In higher education, competing demands for accountability and innovation in the face of globalization, technology, and budget cuts cause us to consider how best to prepare learners who will learn for a lifetime. We contend that a shift in our…

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the method of meaning implication discourse analysis can be applied in the context of online collaborative reflective practice of student teachers. The method was developed to identify knowledge building in networked…

[ca] Un manuscrit inèdit sobre els organistes de la Seu de Manresa, de l'historiador Joaquim Sarret i Arbós, aporta gran quantitat de dades sobre l'orgue, amb una primera noticia documentada de l'any 1496, amb el salari i les obligacions de…

ABSTRACT Using well-known tenets of student development and student success as a central organizing premise, it is suggested that higher education curriculum should include outcomes related to the development of students as competent, lifelong learners. This imperative is driven by…

This paper provides new versions of Harsanyi’s social aggregation theorem that are formulated in terms of prospects rather than lotteries. Strengthening an earlier result, fixed-population ex-ante utilitarianism is characterized in a multi-profile setting with fixed probabilities. In addition, we extend…

We consider entry-level medical markets for physicians in the United Kingdom. These markets experienced failures which led to the adoption of centralized market mechanisms in the 1960's. However, different regions introduced different centralized mechanisms. We advise physicians who do not…

BACKGROUND:Global health research is essential for development. A major issue is the inequitable distribution of research efforts and funds directed towards populations suffering the world's greatest health problems. This imbalance is fostering major attempts at redirecting research to the health…

La evaluación de los aprendizajes, como actividad prominente de los procesos formativos por su decisiva acción pedagógica, obliga constantemente a reflexionar y debatir sobre su práctica. Esto conduce a inquietantes cuestionamientos: ¿cómo se debe evaluar?, ¿son apropiadas las técnicas e…