknowledged to be the technology that has the greatest potential for improving competitiveness in the ...

The WWW (World Wide Web) has been the best technology for distributing information since it was born. It has been used for teaching and learning (Llamas et.al. 1996) (Vassileva 1997), but the learning process is more complex than navigating between different static pages and reading them. There is a need for mechanisms that modify the navigation alternatives by some sort of adaptation, so that ...

Knowledge plays an important role in an agent's ability to perform well in its environment. Teaching can be used to improve an agent's performance by enhancing its knowledge. We propose a speci c model of teaching, which we call embedded teaching. An embedded teacher is an agent situated with a less knowledgeable \student" in a common environment. The teacher's goal is to lead the student to ad...

The study is conducted to figure out the relationship between procrastinating behavior, and the instructor’s teaching behavior perceived by the learners in University e-learning setting and classroom community sense, class environment in the e-learning situation. Objects of the study are 367 students attending e-learning classes in C University located in Daejeon. The test data from Teaching Im...

Universities must motivate future professionals so that they are able to apply their experience over and beyond the scientific and technological context [1]. These professionals should also be trained so that they are aware of the current position as regards the economy and limited energy resources, and they must be creative, knowledgeable and committed if they are to rethink the current model....

Nowadays robotics has become an important area in science and technology where it has been widely used in many fields such as industry, education, research, and entertainment. Due to current and prospective needs, robotics has becomes an important part of the university curriculum and research. To teach a practical subject like robotics requires traditionally expensive equipment. Limited number...