10 articles in this issue
Michael Callaghan,Niall McShane,Augusto Gómez Eguíluz,Maggi Savin-Baden
Serious Games (SG) have been shown to have instructional potential and a number of formal models, frameworks and methodologies have emerged to support their design and analysis. The Activity Theory-based Model of Serious Games (ATMSG) facilitates a system... see more
Dominik Dolezal,Alexandra Posekany,Christoph Roschger,Gottfried Koppensteiner,Renate Motschnig,Robert Pucher
Using peer assessment in the classroom to increase student engagement by actively involving the pupils in the assessment process has been practiced and researched for decades. In general, the literature suggests using peer review for project-based exercis... see more
Peter Kuna,Alena Hašková,Miloš Palaj,Miloslav Skacan,Ján Záhorec
In the traditional methodology of CAD system teaching, one starts with acquirement of technical drawing principles and design of technical schemes and drawings based on manual drawing. Only consequently students learn to draw the schemes and technical dra... see more
Marek Milosz,Elzbieta Milosz
Due to the rapid development of Information Technology in the EU and throughout the world, there is a lack of Computer Science specialists. This lack deepens due to the inability to educate an adequate number of graduates by universities. This phenomenon ... see more
Mikko Vasko,Stefan Ritter,Gottfried Metzger
In this study we examine the introduction of online homework in a first-semester engineering mathematics course at a German university of applied sciences. The aim of the study was to find out whether students in general and students with low incoming mat... see more
Marios A. Pappas,Athanasios Drigas,Eugenia Malli,Vasiliki Kalpidi
Specific Learning Disorder with impairment in Mathematics (Developmental Dyscalculia) is a complex learning disorder which affects arithmetic skills, symbolic magnitude processing, alertness, flexibility in problem solving and maintained attention. Neuro-... see more
Pedro Guillermo Feijóo-García,Carlos Hernán Ortíz-Buitrago
Courses such as CS1 and CS2 can present an interesting pedagogical challenge when it comes to the theory-practice relationship, along with aspects that involve the course's logistics, the programming language used, and the characteristics of the students ... see more
G Padmanabhan,Dinesh Katti,Eakalk Khan,Francis Peloubet,Navaratnam Leelaruban
The North Dakota State University, USA, capstone course was developed as a unique model in response to the effort of the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, USA, to streamline and improve design instruction in the curriculum and has steadil... see more
Cheryl Bodnar,Jennifer Kadlowec
Engineering design serves as the capstone experience of most undergraduate engineering programs. One of the key elements of the engineering design process is the compilation of results obtained into a technical report that can be shared and distributed t... see more
Sara Riahi,Azzeddine Riahi
This paper is devoted to the profession of higher education. It aims to characterize the profession of teaching and objectively draw the portrait of the Moroccan teacher to identify the business improvement routes, so the education system. This paper deal... see more