Sustainable Development and Diversifying Competencies Curricula

Linking Content to Curricula by using Competencies

1. resources are metadata tagged according to all (an estimated 50 national/regional) curricula in Europe alone. This is very expensive in initial tagging and maintenance. 2. a mapping is provided between the different curricula such that if a resource is metadata tagged according to one curriculum (e.g. the Flemish curriculum), it can be discovered and shown in terms on another curriculum (e.g...

Curricula Challenges and Informatics Competencies for Nurse Educators.

Nursing informatics competencies are fundamental to nursing practice in all areas of nursing work, including direct patient care, administration and education. The recent activity relating to the development of nursing informatics competencies for beginning level nurses has exposed a paucity of understanding of the requirements for nursing informatics competencies for nurse educators. So, whils...

Geography and sustainable development

        To overcome these problems in 1978 the Brandtland report   announced the sustainable development as not to spend resources more than the nature’s production capacity and not to pollute the nature more than it can assimilate. In other words, the nature should remain in its sustainable state so that the future generations can live with no limitations. The principles of the sustainable dev...

Frontline over ivory tower: key competencies in community-based curricula

BACKGROUND The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada mandates that community experiences be incorporated into medicine-based specialties. Presently there is wide variability in community endocrine experiences across Canadian training programs. This is complicated by the paucity of literature providing guidance on what constitutes a 'community' rotation. METHOD A modified Delphi t...

Human, Environment and Sustainable Development