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Collaborating for Change: Reimagining Medical Education in Jordan through International Partnerships
Mahmoud M. Sarhan; James Kelly; Neveen El-Farra; Mohammed Ahmed Rashid – Discover Education, 2025
Medical education in Jordan has evolved rapidly in the last 50 years as successive governments and higher education leaders have responded swiftly to developing healthcare sector demands. Despite significant progress being made, there remain a substantial number of challenges for the Jordanian medical education system that require careful…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Educational History, Medical Schools
Kassie A. Cigliana; Tom Gray; George Gower – Research in Learning Technology, 2024
An objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has been recognised as a reliable but workload-intensive assessment method across health sciences studies. Though a variety of digital marking tools have been employed to improve marking and feedback provision for OSCEs, many of these require specialist software or maintenance. This pilot study…
Descriptors: Grading, Feedback (Response), Evaluation, Computer Software
Janet M. Haresnape; Ruth Gilbert; Heather Fraser – New Directions in the Teaching of Natural Sciences, 2024
A series of workshops offered to biology and health sciences students during June and July 2022 was primarily aimed to help students to understand and appreciate the employability benefits of engaging with practical science investigations. Such investigations are designed to help students develop not only practical, numerical and problem-solving…
Descriptors: Workshops, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Biology
C. Herodotou; M. Aristeidou; E. Scanlon; S. Kelley – Open Learning, 2025
This paper examines the pedagogical integration of Virtual Microscopes (VMs) in Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), to identify best practice and improve online pedagogy. It has captured the perspectives of 12 Health and Earth Science university teachers, through in-depth interviews, about the current integration of the VM in online teaching,…
Descriptors: Laboratory Equipment, Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
Kei Long Cheung; Michael Thomas; Billy Wong; Laura Hills; Hannah Froome; Nicholas Worsfold; Daniel P. Bailey – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2025
Attention paid to awarding gaps in higher education linked to ethnicity tends to focus on outcomes at the final award stage. Our project sought to scrutinise awarding gaps at module level where these gaps may emerge. Our aim was twofold: to identify the most important barriers to student success and determine strategies to reduce awarding gaps at…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Barriers, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Bagriacik Yilmaz, Ayse; Banyard, Phil – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2020
This study examined studies focusing on student engagement in distance education using a trend analysis technique. 154 studies published in web of science database were included in the study. Analysis showed that there is an increasing effort to understand student engagement. Researchers are mostly focusing on instructional design and educational…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Learner Engagement, Educational Principles, Research Reports
Taylor, Joanna; Pagliari, Claudia – Research Ethics, 2018
Background: Data representing people's behaviour, attitudes, feelings and relationships are increasingly being harvested from social media platforms and re-used for research purposes. This can be ethically problematic, even where such data exist in the public domain. We set out to explore how the academic community is addressing these challenges…
Descriptors: Social Media, Research Methodology, Ethics, Guidelines
Gantogtokh, Orkhon; Quinlan, Kathleen M. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
This study, based on case study analyses of two interdisciplinary programmes in a research-intensive university in the UK, focuses on the challenges involved in designing, coordinating, and leading interdisciplinary postgraduate curricula, including workload, student heterogeneity, and difficulties in achieving coherence. Solutions and approaches…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Curriculum Design, Interdisciplinary Approach
Allard, Jon; Bleakley, Alan – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2016
Top-down policy directives, such as targets and their associated protocols, may be driven politically rather than clinically and can be described as macro-political texts. While targets supposedly provide incentives for healthcare services, they may unintentionally shape practices of accommodation rather than implementation, deflecting…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, Foreign Countries, Hospitals, Video Technology
Davies, Howard – European University Association, 2021
EU policy makers are facing increased urgency to integrate and energise the professional labour market, especially in the context of the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, the push towards the green and digital transitions and the defence of the Single Market following Brexit. This latest policy briefing on the recognition of professionals looks at…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Policy
Traeger, James; Norgate, Carolyn – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
This is an account of practice. It explores the meeting point between action learning and action research, as a way of doing capacity building in organisational development (OD) in the NHS in the UK. The authors were part of a short cooperative inquiry (Heron, J. 1996. "Co-operative Inquiry: Research into the Human Condition." London:…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Capacity Building, Inquiry, Cooperative Learning
Fergus, Suzanne; Kellett, Kathryn; Gerhard, Ute – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
Using current research and real-life scenarios to motivate students to understand chemistry principles is a key strategy in learning and teaching. An illustration of psychoactive drugs referred to as "legal highs" used in the U.K. and Europe is presented to highlight key chemistry principles and relate the importance of chemistry…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Narcotics, Spectroscopy
Rolfe, Vivien – Open Praxis, 2016
For those receiving funding from the UK HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resource Programme (2009-2012), the sustainability of project outputs was one of a number of essential goals. Our approach for the hosting and distribution of health and life science open educational resources (OER) was based on the utilisation of the WordPress.org blogging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education, Shared Resources and Services
Group of Eight (NJ1), 2010
Universities have much to contribute to the improvement of health delivery, research, and teaching/learning. In progressing health reform, the Government should be mindful of the need to: (1) strengthen high quality medical research; (2) promote translation of research to teaching, population health and health services; and (3) address Health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Stakeholders, Educational Change