title: Student engagement: Potential causes and solutions

authors: Weijers, Dan M.

abstract: I will briefly discuss what I take to be some potential causes and solutions to student disengagement at the University of Waikato. As educators responsible to our students, our employers, and taxpayers, we are facing pressures from multiple directions. We face pressure to increase pass rates and flexible learning options, while ensuring students achieve learning outcomes and become work-ready. Perhaps due to having too many options and no conscious priorities, combined with an ever increasing array of distractions, students are not making time to take study seriously. And, for the most part, we are enabling them to do that. A regular part of our jobs has become chasing students up because they don't come to class, they miss deadlines, or they haven't even taken the time to look at the paper outline. I think that a university-wide initiative to structure our courses more effectively, have higher expectations of students, and educate students about "how to do university" could reinvigorate the student body and improve outcomes for students, the university, and taxpayers.

text: Student engagement: Potential causes and solutions I will briefly discuss what I take to be some potential causes and solutions to student disengagement at the University of Waikato. As educators responsible to our students, our employers, and taxpayers, we are facing pressures from multiple directions. We face pressure to increase pass rates and flexible learning options, while ensuring students achieve learning outcomes and become work-ready. Perhaps due to having too many options and no conscious priorities, combined with an ever increasing array of distractions, students are not making time to take study seriously. And, for the most part, we are enabling them to do that. A regular part of our jobs has become chasing students up because they don't come to class, they miss deadlines, or they haven't even taken the time to look at the paper outline. I think that a university-wide initiative to structure our courses more effectively, have higher expectations of students, and educate students about "how to do university" could reinvigorate the student body and improve outcomes for students, the university, and taxpayers.

year: 2017

title: Modeling for optimal probability prediction

authors: Wang, Yong

subjects: computer science

abstract: We present a general modelling method for optimal probability prediction over future observations, in which model dimensionality is determined as a natural by-product. This new method yields several estimators, and we establish theoretically that they are optimal (either overall or under stated restrictions) when the number of free parameters is infinite. As a case study, we investigate the problem of fitting logistic models in finite-sample situations. Simulation results on both artificial and practical datasets are supportive.

text: Modeling for optimal probability prediction We present a general modelling method for optimal probability prediction over future observations, in which model dimensionality is determined as a natural by-product. This new method yields several estimators, and we establish theoretically that they are optimal (either overall or under stated restrictions) when the number of free parameters is infinite. As a case study, we investigate the problem of fitting logistic models in finite-sample situations. Simulation results on both artificial and practical datasets are supportive.

year: 2002

title: An Interactive User Management System for Multilingual Documents: A case study of the Pei Jones collection

authors: Cader, Papitha

subjects: Greenstone Digital Library

abstract: Can general purpose DL software architecture be designed to provide a flexible environment that supports both the management and end-user roles through a single unified web interface? In particular we take the collected correspondence of the Māori scholar Dr. Pei Jones and undertake case study of how this approach can be applied in a practical way.

text: An Interactive User Management System for Multilingual Documents: A case study of the Pei Jones collection Can general purpose DL software architecture be designed to provide a flexible environment that supports both the management and end-user roles through a single unified web interface? In particular we take the collected correspondence of the Māori scholar Dr. Pei Jones and undertake case study of how this approach can be applied in a practical way.

year: 2012