Waste in Educational Curricula

Creating Educational Technology Curricula for Advanced Studies in Learning Technology

Curriculum design and content are key factors in the area of human resource development. To examine the possibility of using a collaboration of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Educational Technology (ET) to develop innovative improvements to the education system, the curricula of these two areas of study were lexically analyzed and compared. As a further example, the curriculum of a joint ...

Integrating Adaptive Educational Content into Different Courses and Curricula

This paper addresses the problem of automatically integrating adaptive content into different courses and curricula, thus exploiting the potential of the Internet in education. The paper focuses on the work of the IST KOD “Knowledge on Demand” European project in this context, for developing adaptive content in an interoperable and interchangeable format, so that it can be easily transferred ac...

Electronic learning as a New Educational Technology and its Integration in Medical Education Curricula

Increasing access to the softwares and hardwares for electronic learning (e-learning), especially World Wide Web (WWW), has opened a new horizon to educational institutions. It seems that using these facilities helps to attain several goals as educational quality indicators, including student-centeredness, life-long learning, active and interactive learning, and using multimedia in learning. Al...

Comparison of Learning Outcomes for Simulation-based and Traditional Inference Curricula in a Designed Educational Experiment

Bridging the Educational Gap in Embedded Systems Curricula: Developing an E-commerce Audio Streaming System

In this paper, a design seminar on embedded systems is described for fourth year students in the Multimedia and signal processing option at our electrical engineering department. The aim of the seminar is to ease up the adaptation of the universitary curriculum to what is expected by industry of a high level engineer. The main purpose of the seminar is to provide the students with a real life p...