Whilst the link between access, quality of schooling and gender equality in promotion Education for All is vital, the problematic nature of this agenda for the curriculum in developing countries is not sufficiently recognized. Previous sociological research indicates the contradictions between the social reproductive elements and the egalitarian potential of a ‘globalised curriculum’ especially...

The implementation of an implant dental curriculum in U.S. dental schools has been consistently increasing from 33 percent in 1974 to 97 percent in 2004. Among these, only 51 percent have clinical components implemented. A survey of students conducted in 2004 at New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) showed an inadequacy in clinical implant restoration experience by graduation. This p...

INTRODUCTION The faculty of Medicine, (FOM) Makerere University Kampala was started in 1924 and has been running a traditional curriculum for 79 years. A few years back it embarked on changing its curriculum from traditional to Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Community Based Education and Service (COBES) as well as early clinical exposure. This curriculum has been implemented since the academi...

OBJECTIVE Describe the association of USMLE Step 1 scores and the institution of a dedicated board review curriculum with resident performance on the Otolaryngology training examination. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cross sectional study. METHODS We reviewed American Board of Otolaryngology Training Examination (OTE) scores for an otolaryngology residency program between 2005 and 2016. USMLE ...

1Learning Research andDevelopmentCenter, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2Educational Studies, GhentUniversity, Ghent, BE 3Department of Teacher Professional Development, University of Twente, Enschede, TheNetherlands Correspondence SusanMcKenney,DepartmentofTeacher ProfessionalDevelopment,University ofTwente, Enschede, 7500AE,TheNetherlands. Email: [email protected] Abstr...

A number of national reports, including Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action, have called for drastic changes in how undergraduate biology is taught. To that end, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has developed new Curriculum Guidelines for undergraduate microbiology that outline a comprehensive curriculum for any undergraduate introductory microbiolo...

The 8-step template was created during the early phases of studying the present curriculum. The 8-step template includes: (1) Establishing the exact nature of curriculum problems, (2) Prioritizing and accessing needs, (3) Projecting a long range curriculum plan, (4) Consulting parallel accredited schools catalogs for similar programs, (5) Adapting national and international model curriculums, (...

This paper presents the interim results of the work of the joint ACM/AIS Curriculum Committee on IS Curricula. This Curriculum Committee was appointed in January 1998 with the charge to recommend curriculum guidelines for MS programs in Information Systems. The paper describes the design and presents the answers to frequently asked questions about the curriculum. The design of the curriculum is...

Learning analytics deals with the development of methods that harness educational data sets to support the learning process. One of the major subtasks of learning analytics is to determine the efficacy of a curriculum. In this paper contribution, the authors propose a generic curriculum analytics framework that can act as a useful guide for understanding the key dimensions that have to be consi...

The horizontal and vertical integration of design is discussed as a paradigm for redesigning the aerospace engineering curriculum at the University of Cincinnati. The motivation for such change is described in detail together with the educational philosophy developed in response to internal and external information gathering exercises. The general form of the newly proposed curriculum is presen...