The new framework the Higher Education is immersed in involves a complete change in the way lecturers must teach and students must learn. Whereas the lecturer was the main character in traditional education, the essential goal now is to increase the students' participation in the process. Thus, one of the main tasks of lecturers in this new context is to design activities of different nature in...

Universities around the world have been readily embracing online technologies to make their courses more convenient for today’s tech savvy gen Y students. However, such a change is often at the expense of the teaching staff as they are suddenly met with increased workload and the need to learn new technologies. Although student acceptance is often looked at, lecturers’ acceptance is often ignor...

The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions among students from three public Universities, particularly students from Universiti Teknologi MARA, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and Universiti Utara Malaysia towards lecturers teaching Quality determinants. A field survey among students from different field of studies (Social Sciences and Pure Sciences) was conducted through a questionnair...

Assignment model is a powerful operations research techniques that can be used to solve assignment or allocation problem. This study applies the assignment model to the course allocation problem in Nigeria tertiary institution in order to maximize lecturers’ effectiveness. A well-structured questionnaire was used to obtain data from lecturers and solved with Hungarian method. The study revealed...

In an increasingly technological milieu, new technologies are appearing and can be integrated into different aspects of education, not only in those subjects strictly related to technology, but also in other settings. In this framework, the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has acquired different elearning platforms since the early 2000 ́s. Initially, PoliformaT, a Sakai-based platform, ...

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 325 11 SEPTEMBER 2009 1309 COVER Wind turbines near the Great Wall in Shanxi, China. The Chinese government has aggressively fostered wind power development and tripled its target for the year 2020 to 100 gigawatts of installed capacity. Combining assimilated meteorology with current turbine technologies and concession policies, McElroy et al. (page 1378) report o...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among Iranian EFL university lecturers’ professional and institutional identity, and their teaching efficacy. To this end, 100 EFL university lecturers from different branches of Islamic Azad Universities, including Kermanshah, Isfahan and Hamedan, took part in the study by completing the Professional Identity Questionnaire, the Inst...

A case study research design was employed to investigate college lecturers’ perceptions on factors affecting their participation in continuing professional development (CPD). The survey questionnaire instrument was developed by the researchers to answer the two research questions that were posed. Forty lecturers were randomly selected from the four Faculties at the BA ISAGO University College. ...

The presented two-campus transport problem (TCTP) is a pickup-anddelivery scheduling problem. It is a problem of a college with two campuses located at two different cities. Lecturers living in one city should sometimes teach at the other city campus. The problem is that of transporting N lecturers from one campus to the other, using a fleet of k vehicles, so as to minimize the time the lecture...