Wright, Angela(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-07-02)
[EN] I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand, (Asian Proverb). The context of this research is the examinination of teaching practice through the lens of ‘microteaching’, thus affording the ...
The main objective of pathophysiology teaching is to facilitate the learning of mechanisms of diseases and the understanding of their expressions in patients (symptoms, signs and tests). This objective requires the application ...
Venezia, Elisabetta; Pizzutilo, Fabio(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-07-26)
[EN] In this paper, a self-evaluation tool is developed to allow educators and Higher Education Institutions to assess their efforts in pursuing Education for Sustainable Development. The composite index here proposed ...
[EN] Electromagnetic laboratory teaching activities greatly benefit from utilizing Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs), due to the fact that the understanding of concepts that are difficult to be
communicated ...
Parker, Mary(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-07-05)
[EN] The University of Houston-Downtown supports a STEM program, Scholars Academy (SA) within the College of Sciences and Technology dedicated to enhancing, preparing, and enlightening minority, underrepresented, and ...
Lai, Liwen; Wadhwa, Bimlesh(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-05-04)
This paper aims to develop a Student Workload Estimator tool for University students. Traditionally, modular credit has been used as a student workload indicator at a purely time-based stage. This needs rethinking keeping ...
Turró, Carlos; Morales, Juan Carlos; Busquets-Mataix, Jaime(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-07-02)
[EN] During the last academic year, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (UPV) developed a large scale experience in flipped teaching (FT), with 64 different courses and 3083 students (2512 unique). Teachers could decide ...
Huber, Gerardo; Moctezuma, Patricia; Ocegueda, Juan Manuel(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-06-26)
[EN] This paper analyzes the postgraduate institutional policy in the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) implemented since 2003. Aligning the educational model of the UABC with the parameters of the National ...
The multiple criteria of ranking, rating and accrediting the higher education institutions in India and across globe have become de facto lens for viewing the institutions. There is an increasing number of assessment systems ...
[EN] In the framework of the transdisciplinary educational innovative project “Sciences and Arts” at the University of Valencia, we present here the design and outcome of an activity around the phenomenon of scientific ...
[EN] The paper presents an overview of “The Journey Guides Program” - a mentorship and experiencial learning framework developed by the Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary in Canada. This program was implemented ...
Rosa-Jimenez, Carlos; Ventura-Blanch, Ferrán(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-05-07)
[EN] Virtual reality (VR) has achieved an adequate level of development in education and research in higher education The training in Architecture requires a reflection on the incorporation of new design technologies at ...
[EN] This work aims to inspire, ignite and engage school students to consider STEM at university, by collaborating between a university research group and school students. Learning resources will be co-created with students, ...
Hassan, Hossam; Al-Jabri, Khalifa(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-10-27)
[EN] The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredits
college and university programs in engineering under the Engineering
Accreditation Commission (EAC). The process follows Engineering Criteria
(EC) ...
Zehetmeier, Daniela(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-07-05)
[EN] Abstract thinking is one of the most important competences in computer science. When starting my research, there was no complete definition of the competence nor was there a tool to assess first-semester students’ ...
[EN] South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV and AIDS in
the world. A concerted effort is needed to address this epidemic, lest a socioeconomic
crisis may cripple the country. Education may be the ...
Cippitani, Roberto(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-06-15)
[EN] The paper aims at defining in particular the concept of academic freedom within the context of the European
legal sources.
Even though the idea of a special corporative status for professors was born during the ...
[EN] This paper seeks to bring into discussion the main traits and their effects on the research management process within Romanian universities from the managers’ perspective. Fourteen academic managers took part in a ...
Castelló, Adrián; Iserte, Sergio; Belloch, Jose Antonio(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-07-02)
[EN] The C language has been used for ages in the application development in multidisciplinary environments. However, in the academia, this language is being replaced by other higher-level languages due to they are easier ...
[EN] Increasingly, the higher education sector is driven by sets of standards that describe quality – internal institutional standards that consider curriculum, teaching and delivery to students and external standards from ...