1 Kurt Gramoll, University of Oklahoma, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Norman, OK 73019 [email protected] Abstract A scalable Internet portal to assist teaching statics and dynamics is presented (www.ecourses.ou.edu). Each instructor can set up their own Internet class where students can view lectures, review course material, complete homework, access examples, post questions and complete t...

We investigated some of the key features of effective active learning by comparing the outcomes of three different methods of implementing active-learning exercises in a majors introductory biology course. Students completed activities in one of three treatments: discussion, writing, and discussion + writing. Treatments were rotated weekly between three sections taught by three different instru...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology is revolutionizing the fields of population genetics, molecular ecology and conservation biology. But it can be challenging for researchers to learn the new and rapidly evolving techniques required to use NGS data. A recent workshop entitled 'Population Genomic Data Analysis' was held to provide training in conceptual and practical aspects of data pro...

background and purpose: teaching is a mutual and cooperative process in which the learner and teacher both get affected, thus its effectiveness should be studied from the viewpoint of students and teachers so that by approximating the viewpoints, more effectiveness can be achieved in education, therefore we aimed to study the characteristics of effective teaching from the viewpoint of students ...

When instructors prepare learning materials for students, they frequently develop accompanying questions to guide learning. Natural language processing technology can be used to automatically generate such questions but techniques used have not fully leveraged semantic information contained in the learning materials or the full context in which the question generation task occurs. We introduce ...

In designing educational tests, instructors often have access to a question bank that contains a large number of questions that test knowledge on the concepts underlying a given course. In this setup, a natural way to design tests is to simply ask learners to respond to the entire set of available questions. This approach, however, is clearly not practical since it involves a significant time c...

Effective undergraduate teaching in large courses is hard work. Even after years of teaching the same topic, committed instructors still spend hours preparing for each class, updating their material and improving their presentations. They spend additional time creating challenging homework problems and exam questions that will test student understanding, not just retention of facts. For instruc...

in this study, the researchers investigated a critical aspect of efl/esl writing pedagogy-the impact of teacher written commentary on student writer’s earlier drafts. compositions of 80 iranian undergraduate english majors were commented on using a trio of imperatives, statements, and questions on both content and form. overall, the results indicated that the comments in the imperative form hel...

Instructors attempting new teaching methods may have concerns that students will resist nontraditional teaching methods. The authors provide an overview of research characterizing the nature of student resistance and exploring its origins. Additionally, they provide potential strategies for avoiding or addressing resistance and pose questions about resistance that may be ripe for research study.

This file contains additional problems that instructors may find useful. The problems originate from various examination questions on adaptation and learning in the graduate level course EE210A: Adaptation and Learning taught by the author at UCLA Electrical Engineering. The problems are generally designed to test deeper understanding of core concepts in adaptation and estimation theories. This...