1.133 Masters of Engineering Concepts of Engineering Practice (MIT)
This course is a core requirement for the Masters in Engineering program, designed to teach students about the roles of today's professional engineer and expose them to team-building skills through lectures, team workshops, and seminars. Topics include: written and oral communication, job placement skills, trends in the engineering and construction industry, risk analysis and risk management, managing public information, proposal preparation, project evaluation, project management, liability, pr
Pharmaco-economic evaluation – analysis and results
32 PowerPoint slides from Richard Smith of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Pharmaco-economic evaluation – analysis and results, covering use of models, uncertainty and using economic evaluation.
18.04 Complex Variables with Applications (MIT)
This course explored topics such as complex algebra and functions, analyticity, contour integration, Cauchy's theorem, singularities, Taylor and Laurent series, residues, evaluation of integrals, multivalued functions, potential theory in two dimensions, Fourier analysis and Laplace transforms.
NGO and citizen politics
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the conceptual issues, theories, and debates concerning ‘civil society and new politics.’ Focusing on the domestic and global issues of ‘civil society and new politics’, the topics that will be covered in class include concept of civil society, social capital, engaging communities, associative democracy, global civil society in action, civil society and global governance, etc. Class will be conducted in a seminar consisting of lectur
Consulting pupils about teaching and learning
Decades of calls for educational reform have not succeeded in making schools places where all young people want to and are able to learn. It is time to invite students to join the conversations about how we might accomplish that.
(Cook-Sather, 2002)
Consultation is about responding to that situation – about understanding what learning is like from the pupil perspective and trying to get bits of it better for different pupils and different groups of pupils.
The Project was designed to re
Transformational Leadership: Is It a Factor for Improving Student Achievement in High Poverty Secon
This mixed-method study addressed the following problem: What type of leadership is most appropriate to guide schools through the process of continuous rapid change required by the No Child Left Behind legislation and the twenty-first century while still performing well? It investigated a possible relationship between improved student achievement on state assessments, improved four-year graduation rate for high schools, improved attendance for schools without graduating classes, and the Leit
Lecture 18 - 11/30/2010
Lecture 18
Music on a WIM: Andrea Clearfield (Part 1)
First up is Andrea Clearfield's composition Songs of the Wolf. Kristen Richard, a senior in horn performance in the studio of Mary Burroughs, and Alisa Gilliam, a piano faculty member at ECU perform the first movement of this piece—Wolf Songs.
Clearfield, a current American composer, teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She writes compositions for a variety of musical avenues including orchestra, chorus, soloists, and chamber ensembles. Additionally, Clearfield recently won
Music on a WIM: Florence Price (Part 3)
The final two pieces, Trouble Done Come My Way and My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord, were composed by Florence Price. Price, who wrote mainly spirituals, was the first African American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer in the 1930s. She attended the American Conservatory and the Chicago Musical College to study music. Although she wrote more than 300 compositions, many remain unpublished today. Candace Little, a senior in music therapy and mezzo-soprano, and Catherine Garner on p
Byrne Administration: Interview with Alan Sagner (May 16, 2006 Part 2)
This interview is a part of the Eagleton Institute for Politics's Program on the Governor. For more information please visit their website: http://governors.rutgers.edu/
The Other Marquette Interchange -- Ray and Kay Eckstein Hall
In recent years, while maintaining its focus on providing an exceptional legal education, Marquette Law School has served as a dynamic public policy forum for all members of the community. Playing off its new location, it has become "the Other Marquette Interchange," a place for the exchange of ideas. Marquette Law School's innovative public policy work is advancing the conversation about critical issues facing our region, such as urban education, transportation, and more. Learn why the Law Scho
API 2010 Nancy : Antibiotherapie par voie generale dans les infections respiratoires
Thème : Actualités en Pathologies Infectieuses.
Titre : API 2010 Nancy : Antibiothérapie par voie générale dans les infections respiratoires basses de l’adulte : pneumonies aiguës communautaires et exacerbations aiguës de bronchite chronique obstructive
Auteur : Than DOCO-LECOMPTE (PH – service des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires du CHU de Nancy)
Résumé : Rappel clinique, stratégie décisionnelle.
Analyse des facteurs de risques : Age > 65 ans,
European Business Culture and Practice, Critical Evaluation
Part of European Business Culture and Practice Workbook 2. These slides are concened with critical evaluation and covers: scanning sources, evaluating articles and presentations
Good Practice Guide in Question and Test Design
This booklet will provide an introduction to good practice in question and test design. It includes the art of using objective tests to assess some aspects of student learning. At the outset you should be aware that objective tests are just one method of assessment. They are useful for assessing knowledge, comprehension and application and in some circumstances can be used to assess higher order skills such as evaluation and synthesis. They cannot be used to assess creativity, integration of ide
SirLearnaLot, online programme to help you to enhance your teaching
SirLearnaLot aims to encourage development and exchange of good practice in:
* design of teaching
* creation of an effective learning environment
* evaluation of teaching methods
* raising the profile of information literacy.
SirLearnaLot is a programme of individual modular units, accessible via Moodle, that are designed to be worked through at your own pace.
COW, une plate-forme de support d'exécution de scénarios pédagogiques.
Cet article présente un service de support d'exécution de scénarios pédagogiques conçu
pour être intégré dans des plates-formes de formation existantes. Dans un premier temps nous prenons un
point de vue ingénierie des plates-formes afin d'identifier les processus de conception et d'utilisation ainsi
que les acteurs qui y sont associés. Dans un deuxième temps nous présentons les caractéristiques
nécessaires que doit offrir notre service afin que les différents acteurs puissent gé
The Free Trade Versus Protectionism Debate
Frank Trentmann talks about the relationship between free trade and the budget and how the conflict between the ideas of free trade and protectionism shaped the 1909 budget
5.4 The medical chemistry strategy
The search for new medicinal products is one of the major driving forces behind the development and application of new synthetic methods. This unit focuses on a specific case study, which follows the development of a drug for the treatment of high blood pressure. It is a particularly good example of the application of organic chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry, and illustrates the scientific processes that are involved in the development of any new drug.
3.1 Charles I and the eleven years’ personal rule in England and Wales
From Catholic rebellion to Civil War, what happened during the latter years of the reign of Charles I that caused people to take up arms against their fellow citizens? This unit looks at the background of the wars between England, Scotland and Ireland and how the king’s actions led to the rift between royalists and parliamentarians.
2.6 Centre and periphery Here you have considered some of the ways in which the power and authority of the emperor were communicated to the inhabitants of the empire. The full dynamics of the relationship are difficult to reconstruct especially as the view gained is mainly from Rome looking out to the provinces rather than vice versa. It was important for the emperor to appear to be a competent ruler of the empire. It was one method used by his peers and successors to evaluate an emperor's reign. But it is often diff
