The paper describes the structure and the aims of a new modular educational programme in Production Engineering (PE) which will be developed in the scope of a European project and implemented in the Tunis University of Sciences and Techniques (ESSTT). Today, Tunisia looks forward to a high technology transfer. One of the national projects, that have a great effect on the Tunisian national econo...

introduction: quantitative and qualitative enhancement of educational activities is an essential issue. learners’ cooperation in the teaching process in order to increase teaching effectiveness and promotion is considered significant. the aim of the present study was to determine the effect of establishment of student working group on the teaching general embryology course to medical students. ...

In Sweden, in 2001, a national inquiry into teaching and learning in Higher Education identifi ed Educational Developers as a strategic tool for the improvement of university teaching. Th is somewhat double-edged honour raised questions about the enterprise for Educational Development. On one hand it carried an invitation to power, but also a threat of an alienation from the teachers’ perspecti...

Teachers’ beliefs are important for understanding and improving educational process. They closely guide language teachers to adopt their teaching strategies for coping with their daily language teaching challenges, influence their general well-being, and in turn, shape language learners’ learning environment, their motivation and their language achievement and ability. This essay studies some p...

Both reports consider academic support units for innovation in teaching and learning at the institutional level as well as those that foster collaborations across a system or network of institutions. In the previous post we discussed several ways that a network or system of institutions could collaborate on exploration, experimentation and exploitation of innovations in teaching and learning. T...

Background The relatively new specialty of Hospital Medicine in the USA is one of the fastest growing fields in internal medicine. Academic hospitalists are largely involved in the medical education of postgraduate residents and medical students. Little is known about the effectiveness of peer-to-peer teaching in internal medicine residency training programs and how the medical residents percei...

although some scholars view habermas as the most important philosopher and social theorist, his account of religion has been relatively neglected. in this paper, habermas’s early and later views of religion are outlined, and the change in his understanding of religion from one of the sources of modernity’s inner problems to a principal source of the passions and motivations underpinning cultura...