A Toolkit for Implementing High-Quality Student Learning Objectives 2.0 -- May 2014 (PDF)

A Quality Control Toolkit for Student Learning Objectives

The ‘Tutorless’ Design Studio: A Radical Experiment in Blended Learning

This paper describes a pedagogical experiment in which a suite of novel blended learning strategies was used to replace the traditional role of design tutors in a first year architectural design studio. The pedagogical objectives, blended learning strategies and outcomes of the course are detailed. While the quality of the student design work produced by the blended learning design studio was i...

PBL 2.0: enhancing problem-based learning through increased student participation

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to test a new problem-based learning (PBL) method to see if it reinvigorated the learning experience. METHOD A new PBL format called PBL 2.0, which met for 90 min two times per week, was introduced in 2009 into an 11-week integrated neuroscience course. One hundred second-year medical students, divided into 10 groups of 10, who had completed their first y...

The role of e-tutors in promoting e-learning using Web 2.0 technologies

The University of South Africa (UNISA) is South Africa’s largest Open Distance Learning (ODL) institution and the leading provider of higher education opportunities within the ODL sphere. UNISA’s high student enrolment figures and its strict adherence to its ODL policy requires heightened efforts in student support. One mode of providing student support and increasing the throughput rate, is th...

Morfessor 2.0: Toolkit for statistical morphological segmentation

Morfessor is a family of probabilistic machine learning methods for finding the morphological segmentation from raw text data. Recent developments include the development of semi-supervised methods for utilizing annotated data. Morfessor 2.0 is a rewrite of the original, widely-used Morfessor 1.0 software, with well documented command-line tools and library interface. It includes new features s...