Learning is collaborative process where teacher/ tutor/ instructor and student work together. Loosing face to face audiovisual communication in electronic and distant learning can be replaced by a video conference. Another possibility is to use embodied conversational agents with the ability to synthesize human speech and simulate facial expressions (talking head). This paper summarizes the sta...

Faculty development implications related to implementing the Family Medicine Curriculum Resource (FMCR) Project provide an opportunity to look at the recommendations of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's federally funded Faculty Futures Initiative (FFI) and the recent Future of Family Medicine (FFM) project. Implications for faculty development include the importance of the clerkship ...

BACKGROUND Because of the shortage of health professionals, particularly in specialty areas, Rwanda initiated the Human Resources for Health (HRH) Program. In this program, faculty from United States teaching institutions (USF) "twin" with Rwandan Faculty (RF) to transfer skills. This paper assesses the twinning model, exploring USF and RF goal setting, satisfaction and perceptions of the effec...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine (AUB-FM) strategy is to develop faculty members (fm) skills by sponsoring local and international scientific activities has been in place for over three decades, and remains dependent on individuals' efforts. In 2011-2012, Faculty Development Program (FDP) was introduced to develop faculty leadership, business ski...

Innovation does not mean only creating the new product or services. It is necessary to work out the strategy to lead innovations. Innovators Market Game is a method for creating new ideas by combining existent ideas. In this study, we propose the new way of creating ideas; Rolebased Innovators Market Game. In the game, players take part in the role selected from the real world. For example, jou...

As discovery systems take the Library world by storm, there is a new opportunity for user-centred information literacy programs to emerge. As library search gets easier and varied platforms become unified, the focus of information literacy on search rules and platform choice and navigation will (finally) be able to truly give way to critical thinking and imaginative exploration. These are skill...

the late ‘allāma viewed knowledge (‘ilm) as an existential entity and agreed with ṣadr al-muti’allihīn in this respect, saying that knowledge is the presence of an object for an object, i.e. achievement of knowledge for a knower is the achievement of a de facto entity which is pure actuality; since, intuitively, we find that the cognitive form does not have the power to transform into another f...

submerged breakwaters are one of the shore protective structures. any discontinuity in these breakwaters causes changes on current parameters including speed and water surface profile. in this paper, discontinuous submerged breakwaters were modelled to investigate the changes in the wave and flow pattern.to investigate the phenomenon, three models including a shore with constant slope, a shore ...

this paper deals with the boundary value problem involving the differential equationbegin{equation*}    ell y:=-y''+qy=lambda y, end{equation*} subject to the standard boundary conditions along with the following discontinuity  conditions at a point $ain (0,pi)$ begin{equation*}    y(a+0)=a_1 y(a-0),quad y'(a+0)=a_1^{-1}y'(a-0)+a_2 y(a-0),end{equation*}where $q(x),  a_1 , a_2$ are  real, $qin l...