ABSTRCT: The importance of innovative talents cultivation for mineral processing engineering is discussed. From the new training program of mineral processing specialty formulating and implementing, the thought of innovation talents cultivation for mineral processing engineering was discussed. It is suggested to construct the research subject curriculum system, play the role of teaching masters...

Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality: The Key Role of Innovative Procedures Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...

Instructors continually search for innovative approaches to interact with and engage students in the classroom. The tablet offers a potential innovation for this purpose. Tablet devices from Apple, Microsoft, and other hardware vendors have overcome many of the challenges of the past (e.g. cost and limited applications) to become useful tools for instructors. Our paper examines instructor use o...

Community-engaged scholarship (CES)-research, teaching, programmatic and other scholarly activities conducted through partnerships between academic and community partners-may result in innovative applied products such as manuals, policy briefs, curricula, videos, toolkits, and websites. Without accepted mechanisms for peer-reviewed publication and dissemination, these products often do not "cou...

MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) provides interesting mechanisms to integrate network technologies like ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) and IP (Internet Protocol) with QoS (Quality of Service). It is a next generation technology with a great interest in teaching of networks and communications in Telematics Engineering degrees. In this paper we show a simulator as an innovative and educatio...

Deciding how to teach geometry remains a demanding task with one of major arguments being about how to combine the intuitive and deductive aspects of geometry into an effective teaching design. In order to try to obtain an insight into tackling this issue, this paper reports an analysis of innovative geometry textbooks which were published in the early part of the 20th Century, a time when sign...

Internet technologies provide opportunities to improve teaching and learning of the principal competencies in a graduate-level, professional education. Epidemiology is a core area of public health education. We designed Epiville as a set of interactive web-based exercises employed as weekly homework assignments at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Its four key components, n...

As the field of Requirements Engineering continues to evolve, so too does the need to develop specialized educational programs that will provide student and novice requirements engineers with the required expertise and experience necessary to execute the tasks successfully. We follow on from previous work performed on role-playing for Requirements Engineering education with the development of G...

In common with many other universities, we recently introduced some innovative teaching techniques in two introductory physics courses at the University of Toronto [1]. These included Peer Instruction, Interactive Demonstrations, and Activity-Based Tutorials. For many of these, we used classroom-tested materials from U.S. universities, and found that they were often insufficiently challenging f...

In recent decades, there have been strong calls for reforms in mathematics education, and in particular for changes in classroom practices. Teachers have been encouraged to organize instruction so that students participate in more collaborative, discussion-based activities with an eye to supporting a community of learners, rather than a set of individuals working on mathematics (NCTM, 1991). Or...