The recently introduced Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) requirements for Graduate Attributes [1] require demonstrated learning outcomes for the first time. CDIO has required outcomes and benchmarking for more than a decade, and the CDIO Syllabus [2] has provided a detailed and proven framework within which to organize the topics covered by those outcomes. The latest revision of ...

In Hungary, a lot of electronic-based syllabuses have been developed during the last 8-10 years at a most considerable cost. However, not much has been heard of their success or efficiency, as would be supported by scientific testing. First, the present study is to provide a survey of our project, which aimed at creating an integrated electronic learning environment. The processing of an educat...

The General Certificateof Secondary Education (GCSE) in mathematics is designed to measure not only the mathematical knowledge of candidates, but also their ability to use mathematicsas a mode of inquiry. A number of British Awarding Bodies with large candidatures now offer GCSE Mathematics Syllabus B as an alternative to Syllabus A. The two assessment frameworks are identical except in their a...

This article describes the recent activities of the European Communities Confederation of Clinical Chemistry (EC4). Main goal of EC4 is harmonization of clinical chemistry in the European Union and Europe. EC4's actions connected to that are training and registration of professionals, and accreditation of laboratories. The 35000 professionals practising clinical chemistry in the EU have differe...

This paper describes the main features of our tool called “Legal Taxonomy Syllabus”. The system is an ontology based tool designed to annotate and recover multi-lingua legal information and build conceptual dictionaries on European Directives.