EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR VITAL STATISTICIANS

Metadata Standards for Educational Resources

E ach semester, I create Web-based learning experiences for my students by weaving together digital educational resources or learning objects such as videos, images, assessments, simulations, or tutorials. Often I use previously created material, if only I can find it. One current challenge of distributed learning is creating and managing content to facilitate reuse. Instructors as well as stud...

Standards for Educational Technology - IMS

The last decade of the millennium has seen rapid progress in the development of learning technologies, giving hope to many that we may be approaching the realisation of a vision of an educational landscape in which education providers form virtual partnerships to deliver distributed provision. A landscape in which learners sharing the same learning programme can do so across fading boundaries o...

Professional Standards Review Organizations

Diagnostic Amniocentesis in Singleton Pregnancy Guidelines Suggested by EFSUMB ́S Educational And Professional Standards Committee Indications

Comments Re a) After individual genetic counseling with regard to the risk of miscarriage caused by the invasive procedure and the risk of fetal chromosomal abnormality, every pregnant woman/couple decides whether an amniocentesis should be performed. From a strictly medical point of view, it is desirable that the risk of chromosomal abnormality be at least as high as that of miscarriage caused...

Measuring educational standards

Every Summer, when English public examination results appear there is a debate within the media about whether ‘educational standards’ are changing. The above remarks are typical; the first reflects the suspicions of those who believe in a professional conspiracy to prove that standards of performance are rising, and the second reflects a politician’s determination to pretend that everything has...