Design of a Flexible and Project Based Postgraduate Module on Applied Computational Intelligence: A Case Study
Jenny Carter, Samad Ahmadi · DMU Open Research Archive (De Montfort University) · 2012
The MSc Intelligent Systems (IS) and the MSc Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISR) programmes at De Montfort University are Masters level courses that are delivered both onsite and by distance learning. The courses have been running successfully on-site for 8 years and are now in the fifth year with a distance learning mode. The Applied Computational Intelligence module gives students the chance to apply knowledge gained in other modules on an application area of their choice. A substantial number of these involve robotics work though not all. Over the years there have many excellent pieces of work submitted by students for this module and number have gone on to be published. This paper presents the background to the module, ideas for flexible design of such modules, some examples of the students’ assignment work and a discussion of the perceived val-