Introduction: The early diagnosis of developmental disorders and timely interventions profoundly affect the health of children and their families; however, the detection rate of these disorders is much lower than the actual one. The present study aimed to explore effects of educating mothers about the national child development screening plan on identifying children with abnormal development. M...

Kurt Becker, Utah State University Kurt Becker is a Professor and the Department Head of Engineering and Technology Education. He is the Co-Principal Investigator for the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded National Center for Engineering and Technology Education and Principal Investigator for the NSF funded project: Communities of Effective Practice: A professional STEM Development Partne...

introduction: india has the highest number of medical colleges in the world and subsequently the higher number of medical teachers. there is a dire need of adopting a systematic approach to faculty development to enhance quality education to meet health challenges for 21st century. this manuscript provides a landscape of faculty development programs in india, identifying gaps and opportunities ...

In 2004, the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) proposed several major strategies to improve the recruitment, retention, and development of underrepresented minorities (URMs) in the dental profession. One of the strategies was the establishment of the ADEA Minority Dental Faculty Development (ADEA MDFD) Program. This report presents key early lessons from the ADEA MDFD program. It als...

1 Carolyn Stark, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Lifelong Engineering Education P.O. Box H, Austin, TX 78713 [email protected] 2 Kathy J. Schmidt, University of Texas at Austin, Faculty Innovation Center, P.O. Box H, Austin, TX 78713 [email protected] 3 Linda Shafer, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Lifelong Engineering Education, [email protected] u...

Numerous articles and documents have been written about the management of distance education. The International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL) Distance Education Library and the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) alone contain hundreds of such documents. Most of these documents, however, examine distance education policy, institution management, student support systems and stu...

Caren M. Walker, Ellen Winner, Lois Hetland, Seymour Simmons, Lynn Goldsmith University of California, Berkeley, USA; Boston College, Boston, USA; Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, USA; Massachusetts College of Arts and Design, Boston, USA; Winthrop University, Rock Hill, USA; Education Development Center, Newton, USA. Email: [email protected] Received August 25, 2010; re...

The following is a transcript of a talk in Center for Cities & Schools speaker’s series. Housed in the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) at Berkeley and affiliated with the Graduate School of Education (GSE) and the Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP), The Center for Cities & Schools is committed to bridging the fields of education and urban policy to create equitab...