The Teaching Value Workshop

Workshop - Introducing and teaching smartphone application development

The diversity of mobile hardware and software platforms is one of the major challenges in developing applications for mobile devices such as smartphones. Mobile applications are developed on platform like MS Windows or Linux, and deployed on a totally different platform such as a BlackBerry smartphone. Integrating mobile devices into computing education can raise the level of excitement for stu...

Teaching Spatial Thinking from Interdisciplinary Perspective Workshop

The Teaching Spatial Thinking from Interdisciplinary Perspectives (TSTIP) workshop was held at COSIT 2015 in New Mexico, NM. The objective of the workshop was to bring together researchers from a diverse set of fields to address the issue of how to best promote teaching spatial thinking topics from interdisciplinary perspectives. The TSTIP workshop was one project that came out of the TSTIP Ini...

Medical education: value based teaching.

The Logic and Content of a Curriculum for Teaching the Value of Self-Control

The Logic and Content of a Curriculum for Teaching the Value of Self-Control S. Raam, Ph.D.* M. Mehrmohammadi, Ph.D.** A. R. Saadeghzaadeh Ghamsari, Ph.D.*** E. Talaa’ee, Ph.D.****   Due to the significance of turning from external control to internal, as a central value in the field of religious-moral education the present research is focused on determining the logic and con...

Teaching with Big Data: Report from the 2016 Society for Neuroscience Teaching Workshop.

As part of a series of workshops on teaching neuroscience at the Society for Neuroscience annual meetings, William Grisham and Richard Olivo organized the 2016 workshop on "Teaching Neuroscience with Big Data." This article presents a summary of that workshop. Speakers provided overviews of open datasets that could be used in teaching undergraduate courses. These included resources that already...