Cyber physical system Smart Cyber University (CyUni) is proposed. It is characterized by the presence of a metric space of regulatory rules, digital monitoring and active cyber management of addressable components of scientific and educational processes, automatic generation of operational and regulatory actions, human free cyber decision making focused on management of financial and human reso...

Classification model for the Student's Enrollment process in higher educational courses using data mining techniques Data Mining is the process of extracting useful patterns from the huge amount of database and many data mining techniques are used for mining these patterns. Recently, one of the remarkable facts in higher educational institute is the rapid growth data and this educational data i...

Medical education institutions usually adapt industrial quality management models that measure the quality of the process of a program but not the quality of the product. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of industrial quality management models on medical education and students, and to highlight the importance of introducing a proper educational quality management model. Indust...

Educational partnership becomes a common practice in higher education. This study clarifies the practices of educational partnership in higher education institutions. A model of educational partnership has been built to identify its successful factors. The five determinants to the partnership’s success are the following: commitment to partnerships, curriculum and learning, quality and risk mana...

Over the past years, a number of international initiatives that recognize the importance of sharing and reusing digital educational resources among educational communities through the use of Learning Object Repositories (LORs) have emerged. Typically, these initiatives focus on collecting digital educational resources that are offered by their creators for open access and potential reuse. Never...

Nurse education does not appear to be preparing nurses to manage pain in the clinical area. A number of studies have demonstrated that nurses continue to have educational deficits in this context. Several studies have found no change in knowledge or behaviours following education about pain management. Others have found that changes in behaviour do occur. It is possible that innovative teaching...

Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to study how an innovative rainfall insurance product affects production decisions. We find that insurance provision induces farmers—particularly educated farmers—to shift production toward higherreturn but higher-risk cash crops. ...

268 © Copyright ChE Division of ASEE 2006 In many engineering curricula it is difficult to cover the fundamental concepts that are required to provide all students with an optimum base for the solution development of new problems and applications. Although this task is daunting, replacing the learning and understanding of fundamental concepts with starting parameters and a list of equations to ...

Observes that while most school site management personnel are familiar with the multitude of visual representations of statistical data, via graphs and charts, the value of visual representations of geographical information remains largely unknown in educational management. Explains that geographical information systems (GIS), in addition to determining the exact geographical street address loc...