The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/11/8/prepub authorshors wish to thank Bernhard Marschall, MD, who as dean of studies at the medical faculty in Muenster has for years acted as a constant driving force behind curricular reform and the adoption of technical innovation.
The findings also suggested significant influence of the U.S. PR education on the development of Chinese public relations education manifested through textbook adoption and core curricular design.
This study sought to develop a valid and reliable instrument to identify the characteristics of computer-based, interactive, and asynchronous virtual patient simulations that nurse educators identify as important for adoption, and the subsequent curricular integration strategies they employed.
As a way to approach administrative authorities (also outside of Germany), Fig. 1 shows the input and adoption of the final curricular version after review by interdisciplinary professionals and governmental bodies involved in disaster health care.
This underscores the importance of the retrieval process and how the presence of high-quality curricular information in the retention structure may be a necessary antecedent to adoption, but not a guarantee.
Set of technological, pedagogical, curricular, political, ethical and institutional issues that could act as barriers to the adoption and integration of new technologies.
This is followed by a review of the issues surrounding adoption of PBL in the light of resource requirements and alternative curricular strategies.
The Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa has developed a framework (http://familymedicine.uottawa.ca/curriculum-framework/) to guide the adoption of a Triple C competency based curriculum, that incorporates the curricular elements of family medicine.
These results highlight the importance of preexisting curricular artifacts in shaping how some faculty in the study sample plan their courses, but that this process of artifact adoption is often not one of simply 'plugging and playing' old notes with no adaptations.
