Higher education can function as an important marker of seriousness in fields characterized by diffuse professional standards. Using the case of a fine arts institute, the article outlines the role of higher education in promoting the interconnection of a professional and individual subjectivity; being an artist is not merely something one does but something one is. By primarily examining inter...

This position paper proposes the need for researching the use of case teaching method in computing education and subsequently developing a case repository and set of practical tips on how case method can be incorporated into the different computing courses. Keywords—case-based teaching; computing education; case respository; teaching cases

Through the time, the higher education has changed the learning system since mother tongue to bilingual, and in this new century has been coming develop a multilingual education. All as part of globalization process of the countries and the education. Nevertheless, this change only has been effectively in countries of the first world, the rest have been lagging. Therefore, these countries requi...

Chapters four to twelve have presented the situation with regard to the most important dividing lines between higher education sectors and higher education institutions in each of the national systems involved in the project, the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Flanders, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In this comparative analysis thematic comparisons are made. The leadi...

Positioning the organization in the strategic environment of its industry is one of the first and most important phases of the organizational strategic planning and in today knowledge-based economy has its importance been duplicated for higher education institutes as the centers of education, knowledge creation and knowledge worker training. Up to now, various models with diverse approaches hav...

It is the position of American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) that all inpatient interdisciplinary teams include a diabetes educator to lead or support improvement efforts that affect patients hospitalized with diabetes or hyperglycemia. This not only encompasses patient and family education but education of interdisciplinary team members and achievement of diabetes-related organizati...

This paper describes a position about use of the Personal Software Process (PSP) metrics that was presented in the workshop: "Software Metrics: Views from Education, Research, and Training". The position presented here, describes how and why PSP metrics can be used in teaching and learning about software engineering.

OBJECTIVE To determine the role of obesity, adult behavioural risk factors, and markers of specific childhood exposures in the association between adult socioeconomic position and hypertension in a cohort of people aged 60 years and older. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING Spain. PARTICIPANTS 4009 subjects representative of the Spanish non-institutionalised population aged 60 years an...

BACKGROUND The influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on cardiovascular diseases and risk factors is widely known, although the role of different SES indicators is not fully understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of different SES indicators for cardiovascular disease risk factors in a middle and old aged East German population. METHODS Cross-sectional data of an East G...