Our aim in this paper is to tell the story of how a discourse-based approach to university outcomes assessment can transform the teaching of writing and critical thinking across the curriculum. The institutional assessment plan developed by our university has been influenced by the work of Barbara Walvoord, a pioneering figure in writing across the curriculum. We will illustrate the surprising ...

We propose an intelligent tutoring system that constructs a curriculum of hints and problems in order to teach a student skills with a rich dependency structure. We provide a template for building a multi-layered Dynamic Bayes Net to model this problem and describe how to learn the parameters of the model from data. Planning with the DBN then produces a teaching policy for the given domain. We ...

BACKGROUND No universal solution, based on an approved pedagogical approach, exists to parametrically describe, effectively manage, and clearly visualize a higher education institution's curriculum, including tools for unveiling relationships inside curricular datasets. OBJECTIVE We aim to solve the issue of medical curriculum mapping to improve understanding of the complex structure and cont...

OBJECTIVES The improvement of safety in healthcare worldwide depends in part on the knowledge, skills and attitudes of staff providing care. Greater patient safety content in health professional education and training programmes has been advocated internationally. While WHO Patient Safety Curriculum Guides (for Medical Schools and Multi-Professional Curricula) have been widely disseminated in l...

As businesses world-wide begin to adopt Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in increasing numbers, academics are deciding how to utilise these types of systems in Information Systems (IS) curricula. Alliances with some of the ERP vendors have enabled some universities to develop innovative courses and subjects. Nevertheless, the limited research in this area has only outlined case studie...

erTigkertelIa Bruce W. The Student -Centered Curriculum: A Concept in Curriculum Innovation. Rutgers. The State Univ., New Brunswick. N.J. Graduate School of Education. Spans Agency-Office of Education (DHEW). Washington. D.C. Bureau of Research. Report No !mid -R -2 Bureau No-BR -8.0334 Pub Date Mar 69 Grant -OM -0.9 -080334 -3736 Note -21p. FORS Price MF -5025 HC-S1.15 Descriptors *Behavioral...

dear editor morning report is an educational process in which participants try to solve a diagnostic problem by discussing the patients (1). in spite of this fact that morning report is one of the most practical, clinical, and educational methods in the world, there is no special paradigm for it (2). thus, it is necessary to assess it for students’ educational planning. because there was no ref...

conclusions meeting the prerequisites to incorporating tbl in the curriculum of medical universities plays a pivotal role in its success. accordingly, in the assessment of the curriculum of medical universities, these requirements should be fully identified and fulfilled so as to be able to devise appropriate plans for the success of teaching methods. context this review study, performed in 201...