In this paper, a curriculum for an introductory digital electronics course using VHDL based on a custom designed development board is presented. The development board is centered on the ispM4A CPLD. The development of the CPLD teaching aid is the direct result of collaboration between engineering faculty at Hochschule Harz (University of Applied Studies and Research) in Wernigerode, Germany and...

The author, head of a teaching hospital surgical unit, argues that the medical curriculum must ensure that all students are exposed to a minimum of ethical discussion and decision-making. In describing his own approach he emphasises the need to show students that it is 'an intensely practical subject'. Moreover, he reminds them that moral dilemmas in medicine--perhaps a better term than medical...

In this study, we compared two teaching strategies: lecture notes combined with structured group discussion versus lecture only. We sought to help nurse educators identify the most effective teaching strategies for nursing students. We compared the examination scores of two groups of students who took a 3-credit medical-surgical nursing course. The control group (N = 88) received lecture only a...

With the development of modern information technology, the traditional teaching mode becomes more deficient for the requirement of modern education. Plant Quarantine has been accepted as the common course for the universities of agriculture in China after the entry of WTO. But the teaching resources of this course are not enough especially for most universities with lack base. The characteristi...

Occupational stress the greatest killer among white and blue collar workers. The monster is more prevalent among university workers especially the non-teaching staff. It is on this backdrop that the study was nurtured. The study essentially examined the effect of occupational stress and how it impairs the performance of the non-teaching staff in the south eastern universities in Nigeria. Descri...

human free acts have always been one of most difficult but important issues in philosophical debates. in this paper, i will try to provide an interpretation of these acts and argue for human free will and freedom. to this end, i will first, disucss the distinction of necessary acts from free acts, and then will argue for the free will, and its relation to free acts and freedom. finally, some co...