This paper describes an innovative, new GK-12 STEM Fellowship Program that incorporates contemporary embedded real-time sensors and system design into the existing K-12 curriculum. Unlike other GK-12 programs, more focus is placed on Technology (T) and Engineering (E), and less focus is placed on Science (S) and Mathematics (M). The underlying goal of the program is to link realtime embedded sy...

The educational preparation of safety pre-professionals has concerned for safety educators for many years. A major concern relates to the debate surrounding safety program content as well as student outcomes/competencies. While there is a rich literature that convincingly argues the many sides of this issue, there is little to no research related to the process of safety program curriculum deli...

BACKGROUND Procedural skills training is a critical component of medical education, but is often lacking in standard clinical curricula. We describe a unique immersive procedural skills curriculum for medical students, designed and taught primarily by emergency medicine faculty at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. OBJECTIVES The primary educational objective of this program was t...

The department of Curriculum and Instruction at Iowa State University, USA offers a leading residential program of information communication technology (ICT) in teacher education. Based on the success of this program, in 2003, faculty members and instructional developers at Iowa State University Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching (http://www.ctlt.iastate.edu) created an online maste...

Resistance to change is expected, especially when change involves and impacts many stakeholders. During the past year, the Curriculum Committee at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine has been preparing the dental school for a major curricular revision of its predoctoral program. This article describes how a faculty retreat was designed to gain support for and involvement in t...

BACKGROUND Our college introduced an integrated learning program (ILP) for first year undergraduates with an aim to develop, implement and evaluate a module for CNS in basic sciences and to assess the feasibility of an ILP in phase I of medical education in a college following traditional medical curriculum. METHODS The idea of implementing ILP for Central Nervous System (CNS) in phase one wa...

Fostering interdisciplinary learning in biology will require significant changes in the way we teach science to K–12 students. The perspective on interdisciplinary biology teaching and learning in this essay is based on my experiences as a former research cell biologist, high school science teacher, and developer of secondary science curricula and teacher professional development programs used ...

nowadays, improvement of thinking skills of students is one of the universally supported aims in the majority of medical schools. this study aims to design longitudinal theme of reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making into the undergraduate medical curriculum at tehran university of medical sciences (tums). a participatory approach was applied to design the curriculum during 2009-2011. t...

The authors describe the development of the undergraduate medical curriculum at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, especially over the last 15 years, when they led the Curriculum Committee. They describe the principles that have guided the curriculum development process up to this day; how the competency outcomes were designed and evolved as well as the main influences on the process; how th...

conclusions considering the recent advances in medical curriculum it seems that teaching anatomy should be improved by shifting to new methods in teaching and evaluation. results our findings showed that 82% of iranian anatomists use lecture and 83.5% of them believe dissection is the best method for teaching anatomy. according to our study, anatomists in iran agree that clinical points and app...