CONTEXT Medical educational reform includes enhancing role modelling of clinical teachers. This requires faculty being aware of their role model status and performance. We developed the System for Evaluation of Teaching Qualities (SETQ) to generate individualized feedback on previously defined teaching qualities and role model status for faculty in (non) academic hospitals. OBJECTIVES (i) To ...

The English language is continuing to establish itself as a global lingua franca in a period of unprecedented globalisation. In the period 1995–2005 educational systems worldwide have shown interest in the adoption of English as a medium of instruction. Teaching through a second language has been successful in certain educational environments. A methodological approach, ‘Content and Language In...

New Media teaching and learning is on everyone’s lips at the moment. It must be analyzed whether e-learning and multimedia with its possibilities can make a lasting contribution to the university teaching. New Media will influence both, the presence teaching and the self-learning at home. This paper deals with the educational dimension of the new media and with didactic models and learning theo...

1. Characteristics of Culture 1.1. Tradition 1.2. Teaching 2. Material Culture 2.1. Eating culture 2.2. Housing 2.3. Tools 2.4. Trade and economy 3. Intellectual culture 3.1. Language 3.2. Art 3.3. Science and technology 3.4. Religion and belief 3.5. Philosophy 4. Culture as Social Organization 4.1. Family structures 4.2. Group rules 4.3. State 5. The value of culture Bibliography Biographical ...

For medical teachers around the world, teaching duties have expanded beyond the classroom and include teaching small groups, assessment, providing instructional materials beyond the syllabus, problem-based learning, learner-centred teaching, clinical teaching on-the-fly--and the list goes on. Faculty development is essential to train medical faculty in essential educational theory and specific ...

As technology is increasingly being used for teaching and learning in higher education, it is important to scrutinise what tangible educational gains are being attained. Are claims about technology transforming learning and teaching in higher education borne out by actual practices? This paper draws upon a critical analysis of recent research literature concerning Technology Enhanced Learning (...

Background and objectives : Relatively little is known about the relationship between religion and abstinence. The aim of this study was to examine the correlation between religious beliefs and behaviors and the intention of premarital sexual abstinence among Iranian youths. Methods: The current study was a cross-sectional one carried out among youths of five universities in Shiraz, Iran. 577 p...

In this proposal I describe a new kind of educational game architecture: the self-aware educational game. Instead of simply amplifying an educational game designer’s best guess at a teaching strategy, self-aware games will actively reason over uncertainty about how a subject should be taught, perform experiments, and meaningfully adapt to collected evidence on a global scale. Combining accepted...

This paper reports on research in intercultural psychology to argue the case for the role that different ways of knowing might have on education. Evidence is summarised that suggests that Asian students make subtlety different inferences than their western counterparts, and that this has not been given serious consideration in the educational literature, despite its importance for the enterpris...