Discovering the effort students devote to their studies is of key importance for an appropriate design of courses and syllabus. Although over the last years many studies have been carried out in this respect, few of them have focused on the more complex cases of cooperative and project-based learning. The main contributions of our work are: (i) the investigation of the connection between studen...

This article reports on an action research project which investigated the value of systematically and explicitly incorporating a pronunciation sub-syllabus within the overall syllabus of a full-time post-intermediate level ESOL course. This pronunciation syllabus involved raising each individual learner’s awareness of their difficulties with pronunciation and of the main features of spoken Engl...

This paper reports the outcome of a quasi-longitudinal investigation into the effects on students’ performance of integrating technology facilitated learning (TFL) using MS Excel into the business statistics syllabus of a tourism management programme. By varying the magnitude of TFL applied in the syllabus of the subject across four consecutive cohorts, the impact on the students’ performance w...

We introduce a method for automatically selecting the path, or syllabus, that a neural network follows through a curriculum so as to maximise learning efficiency. A measure of the amount that the network learns from each data sample is provided as a reward signal to a nonstationary multiarmed bandit algorithm, which then determines a stochastic syllabus. We consider a range of signals derived f...

This workshop will cover the theory and practical work required for the new Elective unit, Quanta to Quarks. The structure of this paper will follow the headings and outline as set out in the syllabus. This paper will give some background information on areas of physics that are new to the HSC Syllabus. Some aspects of this unit which should be familiar to Physics teachers will not be covered, ...

In general, university student have to decide own course schedule via course syllabus. However, at a large number of classes, it is very exhaustive to manually generate the course schedule for the students, due to various constraint condition or criteria. This paper has formalized this problem as a constraint satisfaction/optimization problem, developed an automated tool for a student personal ...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to explore the rationale for teaching sustainability and engineering ethics within a decision-making paradigm, and critically appraise ways of achieving related learning outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents the experience of the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney in teaching environmental sustainability and engineerin...

This article demonstrates an ESP lesson plan to teach English listening and speaking for 49 EFL college students in hospitality fields, i.e. Western Culinary Arts and Bakery Technology and Management in Taiwan. This ESP class is content-based, featuring a combination of language-oriented, skills-oriented and learning-oriented approaches to ESP syllabus design. The syllabus aims at reaching sati...

Traditional curriculum in electrical engineering separates semiconductor processing courses from courses in circuit design. As a result, manufacturing topics involving yield management, and the study of random process variations impacting circuit behavior are usually vaguely treated. The subject matter of this paper is to report a course developed at Texas A&M University to compensate for the a...