Humanitarization Geographic Education in Universities

Higher education in Gerodontology in European Universities

BACKGROUND The rapid aging of the European population and the subsequent increase in the oral care needs in older adults necessitates adequate training of dental professionals in Gerodontology (Geriatric Dentistry). This study was designed to investigate the current status of Gerodontology teaching amongst European dental schools at the undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education level...

Outdoor education in Finnish schools and universities

Background Due to the electronic media the amount of time that children spend in nature has declined in the recent time. However, it is important for children to learn about nature and it is also healthy for children to spend time in nature (Kuo, 2010). An empathic relation to nature (Palmberg & Kuru, 1998), nature sensitivity (Nykänen & Kinnunen, 1992), environmental awareness, attitudes, and ...

Approaches to R education in Canadian universities

Introduction: R language is a powerful tool used in a wide array of research disciplines and owes a large amount of its success to its open source and adaptable nature. The popularity of R has grown rapidly over the past two decades and the number of users and packages is increasing at a near exponential rate. This rapid growth has prompted a number of formal and informal online and text resour...

Transforming Science Education at Large Research Universities

Distance education and on-line universities

This paper focuses on distance education in general , and online universities in particular. It argues that online universities have to cooperate with commercial service providers to disseminate lectures to a wide audience, and that this cooperation requires new techniques with regard to the registration, validation, and certiication of the parties involved, such as professors , service provide...