The creation of curricula should adhere to the principle "integration general education and professional education" in development all types talents address issue "two skins" between liberal arts studies. Emphasize study fundamental theoretical courses, grasp profession's main lines, highlight characteristics, develop a personal brand. This paper explores implementation measures, strategies, pa...

The use of new technology must be combined with modern teaching practices to be effective. Collaborative learning is a general term employed for a variety of classroom practices designed to foster shared responsibility for a course. The teaching/learning process of software/database modeling subject areas can be greatly improved through the application of collaborative learning, but there are s...

A questionnaire to assess doctors' knowledge, attitudes and training about breastfeeding was answered by 320 medical students, 75 resident doctors and 50 general practitioners in Baghdad, Iraq. Although attitudes towards breastfeeding were generally positive, less than 50% of medics had adequate scores on knowledge questions (> or = 50% correct). Most general practitioners (86.0%) agreed that b...

The field of robotics is interdisciplinary by nature, and aa a result, university robotics curricula tend to be distributed across various departments, typically within the College of Engineering. This arrangement poses a number of problems: (1) resources, particularly laboratory equipment, are difficult to obtain, since in many cases several departments are competing for a single, limited set ...

OBJECTIVES To determine which basic and social science courses academic pharmacy administrators believe should be required for entry into the professional pharmacy program and what they believe should be the required length of preprofessional study. METHODS An online survey was sent to deans of all colleges and schools of pharmacy in the United States. Survey respondents were asked to indicat...

The widespread discussion about the potential of MOOCs has stimulated universities and enterprises to develop courses using private MOOC providers and mainly open MOOC platforms on their own technological infrastructure. Nevertheless, the design of attractive courses for large scale e-learning and practical guidelines to design for learning in MOOCs remain a challenge. In this paper, firstly, w...

BACKGROUND The Institute of Medicine recommendation for a more educated nursing workforce has triggered significant activity in the area of academic profession, particularly in pre- and postlicensure baccalaureate nursing education. Many innovative academic progression models involving universities and community colleges have emerged. Among the most common barriers to this effort are inconsiste...

Placement and support of students in first-year mathematics courses at institutions higher education has long been a consequential issue. In bid to address it, many systems learning have elected implement co-remediation framework place pre-remediation, due large part the prohibitive cost latter, both terms financial resource, as well student academic progress. Accompanying this evolution expans...