CUA Office of Education: Expanding its scope

Expanding the Scope of Dishonesty

Expanding the scope of humanitarian program evaluation.

The effectiveness of humanitarian programs normally is evaluated according to a limited number of pre-defined objectives. These objectives typically represent only selected positive expected impacts of program interventions and as such, are inadequate benchmarks for understanding the overall effectiveness of aid. This is because programs also have unexpected impacts (both positive and negative)...

Expanding the Scope of Health Information Systems

In 2002, the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Working Group on Health Information Systems (HIS) analyzed HIS challenges and recent developments [1]. Among the challenges were a lack of generally accepted measures to describe a HIS and to predict its performance [2], the lack of a shared vision, of comprehensive definitions for national infrastructures, and of top level guida...

the survey of the virtual higher education in iran and the ways of its development and improvement

این پژوهش با هدف "بررسی وضعیت موجود آموزش عالی مجازی در ایران و راههای توسعه و ارتقای آن " و با روش توصیفی-تحلیلی و پیمایشی صورت پذیرفته است. بررسی اسنادو مدارک موجود در زمینه آموزش مجازی نشان داد تعداد دانشجویان و مقاطع تحصیلی و رشته محل های دوره های الکترونیکی چندان مطلوب نبوده و از نظر کیفی نیز وضعیت شاخص خدمات آموزشی اساتید و وضعیت شبکه اینترنت در محیط آموزش مجازی نامطلوب است.

Commentary: A case for expanding the scope of case studies in biotechnology education.

Science education is made more exciting and effective by the use of dynamic examples illustrating the context and relevance of basic scientific principles and discoveries. Recently, this idea has been exploited in textbooks highlighting the medical and scientific relevance of basic science. Contemporary biochemistry and molecular biology texts now routinely use case studies that illustrate how ...