The new and challenging virtual containers are wide spread in a variety of sectors like systems administration, application deployment and service provision. However, these tools are not that much used in education and ...

We describe our experience of introducing digital signal processing (DSP) concepts via a software-defined radio project using a very inexpensive TV USB capture dongle. Through a series of weekly lab exercises, the students ...

Context: Early detection of cardiovascular disease could make a difference in terms of treatment success. For that reason, it is important to test the reliability of tools used to deliver diagnoses and to measure the impact ...

Students in a learning experience can be seen as a community working simultaneously (and in some cases collaboratively) in a set of activities. During these working sessions, students carry out numerous actions that affect ...

Students' acquisition of generic skills is a key to their incorporation into the job world. However, teachers encounter several difficulties when measuring their students' performance in generic skills. These difficulties ...

The goal of this paper is to advance the understanding of the way university educators currently adopt open educational practices (OEP) by analyzing the relation between the use of open educational resources (OER) and ...

Transgenic learning is a disruptive approach in education. It encourages modification of moving parts of the educational chain. This article provides a view of transgenic learning focused on the delivery of enriched learning ...

Automated testing mitigates the risk of test maintenance failure, selects the optimized test suite, improves efficiency and hence reduces cost and time consumption. This paper is based on the development of an automated ...

Learning Analytics (LA) have a significant impact in learning and teaching processes. These can be improved using the available data retrieved from the students' activity inside the virtual classrooms of a LMS. This process ...

The number of students opting for online educational platforms has been on the rise in recent years. Despite the upsurge, student retention is still a challenging task, with some students recording low-performance margins ...