AIMS To determine if a teaching intervention on hazardous drinking could improve the knowledge, attitudes and clinical behaviour of Health Professionals (HP) in a hospital. METHODS Changes were assessed at baseline and 1 month after the intervention through questionnaires delivered to 38 professionals and interviews with patients (N = 240). RESULTS Knowledge of professionals improved. No ch...

This paper discusses experiences in moving to lecture-free teaching for a systems analysis module taught on-campus. It describes the action research approach and the context for the module. It discusses the learning materials provided as an alternative to lectures, including the description of a website in some detail. The initial lecturefree teaching approach is explained and how changes to th...

The viewpoints of academic teaching staff take centre stage in the analysis of the changing conceptions of what it means to act with integrity when teaching online. To teach with integrity in contemporary online-supported environments in higher education is not necessarily to teach the same as if one would in teaching regularly face-to-face in the classroom. The paper argues that to teach with ...

Singapore aims to be the premier teaching and research centre for computer science in the Asia-Pacific region in the 21st century, and the National University of Singapore is taking steps to meet that objective. Excellence in teaching is promoted via continued efforts to secure top quality students and lecturers, promoting teaching quality, and establishing close links with industry to ensure t...

OBJECTIVE The research evaluated the perceived quality of librarian-mediated literature searching services at one of Canada's largest acute care teaching hospitals for the purpose of continuous quality improvement and investigation of relationships between variables that can impact user satisfaction. METHODS An online survey was constructed using evidence-based methodologies. A systematic sam...

The development of IT and WWW provides different teaching strategies, which are chosen by teachers. Students can acquire knowledge through different learning models. The problem based learning is a popular teaching strategy for teachers. Based on the educational theory, students increase their learning motivation, which can increase learning effectiveness. In this paper, we propose a concept ma...

In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on action research (Norton, 2009), accompanied by an increasing focus on staff evaluation. This paper aimed to evaluate a single teaching session of a new member to the profession. Forty-three second year undergraduate students responded to a standard teaching evaluation form and the ‘Stop, Start, Continue’ method (Angelo & Cross, 1993) of eval...