BACKGROUND The teaching of trauma in medical schools faces many educational and logistic challenges. Issues on what to teach, how to teach, when to teach, who will teach and whether medical students with insufficient exposure to clinical medicine can benefit from a trauma course are unclear. MATERIALS AND METHODS A well-designed one day intensive trauma course concentrating on the primary sur...

Digital textbooks have been growing popular as a lower-cost and more interactive alternative to paper books. Despite the recent rise in adoption, little is known about how people use these resources. Prior studies have investigated student perceptions of digital textbooks in the classroom via interviews and surveys but have not quantified actual usage patterns. We present, to our knowledge, the...

Can we teach students to build reliable embedded software? Although it would be rash to say that a general agreement exists on how to teach embedded systems, there's certainly a growing understanding of the issues. For example, the excellent August 2005 issue of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems devoted 182 pages to embedded systems education. However, surprisingly few of these pag...

This study aimed at investigating the availability of critical thinking skills in Arabic language and Islamic education textbooks depending on their teachers’ point view Jerash Governorate. The researchers have used functional analytical approach. They prepared a questionnaire that consisted 36 paragraphs which targeted four skills, sample 97 female teachers. After finding arithmetic mean stand...

In this paper we explain how we teach generic programming to master students in computer science. Key concepts to transfer are the relation between plain types and their generic representation, kinds, and the function parameters corresponding to arrow kinds. We teach this successfully in three steps, we start with simple solutions, show why they fail and how a more sophisticated variant solves ...

A typical software engineering course fails to teach its students many of the skills needed in software development organizations. Because lectures and class projects alone cannot adequately teach about the software process, we have developed a pair of games in which the process is simulated, giving students an opportunity to practice it firsthand. Problems and Programmers is an educational sof...

In part this is because over half of Ph.D.s will teach at institutions in which teaching is as important, if not more important, than research. Departments in the non-Ivies need excellent teachers who can attract students—especially non-majors. They are looking for scholars who can not only publish, but who can teach successfully, and who can effectively advise and mentor students. Even Ivies a...

This study analyzed the information seeking behaviour of the teachers and students at College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In this study, data collected from 150 teachers and students by administering questionnaires on their information seeking and requirements of the College of Engineering, indicates that guidance in the use of library resources and se...