Peter Mühlhäusler is the Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Oxford. He is an active researcher in several areas of linguistics, including ecolinguistics, language planning, and language policy and language contact in the Australian-Pac...

Current indications (U.S. Department of Education, 2003; Zandberg & Lewis, 2008; Picciano & Seaman, 2009) are that distance learning, in particular online learning, will continue to expand into the foreseeable future. There are some completely online doctoral programs presently operating, but many students continue to flock to the non-traditional executive type leadership cohort-based, on-groun...

This work has been partially supported by the Science-Technology Development Project of Jilin Province of P.R. China (Grant No. 20030520) and the Key Science-Technology Project of the National Education Ministry of P.R. China (Grant No. 02090). Address correspondence to Professor Y.C. Liang, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, P.R. China. E-mail: lian...

Health care requires increasing the number and quality of registered nurses to the baccalaureate level to address part of the critical nurse shortage problem and need for highly qualified professionals. Two major national initiatives examining the nursing workforce issue in the United States recommend decreasing barriers, refining academic pathways and facilitating nurses return to school for h...

This article discusses meeting the challenges encountered in changing a paper-based, interactive immunization delivery curriculum into an online, self-paced format. The program, TIDE (Teaching Immunization Delivery and Evaluation), was developed through collaborative efforts of medical educators and content experts with initial funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Am...

After receiving his B.Eng. Phys. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, Donald Farley spent a year at Cambridge University as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, a year as Docent at Chalmers University in Sweden, and then six years in Peru at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory, three of them as director, before returning to the United States and joining the Cornell faculty as a full professor in 1967....

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The completion of this dissertation would not have been possible without the help and encouragement of many people. First, I would like to sincerely thank my research advisor Professor Amir Mortazawi for his continuous support and encouragement, and for the opportunity he provided for me to conduct independent research. I also sincerely thank my other committee members, Profess...

Background Individualized education is emerging as an innovative model for physician training. This requires faculty coaching to guide learners' achievements in academic performance, competency development, and career progression. In addition, coaching can foster self-reflection and self-monitoring using a data-guided approach to support lifelong learning. Context Coaching differs from mentorin...

OBJECTIVE To examine knowledge and practices in relation to sexually transmissible diseases (STDs) of general practitioners (GPs) in Victoria, Australia. METHOD A questionnaire was distributed to 520 Victorian GPs randomly selected from the Australian Medical Publishing Company (AMPCo) database of Australian medical practitioners. RESULTS A response rate of 85% was obtained. While sexual he...