The recent pandemic has changed the way we see education. During years, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers, such as Coursera or edX, are reporting millions of new users signing up on their platforms. Though online review systems standard among many verticals, no standardized fully decentralized exist in MOOC ecosystem. In this vein, believe that there is an opportunity to leverage avai...

In this study, we investigated two selection biases that may affect the obesity-mortality link over the life course: mortality selection and healthy participant effects. If these selection mechanisms are stronger among obese adults than among non-obese adults, they may contribute to the weakening obesity-mortality link over the life course. We used data from the National Health and Nutrition Ex...

the selection of a growing medium is one of the most important decisions in the culture of hydroponic crops. in order to select a suitable medium for hydroponic cucumber (cucumis sativus l. cv. negin), an experiment was carried out on growing media containing different particle sizes of perlite and organic substrates in a run-to-waste system in a greenhouse experiment. the growing media tested ...

BACKGROUND In 1998, a new selection process which utilised an aptitude test and an interview in addition to previous academic achievement was introduced into an Australian undergraduate medical course. AIMS To test the outcomes of the selection criteria over an 11-year period. METHODS 1174 students who entered the course from secondary school and who enrolled in the MBBS from 1999 through 2...

The university timetabling, examination and course, are known to be highly constrained optimization problems. Metaheuristic approaches, and their hybrids, have successfully been applied to solve the problems. This paper presents three artificial immune algorithms, the algorithms inspired by the immune system, for university timetabling; clonal selection, immune network and negative selection. T...

The τέχνη method is an approach to undergraduate computer science education that is based on cognitive constructivisim, in the sense of Piaget, and which invokes several course design directives that include re-combining art and science, problem-based learning, problem selection from the visual problem domain, and cognitive apprenticeship. The paper describes a new τέχνη course in data structur...

When comparing different breeding programs the first question usually asked is "what are the expected responses to selection of the various plans". A considerable part of this course will focus on methods of designing breeding programs, which maximize response to selection. Although breeding plans are often quite complex, most can usually be understood in terms of a few simple principles of res...

We used the datasets of the NIPS 2003 challenge on feature selection as part of the practical work of an undergraduate course on feature extraction. The students were provided with a toolkit implemented in Matlab. Part of the course requirements was that they should outperform given baseline methods. The results were beyond expectations: the student matched or exceeded the performance of the be...