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IBM Intelligent Bricks project—Petabytes and beyond
2006
This paper provides an overview of the Intelligent Bricks project in progress at IBM Research. It describes common problems faced by data center operators and proposes a comprehensive solution based on brick architectures. Bricks are hardware building blocks. Because of certain properties, defined here, scalable and reliable systems can be built with collections of identical bricks. An important feature is that brick-based systems must survive the failure of any brick without requiring human intervention, as long as most bricks are operational. This simplifies system management and allows very dense and very scalable systems to be built. A prototype storage server in the form of a 3 × 3 × 3…
Interview with Charles Bigelow
2018
Charles Bigelows career parallels the development of digital font technology. He has designed fonts and consulted about font technology to many of the companies that created desktop publishing systems. He has also written extensively on digital font technology and taught at RISD, Stanford, and RIT.
How important is mentoring in education?
2017
The paper aims to provide the mentoring experience made in Romanian schools, developed as a result of the Erasmus + project entitled “Mentoring Between teachers from secondary and high schools” project No. 2014-1-PL01-KA200-003335. Thus, we seek to present the work and the general considerations in connection with the mentoring theme, how we decided on the curriculum in order to form mentors, how mentors were selected and what was the result of their mentoring work. It is important to observe the main obstacles in the mentoring process were and how these problems could be solved. We will also highlight the impact of the mentoring activity on mentees and their perceptions about the usefulnes…
eCity: Virtual City Environment for Engineering Problem Based Learning
2015
The main objective of the eCITY project is to design, develop and validate a pedagogical methodology, supported by an online, collaborative, city-development simulation engine (Simcity like) that stimulates the integration and continuous exploitation of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in engineering and science schools but, at the same time, fostering the interest for these orientations in secondary school students. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/HEAd15.2015.447
Use of ICT Teaching-Learning Methods make School Math Blossom
2012
Abstract Our society often talks that their kids at school are taught using old educational methods. It is boring for kids and they lose interest in learning. New generation of kids are different – more provocative, intuitive, sensitive, mental, in some cases more aggressive than previous generations. That is what parents and teachers now see. Therefore the aims of nowadays education demand to choose educational methods promoting active process of cognition that develop skills of learning, creative use of knowledge, skills of self-assessment, cooperation, indulgence to different points of view. Interactive educational methods help to realize those tasks and provide cooperation among teacher…
Facilitating Teaching and Learning Capabilities in Social Learning Management Systems: Challenges, Issues, and Implications for Design
2013
The adoption of learning management systems LMSs and social networking technologies SNTs in higher education has begun to change the way learning and teaching take place. However, the adoption of these emerging tools as a means to support collaboration seems to be slow. This study seeks to identify issues and opportunities related to LMS and SNT utilization and combination to enhance learning and teaching capabilities in higher education. An illustrative study reports on student and instructor experiences of using these systems in two Norwegian universities. The empirical evidence gained is analysed in terms of current benefits and drawbacks, and future challenges and capabilities. This pro…
Implementation of the driver training curriculum in Spain – An analysis based on the Goals for Driver Education (GDE) framework
2014
Abstract The Goals for Driver Education (GDE) framework represents a conceptual outline of the goals to be satisfied in driver education (Hatakka et al., 2002). We aimed to analyze the implementation of the driver training curriculum in Spain, taking this framework as reference; the Spanish driving instructors was the target population from which to gather the information to be analyzed. For this purpose, we developed the DTCI (Driver Training Curriculum Implementation) scale as well as a number of questions concerning the driving instructors’ opinions about their own training as instructors, and they were included in a survey that provided information for a probabilistic sample of 676 driv…
Improvement of learning quality in manufacturing technology: a case study
2017
The paper presents the initial part of a study designed to understand the place of the present generation of engineering students in the global picture of their working life. The education represents an inestimable good that accompanies peoples through their existence. Higher education is the place were teenagers with different profiles modelled by their families, studies; experiences and so on come to meet, in most cases, the final education platform before employment. In light of this the higher education has the major role of prepare the students with the knowledge and skills appropriate to the labour market. That means with the knowledge and skills they need and their future employers a…
Factors related to study success in engineering education
2005
Recent studies on student learning in higher education have paid attention to the relationships between characteristics of the learning environment and students' study orientations and study success. The purpose of the present paper is to examine these relationships in university level engineering education. The data were collected from Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, by means of an Internet survey (n=394). Grade point average, credits per semester and students' qualitative evaluation of their learning outcomes were used as indicators of study success. The findings of the study indicate that students' perceptions of their learning environment were related to their study orie…
Workshop: iPads in Upper Secondary School Chemistry Education
2014
At the workshop arranged at the National Days of Chemical Education the participants had an opportunity to try out various Ipad apps and methods for utilizing them in chemistry education. The themes were based on the apps used during chemistry teacher education course arranged by the department of chemistry and methods developed on the teacher training school at the University of Jyväskylä. The apps used included Socrative Student, Google Drive, Graphical Analysis, ChemDoodle ja QR-reader. Out of these Socratice, which collects students answers to questions created by the teacher, was considered easy-to-use and the most useful by the participants. The participants also felt, that the worksh…