until recently pet scanning has been available only at major universities or teaching hospitals possessing the necessary resources and expertise to operate a research pet facility. most dedicated pet centers cost several millions of dollars, and include a cyclotron, a radiochemistry laboratory to synthesize pet radiopharmaceuticals, a multicrystal dedicated pet camera, advanced computer facilit...

The present paper seeks to investigate the cognitive abilities of expert EFL teachers. To this aim, the existing literature was examined and ten cognitive themes were derived which were further investigated through interviews conducted with ten academics, teacher trainers and exemplary teachers of the field in the Iranian context. The ten extracted themes were attested by interviewees’ comments...

As the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) increases in recognition for its contributions to teaching and learning in higher education, it also becomes increasingly important that those wishing to make contributions, and whose area of expertise falls outside of the field of education, make themselves aware of how to conduct educational research. In this essay I question what scholarship...

Noting that skills and knowledge taught in schools have become abstracted from their uses in the world, this paper clarifies some of the implications for the nature of the knowledge that students acquire through a i;roposal for the retooling of apprenticeship methods for the teaching and learning of cognitive skills. The paper specifically proposes the development of a new cognitive apprentices...

This study examined the impact of Clear Pronunciation 2 software on teaching English suprasegmental features, focusing on stress, rhythm and intonation. In particular, the software covers five topics in relation to suprasegmental features including consonant cluster, word stress, connected speech, sentence stress and intonation. Seven Iranian EFL learners participated in this study. The study l...

Learner’s self-awareness of the breadth and depth of their expertise is crucial for self-regulated learning. Further, of learners report self-knowledge assessments to teaching systems, this can be used to adapt teaching to them. These reasons make it valuable to enable learners to quickly and easily create such models and to improve them. Following the trend to open these models to learners, we...

The dual nature of the university as a research and teaching institution provides students the opportunity to be taught by experts. However, with course offerings decreasing, teaching loads increasing and class sizes swelling, students’ access to expert instruction is often limited to 1-3 lectures per topic. Typically, a sequence of lecturers presenting material in their field of expertise and ...

1. Disciplina de Pneumologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu (SP) Brasil. 2. Hospital Geral Otávio de Freitas – HGOF – Recife (PE) Brasil. The Brazilian Thoracic Association (BTA) statute states that one of the purposes of the BTA is to bring together physicians and other professionals involved in pulmonology research,...