Objectives: To assess the effect of engaging pharmacy students in a simulated situation in which they counsel real asthma patients on their inhaler technique for Dry Powder Inhalers (Accuhaler and Turbuhaler) and Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI).Methods: This was a single blinded repeated measures...

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 in the United States mandated standardized testing to measure student achievement. Over time, this act began close scrutiny and criticism of curriculum and instruction. As schools struggled with meeting the mandate, Race to the Top, a $4.35 billion...

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) is a public institution that employs open and distance e-learning. Since UPOU was established in 1995, course materials in printed form have always been necessary to courses. When a student enrols in a course, a printed course module is...

The influence of Russia on the worlds' political arena and global economy led to dynamic integration of Russian language into the world community. Russian language holds a particularly important place among the foreign languages taught in the higher educational establishments of Turkey. The main...

Multidisciplinary fieldwork in the professions can benefit from learning plans that leverage what a student needs to know and what placements can offer. Building on the research of the creative potential of learning plans in fieldwork by Leitmann and Palmer (Journal of Practice Teaching and...

Teamwork is an essential component of the engineering design process. Engineers in today’s globalized economy must be able to work in multidisciplinary teams. As such, graduates of engineering programs must be able to apply their technical knowledge in team-based environments where...

In the society with highly developed and successful economy, students tend to lack motivation in mastering knowledge and skills when they are guaranteed a good life in the future. Polytechnics in Singapore were set up with the mission to train professionals to support the technological and...

This paper develops and refines a quick method for analyzing bond yields until maturity given their market price. It briefly discusses bond ratings and defines yield curves and examines their characteristics, uses and how information can be derived about the market sentiment by their analysis...

Mentoring has been used as a useful personal development tool in both business and academia. Many business organizations apply mentoring programs as part of the staff recruiting and staff development programs. Mentoring programs are important not only for business but also to serve as a bridge...

Initiating the Six Sigma system in the Motorola Company has led to a fundamental discovery, identifying that some of the problems could be solved by exploiting some opportunities using the tools that are accessible to any organization. In my opinion, one of these, and the most important, is the...