1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786242603321

Autore

Strawson Hannah

Titolo

53 ways to deal with large classes [[electronic resource] /] / revised and updated by Hannah Strawson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newmarket. Suffolk, : Professional and Higher Partnership Ltd, 2013

ISBN

1-907076-57-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Collana

Professional and higher education

Disciplina

371.2

378

Soggetti

Teaching

Effective teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Disclaimer; Title page; Imprint information and credits; Contents; Chapter 1 Problems concerning the course; 1 Some of the students shouldn't be in higher education; 2 Interviewing all the applicants is impossible; 3 Staff can't meet all the needs of new students; 4 Students don't use their handbooks; 5 It's difficult to keep track of everything; 6 There isn't time to meet all the course objectives; 7 Large groups are too heterogeneous; 8 There aren't enough books in the library; 9 Students easily become socially isolated; 10 Students don't get the individual help they need

11 Students don't have independent learning skills 12 Students don't feel valued; 13 It's hard to tell what the students think; 14 Staff feel powerless; Chapter 2 Problems concerning lectures; 15 Informal lectures don't work any more; 16 The lecture room is too small; 17 Students can't see the overall picture; 18 Students find it hard to concentrate; 19 Students don't ask questions; 20 It's hard to tell if students have understood; 21 The lecture isn't enough; 22 There isn't time to cover the syllabus; 23 Students find big lectures uninspiring

Chapter 3 Problems concerning discussion groups and seminars 24 It's difficult to cater for different needs; 25 Students feel anonymous in large discussion groups; 26 It's difficult to achieve rapport with such a large group; 27 Students find it hard to prepare for discussion groups; 28 Large discussion groups easily lose direction; 29 There's too much



inconsistency between parallel groups; 30 Groups are too big for all the students to participate; 31 The noise level during group work can be disruptive; 32 Students' individual responses are not audible

33 It's difficult to get students' attention when they are working on a task 34 Some groups are just too big for any kind of seminar; 35 Tutors feel unsure of their new role; 36 There are too many students to teach them all every week; 37 Students can't be expected to give seminar papers in large groups; 38 Students lack group work skills; 39 There aren't enough classrooms for student groups; Chapter 4 Problems concerning practicals, projects and fieldwork; 40 There isn't room in the laboratory for all the students; 41 Briefing students for practicals is too time consuming

42 It's impossible to link the science lectures and the practicals 43 There isn't time to supervise individual projects; 44 Large groups can't benefit from fieldwork; Chapter 5 Problems concerning assessment; 45 Students' assignments are too late and too long; 46 It's difficult to motivate yourself to do all the marking; 47 There isn't time to do all the marking; 48 It's difficult to mark group projects fairly; 49 It's impossible to give students fully individualised written feedback; 50 Tutors can't do all the marking unaided; 51 It's impossible to give students one-to-one tutorials

52 There isn't time to detect student plagiarism

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a revised and updated edition of 53 Problems with Large Classes by Sue Habeshaw, Graham Gibbs, and Trevor Habeshaw, with new contributions and contributors. Chapters cover: course planning and implementation; lectures; discussion groups and seminars; practicals, projects, and fieldwork; and assessment. Key terms: assessment; classes; courses; group work; higher education; lectures; pedagogy; post-compulsory education; professional education; seminars; students; teaching; training.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779512203321

Autore

Albert Todd J

Titolo

Essentials of Spinal Cord Injury : Basic Research to Clinical Practice / / by: Fehlings, Michael G., Boakye, Maxwell, Ditunno Jr., John F., Vaccaro, Alexander R., Rossignol, Serge, Burns, Anthony S.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Thieme, c2013

ISBN

1-63853-033-5

1-60406-727-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (684 p.)

Disciplina

617.4/82044

Soggetti

Spinal cord - Wounds and injuries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Essentials of Spinal Cord Injury: Basic Research to Clinical Practice; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Contributors; I Principles of Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Practice; 1 Anatomy and Physiology of the Spinal Cord; 2 Evaluation of the Patient with Spinal Cord Injury; 3 Imaging of Acute Spinal Cord Trauma and Spinal Cord Injury; 4 Pathophysiology of Spinal Cord Injury; 5 Epidemiology of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury; 6 Spinal Cord Injury Classification; 7 Spontaneous Recovery Patterns and Prognoses after Spinal Cord Injury

8 Management of Spinal Cord Injury in the Intensive Care Unit9 Concomitant Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury; 10 Pharmacotherapy in Acute Spinal Cord Injury: Focus on Steroids; 11 Halo Application and Closed Skeletal Reduction of Cervical Dislocations; 12 Principles of Surgical Management of Spinal Trauma Associated with Spinal Cord Injury; 13 Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis; 14 Sexuality and Fertility after Spinal Cord Injury; 15 Interdisciplinary Essentials in Pressure Ulcer Management; 16 Autonomic Dysreflexia and Cardiovascular Complications of Spinal Cord Injury

17 Pain after Spinal Cord Injury18 Essentials of Spinal Cord Injury: Psychosocial Aspects of Spinal Cord Injury; 19 Posttraumatic Kyphotic Deformity of the Cervical Spine; 20 Posttraumatic Syringomyelia: Pathophysiology and Management; 21 Rehabilitation of the Individual with Spinal Cord Injury; 22 The Management of Secondary



Complications Following Spinal Cord Injury; II Controversies in Management; 23 Timing of Surgery for Acute Spinal Cord Injury: From Basic Science to Clinical Application; 24 Hypothermia: Evidence-Based Review; 25 Management of Cervical Facet Dislocation

26 Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury in Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures Including Cauda Equina Syndrome27 Management of Central Cord Syndrome; III Neuroprotective and Neuroregenerative Approaches; 28 Research in Spinal Cord Injury: Building an Effective Translational Research Program; 29 North American Clinical Trials Network: Building a Clinical Trials Network for Spinal Cord Injury; 30 Considerations for the Initiation and Conduct of Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trials; 31 Animal Models of Spinal Cord Injury

32 Glial Scar and Monocyte-Derived Macrophages Are Needed for Spinal Cord Repair: Timing, Location, and Level as Critical Factors33 Promising Preclinical Pharmacological Approaches to Spinal Cord Injury; 34 Cellular Transplantation in Spinal Cord Injury; 35 Neuroregeneration Approaches; 36 Neuroprotective Trials in Spinal Cord Injury; 37 Approaches Using Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering; IV Neurophysiology and Imaging; 38 Electrophysiological Measures after Spinal Cord Injury; 39 Quantitative Tests of Sensory, Motor, and Autonomic Function

40 Basic Neurophysiological Approaches to Probing Spinal Circuits

Sommario/riassunto

Essentials of Spinal Cord Injury is written for the spinal cord injury (SCI) team and reflects the multidisciplinary nature of treating patients with SCI. It integrates emerging medical and surgical approaches to SCI with neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuroimaging, neuroplasticity, and cellular transplantation. This comprehensive yet concise reference will enable neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, neurologists, and allied health professionals caring for SCI patients to translate research results into patient care. It is also an excellent resource for those preparing for the board exam in



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996552466503316

Titolo

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems / / Edited by Jie Zhang, Li Chen, Shlomo Berkovsky, Min Zhang, Tommaso di Noia, Justin Basilico, Luiz Pizzato, Yang Song

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York, United States : , : Association for Computing Machinery, , 2023

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1406 pages)

Collana

ACM Conferences.

Altri autori (Persone)

ZhangJie

ChenLi

BerkovskyShlomo

ZhangMin

NoiaTommaso di

BasilicoJustin

PizzatoLuiz

SongYang

Soggetti

Computer science

Recommender systems

Personalization

Neural networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from The ACM Digital Library.