A systematic approach to the training of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) is required to meet the challenges posed by growing numbers of undergraduate and graduate students. At University College Dublin, educational developers and academic staff across six schools collaborated on the design and phased implementation of context-specific GTA…

This paper describes how a university, collaborating with industry, integrated research with active learning (e.g., collaboration in teams and competitions) for fashion majors. The redesigned introductory course uses two strategies: team competitions and a genius bar to guide students, give ongoing feedback, and judge final competitions. Active…

The system-on-chip module described here builds on a grounding in digital hardware and system architecture. It is thus appropriate for third-year undergraduate computer science and computer engineering students, for post-graduate students, and as a training opportunity for post-graduate research students. The course incorporates significant…

Tells how a business communication teacher, an instructor of management, and a management development trainer worked together to develop a "module bank" of teacher resources. (RL)

Discusses a modular curriculum funded by an initiative known as "Enterprise in Higher Education" (EHE). EHE is dedicated to promoting an exchange of ideas between the worlds of work and education with the goal of encouraging the development of a curriculum geared to producing students for careers in industry and commerce. (CK)

Career Space is a consortium of major information and communications technology (ICT) companies working in partnership with the European Commission to encourage and enable more people to join and benefit from a dynamic e-Europe and to narrow the current skills gap. It believes the way in which engineering and computer studies students are educated…

These volumes describe and contain products of Project GENTEC, which identified and defined 29 generic technical (GENTEC) competencies. (A GENTEC competency is an idea or structure of ideas that contributes to the production and/or distribution of goods and/or services and that involves worker behaviors, including critical thinking, emotions, and…