In Catalonia (Spain), each university is required by law to offer lecturers a learning framework. This requirement is met by specialized centers: at our technical university, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) this center is the Institute for Education Sciences (ICE), to which the authors of this article belong. This institute offers training to both new and senior lecturers. This train...

We present a novel approach for automatic report generation from time-series data, in the context of student feedback generation. Our proposed methodology treats content selection as a multi-label (ML) classification problem, which takes as input time-series data and outputs a set of templates, while capturing the dependencies between selected templates. We show that this method generates outpu...

This paper presents a case study of an academic course for preservice computer science teachers that focus on teaching the discipline. The paper specifies and explains the rationale behind the development of the course and its explicit objectives. Achievement of the objectives is explained by describing the subject and content of the lessons, the types of activities integrated into the lessons ...

This article illustrates Conceptual Graph networks representing the content of courses to help students understand, relate, compare, memorize and retrieve many of their concepts. It shows that the ontology of WebKB-2 and its FL notation could be exploited by lecturers to create normalized representations in a scalable way and relatively quick way. They also permit the students to complement the...

Today, net-based forums are widely used within various types of educational settings. This article reports on a study of the communication in asynchronous forums by student teachers enrolled in a university course in the teaching of English as a foreign language (didactics) in Norway. The article aims to illustrate the complexity of the interaction going on in the forums in terms of roles, comm...

We study the problem of allocating students to projects, where both students and lecturers have preferences over projects, and both projects and lecturers have capacities. In this context we seek a stable matching of students to projects, which respects these preference and capacity constraints. Here, the stability definition generalises the corresponding notion in the context of the classical ...

The vogue for using various inhalation sedation tech­ niques has reached South Africa. Commercial houses advertise specialized equipment which is used for this purpose and there is a great deal of interest amongst members of the profession in courses given by visiting lecturers. Both advertisers and lecturers have stressed the safety factor; that is, the safety of using inhalation sedation for ...