Much of the recent literature on improving education in the United States seeks to promote entrepreneurship as the solution to raising educational quality and equity. But, the historical record documenting substantial and sustained departure from conventional educational practices is scant despite numerous attempts at entrepreneurial innovation. This paper contends that the challenge of entrepr...

BACKGROUND While spontaneous reporting (SR) is one of the important public health activities for community pharmacists to guard patients' safety, very few studies examined educational activities and its effects on knowledge about the SR system in Korea. This study described the association between knowledge of SR and educational activities targeting community pharmacists in Korea. METHODS Sel...

The Educational Data Mining (EDM) community has experienced many benefits from the open sharing of data. Efforts such as the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center Datashop have helped in the development of learning data storage and standards in the educational community. In other fields, standards of comparison have been created through publication, sharing, and competition on identical dataset...

Essays contained in this document present a direction for policy and problemsolving in the realm of postsecondary education. The essays cover: (1) the "new" domain of postsecondary education, (2) the growth and financing of postsecondary education, (3) a lottery system for higher education, (4) credentialism, (5) campus disaffection, (6). the redistribution of educational and noneducational goo...

An urgent need exists to identify innovative and evidence-based educational methods to help oncology nurses provide safe and high-quality patient care. One promising solution is the dedicated education unit (DEU) educational model, which partners nursing faculty and skilled nursing clinicians to facilitate the clinical experience of undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students. This article des...

This bibliography contains 35 annotations on resources in the ERIC database (ranging from 1982 to 1988) dealing with strategies to help dyslexic students. The bibliography is arranged into three sections: lhe first section provides ay overview of dyslexia, the second section contains several citations on instructional strategies that can be used with the dyslexic student, and the last section r...

Sketching is a powerful means of working out and communicating ideas. Sketch understanding involves a combination of visual, spatial, and conceptual knowledge and reasoning, which makes it both challenging to model and potentially illuminating for cognitive science. This paper describes CogSketch, an ongoing effort of the NSF-funded Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center, which is being devel...

The information age demands that health sciences librarians take active roles in the educational process. Librarians have traditionally taught users how to access information. Now, with the proliferation of information, librarians must accept new roles and teach the user efficient techniques for evaluating and processing information as well. Innovative roles for librarians at Texas Tech Univers...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to produce an overview of topics and practical recommendations that have been presented for teaching for students with intellectual disabilities in educational research articles published from 2000 to 2013. The sample of peer-reviewed research articles considering this topic was selected using a database search of the Educational Resources Information C...

1 Laboratory of Meteorology, Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece 2 Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece 3 Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece 4 Department of Physics, University of Crete, Crete, Greece 5 Department of Electrical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Herakl...