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Sian Bayne; Jen Ross – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2024
This paper uses speculative methods as a way of imagining futures for higher education in open, non-predictive ways. The complexity and 'unknowability' of the highly technologised, environmentally damaged and politically degraded futures we seem to be facing can mean that our conversations about the future of higher education have a tendency to…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Psychological Patterns, Vignettes
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Shelton, Therese; Laurent, Theresa; Agyemang-Barimah, Beulah – PRIMUS, 2019
We present adaptable activities for models of drug movement in the human body -- pharmacokinetics -- that motivate the learning of ordinary differential equations with an interdisciplinary topic. Specifically, we model aspirin, caffeine, and digoxin. We discuss the pedagogy of guiding students to understand, develop, and analyze models,…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Active Learning, Calculus, Pharmacology
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Loftus, Jay; Stavraky, Tom; Urquhart, Bradley L. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2014
Demand for e-learning courses has risen dramatically placing pressure on institutions to offer more online courses. Third party vendors now offer courses that can be embedded directly into learning management systems. When transitioning from in-class to e-learning formats, instructors must decide whether to use commercially available courses or…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Design, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
Alkhateeb, Fadi M.; Latif, David A.; Adkins, Rachel – Online Submission, 2013
Schools and colleges of pharmacy in the United States have struggled over the past several decades with identifying a consistent title for the broad body of knowledge related to the social, economic, behavioral, and administrative aspects of pharmacy. This paper examines the educational background and professional experience of those teaching…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Education, Pharmacology
Dale, George A. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
A long continuing responsibility of the Office of Education is the publication of bulletins describing education in other countries. Such bulletins are a vital part of a program to increase American understanding of education around the world. They include a growing series of studies on education in the Latin American Republics. "Education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Governance, Economic Factors