After creating and delivering an educational curriculum, medical educators must ultimately evaluate the effectiveness of the implemented curriculum. Seasoned educators can benefit from using an established framework to help them structure a thorough, complete curricular evaluation; however, novice educators may have difficulty in transforming the concept of evaluation into a concrete process. T...

The Khanya project has been equipping schools and educators with ICT skills and equipment to be used in the curriculum delivery in South Africa. However, research and anecdotal evidence show that there is low adoption rate of ICT among educators in Khanya schools. This interpretive study sets out to analyse the factors which are preventing the educators from using the technology in their work. ...

Background Self-management education is critical to the development of successful health behavior changes related to chronic illness. However, people in high-risk groups attend less frequently or benefit less from patient education programs than do people with more socioeconomic advantages. Aim The aim was to test the feasibility of a participatory person-centered education approach and tool-...

This paper presents a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Primary School Educators’ dialogue on the use of ICT in an under-resourced schooling context. Educators play a pivotal role in the education system. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) interventions in schools will be effective only if educators are willing and able to appropriate the intervention to their existent needs, and...

In North Carolina, secondary agricultural education programs can now offer a state adopted integrated biotechnology course entitled Biotechnology and Agriscience Research. Empirical evidence was needed to identify and describe factors related to the intent of agricultural educators to adopt this curriculum in order to assist teachers during this transition. North Carolina agricultural educators...

In this chapter the professional growth of mathematics educators – including teachers, teacher educators, and educators of teacher educators – is presented as an ongoing lifelong process. So far as teachers are concerned, it occurs in various stages and contexts, beginning with their experiences as school students, followed by formal preservice preparation towards an academic qualification and ...

Background: Higher education plays a key role in helping students achieve civility, however uncivil behaviors are growing.The aim of this study was to assess and compare the educators and students perceptions of  frequency and importance of the incivility of nursing students. Methods: In this descriptive comparative study,178 nursing students were selecte...

Just over a year ago I was fortunate to have attended a workshop entitled “Becoming a better teacher of medical physics.” The workshop was sponsored by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and was targeted at medical physicists who are involved in teaching, whether it be to medical physics students, medical residents, technologists, or any other population group. Presenters includ...

,. . This introduction to the major concepts of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is intended,for individuals involved in fiealth care provider education who are attempting to measure the costs and benefiti of their educational activities. Ater. tracing the development of CBA, the paper dafines it as afi attempt o quantify and compare the zpanditures for a project with the valu of the finished projec...