Teachers play a pivotal role in implementing educational innovations and realising curriculum change. Consequently, their perceptions of innovations and curricula content are of crucial importance. In this study, teachers’ perceptions of the new ICT curriculum in Flanders are examined. This curriculum reflects Flemish society’s underlying vision of the role of technology and ICT in teaching and...

BACKGROUND Teaching quality improvement (QI) principles during residency is an important component of promoting patient safety and improving quality of care. The literature on QI curricula for internal medicine residents is limited. We sought to evaluate the impact of a competency based curriculum on QI among internal medicine residents. METHODS This was a prospective, cohort study over four ...

Firstly, it was found that the Indian curriculum is far more instrumental than the American curriculum. Emphasis was placed on business applications of technology, laying bare the desire to turn graduates into engineers. Chemistry, Physics, and Electronics were well represented in the Indian curriculum but not at all in the American curriculum, possibly reflecting an Indian preference for this ...

This paper represents a systematic evaluation of the Core Medical Training Curriculum in the UK. The authors critically review the curriculum from a medical education perspective based mainly on the medical education literature as well as their personal experience of this curriculum. They conclude in practical recommendations and suggestions which, if adopted, could improve the design and imple...

INTRODUCTION  The hidden curriculum is a set of ethical, moral, and value-based teachings communicated to doctors-in-training, providing a basis for their future interactions with patients, peers, and colleagues. The aim of our study is to introduce the concept of the hidden curriculum to a cohort of third-year medical students and to subsequently evaluate their understanding. In particular, we...

It is implied by governing organizations that Australia is presently experiencing its first national curriculum reform, when as the title suggests it is the second. However, until now Australian states and territories have been responsible for the education curriculum delivered within schools. The present national curriculum reform promises one curriculum framework for health and physical educa...

The development of curriculum to facilitate the development of graduate entrepreneurship is a challenging task. That we can help graduate students become entrepreneurs is a frequently challenged assumption. To make matters worse there is little consensus as to how entrepreneurship education should be delivered. This paper argues that our focus should be first and foremost on the processes assoc...

In this paper we describe the development of an ICT environment for a newly developed curriculum at the School of Management and Organization, University of Groningen. The curriculum is highly integrative and requires students to carry out sets of complex practical tasks. These tasks all involve the practical application of scientific theories and models, and require practical skills in elabora...

This paper contends that establishing a central theme in the information systems curriculum is important to program stakeholders. An analysis of the IS 2010 Curriculum Guidelines (Topi et al., 2010) reveals that the systems approach can be an effective integrating theme throughout the IS curriculum. This paper concludes that the systems approach to problem solving, applied at different levels o...