The architecting method is evaluated by means of experiences in research projects, in workshops and in courses. This evaluation complements the evaluation of the architecting method by means of the medical imaging case. Distribution This article or presentation is written as part of the Gaudí project. The Gaudí project philosophy is to improve by obtaining frequent feedback. Frequent feedback i...

The scientific program included plenary lectures, scientific symposia, workshops, clinical courses, master classes and poster sessions. In total, 37 symposia were submitted of which 28 were accepted for the program. In addition, 7 free paper sessions were organized, which included many of the 113 free oral presentations that were submitted. Fifty of the free oral presentations were accepted as ...

Equity measures and attempts at inclusivity in the university, such as harassment policies and prejudice reduction workshops, tend to treat sexism, racism, and other forms of marginalization and exclusion as attitudinal and individualistic properties. Through discussion of a critical incident in which I was involved, I argue that sexism and racism are systemic; they are power relations that hav...

The objective of this study is to obtain comparative results that may help to improve the design and development of courses, seminars and workshops offered by the University of Havana, Cuba, and by ISIDA, Italy. The paper describes the techniques used in a comparative investigation on two groups of managers, and discusses the results obtained in examining: a) the views of the two groups on stat...

Part of the Polish-Swedish OSHMAN project was carried out in a textile company. It aimed at implementing and improving effective health and safety management with workers' active involvement at all levels of the enterprise. The two main problems to be solved during the project were decreasing occupational risk and improving workers' poor knowledge on occupational risk. Training courses, worksho...

Continuing interprofessional education is the means by which experienced health, social care, and other practitioners learn with, from, and about each other, formally and informally, to improve their collective practice and to cultivate closer collaboration. It applies principles of interprofessional education through media commonly employed in continuing professional education grounded in team...

Resident-as-teacher courses are pretty common in Western medical schools however they are a rarity in Asian and developing countries. The current report is a scholarly analysis of a three day orientation program for senior residents in order to improve their functioning by providing new template either for supplementing basic workshops for faculty or to advocate a change in system. The experien...

The presented software tools have been accomplished in the frame of the Leonardo da Vinci pilot project “Virtual-Electro-Lab”. The aim of the project is developing a complex training system in electrical domain that includes the correlation of the courses, seminars / workshops and testing systems with the virtual & remote experiment elements. It proposes an innovative approach of the teaching m...

Rapid advances in mobile computing and wireless communication present an opportunity for fundamental changes in engineering education, particularly for teambased courses in which collaborative learning is the dominant learning mode. This talk describes a collaborative, multi-disciplinary design course and a suite of collaboration tools called Handy Andy, to support team based design. The curren...

Everyone is ready to lead ethics classes and workshops—even undergraduates. One of mine recently asked me if I would agree to supervise an independent study in which she planned to design an ethics curriculum for middle-school and high-school students. “Maybe we could even take it down to elementary-school level,” she effused. This bright young woman earnestly believed that if people in low-inc...