This article describes the design, execution and outcomes of a Web-based course in cable telecommunications offered jointly at two U.S. universities. The goal was to create an online learning community where inter-university student teams collaborate electronically to learn through case-based problem solving. The main features were distributed team-centered learning, case method, online access ...

Abstract: This paper continues the author’s team research on development, implementation, and experimentation of a task-oriented environment for teaching and learning algorithms. This environment is a part of a large-scale environment for course teaching in different domains. The paper deals only with the UML project of the teaching team’s side of the environment.. The implementation of the pro...

the aim of this paper is to explore conventional methods of teaching the arch-design studio withideas of sustainability and creativity as agents of change. if this is realised, it means the students of architecture canbe grounded in designing with sustainability and creativity ideas and can be professionals that design and build withideas of creativity and sustainability. so, there are real bui...

AIM To examine whether an internal medicine interdisciplinary floor team enhances the hospital and clinical outcomes for seniors with acute medical illness. METHODS Seniors admitted to medical floor teaching services of a USA teaching hospital were recruited and allocated to the interdisciplinary (ITD; n = 236) and usual care teams (n = 248). Compared with the usual care team, the interdiscip...

Research and teaching IT-Security is getting more and more attention in the light of an increasing number of incidents. As the practical application of knowledge and techniques in this area necessitates creative ways of solving complex problems, special attentions has to be payed to the modus operandi of teaching. The teaching efforts of the student IT-Security team of the University of Mannhei...

For optimum workplace effectiveness in knowledge-intensive industries in which principles of knowledge management need to be applied, it is necessary to take into account not only the competencies of individuals themselves but also the competencies of the teams in which they must operate. Although the incorporation of various types of group work into pedagogies is already widespread within inst...

The purpose of this study was to explore the role that a collaborative teaching approach, referred to as a community of practice (CoP), had on a team of four second grade teachers’ implementation of a science-based interdisciplinary curriculum. Data was collected in the form of extensive observation notes gathered over 10-weeks of twice weekly team meetings and two 45 minute interviews with eac...

The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) has offered online units via the Internet since 1997. Experience gained from delivering in an online teaching/learning environment reveals a number of pedagogical issues in this delivery method. The Instructional Design (ID) team at the Distance Education Centre is developing a framework of teaching/learning elements critical for the successful design...