The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is the premier competition in computing science for secondary education. The competition problems are algorithmic in nature, but the IOI Regulations do not clearly define the scope of the competition. The international olympiads in physics, chemistry, and biology do have an official syllabus, whereas the International Mathematical Olympiad has mad...

As we tentatively proceed into this brave new teaching world of the 21 st century, much debate is centering on the effective teaching of English to young learners. Key to this discussion has been the role of the young learner syllabus. While this article makes reference to the teaching of English to young learners in an ESL context based on documentation developed within the European Union, the...

In this paper we propose a course recommendation system based on historical grades of students in college. Our model will be able to recommend available courses in sites such as: Coursera, Udacity, Edx, etc. To do so, probabilistic topic models are used as follows. On one hand, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model infers topics from content given in a college course syllabus. On the ot...

As the last paper in a series aiming at innovating engineering education to face the post-industrial era, the paper continues the previous six, focusing on a fourfold innovative educational experiment. It describes a syllabus for agent-orientation dedicated to PhD students in computer science and information technology, defending its four unconventional facets: a) post-objectual content; b) pos...

Model-based methods for image reconstruction in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have seen increasing interest recently. This syllabus summarizes some of the complexities and tradeoffs that arise in model-based image reconstruction methods.