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Innovative teaching methods for capacity building in knowledge translation

BACKGROUND In some current healthcare settings, there is a noticeable absence of national institutions committed to the synthesis and use of evidence in healthcare decision- and policy-making. This absence creates a need to broaden the responsibilities of healthcare providers to include knowledge brokering and advocacy in order to optimize knowledge translation to other stakeholders, especially...

Sharing innovative teaching practices - the knowledge management approach

This paper investigates a problem of sharing and reuse of innovative practices among teachers, rather than technical platforms. The paper starts from the emerging concept of learning designs (LDs) that are increasingly used to express teaching/learning scenarios that could be based on any pedagogical model (e.g. problem-based learning, role-playing etc). To address the identified research probl...

Innovative Teaching and Teaching Improvement

Tacit knowledge with innovative entrepreneurship

a r t i c l e i n f o Tacit knowledge affects the trade-off between entrepreneurship and technology transfer. I present a formal model in which an inventor and the existing firm engage in a strategic innovation game by choosing whether to compete or to cooperate through technology transfer. The model highlights how the problem of tacit knowledge affects the inventor's R&D investment and the exi...

Innovative teaching methods in Engineering

Second, structures, practices and methodologies of the current educational systems are not suitable enough to support the learning needs of the Knowledge Society. During the latter half of the past century, international thinking about education began to shift to a new paradigm. This shift was driven by an awareness of massive and on-going social, economic and technological changes, and the exp...