background and purpose: the application of diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic evidence in day-to-day management of patients has been in constant focus during the last two decades. this study is an attempt to investigate attitude and knowledge of post-graduated medical students and lecturers towards evidence-based medicine (ebm) and assess their preferences to clinical practice guidelines. ...

New lecturers must be quickly adapted to their work environment. Adaptation was difficult when colleagues did not provide space for discussion the new lecturers. This condition occurred at Faculty of Engineering Bangka Belitung University, with planned open a study program, had in temporary homebase that field. The expectation from Dean existence knowledge sharing system can accessed anytime an...

Framed within the current accountability policies in higher education, under strains of global competition and internationalization universities worldwide, this article examines effective teaching as a pillar quality education among legal translation lecturers. By linking certain learning styles to different dimensions (instructional, organizational, emotional), profile lecturers Spain at under...

A DEFINITION OF LITERARY LITERACY: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE SYLLABUSES AND INTERVIEWS WITH PORTUGUESE LECTURERS OF LITERATURE Rita Baleiro School of Management, Hospitality and Tourism, University of the Algarve (Portugal) [email protected] Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present a definition of literary literacy in the context of majors in languages, literatures and cultures, in P...

Increasingly, academics are confronted with issues associated with assessment in large classes, arising from a combination of factors including higher student enrolments and the introduction of a trimester of study in many universities. The resulting increased time pressures on marking are causing many academics to search for alternative forms of assessment. University teachers are making more ...

Software agents, nowadays has become most favorable technology in developing computer systems. Software agent can be used to quickly and easily build integrated agent-based systems where agents can be applied in all domains of interest and one of them is in education. In the higher learning institution, lecturers are optimize with workloads such as lecturing, lecture preparation, student consul...

In the last decade, increasing interest has been paid to interdisciplinary and practical courses in the medical education in Germany. This report describes the implementation and outcome of a preclinical interdisciplinary elective course with a team-teaching concept developed by lecturers in medical psychology, anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. The practical orientation of the course led to...

Higher education is moving from the traditional model of learning to a completely new socially mediated model. This article reports on the pedagogical value of Web 2.0 tools at Unisa. A quantitative approach was used to conduct this study with a questionnaire as a data collection instrument. The sample size is 301 lecturers drawn by stratified sampling with proportional allocation drawn across ...