Cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of your computer's hard drive. By introducing cloud computing in 2012, the school has managed to ease access and sharing, enhance collaboration between teachers and school management and was able to adopt and consummate another digital competence in order to benefit our school curriculum. Another crucial ben...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 61, No. 4, 2013 (“The Impact of Gaming on Libraries,” edited by Scott Nicholson), pp. 825–835. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Three school library staff members explore how they have used tabletop games in different school library settings. Teresa Copeland (Tesseract School, Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA) explores how tabletop and role-playing...

Six education strategies have been identified relating to the curriculum in a medical school. Each issue can be represented as a spectrum or continuum: student-centred/teacher-centred, problem-based/information-gathering, integrated/discipline-based, community-based/hospital-based, elective/uniform and systematic/apprenticeship-based. The factors supporting a more towards each end of the contin...

OBJECTIVE To assess acceptability and feasibility of a school-based health care transition education intervention designed to equip adolescents and young adults (A/YA) who have special health care needs with important health literacy, self-advocacy, and self-determination skills. METHODS A qualitative research approach was used to assess a 40-hr curriculum implemented with 137 A/YA in 13 high...

International research has consistently found that the organisation and leadership of a school are critical factors in the way in which educational technologies such as computers are used and their subsequent impact on learning opportunities in schools. This involves the Principal but also should involve a leadership team including a Curriculum leader (e.g. Director of Curriculum) who provides ...

428A. Psycho-Educational Characteristics of the Mentally Retarded (ED 428A.) Fall, Summer. 3(3-0) CEP 460A or approval of department. Cognitive, affective and social characteristics of the mentally retarded. Implications for school learning and life adjustment. Differentiation of mental retardation from related conditions. 428B. Curriculum for the Mentally Retarded (ED 428B.) Fall, Summer. 3(3-...

CONTEXT At a time of significant changes in medical education world-wide, the international dimensions and global issues relating to the application of new learning technologies have been recognised. OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to describe the adoption and integration within the curriculum in one United Kingdom (UK) medical school of 'Harvey', the Cardiology Patient Simulator, and the ...

In conjunction with its problem-based learning curriculum, Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) developed a shortened preclinical restorative training curriculum. This study compared our curriculum with those in other dental schools and examined student reaction to it. Twenty-nine U.S. dental schools responded to a survey regarding the length of their preclinical course in Operative Dentist...