Many business schools are re-examining management education, and many view advanced information technology as an enabler of innovative and effective learning. How best to approach technology -mediated learning is unclear. To assist institutions to implement technology -mediated education programs and avoid reinventing the wheel, this study examined effective and thoughtful technology -mediated ...

This article describes the systematic efforts undertaken by a school of nursing in the Northeastern United States to foster innovation in health professions education. We present an application of modified team coaching and plan-do-study-act improvement methods in an educational context to rapidly integrate a quality and safety curriculum across programs. We discuss applications in generalist, ...

The education of the 21 century is aimed at advanced scientific progress, and creativity is considered most important. Many educators are actively researching on original creativity programs, and developing new programs for creativity advancement. In this respect, the tangram program, which has not been run due to several problems, is now being developed for the web.

by the year 2020, the incidence of trauma has been predicted to rise worldwide and the death rate is expected to increase from 5.1 million to 8.4 million. the most important cause of death and severe morbidity up to the age of 45 years is traumatic brain injury, with or without polytrauma. since the early 1970s, traffic-related deaths in germany have dropped continuously—with the exception of t...

Writing-and communication-across-the-curriculum programs often develop as independent initiatives focused on improving students' writing and/or speaking by incorporating these activities into coursework and helping teachers to use them more effectively in their instruction. 1 However, there is now much anecdotal evidence of the conditions that work against the cultivation of cross-curricular pr...

The Commission on Education (COE) is designated in the Bylaws of AOTA as one of the standing commissions of the Representative Assembly (RA) (1). Its purpose is to promote the quality of education and educational standards for occu pational therapy assistants. To accomplish this purpose, the COE's functions include the following: 1. developing, interpreting, and reviewing educational standards ...