Since Fall 2004, we have been co-teaching a class on Grid computing to several NC institutions using the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). In this paper, we focus on a new teaching approach. In Fall 2008, we introduced a more integrated co-teaching or “pair-teaching” approach to the course. Our experiences are particularly relevant for a course taught in a distributed fashi...

These investigators describe the characteristics of nurse anesthesia research reported in the AANA Journal in 1975-1976 and 1985-1986 and compare nurse anesthesia research to overall nursing research as reported by Brown, Tanner and Padrick. The amount of nurse anesthesia research remained stable, with an even greater focus on clinical practice than in nursing research overall. The 1980's resea...

Collaborative innovation is on the rise. The tools, techniques and technologies to foster human interaction in the service of collaborative innovation are increasing every year. Interactions that lead to win-win outcomes are also on the rise. Examples in this paper include the IBM advisory council program and process, the design of a global cross-company and cross-culture derivative in Content ...

Background: Faculty development programs have received considerable investment of resources from medical institutions, though the effect and output of them has been infrequently studied. This study was design to measure the effect of the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences’ faculty development workshops. Methods: Three faculty development workshops on educational research were conducted to i...

The phrase "from bench to bedside to curbside" is a common definition of translational research among health disparities researchers. Health Education Specialists can make important contributions to the field of clinical translational medicine, particularly in light of U.S. health care reform and a renewed emphasis on medical home or health care home models.Health Education Specialists have the...

education research. I readily grant that some number of my misgivings are based more on my personal experiences than on a thorough study of the state of education research. I have read enough and talked enough to colleagues around the country to be confident that I am not totally offbase. Yet my principal aim is to provoke thought and conversation about our work as education researchers, not to...

A lthough there have been a number of studies that involved the function of jaw muscles, due to its deep placement, the action of the superior belly of the lateral pterygoid (SLP) muscle has not been studied widely. The electromyographic (EMG) activities of the superior and inferior bellies of the lateral pterygoid muscles have been shown to be reciprocal in humans’-‘,+ and rhesus monkeys. *-lo...

Almost since its inception, teacher education has suffered from doubts about its value to teachers. Outside observers have asked, usually skeptically, whether teacher education makes a difference, and teacher educators themselves have wondered what they have been able to accomplish and how they could accomplish more. Presumably, research could help both teacher educators and teacher education p...

Simulation and other forms of digital learning will occupy a place of increasing prominence in medical education in the future. However, to maximally use the potential of these media, we must go beyond a research agenda dictated by a 'Does it work?' question to one driven by careful analysis of the nature of the task to be learned and its relation to the characteristics of the technology. Secon...