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...

drug-food interactions can increase or decrease drug effects, resulting in therapeutic failure or toxicity. activities that reduce these interactions play an important role for clinical pharmacists. this study was planned and performed in order to determine the role of clinical pharmacist in the prevention of absorption drug-food interactions through educating the nurses in a teaching hospital ...

BACKGROUND To describe the design and to present the results of a paediatric and neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training program adapted to Latin-America. METHODS A paediatric CPR coordinated training project was set up in several Latin-American countries with the instructional and scientific support of the Spanish Group for Paediatric and Neonatal CPR. The program was divided i...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the characteristics of health policy and systems research training globally and to identify recommendations for improvement and expansion. METHODS We identified institutions offering health policy and systems research training worldwide. In 2014, we recruited participants from identified institutions for an online survey on the characteristics of the institutions and ...