Intensive, didactic courses teaching resuscitation training are currently not only very popular, but are also required curricula content for certain aspects of medical training. There are a number of such courses available in the field of paediatrics, each with a different emphasis and target audience. They are not inexpensive, as they utilise large amounts of training equipment and have a high...

This paper presents a proposal for a working group session on the role of industry training and professional certification in information security education at the tertiary level. The main question posed is Does industry training and professional certification have a place in university information security courses? If so, What industry training and professional accreditation courses are approp...

The major challenge for eLearning courses on undergraduate mathematics is the broadness of the audience they target at and the varying demands brought up by distinct interest groups. Our proposal how to deal with these challenges is the deployment of intelligent assistants that, given some initial knowledge on the audience, explore user behaviour to build up a sophisticated model of the learner...

background: teachers' self-efficacy and development may be conceptualized as their beliefs in their own ability to plan, organize and carry out activities that are required to attain educational goals. in this study, we examined the effect of different medical education training courses (six-day, one- month short- term and six-month long- term courses) on perceived self-efficacy and development...