Calling Brussels: An Innovative Teaching Project

Innovative Teaching in Systems Analysis and Design - an Action Research Project

Systems Analysis and Design is a key subject in Information Technology courses, but students do not find it easy to cope with, since it is not “precise” like programming and not exact like Mathematics. It is a subject working with many concepts, modeling ideas into visual representations and then translating the pictures into a real life system. To complicate matters users who are not necessari...

Innovative Teaching and Teaching Improvement

English for Specific Purposes: Proposing an Innovative Approach to Teaching English to Medical Students

Background: English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses should empower students to satisfy their language needs. However, at many Iranian universities, these courses are mostly taught based on the Grammar Translation Method focusing on teaching grammatical rules and reading comprehension. The present study aims at proposing an innovative approach for teaching English to Medical students that ca...

Innovative teaching methods in Engineering

Second, structures, practices and methodologies of the current educational systems are not suitable enough to support the learning needs of the Knowledge Society. During the latter half of the past century, international thinking about education began to shift to a new paradigm. This shift was driven by an awareness of massive and on-going social, economic and technological changes, and the exp...

Innovative Approach to Teaching an Undergraduate Microprocessor Class

This paper investigates the advantages of teaching PICMicro® microcontrollers over the traditional teaching approach using full-blown microprocessors. Traditionally, most schools have taught the undergraduate microprocessor class using full-blown microprocessors such as the Z80, 68000, 8051, and the 68HC11. Although these microprocessors have been widely used in microcomputers and microcontroll...