OBJECTIVES To design a tool to explore current leadership teaching in an undergraduate curriculum, using the medical leadership competency framework (MLCF) DESIGN: An online questionnaire was designed based on the MLCF competences and sent to all course leads at Imperial College, London in Autumn 2011 SETTING Imperial College, London PARTICIPANTS Sixty-nine course leads were invited to par...

Curriculum Learning emphasizes the order of training instances in a computational learning setup. The core hypothesis is that simpler instances should be learned early as building blocks to learn more complex ones. Despite its usefulness, it is still unknown how exactly the internal representation of models are affected by curriculum learning. In this paper, we study the effect of curriculum le...

First, we would like to thank Hejri and Jalili (Hejri and Jalili 2013) for endorsing the main point in our critical review of outcome (competency) based education (Morcke et al. 2012). We agree with the two points they make: that global prescriptions of curriculum content can be insensitive to cultural differences; and that effective curriculum development calls for local engagement. For the re...

Colleges are finding new ways to incorporate technology skills and information competency into the curriculum. One method used successfully at several campuses involves a coordinated curriculum in which two or more faculty members collaborate to offer a linked group of classes that combine the objectives and course requirements such that students benefit from having an integrated curriculum. Th...