Fifty-six physiologists from fourteen countries participated in the sixth International Union of Physiological Sciences Teaching Workshop. The four-day program included a poster session, a debate on integrative versus disciplinary curricula, and interactive lectures on evidence-based education, inquiry laboratories, and student preparation for physiology courses. Participants worked in small gr...

Next month, you will have your final examinations. After calculating your average scores for each course, you are sure that you can get high distinctions in almost all courses. You have finished reviewing all lecture materials, all tutorial materials, and all textbooks. However, there are still four weeks before the examination. Since you have extra time available, you plan to buy a book about ...

Despite enthusiasm for the educational potential of the World Wide Web, few dental educators use the new opportunities offered by this medium beyond the presentation of textual information. Based on this observation, we have decided to design our own interactive Web-based 3D crown preparation course. The course objective is to provide dental students with fundamental didactic and technical know...

This article aims to identify the peculiarities of higher education pedagogy transformation through blended learning model. The methodology was based on a statistical, correlational analysis by using Teaching and Learning International Survey database containing survey results 7,823 educators in France Netherlands. study revealed an average level teacher preparation for (50.5%) information comm...

The development and deployment of innovative Information and Communication Technologies’ (ICT) applications and services is becoming the key factor for growth and employment in all parts of Europe. Especially in the area of South Eastern (SE) Europe it has been reported that there is a clear need for linking university and higher education ICT curricula to the market demand for skills and promo...

Insufficient academic preparation is a major barrier to student success in higher education in the United States; one nationwide study found that 75% of students entering community colleges need remedial education in at least one subject to meet prerequisites for college credit courses. 1 The cost of preparing these students for college-level work is extremely high, both to the educational inst...

This paper describes characteristics of Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS), a newly recognized discipline, and the need for formal undergraduate and graduate level education of engineers in this discipline. The tasks to be undertaken by CBS engineers are outlined. They form the requirements for the preparation of the ECBS Master program. The paper describes in detail the suggested cou...

BACKGROUND There is an apparent disjuncture between the requirements of the medical spiral curriculum and the practice of replacing previous online material in undergraduate courses. This paper investigates the extent to which students revisit previous online material for the purposes of building the educational spiral, and the implications for the implementation of a Faculty's Learning Managem...

As the role of the internet and internet technologies continues to grow in pace with the rapid growth of online education, faculty activities and tasks are changing to adapt to this increase in web-based instruction. However, little measurable evidence exists to characterize the nature of the differences in teaching effort required for online versus traditional courses. This paper reports on th...