BACKGROUND Patients want electronic access to providers. Providers fear being overwhelmed by unreimbursed messages. OBJECTIVE Measure the effects of patient-physician web messaging on primary care practices. DESIGN/SETTING Retrospective analysis of 6 case and 9 control internal medicine (IM) and family practice (FP) physicians' message volume, and a survey of 5,971 patients' web messaging w...

The present study aimed at understanding the opinions of Hong Kong educators on classroom observation as a practice of staff development and appraisal. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 2,400 educators in summer 1997. About half of the respondents indicated that they practiced classroom observation in their schools. Most of them indicated that the primary objective of the observation wa...

background: since anxiety, depression and job satisfaction are considered elements related to mental health, the main objective of the present study is to survey the prison staff on the said elements. methods: the population of the study was all of the officially employed staff of the prison. (104 prisons) 80.7% of the persons who filled the questionnaires up were among the disciplinary force s...

A course in robotics is being piloted this semester at Purchase College/State University of New York. It was designed for its particular audience: upper-level students in the mathematics/computer science major and in the new media major as well as any other student who have satisfied the programming pre-requisite, possibly through general education courses. However, the general ideas motivating...

BACKGROUND For an increasingly busy and geographically dispersed faculty, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, developed a range of Web-based faculty development modules, based on Kolb's experiential learning cycle, to complement the faculty's face-to-face workshops. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess users' views and perceptions of the ef...

The “big idea” with knowledge management is that in a fast-moving and increasingly competitive world, a firm’s only enduring source of advantage is its knowledge – the knowledge of its individual employees, and the knowledge that gets built into its structures and systems. Consulting companies and R&D organisations have known this for years, but increasingly even “old economy” firms in oil, ste...

Since the early 1960s, BBN mathematicians, scientists, and engineers have explored ways to use computer and communications technologies to improve teaching and learning. BBN staff members have conducted basic research in human cognition and learning, developed innovative software tools to extend and enrich the traditional curriculum, and provided professional development to help educators make ...

In an effort to streamline the performance of educators and education, school principals are required be able develop various breakthrough efforts improve quality effectiveness education personnel.
 The principal's in making staff effective that principal acts as educator, manager, administrator, supervisor, leader, innovator a motivator. Supporting factors: large number teaching education...