de la tesisTítulo: La formación universitaria online para pilotos en activoAutor: Fernando Sánchez Izquierdo Dirección: Dra. Mercè Gisbert CerveraEn esta tesis se presentan los resultados de la investigación realizada entre el 2001 y 2006 sobre el diseño y la implantación de una herramienta web de campus para la formación no presencial de pilotos de aviación civil.La investigación realizada sobre la herramienta y su uso parte de los siguientes objetivos generales: 1. Diseñar una herramienta de campus virtual para la formación no presencial de pilotos.2. Desarrollar la herramienta en menos de un año.3. Implementarla con los estudios no presenciales del CESDA.4. Evaluar el funcionamiento a partir de datos recopilados durante cuatro cursos. 4 cursos.Los objetivos se dividen en dos grupos, los tres primeros, se desarrollaron antes del inicio del primer curso. El segundo, formado por el cuarto objetivo, se ha desarrollado analizado una serie de objetivos específicos que nos han permitido obtener conclusiones sobre el diseño y la estructuración de la herramienta, su facilidad de uso, su utilidad en la formación, etc.. Para ello se ha realizado un estudio longitudinal a partir la información recopilada durante cuatro cursos, entre 2002 y 2006, analizando datos almacenados en bases de datos con información procedente de cuestionarios, matriculación, resultados académicos, actas, ficheros con el registro de la actividad de los usuarios en la herramienta, foros, etc..En este estudio se han analizado una serie de indicadores entre los que destacamos:· La conectividad y los accesos al campus y a las webs de las asignaturas.· Los movimientos en las diferentes secciones de las webs de las asignaturas.· La cantidad de recursos disponibles en cada sección.· El éxito de la virtualización en cuanto a matriculación y resultados académicos.· Perfil de los usuarios y sus Intervenciones en forosCon los resultados obtenidos vemos si el diseño del campus ha sido correcto y en todo caso, obtenemos conclusiones sobre éste, que nos ayuden a diseñar las mejoras necesarias para optimizarlo.La memoria se ha estructurado en tres bloques: El primer bloque dedicado a la fundamentación teórica en la que se han basado las decisiones de diseño de la herramienta campus. Consta de cuatro capítulos: · El primero trata conceptos relacionados con la sociedad y la educación, el nuevo marco educativo actual asociado a la tecnología y las TIC. Se tratan conceptos como la educación a distancia, abierta, flexible, teleeducación, etc.. · El segundo hace un repaso a las principales herramientas de Internet y sus aplicaciones, como el e-mail, foros, FTP, prestando especial atención a la Web y los entornos de herramientas web.· El tercero trata los entornos de teleformación, donde vemos cómo utilizar herramientas TIC en la formación, analizando entornos dedicados a tal fin, en concreto los campus virtuales.· El cuarto presenta la formación de pilotos, el nacimiento del CESDA y aspectos de la oferta académica presencial y online.El segundo bloque consta de un capítulo donde se describe el Campus Virtual y las decisiones de diseño tomadas en su construcción. Se presentan las funciones del campus para cada tipo de usuario.En el tercer bloque se expone la investigación realizada y los resultados obtenidos al analizar diferentes aspectos relacionados con la herramienta de campus y el funcionamiento de los estudios con los registros de actividad de los usuarios generados durante 4 años.Estos análisis nos han permitido obtener unas conclusiones sobre diferentes aspectos de la herramienta, su diseño, sus resultados y su uso por parte de sus usuarios, las cuales se han presentado junto con una serie de propuestas para mejorar diferentes aspectos de la herramienta y el uso que se da de ella. / of thesisTitle: On-line university education for professional aviation pilotsAuthor: Fernando Sanchez Izquierdo Director: Dra. Merce Gisbert CerveraThis thesis presents the results of the research conducted between 2001 and 2006 on the design and implementation of a Web tool for the on-line education of aviation pilots.The research conducted on the Web tool and its use has the following goals:1. To design a virtual campus for the on-line education of pilots.2. To develop this tool in less than one year.3. To implement the tool with the CESDA on-line studies.4. To evaluate the tool's performance using the data recorded during the last four courses. The goals are divided into two groups, the first three, were developed prior to the start of the first course. The second, comprising the fourth objective, has been developed analysing a series of specific objectives that have enabled us to draw conclusions about the design and structure of the tool, its ease of use, its usefulness in training, etc.To that end It's been conducted a longitudinal study from the information collected during four courses between 2002 and 2006, analysing data stored in databases with information from questionnaires, registration, academic grades, logs, files with the users activity records of the tool, forums, etc.In this study we have analysed a number of indicators among which are:· The connectivity and access to the campus and the web of every subject.· The movements within the different sections of the web of every subject. · The amount of educational resources available in each section. · The success of virtualization in terms of enrolment and academic grades. · Users profiles and their activity in forums With the obtained results we can see whether the design of the campus has been correct and in any case, we obtain conclusions about it, to help us design the improvements necessary to optimize it.The thesis report is structured in three blocks:The first set is devoted to the theoretical foundations on which the decisions have been based to design the virtual campus tool. It consists of four chapters:· The first deals with society and education aspects, the new educational framework associated with current technology and ICT. It addresses concepts such as distance education, open, flexible, tele-education, etc.· The second takes a look at the main tools of the Internet and its applications, such as e-mail, forums, FTP, paying particular attention to the Web and Web tools environments.· The third deals with distance learning environments, where we see how to use ICT tools in training, analyzing environments dedicated to this purpose, namely the virtual campuses.· The fourth presents the education of pilots, the birth of CESDA and aspects related to the academic offer, on-line and presential.The second group consists of a chapter which describes the virtual campus and the design decisions taken in its construction. We present campus functions for each type of user. The third section describes the research conducted and the results obtained by analyzing various aspects of the virtual campus and the operation of the studies together with user activity logs generated during 4 years. These tests have enabled us to obtain a set of conclusions about different aspects of the tool, its design, its results and its use by its users, which have been presented with a series of proposals to improve different aspects of the tool.

This work is to compare two online testing systems – EDU Campus and TestTool4. The first one is using various types of standard test questions with the emphasis to math-based subjects. It has some unique features too. The second one is using graphical model based approach to the testing of the knowledge.

This study examined the effectiveness of social media marketing on college students attending a recreation special event. Facebook and Twitter were assessed via an experimental design. To measure the effectiveness of these applications (through updating statuses) on a college student’s awareness, interest, and intent of attending a special event, three groups were employed (Facebook, Twitter, and Control). A total of 134 participants were recruited via six undergraduate courses and were assigned into three groups based on their social media consumption. Subjects responded to a pre-survey, joined their respective treatment group, and completed a post-survey. Descriptive statistics revealed that awareness increased for those who received Facebook status updates and tweets. The interest level of the treatment groups decreased from the pre to the post-test and the intention of participants to participate increased slightly for the Facebook treatment group, but the intent level of participants in the Twitter and Control groups decreased.

With increased enrolment in post-secondary education in Canada, communities hosting universities or colleges have witnessed a higher number of students residing in their near-campus neighbourhoods. The concentration of students has negative impacts on these once low-density, family-oriented neighbourhoods. Near-campus neighbourhoods are often associated with images of run-down properties, garbage-strewn front yards, and alcohol fuelled parties. Some Ontario municipalities have responded to these problems with student accommodation strategies and planning initiatives. However, the problems in near-campus neighbourhoods and the effectiveness of the planning strategies have not been well understood due to the novelty of the issue and the scarcity of related research in the Canadian context. This study aims to answer two research questions: 1) what are the impacts of student populations on near-campus neighbourhoods in Ontario? 2) how, and how effectively, have planning authorities responded to the challenges of near-campus neighbourhoods? To answer these research questions, surveys and interviews were conducted among planners and post-secondary institution housing officers in Ontario university/college communities. Evidence was also sought from other resources including other academic studies, planning documents and media output. The study results showed that at least 23 Ontario municipalities faced challenges associated with the concentration of student population in near-campus neighbourhoods. The challenges relate to demographic imbalance, decreased rates of homeownership, a deteriorating neighbourhood environment, and student behavioural issues. However, only around half of the affected communities have developed planning strategies to respond to the challenges. Eleven planning approaches are identified, analyzed, and evaluated in the study. In general, planning policies to encourage high-density development to accommodate students are common approaches and considered effective: purpose-built student housing has significantly increased its market share in some university communities. This type of development relieves housing pressure, but it is not clear if it helps to stabilize low-density neighbourhoods near campus; the attempt to regulate the student private rental market by zoning and licensing regimes has several drawbacks. The study also reveals diverse interests of different stakeholders in near-campus neighbourhoods, and the lack of effective collaboration and partnerships among them in addressing challenges in their neighbourhoods in general.

This thesis examines transportation planning at the University of Manitoba Fort Garry campus with the view to improving efficiency, equity and reducing economic loss. Through a broad approach of Transportation Demand Management (TDM) a number of avenues are explored including a comprehensive literature review of sustainable transportation planning; the documentation of selected university TDM programs including University of Colorado, University of British-Columbia and the University of Ottawa; a University of Manitoba commuter web survey, and key informant interviews. Cost-benefit analysis, geographical information systems and key informants interviews are used. Twelve key recommendations are outlined in the concluding chapter. The research suggests optimal solutions can be reached if there is strong leadership from the University of Manitoba central administration in Transportation Demand Management (TDM) including a more collaborative approach to transportation and land use planning, as well as working closely with its stakeholders in reforming current practices. A series of incremental changes can give higher priority to walking, cycling, transit, and car pooling ahead of those driving alone resulting in a more equitable and efficient transportation system and leading to a healthier population and a healthier environment for the University of Manitoba community. The author can be contacted by email at tompearce@hotmail.com

In loco parentis, or “in place of the parent,” was the model that formerly governed the relationship between student and university. Student behavior on campus was closely monitored, as if each pupil were the son or daughter of the dean. The university was granted power to regulate the lives of its students closely, but was also charged with responsibility for their welfare. The cultural revolution of the 1960s changed this. Student rebellions aimed against any and all authority, coupled with judicial interference that severely hindered the university’s capacity to act as parent, effectively killed off the doctrine of in loco parentis. Now the relationship between university and student more closely resembles that of landlord and tenant. These phenomena have coincided with the rise of the “campus rape epidemic,” or the notion that roughly 20 percent of women will be sexually assaulted during their college years. By comparing the sexual assault rate at schools that continue to practice in loco parentis to those that do not, this report will show that a return to the doctrine of university as parent can solve the problem of sexual assault on college campuses. In a survey of 657 colleges and universities around the nation, this paper will demonstrate that the sexual assault rate is lower at schools that attempt to regulate the lives of their students, such as with regard to alcohol and living arrangements. This is, in a sense, to state the obvious – or, at least, what was once obvious. Alcohol is involved in over half of all sexual assaults on campus, and 90 percent of sexual assaults occur in dorm rooms. By reducing the availability of alcohol on campus and by limiting the residence interactions between the sexes, the university can put an end to the campus rape epidemic.

Increasing studies imply that predicted energy performance of buildings significantly deviates from actual measured energy use. This so-called "performance gap" may undermine one's confidence in energy-efficient buildings, and thereby the role of building energy efficiency in the national carbon reduction plan. Closing the performance gap becomes a daunting challenge for the involved professions, stimulating them to reflect on how to investigate and better understand the size, origins, and extent of the gap. The energy performance gap underlines the lack of prediction capability of current building energy models. Specifically, existing predictions are predominantly deterministic, providing point estimation over the future quantity or event of interest. It, thus, largely ignores the error and noise inherent in an uncertain future of building energy consumption. To overcome this, the thesis turns to a thriving area in engineering statistics that focuses on computation-based uncertainty quantification. The work provides theories and models that enable probabilistic prediction over future energy consumption, forming the basis of risk assessment in decision-making. Uncertainties that affect the wide variety of interacting systems in buildings are organized into five scales (meteorology - urban - building - systems - occupants). At each level both model form and input parameter uncertainty are characterized with probability, involving statistical modeling and parameter distributional analysis. The quantification of uncertainty at different system scales is accomplished using the network of collaborators established through an NSF-funded research project. The bottom-up uncertainty quantification approach, which deals with meta uncertainty, is fundamental for generic application of uncertainty analysis across different types of buildings, under different urban climate conditions, and in different usage scenarios. Probabilistic predictions are evaluated by two criteria: coverage and sharpness. The goal of probabilistic prediction is to maximize the sharpness of the predictive distributions subject to the coverage of the realized values. The method is evaluated on a set of buildings on the Georgia Tech campus. The energy consumption of each building is monitored in most cases by a collection of hourly sub-metered consumption data. This research shows that a good match of probabilistic predictions and the real building energy consumption in operation is achievable. Results from the six case buildings show that using the best point estimations of the probabilistic predictions reduces the mean absolute error (MAE) from 44% to 15% and the root mean squared error (RMSE) from 49% to 18% in total annual cooling energy consumption. As for monthly cooling energy consumption, the MAE decreases from 44% to 21% and the RMSE decreases from 53% to 28%. More importantly, the entire probability distributions are statistically verified at annual level of building energy predictions. Based on uncertainty and sensitivity analysis applied to these buildings, the thesis concludes that the proposed method significantly reduces the magnitude and effectively infers the origins of the building energy performance gap.

This creative project explains the process of creating and administering a university historic resource district. Objectives of this district are protection, planning, and promotion of important campus elements, both manmade and natural. The aim of the university historic resource district is the preservation of historic structures, stimulation of pride, and the possibility of the resolution of preservation - based conflicts.The campus is first inventoried to identify the resources available. Once completed, the inventoried information is evaluated. Findings are then mapped and areas of prime concentration identified.Guidelines are then established, providing a basis to improve and protect the campus character. Preservation of the dominant characteristics and unifying elements of the campus is the main focus of the guidelines.The district would be administered by an advisory committee with broad representation. The committee would review projects that the university proposes and make recommendations based on guidelines or relevant criteria.The university district is predicated on the theory that by allowing outside involvement and arriving at decisions through consensus, university users will not feel powerless toward campus decisions. The resulting cooperative effort would be beneficial to the university users, the community at large, and the university administrators. / Department of Architecture

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This thesis examines transportation planning at the University of Manitoba Fort Garry campus with the view to improving efficiency, equity and reducing economic loss. Through a broad approach of Transportation Demand Management (TDM) a number of avenues are explored including a comprehensive literature review of sustainable transportation planning; the documentation of selected university TDM programs including University of Colorado, University of British-Columbia and the University of Ottawa; a University of Manitoba commuter web survey, and key informant interviews. Cost-benefit analysis, geographical information systems and key informants interviews are used. Twelve key recommendations are outlined in the concluding chapter. The research suggests optimal solutions can be reached if there is strong leadership from the University of Manitoba central administration in Transportation Demand Management (TDM) including a more collaborative approach to transportation and land use planning, as well as working closely with its stakeholders in reforming current practices. A series of incremental changes can give higher priority to walking, cycling, transit, and car pooling ahead of those driving alone resulting in a more equitable and efficient transportation system and leading to a healthier population and a healthier environment for the University of Manitoba community. The author can be contacted by email at tompearce@hotmail.com