BACKGROUND Increasing interest in the role of spirituality in clinical care has begun to affect educational programs. This study evaluated the current status of training in spirituality and health care in family medicine residency programs. METHODS We surveyed 138 randomly selected US family medicine residencies regarding their spirituality and health care curriculum. A response rate of 73% (...

Course planning is an important faculty role requiring expertise and effective decision-making. Despite the centrality of planning activities in the teaching-learning process, relatively little research has explored the process by which instructors in higher education plan their classes. Thus, the author and colleagues pursued a three-year series of studies of college instructors in the US who ...

The new phenomenon of clinical ethics is analyzed from a role theoretic perspective that differentiates consulting, teaching, watching, and witnessing. Teaching and consulting are seen as main role alternatives in clinical ethics practice, with watching and witnessing defining transitional states that reveal the complexity of clinical ethics. The problem of the legitimation of clinical ethics i...

This paper presents a mixed-initiative teaching and learning method that allows a subject matter expert, who does not have knowledge engineering experience, to transfer his problem solving expertise to a learning agent. The expert is teaching the agent to perform domain specific tasks in a way that resembles how the expert would teach an apprentice while solving problems in cooperation. The met...

Institution-wide curriculum change is a costly, time-intensive and politically fraught undertaking. It challenge identifying who has responsibility for the empowered to it. The unbundling of traditional tri-partite academic role teaching, research service leaves gap in those communities decides what features curriculum. Using discourse analysis documentation, this paper analyses experience depa...

The term "phraseology" is derived from the Greek words phrasis-speech and logos-teaching. Phraseological units cover a lot of drawbacks English language it one-third part colloquial speech. aim study to consider phraseological as means communication explore their theoretical practical meanings in formation students' oral-speech skills. was carried Gagauzia Moldova, at secondary school Yessentuk...

We describe a novel cognitive science-based approach to concept mapping called Advanced Concept Mapping (ACMapping) designed to reliably enhance teaching, learning and research performance in both underperforming and highly accomplished individuals. ACMaps are logically constructed expert-like representations of the conceptual deep structure of a technical domain. The ACMapping methodology was ...