This research analyzes the undergraduate Information Systems (IS) degree programs offered by the 24 most heavily-recruited universities in the U.S. We compared the published program learning outcomes of these IS programs against the AIS/ACM IS 2010 higher-level IS capabilities as well as IS specific knowledge and skills. We also compared the track designs of these programs against the IS 2010 c...

BACKGROUND Peer mentoring is a powerful pedagogical approach for supporting undergraduate medical students in their learning environment. However, it remains unclear what exactly peer mentoring is and whether and how undergraduate medical students use social media for peer-mentoring activities. OBJECTIVE We aimed at describing and exploring the Facebook use of undergraduate medical students d...

Merinda Kaye Hensley is Assistant Professor, University Library, and Instructional Services Librarian and Scholarly Commons Co-coordinator at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; e-mail: mhensle1@ illinois.edu. Sarah L. Shreeves is Associate Professor, University Library, and IDEALS Coordinator and Scholarly Commons Co-coordinator at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; e-...

J ust over a year ago, the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society jointly published the Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013) (www.acm.org/education/CS2013-final-report.pdf), an update to the undergraduate computing programs guidelines they've been publishing about once every decade since 1968. If you're like most people, undergraduate computer science curricula gu...

L et’s not kid ourselves (and I’m talking to anyone who graduated over 20 years ago):There are many more freshman entering colleges and universities who are not as “good” as we were when we were freshmen;many of today’s undergraduate academic programs not as “good” as ours were; and many of today’s graduates not as “good” as we were. If you think I’m going to refute or contradict those assertio...

In the present study, faculty who teach in clinical and counseling doctor of philosophy (PhD) or doctor of psychology (PsyD) programs completed surveys regarding preferences for prospective student preparations to graduate programs. Faculty expectations of minimum and ideal undergraduate training were highest for scientific methods, though expectations systematically varied among clinical PhD, ...

In China, the preventive medicine undergraduate professional training program is the major approach to training public health practitioners. The history of undergraduate education in public health/preventive medicine in China is reviewed utilizing the West China School of Public Health at Sichuan University as an example for analyzing this undergraduate major and its curriculum. Needed reforms ...

Health information technologies (HIT) have changed healthcare delivery. Yet, there are few opportunities for student nurses in their undergraduate studies to develop nursing informatics competencies. More importantly, many countries around the world have not fully specified nursing informatics competencies that will be expected of student nurses prior to their graduation from undergraduate nurs...

For over 20 years, the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been supporting undergraduate curricula in the sciences, including neuroscience. NSF's priorities in undergraduate education, however, have evolved during that period, and the competition for grants has increased. This history and overview of the current Course, Curriculum and Laborator...

1 John A. Drew Professor of Healthcare Administration, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA 2 Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA *Correspondence: [email protected] The authors who presently serve in administrative leadership positions in graduate education have both previously served as directors of undergrad...