We present a model for assessment to be used in web based distance courses at UFGVirtual in Brazil. UFGVirtual is a project at Federal University of Goiás Brazil that aims at developing and distributing non presencial courses based in the web. Although some courses are already being delivered there has been a need to develop more effective ways to assess student’s performance, the main goal of ...

introduction: continuing education and training of employees significantly affect a hospital’s performance and efficiency, and learning organizations usually exhibit higher efficiency. hence, the objective of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the hospital employees’ continuing education and performance indicators in the teaching hospitals affiliated to tehran’s azad university....

The US National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, 2002) defines distance education as “education or training courses delivered to remote (off-campus) location(s) via audio, video (live or prerecorded), or computer technologies, including both synchronous and asynchronous instruction” (NCES, 2000, p. 2). This definition excludes correspondence courses, by which colleges, universities and co...

The aim of the paper is to introduce and suggest Body Music as a significant part of music education that gives the possibility to approach music as a play of sounds and silence, from its very beginning in human life at which body was the only source of sound making, before humans created musical instruments and styles. Thus what “music” and “style” mean is briefly explained in the first part. ...

This article aimed to analyze the Women's Health Education in the Nursing courses in São Paulo, SP, Brazil, characterizing faculty members and the pedagogical processes implemented. A questionnaire was carried out with 17 professors responsible for the teaching. It was possible to observe good qualification of the faculty members, in its majority with teaching experience superior to five years....

The establishment of the European Higher Education Area has involved specifying lists of professional competencies that programs are expected to develop, and with this the need for procedures to measure how every course within a higher education program is aligned with the program's competencies. We propose an instrument for characterizing this alignment, a process that we call assessing the re...

This study reviewed the literature on the health education subject and the impact on education in undergraduate nursing. Descriptors were selected in LILACS, PERIENF and BDENF bases. References were classified into four categories: education, care, scientific production and stricto sensu academic production. The results showed: the importance of educational issues in the nursing social practice...

purpose: this survey examines the view points of the librarians in the central libraries of the state universities of tehran on the necessity of continuing education (ce) courses. methodology: a questionnaire survey was conducted (76.7% response rate) to assess the requirement of continuing education (ce) courses. findings: the results showed that about 98% of the librarians believe that it nec...

OBJECTIVE This study analyzed the increase in the number of undergraduate nursing courses during the last two decades due to the expansion of higher education in Brazil. METHOD A records-based research concerning the legal frameworks that have driven this movement and a quantitative research that described the increase in the number of professional nursing courses. Data were analyzed using th...