We describe a statistical Natural Language Generation (NLG) method for summarisation of time-series data in the context of feedback generation for students. In this paper, we initially present a method for collecting time-series data from students (e.g. marks, lectures attended) and use example feedback from lecturers in a datadriven approach to content selection. We show a novel way of constru...

Knowledge Management System (KMS) is one way to organize and documented the knowledge of institution. The purpose of this study is to develop a prototype KMS in organizing and documenting the knowledge in the university and to do a document aggregation based on the total number, subjects and writers (lecturers). The development method of KMS prototype is using sharepoints which are able to coll...

This paper discusses how biographical data of the lecturers at the Directorate School in early Northern Song (960-1050) China are extracted, converted, verified, visualized and analyzed. Through this prosopographical survey of lecturers, I aim to address the following questions: to what extent did the scholarly background of lecturers shape students’ learning at the Directorate of Education? To...

abstract the role of efl lecturers’ first language (l1) in the efl courses has been an ongoing debate. a monolingual approach to efl suggests that the use of the target language solely in foreign language (fl) classroom improves learning of the target language. accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the attitude of iranian lecturers and efl learners towards using l1 as...

Tertiary teaching is interactive process and by no means unilateral. Lecturers are increasingly interested in students’ knowledge and understanding. Assessing students with the tests proposed provides the lecturers feedback on the students’ accomplishments; not only on parts of teaching material did they acquire, but also the information on which parts do they understand better and which parts ...

Remote lab has been considered as method that can be used to enhance e-learning, especially for engineering courses. However, in Malaysia, the application of remote labs is considered new and in most cases “unavailable”. This paper describes a study that has been carried out among Malaysian universities electrical and electronics engineering lecturers to explore the reasons for this phenomena. ...

OBJECTIVES Wiki systems are becoming increasingly important in university teaching. Not much is known about the opinion of lecturers of veterinary medicine regarding the active participation of students in teaching, their opinion on wiki systems and their motivation to use them in courses and to improve the quality of information. The objective of the present study was to evaluate how lecturers...

Descriptive statistics was performed with the aim to achieve research objective of to investigate lecturers’ usage of the mobile technology for teaching. A representative sample of 20 lecturers from the Faculty of Industrial Art & Design Technology of Universiti Industri Selangor (UNISEL), Malaysia was selected as the respondents. The result attested that lecturers fully accept the concept of m...

Emotional labour is a state that exists when there is a discrepancy between the emotional demeanour that an individual displays and the genuinely felt emotions that would be inappropriate to display (Mann 1999b).The study examined levels of emotional labour in university lecturers and compared these data to other occupations. Employing a mixed methods design, a sample of 61 university lecturers...

It is meaningful for colleges to evaluate teaching staff annually. This paper developed a method to make fuzzy evaluation of teaching staff based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Technique (FCE). The main idea is getting experts’ opinions for proposed evaluation criteria, calculating the most appropriate weights to the criteria based on combination between AHP and Entropy methods, rating stude...