Managing High Risk Projects: a Software Process Improvement Workshop
This course is designed for individuals and teams seeking to reduce software project risk, improve delivered quality, and increase productivity and efficiency. Industry data clearly indicate larger projects, the primary focus of this Workshop, carry significantly greater risk of failure and experience large cost and schedule overruns. We will examine root causes and discuss how those causes...
Multimedia Enhanced Language Teaching
FOCUS OF THE PROGRAMME
In the first stage of the cognitive approach for the second language acquisition, comprehensible input, the underlying assumption is that the learner needs help in identifying the critical features in “the wealth of the linguistic and nonlinguistic information they receive”. This means that the supports embedded in the multimedia instructional approach should guide...
SOLSTICE 2010: Technology Enhanced Learning and the Student Experience
The SOLSTICE Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) at Edge Hill University is pleased to announce its 5th international conference.
Universities are dedicated to providing the best possible student experience, characterised by high levels of success, retention and satisfaction on which reputation and recruitment are dependent in the 21st century HE sector.
This conference...
Using Data to Identify and Retain At-Risk Students
The sooner an academically at-risk student is identified, the better his or her chances for success. Using data effectively to identify which students on your campus are most at-risk and then structuring the right intervention process can be instrumental in improving students' success and increase overall retention.
Join us in Minneapolis to discuss ways your school can identify at-risk...
Business Process Management
Almost every organization around the globe is now moving beyond processes as solely a way of synchronizing change and is attempting to transform the way their Enterprise plans, manages, monitors and aligns capabilities and motivation using a Process-Managed baseline. The bad news is that most organizations have little ability to make it happen in a consistent or reliable way and most managers...
Mastering the Requirements Process
People use software, but other people build that software. There’s the problem. Solving it means understanding the actual work of the Business users and what they need in order to do it. And then the resulting requirements need to be communicated to system builders, customers and suppliers. Requirements analysts need a process that provides a structure for organizing the requirements. However...