Major international hallmark events, especially the Olympic Games, represent a significant opportunity for marketing tourism to the host country. Due to the scale and importance of the event, the coordination between the Olympic organizing committee and the destination marketing organization of the host country becomes a knowledge-intensive and exceptionally complicated task. Analyzing on-site ...

Provider organizations that have experience in implementing value-based physician compensation can recommend the following best practices, among others: Clearly link changes in physician compensation to the broader strategic and financial objectives of the organization. Focus financial incentives on evidence-based measures that physicians find credible and achievable. Make sure everyone underst...

Benchmarking, a management approach for implementing best practices at best cost, is a recent concept in the healthcare system. The objectives of this paper are to better understand the concept and its evolution in the healthcare sector, to propose an operational definition, and to describe some French and international experiences of benchmarking in the healthcare sector. To this end, we revie...

The main objectives of the CGIAR agricultural research and development agenda are to reduce poverty and ensure an adequate nutrition and quality of life for rural society in the developing world. This mission involves meeting basic food needs of the rural poor but also expanding output to meet the food needs of a growing urban population, in a manner that is economically viable and which does n...

Computer simulation and modeling are now widely used in computer science teaching. There various approaches to make the educational process more efficient. Visualization is one of them, flipped classroom approach another. The goal this research show how improve efficiency teaching data structures (hashing, trees) Algorithms Data Structures course. We conducted two tests with four study groups s...

A number of university campuses have undertaken the development of digital classrooms. These classrooms provide the ability to present digital media and digitally record lectures or presentations. Deploying the infrastructure for a digital classroom is diicult at best even for a technically savvy person. As people from many disciplines become interested in building similar digital classroom spa...

this study aimed to develop and validate an instrument to evaluate english language teachers’ lesson plan- ning self-concept. to this end, 30 english teachers were asked to prepare a sample lesson plan and 15 of them were invited to participate in a semi-structured interview. a tentative questionnaire including six fac- tors namely: classroom management, lesson planning conformity, planning eff...

The goal of this paper is to present new media in the specialized visual art classroom (art education classroom). Flexibility, speed, availability, changeability of digital data is what makes new media necessary in the specialized visual art classroom. The media, considering the specific nature of the subject called visual art, can be divided in two types: learning media and articulation (creat...

In this paper we describe the sociotechnical structures of the Inquiry Learning Forum (ILF), a Web-based professional development tool designed to support a community of inservice and preservice mathematics and science teachers creating, sharing, and improving inquiry-based pedagogical practices. Founded in our previous research and consistent with our pedagogical commitment, the technical stru...