1 Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, 33-207, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 Abstract  This paper details how a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology identified and codified a set of goals for engineering education, which can serve as the basis for curricular improvement and outcome based assessment. The res...

With the significant growth in available electronic education materials such as syllabus documents and lecture notes on the Internet and intranets there is a need for developing efficient indexing/categorizing mechanisms to organize such E-documents in institutional repositories. In this paper we describe our approach for automatic classification of syllabus documents in the national Irish syll...

Syllabuses are used to ensure consistency between educational institutions. A modularized syllabus contains weightages assigned to different units of a subject. Different criteria like Bloom’s taxonomy, learning outcomes etc., have been used for evaluating the syllabus coverage of a question paper. But we have not come across any work that focuses on syntactic text similarity evaluation of unit...

The European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) Core Syllabus for Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT) is now available online. The syllabus lists key elements of knowledge in Cardiac CT. It represents a framework for the development of training curricula and provides expected knowledge-based learning outcomes to the Cardiac CT trainees.

The history of pedagogy and education shows that syllabus has always had a crucial role in the success of every course. Nowadays, the course designers allocate an especial room for learners’ needs which are continuously changing in an expanding world. This demands a new vision in education through cooperation with others via negotiation for syllabus. Although a great body of research has been c...

background : education is based upon the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are required for an occupation, and the changes occurring in the occupations and duties as well as in the ideals and values necessitate constant needs analysis. furthermore, owing to the transformations in sciences, especially medical sciences, the current syllabus for the operation room courses at associate level wi...

A course offering is a collection of learning objects composed together based on a syllabus. Syllabi define the contents of the course, as well as other information such as resources and assignments. Currently, there is no standard format for representing syllabi that can facilitate automatic processing of syllabi contents for various applications. In this paper, we report on the current practi...