Detecting students at risk of failing is particularly useful and desirable when it is done in a timely manner and accompanied with practical information that can help with remediation. In this paper we investigate ways to detect students at risk of failing early in the semester for timely intervention. The context of our study is a first year computer programming course. We explore whether the ...

This paper reports the evaluation of a hybrid mathematics methods course for novice teachers. During a fifteen-week semester, participants met face-to-face for approximately 60% of the semester and took advantage of an online format for the other 40% of the semester. Online activities included asynchronous discussion board postings, synchronous chats as an entire class, synchronous chats in sma...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of assisted problem-based learning (PBL) compared to a didactic approach in a pharmaceutics course. DESIGN Data were collected over 7 offerings of the course. In the first half of the semester about half of the students (PBL1) learned in a PBL format while the other students (PBL2) received didactic lectures. In the second half of the semester, the teach...

1) Complex Analysis by Lars V. Ahlfors, Third Edition, McGraw-Hill, (QA331 A45 1979) This is a standard text, written by a winner of the Fields medal. 2) Analytic Function Theory by Einar Hille, Volume I and II, Chelsea Publishing Company, (QA331 H54 1973) The second volume especially has discussions of a number of interesting topics. 3) (a) Elements of the Theory of Functions by Konrad Knopp, ...

Main Courses lect. prac. lab. cr. prerequisite Semester 1 (spring) Applications of optimization [1] 2 1 4 Formal methods [2]

Main Courses lect. prac. lab. cr. prerequisite Semester 1 (spring) Applications of optimization [1] 2 1 4 Formal methods [2]