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MELBOURNE， Aug.12 (Xinhua) -- Australian universities have taken to using Wi-Fi routers to track how students are responding to their curricula.


By tracking students in this way， the University of Melbourne was able to analyze websites which students accessed to determine what parts of the syllabus students were interested in and what parts failed to maintain their attention.


Gregor Kennedy， vice-chancellor of education innovation at the University of Melbourne， said the practice， known as "learning analytics"， was an important way to improve the student experience.


"It provides valuable feedback and helps us understand how the design of our curriculum is working so we can modify it，" Kennedy told Fairfax Media on Friday.


"There's a benefit in simply understanding student learning processes and outcomes."


While Australia is the leader of the practice worldwide， privacy experts have warned that the institutions need to receive consent from students before they collect data.


"Some students don't want to be tracked. If people want to be tracked then that's okay， but if they don't， they shouldn't be，" Australian Privacy Foundation vice-chair Kat Lane said.


The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and University of Sydney have taken the practice a step further， using learning analytics to identify students who are likely to drop out of their courses.


The two institutions use data gathered about their course engagement during university classes， in conjunction with demographic data， to identify the students and alter the curriculum so that they were more engaged.


"We believe this approach has significant potential to improve the student experience，" Dr Abelardo Pardo， a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney， said on Friday.


The universities also used tracking data gathered by Wi-Fi routers to determine which physical spaces at the university were being used frequently and which could be better utilized.


NEW-BORN babies bring joy wholesale air max cheap irealnd , of course, but also troubles with how to name them. Names matter, Chinese agree, and that is why parents go to great lengths to devise auspicious and fitting names for their children.


“It is better to teach your children a craft, than to give them a thousand pieces of gold; it is better to give them a good name than to teach them a craft,” said an advertisement for 99qumingzi, a popular website providing naming services for new parents.


Decades ago wholesale air max irealnd , Chinese parents cared less about names.


“Probably because their parents did not go to school, some used numeral or ‘dog’ as given names,” says Hu Weining, head of household registration in the Honggutan New District of Nanchang, capital of eastern China’s Jiangxi Province. Her team, part of the city police, deals with registration documents for new babies wholesale air max 2019 irealnd , and she has worked there for 20 years.


She says that in the last two decades better-educated parents have started to care about names and even pay for names for their children.


According to Chinese custom, names that have been used by elder people in the family cannot be used for babies. Young parent do not like their children to share their names with others.


“Uniqueness is the new standard. Many people use complex Chinese characters to differentiate from others,” Hu says.


Trying to avoid repeating someone else’s name is a difficult task. Since January 1, 2016, China relaxed its one-child policy to allow all married couples to have two children.


Last year, millions of babies were born, and how to name them became a sweet headache.


“It can’t be tacky wholesale air max 97 irealnd , or strange. It should sound nice, but first and foremost it must be different from others,” says Wang Chunhua, a 30-year-old mother who gave birth to a boy in November last year. Her older daughter is seven.


Wang spent weeks going through Chinese dictionaries, looking for a proper and nice enough name for her son. She consulted with her husband and her relatives, and asked them to vote. Finally, she said: “Let’s name him Yuxuan (having an imposing appearance) wholesale air max 95 irealnd , nice meaning, and not common around me.”


As it turns out, according to a December report by Qimingtong, a naming service company, in cooperation with Tsinghua University, Yuxuan is a common name. It ranked fourth as the most common names for boys in 2015, according to the report based on the data of 5.4 million babies born that year.


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“Names reflect a nation’s changing cultural trend wholesale air max 270 irealnd ,” Hu says.


Thirty years ago, babies were given names like Wei (greatness), Aiguo (patriotism) or Xiuli (gently beautiful), now Chenxi (sun rays) and Haoran (righteousness) are more popular.


In 2015, 4,034 new babies were born in Honggutan, where Hu works. From January to November 2016 wholesale air max 90 irealnd , there were 4,695 newborns, up 16.38 percent year on year.


Some police districts in China have developed computer systems for registrants to search whether a name has been used and by how many people. Hu’s department does not offer such services, but she gives her advice.


“I have repeatedly told parents not to use extremely uncommon characters. Such names are unscannable in banking or social security systems,” she says.


Zhang Ruxin, who led the report on names, says people used to have only one Chinese character as a given name nike air max 2019 wholesale irealnd , but two-character names were now preferred, mainly to avoid duplicates.


According to the report, 299,025 people, about the population of Iceland, are called Zhang (surname) Wei (given name), the most-used name. The second-ranking Wang Wei is shared by 290 nike air max 97 wholesale irealnd ,619 people.


Younger parents are more influenced by pop culture, including romance novels and popular TV series. Zixuan, a name which probably has roots in heroines and heroes of TV series, is remarkably overused. It comes in different Chinese characters.


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