teaching
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News A recent report by the CBI blamed poor teaching in schools for contributing to a shortage of graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths. A panel assembled by the British Computer Society (BCS) were asked to... [23 Sep 2009]
Bridgepoint Health With SAS - Changing the World for Complex Chronic Disease Patients
White Paper Bridgepoint Health is a publicly funded healthcare organization in Toronto that provides patient care, research and teaching in the specialized field of complex chronic disease prevention and management - the biggest... [19 Sep 2009]
Photos: Game over for boring business training
Photo Linda Macaulay, professor of information system design at Manchester Business School, said: "It links theory to practice, traditionally if you were teaching BPM you would use boxes and graphs. Macaulay would like to see... [08 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up Witch - the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell - was based on telephone exchange relays and 900 Dekatron gas-filled tubes, which could each hold a single digit in memory. But now it seems that... [04 Sep 2009]
Photos: Restoring one of the world's oldest computers
Photo Witch - the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell - was based on telephone exchange relays and 900 Dekatron gas-filled tubes, which could each hold a single digit in memory. The machine was built... [04 Sep 2009]
IT graduates failing to make the business grade, say UK tech chiefs
News The skills shortfall appears to be worsening: while the latest CIO Jury, two-thirds of the panel felt graduates did not have the right skills for business, in 2007 only a third of the CIO Jury found university teaching... [02 Sep 2009]
Victoria University of Wellington Empowers Budget Holders With IBM Cognos
White Paper For more than a century, the Victoria University of Wellington (Victoria) has developed a tradition of strong international links in teaching, research and programmes of national significance and international quality. [01 Sep 2009]
IBM Cognos Is the Glue That Brings Management and Clinical Departments Together at the Bloorview Kids Rehab Center
White Paper In 2002, Bloorview partnered with the University of Toronto to become Canada's first teaching hospital in children's rehabilitation. Bloorview Kids Rehab, known as Bloorview, is Canada's largest children's rehabilitation... [01 Sep 2009]
COBAEV Consolidates Information and Increases Demand for Enrollment by 20%
White Paper The Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado de Veracruz (COBAEV) has the mission of offering secondary-level education, providing high-quality teaching, and properly preparing young people for higher education. [01 Sep 2009]
Teaching Data Mining: The University of Alabama and SAS
White Paper This paper will discuss the teaching data mining in a business school, the data mining curriculum at UA and the advantages of the partnership with SAS. The University of Alabama (UA) and SAS developed a partnership... [29 Aug 2009]
Finding Diamonds in Data: Reflections on Teaching Data Mining From the Coal Face
White Paper Making sense of the exponentially expanding sources of structured electronic data collected by organizations is increasingly difficult. Data mining is the extraction of implicit, previously unknown, and potentially useful information... [29 Aug 2009]
HP Officejet 6500 Wireless AiO Wins High Marks in Classroom
White Paper But Steinbach has found an economical alternative that lets him bring high-quality color printing into his individual classroom as a powerful teaching tool: the HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One. Bill Steinbach has... [28 Aug 2009]
No phone, no internet, no electricity: This is no ordinary IT job
News For those who fancy volunteering, the VSO's openings for IT workers fall into two categories; teaching - helping colleges and IT centres to develop curriculums and train existing teachers on using IT, or... [25 Aug 2009]
French Hospital Simplifies Workload Management for IT Team With Virtualisation Software
White Paper The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Rennes is one of France's biggest and most prestigious teaching hospitals. To maintain its reputation for modern patient-centric services, the hospital needed to relocate its... [14 Aug 2009]
Electronic driving instructors puts thousands of bus drivers through their paces
News As well as keeping an eye on drivers' day to day performance, the system will be used as a teaching aid with up to 20,000 bus drivers set to be trained using the system under the five-year contract with GreenRoad. [04 Aug 2009]