“You can take ’em naked,” the advert in the back of the New York Times Magazine promises. The advert sought attention for online multimedia studies classes, but the same fringe benefit applies to biomedical courses on the web. A few web teaching sites still use the traditional ‘chalk and talk’ approach, but fortunately the authors of most sites know the strength of their medium: no online cours...

This paper describes work related to stochastic modeling and decision-theoretic (DT) planning methods applicable to the real-world domain of academic advising. The uncertainty associated with stochastic planning is often approached as a problem of finding a complete mapping from states to actions (a policy). A need to plan for all contingent futures makes (DT) planning an inherently difficult p...

Michael A. Cacciatore (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on risk communication with an emphasis on media coverage of risk and opinion formation for risk topics. Dietram A. Scheufele (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999) is the John E. Ross Profe...

Background: Achieving the characteristics of effective teaching can play an undeniable role in assurance of education. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between some nonverbalbehaviors of university professors during classroom teaching and the level of students’ learning. Methods: In this cross sectional study, a list of professors’ nonverbal behaviors and dynamic characteris...

the effect of problem solving education in fourth-year nursing students’ views of success    orujlu s [1] , hemmati maslak pak m [2] *, khalkhali hr [3]     received: 20 jan, 2013 accepted: 8 apr, 2013      abstract  background & aims : problem solving skills in students education programs haven't been taught formally and organized. on the other hand, it is also necessary to assess and imp...

BACKGROUND Understanding interactions between patients and GPs may be important for optimising communication during consultations and improving health promotion, notably in the management of cardiovascular risk factors. AIM To explore the agreement between physicians and patients on the management of cardiovascular risk factors, and whether potential disagreement is linked to the patient's ed...

The South African (SA) higher education sector continues to battle high attrition rates. Helping students gain a sense of belonging while at university and creating an environment where feel cared for can enhance their prospects success. Academic advising is high-impact practice with the potential student This article proposes intentionally linking Tronto’s Ethic Care (EoC) academic SA contexts...

On-line collaboration is becoming increasingly common in education and in organisations. It was believed that this could in itself cause stress for collaborators. An analysis of on-line learning diaries, phone interviews and questionnaires indicated that on-line collaboration could cause stress, and this stress was linked to the dependency of the collaborators on each other, and the level of th...

Georgianna L. Martin, Clinical Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Loyola University Chicago. Tricia A. Seifert, Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. This research was supported by a generous grant from the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College to the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education at T...