In this panel, the joint AIS / ACM Information Systems undergraduate model curriculum task force members together with other curriculum experts will be presenting and discussing the IS 2009 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Systems document and soliciting IS community feedback regarding ongoing IS curriculum development efforts. As such, the panel discussion...

This perspective paper describes processes in the development of an evidence-based fall prevention curriculum for community health workers/promotores (CHW/P) that highlights the development of the curriculum and addresses: (1) the need and rationale for involving CHW/P in fall prevention; (2) involvement of CHW/P and content experts in the curriculum development; (3) best practices utilized in ...

BACKGROUND In order to incorporate new knowledge, skills and emerging concepts from dynamic fields of public health into ongoing courses reform of curriculums sounds necessary. Accordingly, this study was performed to modify health education curriculum of public health undergraduate level. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using Delphi technique, 18 health education lecturers from Tehran, Tabriz, Yazd, S...

Existing machine-learning work has shown that algorithms can benefit from curricula—learning first on simple examples before moving to more difficult examples. While most existing work on curriculum learning focuses on developing automatic methods to iteratively select training examples with increasing difficulty tailored to the current ability of the learner, relatively little attention has be...

OBJECTIVE To develop learning objectives for a core communication curriculum for all health care professions and to survey the acceptability and suitability of the curriculum for undergraduate European health care education. METHODS Learning objectives for a Health Professions Core Communication Curriculum (HPCCC) in undergraduate education were developed based on international literature and...

Introduction: An evaluation of the curriculum elementscan be recognized as a necessity in curriculum dynamic andimprovement. This study aimed at evaluating five main elementsof a physiopathology curriculum in internal medicine (objectives,content, methods, evaluation, and management).Method: The present study is of a descriptive-analytical type, andthe study population consisted of a total of 4...

An Investigation of the Process of Developing the I.R. Iran’s National Curriculum N. Salsabili, Ph.D. Developing curricula has a complex process in which many needs assessments and pathological studies are conducted before a program is designed. To ascertain that such a process was undertaken in the case of recently designed national curriculum in Iran, a field study consisting ...