many medical universitiesaround the world have donestunning changes in the recent years.some of these changes have been performed with the support of international organizations.they changed the traditionaltrainingprograms based on teacher- centered learning and disciplined approach to the educational course based on community needs responsivity and student-centered learning. this process is ai...

Whilst the link between access, quality of schooling and gender equality in promotion Education for All is vital, the problematic nature of this agenda for the curriculum in developing countries is not sufficiently recognized. Previous sociological research indicates the contradictions between the social reproductive elements and the egalitarian potential of a ‘globalised curriculum’ especially...

Nursing education has been plagued with a saturation of content for many years. The multiple contributing factors underscore the complexity of the problem and validate the need for educational reform. The purpose of this article is to discuss various factors contributing to content saturation and propose a conceptual approach for curriculum development and teaching in nursing education.

This paper analyzed the personnel training situation of electrical engineering application profession of the applied colleges, and explored the CDIO engineering education reform of electrical engineering profession, and put forward a set of scheme of curriculum education system based on CDIO education philosophy, and has gradually improved the training mode of personnel training and the student...

Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and the multiple-intelligences perspective on learning, teaching, curriculum, and assessment are briefly described. Integral to this perspective are learning through engaging the full spectrum of student intelligences, teaching through multiple intelligences to emphasize enhanced understanding, employing multiple curricular options to foster learning t...

1Learning Research andDevelopmentCenter, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2Educational Studies, GhentUniversity, Ghent, BE 3Department of Teacher Professional Development, University of Twente, Enschede, TheNetherlands Correspondence SusanMcKenney,DepartmentofTeacher ProfessionalDevelopment,University ofTwente, Enschede, 7500AE,TheNetherlands. Email: [email protected] Abstr...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to describe the first attempts and performance of health system in Iran in training specialist nurses in the field of diabetes- related care and education. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a qualitative content analysis. Three diabetes management planners in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, three provincial executive authorities of diabetes ...

The core objective of the integrated curriculum of compulsory education is to “enable students to demonstrate their network-talents instead of just scoring high on independent exams.” The key to determining education reform strategies in the e-era is to establish network-competence indicators for educational behavior in primary schools. We propose a MCDM means for evaluating, comparing and impr...

BACKGROUND During the last 5 years a fundamental curriculum reform was realized at the medical school of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University. In contrast to those efforts, the learning objectives were not defined consistently for the curriculum and important questions concerning the curriculum could not be answered. This also applied to Occupational and Environmental Medicine where teachers of bo...

BACKGROUND This study evaluates the impact of a new 'Preparation for Internship' (PRINT) course, which was developed to facilitate the transition of University of New South Wales (UNSW) medical graduates from Medical School to Internship. METHODS During a period of major curricular reform, the 2007 (old program) and 2009 (new program) cohorts of UNSW final year students completed the Clinical...