Cloud computing is a significant alternative in today’s educational perspective. The technology gives the students and teachers the opportunity to quickly access various application platforms and resources through the web pages on-demand. Unfortunately, not all educational institutions often have an ability to take full advantages of the newest information technology. The paper analyzes possibi...

OBJECTIVE to investigate aspects of the interaction which occurs between feeling and learning from the perspective of the neurosciences. METHOD research with a qualitative approach, of the case study type, undertaken in Brazilian public nursing colleges. The research subjects were lecturers and students. The techniques of use of a questionnaire, individual interviews and a focus group were us...

Writing and publishing are crucial to the development of a successful academic career. However, lecturers typically receive little guidance on this strand of their job. Any support that does exist tends to focus on the technical and practical aspects of scholarly writing. Advice is rarely provided on managing creative and emotional facets factors that greatly contribute to writing quality and s...

A Computer Science degree includes a compulsory final year Project subject. The Project involves the design and implementation of a real-life computer application for a client, and gives students an opportunity to work in a setting emulating a real-life information technology environment. Students undertake the Project subject together with its co-requisite subject in English Language and Commu...

There is a widely held belief among doctors and nurses that when a colleague is in hospital, if anything can go wrong during the course of his illness it invariably will. To investigate this belief, we studied prospectively a group of pregnant doctors and doctors' wives, comparing the number of obstetric, paediatric, and psychiatric complications with those in two control groups of similar soci...

This paper explores accounting lecturer perceptions of non-English speaking background (NESB) student writing. In particular, it identifies specific features of samples of writing characterised by the lecturers as “very good” and those characterised as “poor.” The paper reports the findings of an exploratory study in which three highly experienced accounting lecturers evaluated a small sample o...

We investigate the significance of emotions in agent-based systems that support student-lecturer performance evaluation. Emotions are defined as discrete and consistent responding processes that are changed by internal or external events and stimulus. We begin the research by conducting questionnaires on the student-lecturer domain, from which the emotions of stakeholders in the domain are stud...

This paper describes participatory activities with university lecturers to design an online community. The objective of this study is to engage the users of an online community to collaboratively design their online community. We speculated that by involving them in the design team, we can identify their specific requirements, and they will accept and use the system. However, lecturers have hea...

The demands on lecturers in higher education to select, structure, and contextualise relevant up-to-date resources for their students have increased; behaviour that is often referred as curation. Currently, systematic insight into lecturers’ curational limited. This scoping literature review provides an overview of the existing body knowledge regarding behaviour. Twenty-four articles were selec...