The paper compares the treatment of fractions in a typical undergraduate college curriculum and in abstract algebra textbooks. It stresses that the main difference is that the undergraduate curriculum treats equivalent fractions as equal, and this treatment eventually leads to paradoxes and impairs the students’ ability to perceive ratios, proportions, radicals and rational exponents adequately...

Aspects of curriculum design automation using semantic analysis of Web texts to develop candidate keywords and voting alternatives, as well as methods of optimal aggregation of individual expert decisions are presented. It is shown how semantics analysis of online texts can help with: generating of initial version of the curriculum; generating of candidate keywords and alternative options for i...

This paper examines the development of a specialization for digital content management at the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University. Addressed in this case study are the pedagogical approach taken in the specialization’s curriculum development and the steps that were taken in developing the curriculum. The paper highlights five core characteristics that were used t...

This paper describes two initiatives based in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College that contribute to meeting educational and training needs in digital stewardship: the online Digital Stewardship Certificate and the Digital Curriculum Laboratory. Keywords—Digital, curation, stewardship, Digital Stewardship Certificate, Digital Curriculum Laboratory, Simmons.

This paper examines the development of a specialization for digital content management at the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University. Addressed in this case study are the pedagogical approach taken in the specialization’s curriculum development and the steps that were taken in developing the curriculum. The paper highlights five core characteristics that were used t...

The learning society has currently transformed from ‘wired society’ to become ‘mobile society’ which is facilitated by wireless network. To suit to this new paradigm, m-learning was given birth and rapidly building its prospect to be included in the future curriculum. Research and studies on m-learning spruced up in numerous aspects but there is still scarcity in studies on curriculum design of...