Carmine Bianchi is Full Professor of Business Management at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Palermo. He is director of the Masters course on: ‘‘Managing Business Growth through System Dynamics & Accounting Models’’, and of the doctoral programme in Business Management. He is also the scientific co-ordinator of CUSA System Dynamics Group, and partner in Business Dynamics S.r.l.,...

The article summarizes the experience of training masters mathematics for organizing and conducting Mathematics Olympiads schoolchildren. purpose is to characterize summarize methodological features organization Among research methods used, following were decisive: analysis generalization scientific methodical sources theoretical justification highlighted problem, modeling, synthesis obtained d...

The creation of quality e-learning material creates a cost dilemma for many institutions, since it has both high variable and high fixed costs. This cost dilemma means that economies of scale are difficult to achieve, which may result in a consequent reduction in the quality of the learning material. Based on the experience of creating a masters level course at the UK Open University, the artic...

This paper analyses student construction of case studies, using dialogue and role plays, to stimulate and consolidate understand of organization communication research , theory and methodology. Students undertaking a course as part of a Masters program in communication management need to absorb a range of organizational research perspectives and organizational communication theories. Making the...

Optimal and Learning Control for Autonomous Robots has been taught in the Robotics, Systems and Controls Masters at ETH Zurich with the aim to teach optimal control and reinforcement learning for closed loop control problems from a unified point of view. The starting point is the formulation of of an optimal control problem and deriving the different types of solutions and algorithms from there...