In view of the electronic measurement and intelligent instrument experiment teaching problems, students’ innovative practice ability is vigorously promoted through establishment laboratory, development experimental projects, rich methods, multiple assessment system, course education, construction double type on teachers based Emerging Engineering Education. It can provide reference for informat...

In the veterinary professional curriculum, methods of examination in many courses are transitioning from the traditional paper-based exams to electronic-based exams. Therefore, a controlled trial to evaluate the impact of testing methodology on examination performance in a veterinary physiology course was designed and implemented. Formalized surveys and focus group discussions were also used to...

The advent of "omic" technologies has revolutionized genetics and created a demand to focus classical genetics on its present-day applications (Redfield, 2012, PLoS Biol 10: e1001356). This demand can be met by training students in Drosophila mating scheme design, which is an important problem-solving skill routinely applied in many modern research laboratories. It promotes a thorough understan...

Electronic publishing, and in particular Web-based publishing, has assumed an increasing importance in higher education. The possibility of delivering learning material to students over an extranet, thus bypassing the need for investment in usual university infrastructure, is clearly an attractive option for many institutions. Teaching staff, even those who are not particularly technically comp...

Objective exams (OE) plays a major role in educational assessment as well as in electronic learning. The main problem in the traditional system of exams is a low quality of questions caused by some human factors, such as the traditional method for the development of the exam covers a narrow scope of curriculum topics. This does nothing for the separation of teaching process about the examinatio...

The main purpose of this work is to consider the most efficient modern educational technologies applied in teaching foreign languages to students of higher educational institutions in the Russian Federation. Special emphasis is placed on blended learning as a pedagogical approach of high priority. It is necessary to note that informationcommunication environment plays a great role in the realiz...

The objective of this descriptive study was to analyze the accessibility and the content of the information about Specialization Courses in Nursing Administration available on the websites of federal universities in Brazil. From September 2008 to April 2009, evaluations were performed on a total 19 courses that were available on the websites of the universities, regarding the level of access to...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Short courses of antibiotics are often indicated for uncomplicated skin and soft tissue infections (uSSTIs). Our objective was to decrease duration of antibiotics prescribed in children hospitalized for uSSTIs by using quality improvement (QI) methods. METHODS QI methods were used to decrease duration of antibiotics prescribed upon hospital discharge for uSSTIs. We so...