Capacity building for transnationalisation of higher education

Process of Building Reference Ontology for Higher Education

Most ontologies are application ontologies, that are not reusable and are difficult to link together as they are too specific. Reference ontology is able to contribute significantly in reducing the issue of ontology applications specificity. Particularly considering higher education domain, we think that a reference ontology dedicated to this knowledge area, can be regarded as a valuable tool f...

Medical missions, surgical education, and capacity building.

Campbell and colleagues provide additional evidence hat a highly structured short-term experience in a resourceimited environment enhances training of North Amerian surgical residents. In this case, residents worked ith Operation Smile, which has provided high-volume umanitarian surgical care in many low-income counries for 25 years. Trainees from high-income countries ave also reflected that s...

Building Mobile Learning Capacity in Higher Education: E-books and iPads

The growing popularity of e-books, e-book readers and tablet devices is forcing a reappraisal of the various functions of ‘the book’ in education. Furthermore, e-books are becoming a more salient element in the ecology of mobile learning, as new devices make reading a more comfortable and sociable experience. We report on the results of an 18-month project (2010-12) undertaken as part of The Op...

the survey of the virtual higher education in iran and the ways of its development and improvement

این پژوهش با هدف "بررسی وضعیت موجود آموزش عالی مجازی در ایران و راههای توسعه و ارتقای آن " و با روش توصیفی-تحلیلی و پیمایشی صورت پذیرفته است. بررسی اسنادو مدارک موجود در زمینه آموزش مجازی نشان داد تعداد دانشجویان و مقاطع تحصیلی و رشته محل های دوره های الکترونیکی چندان مطلوب نبوده و از نظر کیفی نیز وضعیت شاخص خدمات آموزشی اساتید و وضعیت شبکه اینترنت در محیط آموزش مجازی نامطلوب است.

Getting It Right : Capacity Building for Local Stakeholders in Education