Recruiting and Retaining Transfer Students
Over 60% of bachelor degree recipients will attend more than one institution.The transfer student market provides your institution - be it public or private - with a unique opportunity to strategically increase enrollments through targeted recruitment and student support programs.
A successful transfer student program requires a comprehensive, institution-wide commitment and strategy to...
Designing Web 2.0 Applications
The convergence of Windows and the Web is upon us. Google Maps, Gmail, Flickr and a variety of new Ajax and Rich Internet applications have begun to legitimize moving beyond HTML to deliver interactive applications that deliver the best of the Web and the best of the desktop application experience. We will show how these techniques are changing the way designers think about their application...
Modeling, designing and implementing SOA applications
After a brief introduction of Service Oriented Architecture the seminar discusses the guidance that typical Enterprise architectures provide, and it compares today’s two mainstream approaches to SOA, namely conventional Web Services based architectures and RESTful architectures. It moves on to the more detailed application architecture, starting with the relationship of different types of...
Workshop on Methods and Tools for Designing VR applications
BACKGROUND
Nowadays, the design and development of a Virtual Reality application still requires considerable knowledge of VR technology. Although there are a number of tools to help the designer in the creation of his VR application, they are not non-VR expert friendly. For this reason, the design and development of a VR application is usually done by a VR expert. For most VR designs, the VR...
Show me the numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
The ability to design effective visual displays of data is not intuitive; it requires a set of visual design skills that must be learned. Based on his recent book, Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten, Stephen Few introduces the Best Practices in data presentation in this workshop. No information is more important to a Business than quantitative information—the...
Advanced Software Testing
This course is designed for software testers that want to go deeper than the basic concepts. Attendees will learn how to create an effective test strategy, how to design creative test cases, how to optimize test cases to get the most testing from the fewest number of cases and how to measure and report the results of testing. Attendees will leave this course with a solid foundation for testing...