Student expectations of TESOL Programs

Podcasting, student learning and expectations

This paper presents preliminary results of a trial of podcasting in six law units involving 1244 students during semester 1, 2006. The data revealed a rapid uptake and acceptance of podcasting with few difficulties. The vast majority of students perceived podcasting as having excellent value, particularly lectures and to a lesser extent, tutorials. Podcasting altered study habits, with students...

Performance Expectations on Ada Programs

A method for performance estimation of Ada programs by analyzing their syntactical structure is presented. The use of algorithmic knowledge by means of code annotations to improve the analysis is discussed. Dual loop benchmarks are used to estimate the execution time for basic Ada features from which all other estimations are derived. An example program is analyzed and compared to its actual ti...

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors

The decrease in cost and increase in automation of audio visual systems for the classroom has led to widespread deployment of lecture capture within higher education. While a number of studies have examined the effectiveness of such systems within an institution, no study has characterized student background across institutions. In this paper we describe three different lecture capture systems ...

TESOL: Trojan Horse of Globalisation

The Premedical Student: Training and Practice Expectations.

Occupational burnout is a substantial and growing problem among current medical practitioners. Many practicing physicians lament the encroachment of managed care, infringement of physician autonomy by insurers, decreasing salaries, and decreasing prestige. In light of this unfavorable review of the profession, why are thousands of undergraduates all over the country still on the premedical trac...