Advances in genetics and their implications for disease prevention make it important that there should be more emphasis on the teaching of human genetics in our schools. This is likely to require cooperation between educationalists and interested medical staff and two such ventures, one in North America and the other in Nottinghamshire, are described. The latter, involving school teachers, the ...

BACKGROUND Any activity undertaken for the purpose of health enhancing behavior is an important element of taking care of one's health. The aim of this paper was to analyze the frequency of health enhancing behaviors and avoiding health-risk behaviors among teachers and other school staff by gender and age. MATERIAL AND METHODS The sample consisted of 750 teachers and 259 individuals of non-t...

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In universities, a great amount of time is needed to manage and operate lab course IT infrastructures. Additionally, university’s resources are occupied and teaching staff is needed to supervise the attending students. In this paper, we present a concept for planning and deploying virtualized IT infrastructures (hosts and network) for higher education purposes and show an implementation includi...

This paper presents early findings from the ETL project, a national study in Britain which is investigating teaching and learning across five contrasting subject areas in higher education. The focus here is on electronic engineering and, in particular on analogue electronics. Staff in six course units have collaborated with the researchers to enable data to be collected from their students, and...

Three new direct-service staff participated in a program that used a video model to train target skills needed to conduct a discrete-trial session. Percentage accuracy in completing a discrete-trial teaching session was evaluated using a multiple baseline design across participants. During baseline, performances ranged from a mean of 12% to 63% accuracy. During video modeling, there was an imme...

Effective academic staff development in teaching can be difficult to achieve. One reason is that there are often limited funds available. Another is that the diverse skills and knowledge required for effective university teaching are not formally described. Griffith University's Academic Development and Professional Training (adapt) program attempts to provide academic staff development for tea...

While there is definitely a place for centrally delivered Professional Development (PD), staff often don’t transfer what they have learned in the PD sessions and return to their workspace usually continuing as before. This paper describes an evidenceand scholarship-based model of PD, where academic developers work closely with teaching staff on projects designed to address teaching needs specif...

Despite recommendations that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) familiarization should be offered to UK medical students, in Wales little such teaching was offered. We decided to assess medical students' knowledge of CAMs, perceived training needs in CAMs, their view of its role in the National Health Service (NHS) and current teaching given. Analysis of data from a questionnaire give...

The implementation of a Web-based survey of student feedback about courses using a database for storage, searching and retrieval of feedback data is reported in terms of its role in building a learning community around improving the quality of student learning experiences, enhancing academic teaching staff productivity and facilitating the scholarship of teaching and learning.