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Within this paper, we consider recent developments in methods of research and consider the context of how students are introduced to this compared with late 20th Century methodologies. We compare these strategies and consider why changes of approach have occurred and what this means for the quality of research. Finally, we suggest two further routes that will help in this analysis which are likely...
Interdisciplinary and assessment initiatives are two parallel educational paradigms that are being increasingly implemented in higher education institutions. Our study combines these two paradigms in order to assess the significance and performance of factors and processes that facilitate interdisci-plinarity at the doctoral level. Using the 360-degree feedback methodology, we integrate the perspectives...
In Academia, plagiarism is considered as an academic dishonesty (crime) or violation of copyright law. Like any other crime, this academic offense should also be payable by a specific penalty. For this purpose, A self-made questionnaires have been designed and data have been collected through an online survey between 11th Sep 2015 and 24th September 2015 via the Google forms. The objective of this...
This article presents the rationale for the development of a European professional master course on care and technology. A description of potential target groups for this course is followed by a specification of the intended learning outcomes. The organization of the course follows a modular structure Next to the modular structure of this course information is given on the digital learning and work...
SALEIE - “Strategic Alignment of Electrical and Information Engineering in European Higher Education Institutions” is a LLP program started in October 2012 and is on-going. The objective of the WP5 - POLICY SALEIE work package is to bring together policy administrators from institutions across Europe in order to review current practices and to identify examples of best practice. Following the development...
Highly proficient eHealth health IT professionals assure health care and public health, while healthcare professional workforces should have the eSkills needed to make optimum use of their available eHealth health information technology. Addressing IT skills for healthcare workforce is seen as an important element of achieving greater social inclusion. Thus, in this paper we propose a framework for...
The presentation uses as a baseline the importance of Telemedicine and eHealth for the optimization of all possible levels of existing healthcare systems and for the development of efficient, timely, optimal, patient-centric healthcare worldwide. The paper is focused on global aspects of Telemedicine and eHealth adoption such as successful practices and cost effectiveness and is also focused on obstacles...
The Spanish University is involved in an update process to adapt their degrees to the “European higher education area”. This paper describes the adaptation of the department of Statistics and Operational Research by means of the Moodle Virtual Learning Platform. After one year, the Virtual Learning approach has improve the academic results of the pupils.
Research activity is an integral part of the study process and it is to be noted that many of the research programmes are very important for the industry and economy of Latvia.
Educational content is often shared among different educators and is enriched, adapted and in general repurposed so that it can be re-used in different contexts. This paper discusses educational content and content repurposing in medical education, presenting different repurposing contexts. Finally, it proposes a novel approach to content repurposing via Web 2.0 social networking of learning objects...
The EIE-Surveyor ERASMUS thematic network ran from October 2005 to November 2008. Competences, accreditation, quality and Bologna process were among the main aspects which were focused on, in the disciplines of Electrical and Information Engineering (EIE). The main results of the project are three books, freely available to all the colleagues and students interested, presenting the existing curricula...
The EIE-surveyor project is a European thematic network funded by the European Commission for a three-year period until October 2008. Its partnership includes 110 European academic institutions, which aims at acting both as an observatory and a proposition force for the evolution in the inter-disciplinary fields of electrical and information engineering (EIE), of engineering curricula through the...
In Hungary most of the engineers and technicians employed in the health, sector has no clinical or hospital engineering qualification. The paper clarifies the aims and contents of the postgraduate education for clinical engineering, including a detailed curriculum. Finally it gives a proposal for the structure of the training.
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