The success of peer review of teaching (PRT) in shaping teaching practice during an academic’s formative years may depend on the peers’ teaching experience and the frequency of evaluation. Two Australian earlycareer University lecturers with no previous experience of peer review performed a single PRT on one another following a one week academic development program, a mandatory exercise for all...

The evolution of altruism in humans is still an unresolved puzzle. Helping other individuals is often kinship-based or reciprocal. Several examples show, however, that altruism goes beyond kinship and reciprocity and people are willing to support unrelated others even when this is at a cost and they receive nothing in exchange. Here we examine the evolution of this "pure" altruism with a focus ...

considering the fact that entrepreneurship can be taught and the emergence of entrepreneurship education, there is a stronger need for newer ways of education such as electronic entrepreneurship education. this research is conducted to identify the success factors of electronic entrepreneurship education in the entrepreneurship faculty of tehran university using a qualitative and quantitative a...

Online education programs in nursing are increasing rapidly. Faculty need to be competent in their role and possess the skills necessary to positively impact student outcomes. Existing research offers effective teaching strategies for online education; however, there may be some disconnect in the application of these strategies and faculty perceptions of associated outcomes. Focus groups were f...

The evolution of altruism in humans is still an unresolved puzzle. Helping other individuals is often kinship-based or reciprocal. Several examples show, however, that altruism goes beyond kinship and reciprocity and people are willing to support unrelated others even when this is at a cost and they receive nothing in exchange. Here we examine the evolution of this "pure" altruism with a focus ...

background: team-based learning (tbl) is a structured type of cooperative learning that has growing application in medical education. this study compares levels of student learning and teaching satisfaction for a neurology course between conventional lecture and team-based learning. methods: the study incorporated 70 students aged 19 to 22 years at the school of rehabilitation. one half of the ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microteaching, a teacher training technique currently practiced worldwide, provides teachers an opportunity to perk up their teaching skills by improving the various simple tasks called teaching skills. with the proven success among the novice and seniors, microteaching helps to promote real-time teaching experiences. the core skills of microteachin...