A well-designed and constructed course plan or curriculum is an integral part of the foundation of effective STEM instruction. This paper presents a framework for outcome-based course design that can be translated into a semantic web-based tool which guides STEM educators through the complex task of curriculum design, ensures tight alignment between various components of a course (i.e., learnin...

dear editor, as a current phd student working on my dissertation entitled “developing a nursing handover process program in pediatric ward: an action research,” i interviewed nurses and students and found that they had little knowledge about the ethical and legal principles of nursing handover and expressed their dissatisfaction about this process. one of the reasons for this problem, they expr...