In response to the COVID-19 crisis, numerous academic conferences and seminars were moved online. Some remote (online) have aim be maintained permanently after pandemic, offering weekly opportunities for scientists, postdocs, students learn about research improve global networking. Remote are a good option promote inclusion diversity, allowing worldwide participate interact with researchers fro...

BACKGROUND The Case Method is a teaching method in which cases from real life inspire students to actively seek knowledge that they discuss in structured seminars. Case seminars in health education have been evaluated, compared and discussed, but descriptions that can help us understand how students learn in the seminars have not previously been published. In a Swedish nursing programme, where ...

Software maintenance and evolution (SME) is an important but challenging topic area for university-level computer science education. Seminars can be used to provide students with versatile and up-to-date knowledge on scientifically relevant issues. We organized three systematic university-level seminars on SME. In these seminars 127 groups have each been assigned the task of analyzing one scien...

SummaryThe growing direct-to-consumer, stem cell clinic industry in the U.S. uses a number of strategies for patient recruitment, including self-styled educational seminars, which may reach thousands of members of the public annually. Here I report on a first-hand experience at such a seminar that I recently attended. Numerous specific medical claims were made at the seminar: no potential for r...

Roskilde University’s master’s programme in computer-mediated communication combines face-to-face seminars with net seminars focusing on collaborative project work. Net-based learning based on CSCW offers both advantages and pitfalls: (i) it helps to activate all students, (ii) it fosters complexity in organising tasks, (iii) asynchronous environment generates a need for synchronous communicati...

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introduction The Social Concerns Seminars represent one of the oldest traditions and yet one of the most dynamic programs of the Center for Social Concerns. Building on the model of the Urban Plunge (see Research Report 6) that flourished in the 1970s, students and staff—inspired by the Catholic social tradition—began in 1980 to serve in rural Appalachian communities over break periods. The App...

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