We present a research work about an innovative national teacher training program in France: the Pairform@nce program, designed to sustain ICT integration. The Pairform@nce trainings are grounded in a principle of collective lesson design by teams of trainees; they associate face-to-face and distant training. We study here a training for secondary school teachers, whose objective is to foster th...

One of the most crucial problems affecting the world today is the scarcity of quality education. In the present era primary education is a basic need but in developing and under developed countries illiteracy is spreading like a plague. The scarcity of education is expected to worsen in the future due to lack of interest, even in countries with significant human resources. The government is pro...

The inclusion of gerontology content in the nursing curriculum is paramount as our population of older adults grows. As one of 10 recipients of the John A. Hartford Foundation/AACN awards for Enhancing Gerontological and Geriatric Nursing Education for Advanced Practice Nursing Programs, we successfully integrated gerontological/ geriatric content throughout core courses for all concentrations ...

objective: in this trial, we intend to assess the effect of simulation-based education approach on advanced cardiovascular life support skills among medical students. methods: through convenient sampling method, 40 interns of mashhad university of medical sciences in their emergency medicine rotation (from september to december 2012) participated in this study. advanced cardiovascular life supp...

1 Research Assistant of the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) Abstract In this paper we discuss how OPNET can be applied in advanced networking education, enhancing the practical skills of future network engineers. At the K.U.Leuven Master students in Electrical Engineering focusing on Telecommunications have to complete a complex networking design about Voice over IP, Wirel...

In Canada, education programs for the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and nurse practitioner (NP) roles began 40 years ago. NP programs are offered in almost all provinces. Education for the CNS role has occurred through graduate nursing programs generically defined as providing preparation for advanced nursing practice. For this paper, we drew on pertinent sections of a scoping review of the l...

PURPOSE To describe international trends on the developing role of the nurse practitioner-advanced practice nurse (NP-APN), including nomenclature, levels and types of NP-APN education, practice settings, scope of practice, regulatory policies, and political environment. DESIGN A cross-sectional, descriptive Web-based survey sent in February and March 2008 to a total of 174 key informants and...