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The transition from high school to college can be very difficult for many students. The authors believe that parents can advocate on behalf of their children by educating themselves on particular transitional challenges their children potentially face, as well as by helping these freshmen daughters and sons establish realistic educational and social goals. Parents can assist their children by helping...
This paper details the emergence and development of the ‘Centre for Engineering and Design Education’ (CEDE) at Loughborough University, UK, and provides ample evidence that such a Centre can prove to be a highly effective support mechanism for discipline-specific academics and can develop and maintain valuable national and international networks and collaborations along with considerable esteem for...
This paper discusses the use of participatory methodologies for designing services to be added to a mobile application supporting students' activities. The work is related to a project for building a city-wide campus in a small city with a rather dynamic university environment located in northern Italy. Since the beginning of the project, users (that is, students) have been involved in designing services...
We present self-organisation processes within a decentralised P2P open Desktop Grid System. Every agent aimsto maximise the speedup of his jobs by joining the system. Therefore he needs to cooperate with other agents. We use a trust metric to assess the willingness of cooperation for other agents. To further optimise their speedup agents can form explicit Trusted Communities with trusted peers. Thus...
Indonesia's Directorate General of Higher Education (DIKTI) has had a concept of Faculty Workload (BKD) and faculty certification program. The implementation of the both program in our college, ITTelkom, is less effective and less able to substantially improve the performance of institutions in general and teachers in particular. The competency of human resources is the main issues being the major...
Considering the popularity and ubiquitous nature of mobile phones, the acceptance of m-Learning in educational institutions is limited. While several studies have reviewed m-Learning platforms, different settings and contexts make it difficult to collate these studies and discover the key factors for the successful adoption of m-Learning platform. This study uses meta-analysis technique to compare...
Education shows a great impact in the life of an individual. In present time, students are expected to become 21st century learners to fulfill the demands of 21st century. Many strategies are developed and are being implemented in developed countries so that the skills acquired by students from education makes a positive impact in changing markets. But, the implementation of these methods in developing...
Communicative competence remains an important skill expected of prospective graduates among employers. Despite its importance, this notion lacks clarity in its contextual definition. Such indefinite clarification has created apprehension among stakeholders like engineering students and industry practitioners' who are involved in the business workplace related oral communicative events such as technical...
This paper presents the results of the use of a Motivation Booster in blended learning experiences. The implementation of the booster is embedded in the Know Cat system. The main findings presented are related with the improvement of the blended learning experiences. Specifically the motivational messages sent by the Motivation Booster to the students help to increase the students' interactions in...
This article presents the results of a design workshop that developed scenarios of learning in an imaginary "smart city": Villard-de-Lans (Vercors, French Alps) by exploring suitable methodological approaches to the Smart City Learning Design. The aim of this case study was to propose "glocal" solutions intended to balance the global trends and the expectations of the community...
In recent years, the demand of in-class interaction and assessment for learning is rising. There is more emphasis on using electronic tools for assessment for learning in order to facilitate teachers seeking to identify and diagnose student learning problems, and providing quality feedback for students on how to improve their work. This paper discusses the challenges of e-assessment and introduced...
“Making Academic Change Happen” (MACH) is a workshop designed and conducted by faculty of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The purpose of the three-day workshop is to provide faculty, staff, and administrators with change management tools that can assist them as they enact change on their own campuses. These changes may occur at many different sites, from the classes that they teach to the campus...
This position paper reflects on recent work that sought to make positive changes to the IEEE Requirements Engineering conference (RE), and on twenty years of requirements engineering (REng) research. We question the values that seem to underpin RE, and offer what we believe are more appropriate values. We argue that these new values would result in better alignment between research and the needs of...
This paper describes the workshops held in conjunction with RE'13 and its corresponding presentation of results during the main conference. This paper presents the contents, structure, and format of the “Results” event: A slide show is followed by a poster session. This paper concludes with a complete list of all collocated workshops and their descriptions. The audience members of this session can...
The International IEEE Requirements Engineering conference (RE) is the premier international forum for requirements engineering. However, participant interaction mechanisms have not received significant recent attention and conference attendees have suggested that interaction support could be improved. The “RE Interactive” program is a first implementation step to increase the level and quality of...
This short piece provides an introduction to a panel session that will take place at the RE'13 conference. The purpose of the panel will be to explore different possible future directions of the RE conference and its community. This piece outlines the arguments that will be made by each of the panelists to direct the conference and community towards different perspectives — both more academic — and...
ABSTRACT We present our findings from the Electronic Textile Interface Swatch Book Workshops. The workshops were designed as the first in a series of collaborative design experiences that introduce small groups of faculty/students teams from particular design disciplines to the concept of electronic textile interfaces (ETIs) through the use of a textile interface “swatch book” with the support of...
Goal of this paper is to overview the structure of the Networking Academy program as well as to identify emerging technologies which are supporting the NetAcad program even in content delivery or support of the institutions which are responsible for the content delivery. Besides of the general overview we are sharing best practice in creating collaborative environment.
This paper presents the work undertaken so far in the formulation of a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) for research in Systems of Systems Engineering in the EU. The T-AREA-SoS project is introduced to provide a context, together with a section on Drivers for Change which the SRA needs to take into account. The strategy and process for the generation of the SRA is described, followed by details of...
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