Teaching an Invisible Subject: How are we Educating Faculty about Copyright?

Educating the educators. How to improve teaching about asthma.

"1though there has been a significant increase in £kknowledge about the physiopathogenesis of asthma and an improvement in therapeutic modalities, the mortality rate for the disease has increased in many countries over the last two decades."12 Previous studies showed that deaths due to asthma may be preventable in 60 to 80% of cases.3'4 Potentially avoidable factors have been identified, such a...

Educating adolescents about puberty: what are we missing?

Adolescents undergo significant physical and cognitive changes during their pubertal development. These changes contribute to and impact their future development. Educating adolescents at an early age about their expected development decreases the possible anxiety associated with this period of life and also helps adolescents make better choices in regards to their sexuality. In order to assess...

How do we track invisible objects?

We previously demonstrated that observers in multiple object tracking experiments can successfully track targets when all the objects simultaneously vanish for periods lasting several hundred milliseconds (Alvarez, Horowitz, Arsenio, Dimase, and Wolfe, 2005). How do observers do this? Since observers can track objects that move behind occluders (e.g., Scholl and Pylyshyn, 1999), they may treat ...

Using Cases about Teaching for Faculty Development

The invisible faculty.

I had departed the medical school much too late to reach this small Georgia town before dark. Most of the 175-mile drive south was in daylight on interstate highways, but traveling the final 57 miles after nightfall on unfamiliar secondary roads was a challenge to my sense of direction. I arrived safely at my motel at nearly 9:30 p.m., fatigued from a long day of clinical work and meetings and ...