BACKGROUND Teachers play an important role in seminars as facilitators and content experts. However, contextual factors like students' preparation, group size, group interaction, and content appear to influence their performance. Understanding the impact of these contextual factors on students' perception of teaching performance may help to further understand seminar teaching. Besides that, it ...

Low levels of physical activity and sedentary behaviour are a growing health problem globally. Physical inactivity is associated with increased risk of numerous ailments, cardiovascular disease and mortality. Our primary aim was to perform a feasibility study on how to incorporate physical activity among students and teachers in regular teaching activities. The second aim was to investigate how...

Introduction. A series of experiments involving 3 dental schools has shown that distance learning can be acceptable to residents and effective in teaching concepts that are fundamental to orthodontic practice. Methods. Residents in each dental school participated in seminars, clinical conferences and clinical seminars via high-speed Internet connections. The acceptability of this form of instru...

INTRODUCTION The Balint seminar is used in many family medicine residencies to improve and strengthen the patient-doctor relationship: to make better doctors. Given the lack of Balint leaders in developing countries, the family medicine department at the American University of Beirut (AUB) decided to collaborate with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)-with more than 30 years of exp...

INTRODUCTION A series of experiments involving 3 orthodontic departments has shown that distance learning can be acceptable to residents and effective in teaching concepts that are fundamental to orthodontic practice. METHODS Residents in each department participated in distance seminars, clinical conferences, and clinical seminars via high-speed Internet connections. The acceptability of thi...

The Royal Colleges of Psychiatry and General Practice wish to increase knowledge of depressive illness among patients and professionals. This study reports the results of a series of depression education seminars in a Health Board in Northern Ireland. Seminars lasted 2 1/2 hours and included didactic teaching and interactive case management vignettes. 88 general practitioners took part (39% of ...

educators in computing disciplines encounter: teaching testing and debugging skills to novice programmers. The first part of the article addresses the issue of presenting debugging as part of a larger context of educating future professionals committed to providing quality results. Discussed are the results of a survey designed to identify student programming and debugging practices, and sugges...

This paper describes the CHIL 2007 evaluation data set provided for the Rich Transcription 2007 Meeting Recognition Evaluation (RT07) in terms of recording setup, scenario, speaker demagogic and transcription process. The corpus consists of 25 interactive seminars recorded at five different recording sites in Europe and the United States in multi-sensory smart rooms. We compare speakers’ talk-t...