Three components have been described in a teaching-learning environment: what is planned by administrators for the students, what is really delivered to the students, and what is actually experienced by the students [1]. What is experienced by students is different from what is planned by administrators in the universities. Three main types of curricula were defined by Hafferty: formal curricul...

Introduction: The essential problems in providing quality and safety services to patients, rapid changes in health care settings as well as information technology require educational revision. Competency-based curriculum focuses on set of skills that students should achieve. This study reviewed characteristics of competency-based curriculum in psychiatric nursing. Methods: A literature review a...

This article examines the “why” and “what” of curriculum inquiry from the perspective of the practical in Schwab’s (1969/1978a) paper. It critically scrutinizes the state of curriculum inquiry in China and in North America. The central argument is that curriculum inquiry is a practical undertaking centrally concerned with the practice or inner work of schooling within the societal, institutiona...

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...

BACKGROUND Changes in medical education require a rethinking of our training paradigm. We implemented a protected block curriculum for postgraduate year (PGY)-1 and PGY-2 surgery residents. HYPOTHESIS A protected block curriculum promotes adult learning consistent with the 6 competencies. DESIGN Prospective static-group comparison with pretesting and posttesting. SETTING Medical College o...

the main purpose of this research is to develop an islamic social education curriculum model for secondary schools. reaching to this purpose we used the normative method and deduction. investigating the ratio of practicable usage of normative methodology concepts with current subject orientation curriculum, appeared the necessity of change in current value based orientations in social education...

introduction: this study was carried out to analyze the viewpoint of the residents of school of dentistry about the curriculum presented in the residency program to students of mashhad school of dentistry. methods: to evaluate the perspectives of residents of dental school about the curriculum and regulations of residency program, a questionnaire was designed whose validity and reliability were...

The learning society has currently transformed from ‘wired society’ to become ‘mobile society’ which is facilitated by wireless network. To suit to this new paradigm, m-learning was given birth and rapidly building its prospect to be included in the future curriculum. Research and studies on m-learning spruced up in numerous aspects but there is still scarcity in studies on curriculum design of...