Online education is used for a variety of purposes in higher education. Two such purposes are improving one’s performance over time and understanding one’s professional development in the context of online teaching and learning. Relying on data from online staff development courses delivered in five Spanish universities, this article explores online faculty learning through the lens of staff de...

The purpose of this paper is to offer some insight from an evaluation that explored the viability, usefulness and potential of the online platform SocialLearn in providing an online community for Open University Associate Lecturers (part-time teaching staff). Findings from two focus groups and a staff survey highlighted both the potential of an online community and the barriers to successful im...

The nephrology teaching legacy is extensive. Claude Bernard, Carl Ludwig, Homer Smith, William Schwartz, Arnold Relman, Karl Gottschalk, Robert Narins, Jerome Kassirer, Mitchell Halperin and many others made their mark in the area of teaching the internal environment and its regulation, a discipline commonly termed ‘fluid and electrolytes’. Other medical specialties need these skills every day:...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of specific training for accident and emergency (A&E) staff on the quality of psychosocial assessment of deliberate self harm patients. METHODS A non-randomised intervention study that compared the psychosocial assessment of deliberate self harm patients before and after a one hour teaching session for the A&E departments nursing and junior medical staff. Adequ...

The rapid change in teaching of engineering drawing using computer aided design (CAD) technology makes a tremendous change on the staff/students in teaching/understanding engineering drawing in technical institutions. Mastering CAD technology has become order of the day for staff/students especially in technical institutions. CAD course have become a compulsory subject in many technical univers...

Australian universities are challenged to provide training programs in the use of learning management systems (LMS) that assist staff both understand the software environment and use it effectively in their teaching practice. In this paper, we describe the development of an integrated professional development program designed for staff who want to use WebCT in their teaching. The program was pa...

This study was a quest aimed at evaluating competency enhancement needs of lecturers for quality teaching and learning in South-East universities of Nigeria. Reviewed literatures revealed that there is a steady decline in the quality of university graduates; as such the researchers sought to find out possible inputs that could enhance and guarantee quality instructional delivery in our universi...

This paper presents a brief history of the use of on-line technologies in the support of teaching and learning in the School of Engineering and Technology at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. It addresses the following issues; flexible engineering programs at Deakin University; computer-based learning in the School of Engineering and Technology; from individual efforts to formal, centrali...