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Designing Open book assessment - part 1 (2020-04-17)

Open-book assessments are commonly considered an alternative to traditional closed-book assessments, invigilated examinations being the most typical example. This webinar first provides an overview, then presents various methods illustrated with examples, and concludes by sharing practical considerations when designing open-book assessments.
Event Date: 17/04/2020
Facilitator(s): Pakey Chik(EDC), Joseph Chow(EDC), Josephine Csete(EDC), Laura Zhou (EDC)

Subjects:: Assessment & Feedback
Keywords:: Grading marking (Students) Educational tests measurements
Resource Type:: Video

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Designing Open book assessment - part 2 (2020-04-17)

Open-book assessments are commonly considered an alternative to traditional closed-book assessments, invigilated examinations being the most typical example. This webinar first provides an overview, then presents various methods illustrated with examples, and concludes by sharing practical considerations when designing open-book assessments.
Event Date: 17/04/2020
Facilitator(s): Pakey Chik(EDC), Joseph Chow(EDC), Josephine Csete(EDC), Laura Zhou (EDC)

Subjects:: Assessment & Feedback
Keywords:: Grading marking (Students) Educational tests measurements
Resource Type:: Video

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Designing the Perfect Airport Runway

This video discusses the technical aspects to consider when designing an airport runway.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering and Transportation
Keywords:: Airports Runways (Aeronautics) -- Design construction Aeronautics Commercial
Resource Type:: Video

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Determine Order of Reaction from Initial Rates

Comparing initial rates to determine the order of reaction is a very common question in Kinetics.
Let's take a look at an example:
The objective is to choose a pair of experiments for comparison where the concentration of a reactant changes and ideally the concentration of other reactants remain constant. This means that any change in the initial rates of the experiments must be due to the change in the concentration of that reactant, and we can figure out the order from there.
1. Order of Reaction with respect to HCl
Comparing experiments 1 and 3, concentration of HCl doubles and there is no change in concentration of sucrose. So the change in initial rates must be due to HCl only. We can work out the change in initial rates to be 2 times. This means when concentration of HCl doubles, initial rate doubles. Therefore order of the reaction with respect to HCl will be order 1. For comparison, if order of reaction is zero, initial rate will remain unchanged when concentration of HCl doubles. If order of reaction is 2, initial rate will increase by 4 times (2^2 times) when concentration of HCl doubles. Since we only have 3 possible orders to consider, figuring out the order of reaction is quite straightforward.
2. Order of Reaction with respect to sucrose
Comparing experiments 1 and 2, concentration of sucrose increase by 1.5 times and there is no change in concentration of HCl. So the increase in initial rates by 1.5 times must be due to sucrose only. Since this is a proportionate increase, order of reaction with respect to sucrose is also order 1. Finally we can write out the rate equation for this reaction to be: rate = k [HCl][sucrose]

Course related:: ABCT 2701 Analytical Chemistry
Subjects:: Chemistry
Keywords:: Chemistry Physical theoretical
Resource Type:: Video

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Determining Empirical and Molecular Formulas (Screencast)

Learners follow a four-step process to determine the empirical formula of a compound from the masses of its constituent elements. The molecular formula is determined in a fifth step using the molecular weight of the compound.

Subjects:: Chemistry
Keywords:: Molecular weights Chemistry Physical theoretical
Resource Type:: Others

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Determining a Business Cycle Phase

In this learning activity you'll plot GDP data on a graph and determine a phase of the business cycle.

Subjects:: Economics
Keywords:: Gross domestic product Business cycles
Resource Type:: Others

e-book

Developing New Products and Services

Developing New Products and Services by Sanders is an outstanding contribution to market research. The book focuses on the upfront activities and ideas for new product and service development. A central theme of Developing New Products and Services is that there is, or should be, a constant struggle going on in every organization, business, and system between delivering feature-rich versions of products and services using extravagant engineering and delivering low-cost versions of products and services using frugal engineering. Students will come away with this notion and how to manifest it as a contributing employee at any company. A number of powerful concepts and tools are presented so your students can better understand how to facilitate new product development. For example, three templates are featured that facilitate new product and service development. The FAD (features, attributes, and design) template is used to identify the features and attributes that can be used for product and service differentiation. The Ten–Ten planning process contains two templates: an Organizational and Industry Analysis template and the Business Plan Overview template. These two templates coupled with the FAD template can be used to develop a full-blown business plan. In addition, Developing New Products and Services includes the following topics: entrepreneurship, technology and product life cycles, product and service versioning, product line optimization, creativity, lock-in real options, business valuation, and project management. Evaluate Developing New Products and Services by Sanders for your marketing courses today.

Subjects:: Management and Industrial and Systems Engineering
Keywords:: Product differentiation New products Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

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Developing a Budget for the U.

Learners follow the step-by-step process the U.S. Government uses for creating the federal budget. The topics of budget surpluses and deficits and the federal deficit are covered.

Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: Budget
Resource Type:: Others

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Dialog with a World Class AI expert: Know HOW to get the MOST out of generative

A world class AI expert will explain to us in layman terms the power and limitations of generative AI tools, key factors that affect their performances and what users should know before deciding to use these tools and when reviewing the responses from these tools. Be inspired to discover more applications of these tools!
Event Date: 13/6/2023
Presenter: Prof. Usama Fayyad, Executive Director of the Institute for Experiential AI, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, USA
Facilitator(s): Eric Tsui (EDC), Ioanna Pavlidou (ITS)

Keywords:: Machine learning Artificial intelligence Education -- Effect of technological innovations on
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Dialogue with Cheung Ka-long

A chance to have dialogue and interactive match with an Olympic Gold Medalist! On 17 December, the renowned foil fencing athlete and Olympic champion, Mr Cheung Ka-long, will have a live chat at PolyU where he will share details about his athletic and personal life with participants.
一起與奧運金牌運動員在校園對話、台上較量﹗香港著名劍擊運動員張家朗將於12月17日蒞臨理大校園，與一眾與會者暢談他在劍術內外的生活點滴。

Keywords:: Fencing China -- Hong Kong 張家朗 1997- Fencers Athletes -- Training of
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Diaoyutai MGM Hospitality's MGM Lion Club Member Reward Program | GreatCase100

Diaoyutai MGM Hospitality launched the MGM Lion Club member reward program, a cross-industry collaboration between Diaoyutai State Guesthouse and MGM International Hotel Group. The program aims to provide unique high-end experiences and promote the merging of the two brands. The marketing strategy involved collaborating with large platforms, industry leaders, and business partners to expand reach and increase brand awareness. The outcomes were rapid membership growth, attraction of high-net-worth customers, and elevated brand awareness. Challenges include limited availability of Diaoyutai hotels to attract members and the need to focus on digital development for market expansion and word-of-mouth marketing.

Subjects:: Marketing and Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Customer loyalty programs Hotels -- Marketing Customer loyalty Hospitality industry -- Marketing
Resource Type:: Others

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Dictionary.com

Dictionary.com is the world’s leading digital dictionary. We provide millions of English definitions, spellings, audio pronunciations, example sentences, and word origins. Dictionary.com’s main, proprietary source is the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, which is continually updated by our team of experienced lexicographers and supplemented with trusted, established sources including American Heritage and Harper Collins to support a range of language needs. Dictionary.com also offers a translation service, a Word of the Day, a crossword solver, and a wealth of editorial content that benefit the advanced word lover and the English language student alike.

Course related:: ENGL2003 English for Advanced Academic Writing
Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: Dictionaries English language English language -- Terms phrases
Resource Type:: Others

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Dietary Manager Training: Cooling Foods Using an Ice Water Bath

In this animated learning object, learners read about the proper handling of foods that contain the nutrients and water that bacteria require for growth.

Subjects:: Food Science
Keywords:: Food -- Cooling
Resource Type:: Others

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Dietary Manager Training: Diabetes

Students read about the different types of diabetes and the treatment methods available.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Food Science
Keywords:: Diabetes
Resource Type:: Others

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Dietary Manager Training: Digestion and Absorption of Carbohydrates

Learners follow the path of a carbohydrate food from consumption through digestion to absorption into the bloodstream. In a matching exercise, students identify the main type of carbohydrate found in four different foods.

Subjects:: Health Science and Food Science
Keywords:: Carbohydrates Disgestive organs
Resource Type:: Video

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Dietary Manager Training: Digestion and Absorption of Protein

Learners follow the path of a protein food from consumption through digestion to absorption into the bloodstream.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Food Science
Keywords:: Proteins Proteolysis
Resource Type:: Others

Others

Dietary Manager Training: Preventing Backflow of Contaminated Water into Potable Water

In this animated learning object, students read about the backflow of contaminated water and how to prevent it.

Subjects:: Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Plumbing Potable water Sewage
Resource Type:: Others

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Dietary Manager Training: Understanding the Nutrition Facts Label (Screencast)

Learners take a close look at the information on product labels concerning fat, fiber, and serving sizes. A quiz follows the lesson.

Subjects:: Food Science
Keywords:: Food -- Labeling Nutrition
Resource Type:: Video

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Different types of medical research and evidence based medicine.

In this video, a team of four students have used skills learned in the previous module and found a lot of information which seems relevant. They now have a problem of evaluating the information found to determine what is the most relevant to their research. Apart from that, they also found that there are many types of medical research and studies.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Medicine -- Research -- Methodology Public health -- Research -- Methodology Medical care -- Research -- Methodology
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

Differential Analysis II: Partial Differential Equations and Fourier Analysis

In this course, we study elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) with variable coefficients building up to the minimal surface equation. Then we study Fourier and harmonic analysis, emphasizing applications of Fourier analysis. We will see some applications in combinatorics / number theory, like the Gauss circle problem, but mostly focus on applications in PDE, like the Calderon-Zygmund inequality for the Laplacian, and the Strichartz inequality for the Schrodinger equation. In the last part of the course, we study solutions to the linear and the non-linear Schrodinger equation. All through the course, we work on the craft of proving estimates.

Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Fourier analysis Differential equations Partial
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Differential Equations

Differential Equations are the language in which the laws of nature are expressed. Understanding properties of solutions of differential equations is fundamental to much of contemporary science and engineering. Ordinary differential equations (ODE's) deal with functions of one variable, which can often be thought of as time.

Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Differential equations
Resource Type:: Courseware

e-book

Differential calculus for the life sciences

"Calculus arose as a tool for solving practical scientific problems through the centuries. However, it is often taught as a technical subject with rules and formulas (and occasionally theorems), devoid of its connection to applications. In this textbook, the applications form an important focal point, with emphasis on life sciences. This places the techniques and concepts into practical context, as well as motivating quantitative approaches to biology taught to undergraduates. While many of the examples have a biological flavour, the level of biology needed to understand those examples is kept at a minimum. The problems are motivated with enough detail to follow the assumptions, but are simplified for the purpose of pedagogy"--BC Campus website.

Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Life sciences Differential calculus Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

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Differentiating Acid-Base Disturbances

Through the use of symbols and words, the learner reviews the etiologies, symptoms, and treatment of respiratory and metabolic acid-base disturbances.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Medical Laboratory Science
Keywords:: Acid-base imbalances
Resource Type:: Others

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Differentiation (first principles)

This learning material covers the topic of differentiation by considering first principles (gradients of chords and tangents).

Course related:: AMA1110 Basic Mathematics I – Calculus and Probability & Statistics
Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Differential calculus
Resource Type:: Others

e-book

Digital Accessibility as a Business Practice

Most business leaders would agree that reaching the broadest audience is good for a business’s bottom line. A good portion of that audience will be people with disabilities. How, though, would an organization go about ensuring it is as accessible as it can be to all its potential clients or customers, including people with disabilities? This book has been created to answer this question, and to demystify “digital accessibility” as a business practice. It brings together all the pieces of the digital accessibility picture, and provides strategies and resources that will help make digital accessibility a part of an organization’s business culture.

Keywords:: Barrier-free design Industrial management Textbooks Accessible Web sites for people with disabilities
Resource Type:: e-book

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Digital Circuit Projects: An Overview of Digital Circuits Through Implementing Integrated Circuits

Digital circuits, often called Integrated Circuits or ICs, are the central building blocks of a Central Processing Unit (CPU). To understand how a computer works, it is essential to understand the digital circuits which make up the CPU. This text introduces the most important of these digital circuits; adders, decoders, multiplexers, D flip-flops, and simple state machines. What makes this textbook unique is that it puts the ability to understand these circuits into the hands of anyone, from hobbyists to students studying Computer Science. This text is designed to teach digital circuits using simple projects the reader can implement. But unlike most lab manuals used in classes in Digital Circuits or Computer Organization classes, this textbook is designed to remove the barrier of a laboratory infrastructure needed in a face-to-face environment at a college or university. This textbook is designed to be used by the reader to create the circuits in their own homes. The textbook is free. The cost of the kits needed to do the labs is reasonable. And the projects are well documented and can be implemented by even novices to electronic projects. This text allows professors to add laboratory projects in digital circuits to students in online classes in Computer Organization. This enhances these classes with interesting and fun exercises that reinforce the classroom topics. This text can also be used by a hobbyist who wants to learn more about digital circuits and how computers work. The material is presented at a level that someone with no experience in digital circuits and electronics can successfully complete the projects, and gain an understanding of the circuits which go into making up a computer.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Digital integrated circuits Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

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Digital Foundations

This book was written by two artist educators who teach digital art and design studio foundation classes. While teaching classes that take place in software laboratories, we noticed that many of our students expected to learn to use software, but gave little consideration to aesthetics or art and design history. A typical first day question is, "Are we going to learn Photoshop in this class?" At first we were tempted to oblige our students' thirst for so-called practical knowledge, but we recognize that in the absence of the visual, theoretical, and historical frameworks, practical knowledge is practically useless. To teach our classes, we used the very best of the software training manuals, and supplemented them with all the visual and historical material that was missing. After settling for years on books that don't really encapsulate a class, we finally decided to write the book that we think all introductory media design students should be using. For us, a student is anyone actively engaged in learning. A student can be working towards a degree in art, communication, graphic design, illustration, and so on in a traditional classroom setting, or a self-taught found-it-on-the-bookstore-shelf learner. In the twenty chapters that follow, we have shared small bites of history, followed by visual references, and then digital exercises that explore creative software in a manner that brings design principles into the software demo. Originally, this book was printed as a manual to the Adobe Creative Suite, the software found in classrooms and labs around the country. Just a month after the book was published, we teamed up with Floss Manuals to convert our manuscript into one that teaches the same design principles using open source software.

Subjects:: Interactive and Digital Media
Keywords:: Open source software Computer art
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud - Revised Edition

Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach the Adobe Creative Suite. All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—need to understand the basic principles of design in order to implement them using current software. Far too often design is left out of books that teach software for the trade and academic markets. Consequently, the design software training exercise is often a lost opportunity for visual learning. This revised edition updates the original text for use with Adobe Creative Cloud 2017 software.

Subjects:: Interactive and Digital Media
Keywords:: Computer graphics -- Computer programs Adobe Creative Suite Textbooks Design
Resource Type:: e-book

Courseware

Digital Signal Processing

The course treats: the discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), their application in OFDM and DSL; elements of estimation theory and their application in communications; linear prediction, parametric methods, the Yule-Walker equations, the Levinson algorithm, the Schur algorithm; detection and estimation filters; non-parametric estimation; selective filtering, application to beamforming.

Subjects:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Signal processing
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Digital Visual Cultural

This podcast is designed to give you an insight into the University of Oxford's digital - visual - cultural series of events. The series is interested in exploring the impact of digital visualising technologies on contemporary life and hope to give you a taste of why you should be too! Bite-sized episodes will introduce you to a range of themes and discussions, as well as multiple voices from academia and industry.

Subjects:: Society and Culture and Technology
Keywords:: Digital media -- Social aspects
Resource Type:: Others

e-book

Digital accessibility as a business practices : essential skills for business leaders

"Most business leaders would agree that reaching the broadest audience is good for a business's bottom line. A good portion of that audience will be people with disabilities. How, though, would an organization go about ensuring it is as accessible as it can be to all its potential clients or customers, including people with disabilities? This book has been created to answer this question, and to demystify "digital accessibility" as a business practice. It brings together all the pieces of the digital accessibility picture, and provides strategies and resources that will help make digital accessibility a part of an organization's business culture"--BCcampus website.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Accessible Web sites for people with disabilities Web sites -- Design
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

Digital foundations

"This book was written by two artist educators who teach digital art and design studio foundation classes. While teaching classes that take place in software laboratories, we noticed that many of our students expected to learn to use software, but gave little consideration to aesthetics or art and design history. A typical first day question is, "Are we going to learn Photoshop in this class?" This book is a mash-up of the Bauhaus Basic Course and open source software such as Inkscape, Gimp, Firefox, and Processing. We have taken some of the visual principles and exercises from the Bauhaus Basic Course and adapted them into exercises for these applications."--BCcampus website.

Subjects:: Interactive and Digital Media
Keywords:: Textbooks Computer art Open source software
Resource Type:: e-book

Video

DigitalSreeni Youtube Channel

This channel walks you through the entire process of learning to code in Python; all the way from basics to advanced machine learning and deep learning. The primary emphasis will be on image processing and other relevant functionality. Why did I create this channel? To help you (students and researchers) gain a new skill and succeed in your respective fields.
You may think coding is hard and that it's not your cup of tea, but Python made it easy to code even advanced algorithms. In addition, coding will make you self sufficient, it will teach you how to think, it improves your collaborative skills and it can take your career to new heights. Therefore, if you want to stay ahead of your peers and relevant in your field, overcome your fears and start coding!

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Computer programming Computer science Python (Computer program language)
Resource Type:: Video

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Dilution of Hydrochloric Acid

In this interactive object, learners examine how to properly dilute hydrochloric acid.

Subjects:: Chemistry
Keywords:: Hydrochloric acid
Resource Type:: Others

MOOC

Diploma in Financial Trading & Investment Programme

Master the building blocks of financial trading and investment over the course of 4 weeks. You will learn to trade with confidence by focusing on both the technical and fundamental aspects of trading/investment with our help and support throughout. You will learn what is required in order to successfully trade stocks, currency and commodity markets.

Course related:: AF3316 Investments
Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: Securities -- Prices Investments Stocks Investment analysis
Resource Type:: MOOC

e-book

Direct Energy

Direct Energy Conversion discusses both the physics behind energy conversion processes and a wide variety of energy conversion devices. A direct energy conversion process converts one form of energy to another through a single process. The first half of this book surveys multiple devices that convert to or from electricity including piezoelectric devices, antennas, solar cells, light emitting diodes, lasers, thermoelectric devices, and batteries. In these chapters, physical effects are discussed, terminology used by engineers in the discipline is introduced, and insights into material selection is studied. The second part of this book puts concepts of energy conversion in a more abstract framework. These chapters introduce the idea of calculus of variations and illuminate relationships between energy conversion processes.

Subjects:: Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Direct energy conversion Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

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