As a supplement to traditional education, online courses offer people, regardless of their
age, gender, or profession, the chance to access state-of-the-art knowledge. Nonetheless …

Although diversity at universities has increased dramatically over the past 150 years, many
groups are still under-represented relative to their proportion in the general population …

Abstract Concept mapping is a powerful graphical technique for helping learners organize
knowledge and visualize connections and relationships between relevant concepts. The …

Following the establishment of an Academic Enabling and Support Centre in January 2010,
collegial interactions focused on issues around student performance in their core discipline …

Weve been teaching engineering mechanics to first year engineering students for a long
time, yet at many engineering faculties around the world there are still significant failure …

This study explores the multitude of factors contributing to high fail rates among students
studying first year engineering Mechanics, where fail rates in the order of 20-40% are …

It is quite popular among engineering educators to suppose that the academic performance
of undergraduate engineering students depends on their mathematics skills, but there is …

Many hours and dollars have been spent developing new resources to improve learning
outcomes in engineering mechanics courses. While many of these have been developed …

BACKGROUND There is increasing pressure in Australian universities to ensure that
students successfully complete their degree programs. The early and accurate identification …