"We're talking about exchanging faculty, sharing curricula online, sharing equipment, exchanging lesson plans ?
The globalization of medical practice using accepted evidence-based approaches is matched by a growing trend for shared curricula in medicine and other health professions across international boundaries.
The specific objectives were to develop distance-learning curricula involving lectures, web-based case discussions and shared curricula.
Additionally, 11 non-responding schools had identical shared curricula to one or more of the responding schools; therefore the data represented 48% (43/89) of nursing schools.
All of the consortia have worked to improve the quality and consistency of education across the country by establishing national standards for training and creating opportunities to share effective curricula, best practices, and lessons learned.
In the two studies on this topic, of which we are aware, information sharing about curricula has been associated with positive social behaviors and better academic skills at school entry (Ahtola et al. 2011; LoCasale-Crouch et al. 2008).
The institutional purposes in education, research, and service can be advanced through sharing of curricula, exchange of faculty and students, collaborative research, and other activities.
Join us on Thursday, 4pm to 6pm, to debate whether current reform encourage or stifle innovation and to share the creative curricula you are developing in your school.
These curricula share a common feature of students learning physics through doing laboratory exercises that are not "cookbook" in nature.
