Unit Course Research Articles

Implementation of an Effective Course Registration Credit Unit Monitoring System

Automation of course registration is a major breakthrough with the advancement in information technology. Registration processes that take longer time most times eating deep into the semester and with laborious inputs from registration officers have evolved into a seamless and easy process due to the development of robust information systems. An information system requires accurate data for it to give a reliable output, so it is of the essence to be able to input accurate credit units of courses to the course registration system. Computing the credit units of courses by students and course registration officers is mostly manual, in this research, automation of this vital pre-process is implemented. The system is built using java programming language which makes it robust, simple and easy to use. It is a credit unit calculator that does not require being online before it can either be deployed or used. The system prompts the user to enter level, the semester, maximum credit load for the semester and their corresponding credit units. At each execution of the system the courses, corresponding credit units, total credit load for the semester is displayed provided the total credit units entered is not greater than the credit load for the semester, otherwise a prompt displays the excess credit units. Subsequent research can enhance the system to be able to send the output of the pre-registration document from the student directly to the registration officer, and also there should be a module embedded to the system that will enable the registration officer to perform the pre-registration document verification. A module to check double registration and determination if a given course is either first or second semester can also be added.

Implementation of an Effective Course Registration Credit Unit Monitoring System

Automation of course registration is a major breakthrough with the advancement in information technology. Registration processes that take longer time most times eating deep into the semester and with laborious inputs from registration officers have evolved into a seamless and easy process due to the development of robust information systems. An information system requires accurate data for it to give a reliable output, so it is of the essence to be able to input accurate credit units of courses to the course registration system. Computing the credit units of courses by students and course registration officers is mostly manual, in this research, automation of this vital pre-process is implemented. The system is built using java programming language which makes it robust, simple and easy to use. It is a credit unit calculator that does not require being online before it can either be deployed or used. The system prompts the user to enter level, the semester, maximum credit load for the semester and their corresponding credit units. At each execution of the system the courses, corresponding credit units, total credit load for the semester is displayed provided the total credit units entered is not greater than the credit load for the semester, otherwise a prompt displays the excess credit units. Subsequent research can enhance the system to be able to send the output of the pre-registration document from the student directly to the registration officer, and also there should be a module embedded to the system that will enable the registration officer to perform the pre-registration document verification. A module to check double registration and determination if a given course is either first or second semester can also be added

Translation Process of Core Values, Vision, and Mission into The Prescribed Curriculum

The case study is intended to describe how Core Values, Vision, and Mission of English Education Department in Widya Mandala Catholic University’s Graduate School (Magister Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris or “MPBI”) are translated into the syllabi (prescribed curriculum) using the Value Sharing Model as the framework and Actor Network Theory (ANT) to explain the process within this framework. The research questions are: first, do the course syllabi reflect the Vision, Mission and Core Values of MPBI? And second, how the vision, mission and core values are translated into the prescribed curriculum (syllabi)? This study was conducted by analyzing the syllabi using document analysis parameters and triangulated by conducting interviews to some lecturers and students in MPBI-19. The results are: first, the syllabi were reflecting the core values, vision and mission statements. Second, there are four ways to deliver values. Third, syllabus should be seen as a part of a curriculum not as a separated unit of course. Fourth, all courses are crystallized in Teaching Practice course (in practical term) and Thesis Writing (in theoretical form). The suggestions were: first, using a generalized format of syllabus to help lecturers state their values explicitly. Second, there are opportunities to research further the same topic in the scope of enacted curriculum. And third, lecturers should maintain their internalization processes.

Construction of Knowledge Through Doing: A Brachial Plexus Model from Pipe Cleaners.

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-021-01274-2.

Metalenses based on the non-parallel double-slit arrays

Metalenses based on surface plasmon polaritons have played an indispensable role in ultra-thin devices designing. The amplitude, phase and polarization of electromagnetic waves all can be controlled easily by modifying the metasurface structures. Here we propose and investigate a new type of structure with Babinet-inverted nano-antennas which can provide a series of unit-cells with phase-shifts covering 2π and ensure almost same transmittance simultaneously. As a result, the wavefront can be manipulated by arraying the units in course. Metalenses with the linear asymmetrical double slit unit-cell arrays are designed and the simulative results exhibit their perfect focusing characteristics, including single-focus lenses and multi-focus lenses. The small focus size and high numerical aperture make them stand out from the traditional counterparts in application of precision sensing devices. We expect our designs will provide new insights in the practical applications for metasurfaces in data storages, optical information processing and optical holography.

PENGEMBANGAN KURIKULUM DASAR DAN TUJUANNYA

Curriculum development is important to be investigated from various perspectives. This study will discuss twofold fundamental aspect of curriculum development; the basic and the purposes of curriculum. The literarure discussion reveals that the curriculum provided by a school not only limited to unit of courses and teaching learning process but also on all process which influence the development and student character building as it is required by national education goals. There are some elements such as Philosophy, Psycology, socio-culture and technology in which they support the foundation of curriculum. The objective of curriculum can be clasified into two group; micro and macro. The earlier is more consent on the institutional and intructional objectives. Whilts the latter is intended to reconstruct and to innovate any shortcoming of previous curriculum. The curriculum development aims at addaptating between education and social change and also exploring untouch knowledge.

Inovações Didáticas na Disciplina Introdução ao Ensino de Biologia: Conversas entre Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão

A formação de professores ainda é um desafio para universidades e outros centros formadores. Tendo em vista uma de suas principais metas, a de garantir maior encadeamento entre as unidades de formação dos cursos para professores, o Instituto de Biociências da Universidade de São Paulo desenvolveu seu Projeto Pedagógico, buscando garantir disciplinas e ações comuns às habilitações de bacharelado e licenciatura de seu curso de Ciências Biológicas. Uma das disciplinas oferecidas no Núcleo Básico aborda aspectos introdutórios ao ensino de Biologia e busca articular as dimensões do tripé universitário: ensino, pesquisa e extensão. Neste relato, serão apresentados a estrutura básica de tal disciplina, os principais recursos e estratégias utilizados e as ferramentas de avaliação

All-Optical Implementation of Arithmetic Operation Scheme using Optical Nonlinear Material Based Switching Technique

Nonlinear material based all‐optical switching mechanism is utilized here to develop the all‐optical arithmetic operation scheme. Analog optical signals are converted to the corresponding digital signals by optical tree architectures. First a four bit arithmetic unit has been accessed which is elevated to a higher bit arithmetic unit in course. These circuits can execute innumerable arithmetic operations and remarkably, as they are all‐optical and fully parallel in nature. These all‐optical arithmetic units can gear up to the highest capability of optical performance in high‐speed all‐ optical computers.

Birth and Death Process Modeling Leads to the Poisson Distribution: A Journey Worth Taking

This paper describes details of development of the general birth and death process from which we can extract the Poisson process as a special case. This general process is appropriate for a number of courses and units in courses and can enrich the study of mathematics for students as it touches and uses a diverse set of mathematical topics, e.g., probability, differential equations, difference equations, calculus, and infinite series. We guide the reader through the assumptions, derivation, and modeling applications which will permit the study of this useful subject in a number of settings. We offer illustrations of the Poisson process to demonstrate its applicability to interesting and real-life situations.

Focusing on Units to Support Prospective Elementary Teachers' Understanding of Division in Fractional Contexts

This theoretical paper proposes a way to extend the partitive and measurement interpretations of whole number division to fractional contexts focusing on the issue of units. We define the unit-changing and unit-keeping interpretations for division and suggest a stronger and earlier focus on the concept of units in courses for prospective elementary teachers. As we highlight the importance of the concept of unit, we use the proposed interpretations in the analysis of one example that emerged in our methods course, discuss the idea of inverting and multiplying, and suggest implications for teacher education.

The prognosis for clinical chemistry in a modern 5 year undergraduate medical curriculum

During the past 3 decades a quiet revolution has overtaken traditional educational procedures in Australian medical colleges. Of the many pressures which have contributed to this revolutionary zeal, the following 5 factors stand out as dominant influences: 1. the explosive growth of almost all aspects of medical science precludes in-depth coverage of the traditional medical disciplines, 2. the perceived requirement to modulate traditional disciplinary approaches to medical education into an integrated interdisciplinary format, 3. the need for medical ‘teachers’ to be trained in educational philosophy and practise, 4. acceptance of undergraduates’ legitimate expectations that all units of courses shall have readily perceivable relevance and 5. units of the programme should aim to progressively develop undergraduate skills in the process of problem solving. With respect to ‘teaching’ of pathology in a modern curriculum, it is no longer feasible to differentiate subdisciplines, rather intra-pathological integration as well as horizontal and vertical integration of pathology with preclinical, paraclinical and clinical activities is essential. Thus the modern and future academic pathologist requires an enlightened training programme for a role as “pathological jack of many trades’. Are universities and the College geared to both provide such education and support the teacher? The new 5 year integrated medical curriculum of the University of New South Wales will be reviewed in order to focus attention on the difficulties peculiar to pathology and in particular clinical chemistry. Policies for remedial action will be discussed.

On E. S. kaplan's paper “preferred use of the international system of units in courses on electricity”

on E. S. kaplan's paper “preferred use of the international system of units in courses on electricity”

THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

is an incident of the demagogue in the French Revolution who said, There go the people; let us hurry and overtake them—I am their leader. The general practitioner of medicine stands in a peculiar relationship to the people of the community in which he serves. At least, that relationship is peculiar if one allows that a community is more or less limited in area, not quite urban and not quite rural. One may define a community somewhat arbitrarily as the smallest unit that will hold itself together and in which individuals live in groups either organized or unorganized, through which they express their needs, desires, purposes and interests. Such a social unit of course embraces more than the mere geographic limits of a town or a city. It reaches out and includes those elements which react on the business, social, educational, religious and cultural life of the group and

THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

There is an incident of the demagogue in the French Revolution who said, "There go the people; let us hurry and overtake them—I am their leader." The general practitioner of medicine stands in a peculiar relationship to the people of the community in which he serves. At least, that relationship is peculiar if one allows that a community is more or less limited in area, not quite urban and not quite rural. One may define a community somewhat arbitrarily as the smallest unit that will hold itself together and in which individuals live in groups either organized or unorganized, through which they express their needs, desires, purposes and interests. Such a social unit of course embraces more than the mere geographic limits of a town or a city. It reaches out and includes those elements which react on the business, social, educational, religious and cultural life of the group and