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Salah, Khaled; Hammoud, Mohammad; Zeadally, Sherali – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2015
Cloud computing platforms can be highly attractive to conduct course assignments and empower students with valuable and indispensable hands-on experience. In particular, the cloud can offer teaching staff and students (whether local or remote) on-demand, elastic, dedicated, isolated, (virtually) unlimited, and easily configurable virtual machines.…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Information Storage, Computer Science Education, Undergraduate Students
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Goldstain, Ofir; Ben-Gal, Irad; Bukchin, Yossi – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007
This work proposes an approach to remote learning of robotic cells based on internet and simulation tools. The proposed approach, which integrates remote-learning and tele-operation into a generic scheme, is designed to enable students and developers to set-up and manipulate a robotic cell remotely. Its implementation is based on a dedicated…
Descriptors: Learning Laboratories, Robotics, Computer Simulation, Web Sites
Penisten, John – 1981
The learning lab at Hawaii Community College (HCC) has, for the past year and a half, utilized the PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) computer-assisted instructional program. PLATO, which is used by students whose preferred learning mode falls into the listening, visual, or reading categories, serves to broaden the learning…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Case, Christine L. – American Biology Teacher, 1980
Explored were the effects on student attitudes of autotutorial laboratory instruction in a lower-division life sciences course designed for nonbiology majors at Skyline College, San Bruno, California. Positive results indicate the effectiveness of this mode of instruction in enhancing attitudes of students towards their learning and this…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Biology, College Science, Educational Research
Heerman, Charles E. – 1983
A college reading laboratory was designed and furnished to maximize flexibility in space use. To determine the effectiveness of the design and use of space, a two-part study was conducted that examined students' learning preferences and collected instructors' observations. Responses indicated student preferences for sound, light, warmth, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Design Preferences, Furniture Arrangement, Higher Education
Lumpkins, Bob G. – 1979
The general organizational and instructional procedures employed in teaching a methods course are described. The essential features that characterized the methods program are described in terms of the preservice teacher's role, the role of the instructor, grouping patterns employed, and teaching experience. A great deal of emphasis is given in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Field Experience Programs, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Learning Laboratories
Holladay, John M. – 1990
During winter semester 1989, Monroe County Community College (MCCC) developed a Writing Fellows program and introduced a Writing Center into the Learning Assistance Lab (LAL). Both these iniatives were part of the school's writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) efforts which had been launched in fall 1987. Writing Fellows are specially-trained peer…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Learning Laboratories, Newsletters, Peer Teaching
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2005
Male and female college students in Saudi Arabia study and work in a segregated (gender-based) environment. King Saud University (KSU) has 50,000 students on 3 campuses each of which is 35 kms away (Diri'ya Male-Students, Campus, Olaysha Female-Students Campus and Malaz Female-students Campus). Due to increasing student enrolment, all departments…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Distance Education, Multicampus Colleges, Single Sex Colleges
Scanlon, Dennis C.; And Others – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1985
Scanlon and Baggett suggest a basic rationale for serving handicapped students. Downey reviews programs offered to disadvantaged and handicapped at Valley Vocational Technical Center, Fishersville, Virginia. Other articles focus on greenhouse crop production, support services in Pennsylvania, accommodation of the physically handicapped student,…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Brownell, Winifred W.; Watson, Arden K. – 1984
Acknowledging that one of the most difficult challenges postsecondary educators must face is the maintenance of adequate student enrollment, this paper describes the creation of a speech communication laboratory as one component of a university-wide effort to maximize student retention. The paper first discusses several suggestions researchers…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Basic Skills, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research
Fisher, Sharon Anne – 1977
To implement a single skills lab and develop or select twenty-five units for instruction in the secretarial science curriculum at Elgin Community College (Illinois), a task analysis was conducted to determine common tasks completed by area office personnel. This information was then used to select and develop instructional units for the single…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Business Education, Clerical Workers, Community Colleges