In the 20th century, public health education in the United States existed as a professional degree program, with training at the masters (MPH) and doctoral (PhD, DrPH, and ScD) levels. Today, the system is rapidly evolving as undergraduate majors, minors, and concentrations are establishing themselves around the country. This new focus of public health education, rooted in a liberal arts enviro...

As the function of advising has shifted across higher education landscape, role academic advisor also evolved. This chapter explores historic and emerging trends in roles, functions, professionalization advising, while stressing need for institutions to situate within their learning teaching mission. Drawing from literature surrounding theories contexts as a profession, well research resources ...

This article presents an autoethnographical account of my foray into Spanish immersion education in Costa Rica as a professor of multilingual education at a university in Canada. This language-learning journey was inspired by curiosity about the growing trend for Internet marketing of second-language learning as a form of tourism, which I label edu-tourism. I map the course of my edu-tourism ex...

Global trends in many areas of human activity are aimed at the transition to digital transformation. The transformation modern business requires changes learning process higher education. Based on this, among main development educational is use interactive teaching methods and technologies, which designed create comfortable conditions each student feels his success intellectual ability. Interac...

Email [email protected] Abstract Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are playing an increasingly important role in higher education around the world, but despite their popularity, the measurement of student learning in these courses is hampered by cheating and other problems that lead to unfair evaluation of student learning. In this paper, we describe a framework for maintaining test securi...

This paper explores the relationship between smartphone practices and lifestyle in urban Iran. Recently, the use of smartphones has dramatically been increased in Iran, and this trend is expected to influence users’ lifestyle in the everyday context. Therefore, to test this hypothesis, I follow the notion of “lifestyle” which was advanced by Pierre Bourdieu to offer an analysis of this changing...

Although there are no established theories of academic advising (Creamer, 2000), there are numerous theories from education and the social sciences which have provided a foundation for the changes which have occurred in the field since it became a "defined and examined activity" (Frost, 2000, p. 10) in the 1960s and 1970s. As stated by Creamer (2000), "academic advising is an educational activi...

an adaptive input-output linearization method for general nonlinear systems is developed without using states of the system. another key feature of this structure is the fact that, it does not need model of the system. in this scheme, neurolinearizer has few weights, so it is practical in adaptive situations.  online training of neurolinearizer is compared to model predictive recurrent training...

NSF-Funded North Central Regional Workshop Sponsor: American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Date and Time: Saturday, June 16th, 2012, 9:00 AM 5:00 PM Location: Science Learning and Research Center, University of Michigan Dearborn, Dearborn MI, Main Campus Map and Directions: http://www.umd.umich.edu/maps_directions Cost: Free Online Registration: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/J3W5...