This study explored e-learning problems and solutions reported by 223 students with disabilities, 58 campus disability service providers, 28 professors, and 33 e-learning professionals from Canadian colleges and universities. All four groups indicated, via online questionnaires, problems with: accessibility of websites and course/learning management systems (CMS); accessibility of digital audio...

BACKGROUND Although job-related burnout and its core feature emotional exhaustion are common among medical professionals and compromise job satisfaction and professional performance, they have never been systematically studied in medical professors, who have central positions in academic medicine. METHODS We performed an online nationwide survey inviting all 1206 medical professors in The Net...

To cite: Furedi A. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2014;40:5–7. TWO STATEMENTS BY 100 USA PROFESSORS In 1972, 100 American professors of obstetrics published a statement setting out the benefits they believed legalised abortion could deliver for their nation and for its women. Forty years later, the next generation of professors have weighed their colleagues’ expectations against their own profe...

THE Roman orator and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote in 75 B.C. that not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. It is true that there are present tonight relations of each of the three men about 'whom I am to speak and also others who know something of their lives and work either by tradition or personal encounter, but 'old men forget and all shall be fo...

A training module of six sessions was designed for professors in higher education who were transitioning to teaching synchronous, elearning courses from formerly teaching in either asynchronous courses or in face-to-face courses. Since the participants were experienced educators, the boundary of their expertise to be extended was moving to the fully synchronous e-learning setting. All of the pr...

ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to understand the professors’ role and strategies used by Management professors for a better performance in classroom. This qualitative study, based on semi-structured interviews with field. analysis inductive method proposed Gioia, Corley Hamilton. It shows that postgraduate training commonly detached from professional practice, given its main focus det...

This paper examines the issues related to the implementation of e-Learning at the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), one of the best higher education institutions in Thailand. e-Learning at NIDA offered a promise of enhancing the quality of both teaching and learning, benefiting both faculty and students alike. For example, e-Learning would provide collaborative tools in o...

We investigated the work-life balance of clinical professors in charge patient care, research, and education at medical schools demand for support according to position (professor, associate professor, or assistant professor). In total, 163 completed consent form participated study. They filled out an online survey consisting questions about essential characteristics, a test, stress, burnout, s...