Student-centered problem-based learning (PBL) has been implemented as an alternative curriculum by several medical schools in the United States and elsewhere. Recently, attempts to integrate PBL with lecture-based curricula have created "hybrid" curricula with varying amounts of the philosophical underpinnings of student-centered PBL. Greater clinical and research demands on faculty time threat...

Most curriculum evaluations in the literature have been reported by nurse evaluators; aims, criteria and methods are drawn chiefly from sociology, general education or management. There is an absence of studies exploring relevance to national health care need, nurses' accountability to their clients and outcomes of curricula. There appears to be much interest in innovatory programmes, students'...

This report focuses on a research project concerning individual curricula regarding the instruction of statistics and of probability theory. Individual curricula will be described as belief systems which contain teachers’ subjective knowledge and conceptions about mathematics, about learning and teaching mathematics, and particularly about statistics and probability. This report stresses two as...

— This paper is intended to be a guide, with practical recommendations, for the curricula design of an Informatics Degree. It is focused in the Informatics Degree design, but it can be applied to any other degree with a professional orientation. In this paper, we describe a methodology to design the curricula from a list of professional competences and another list of constrains and criterions ...

Empirical software engineering has grown in importance in the software engineering research community over the last 20 years. This means that it has become very important to also include empirical studies systematically into the curricula in computer science and software engineering. This chapter presents several aspects and challenges to have in mind when doing this. The chapter presents three...