The prevalence of stunting continues to be a severe public health concern that has hampered the nation's expansion and progress. One of the factors causing the high incidence of stunting was ignorance about the causes of stunting in the first 1000 days of life. Pregnant women have a crucial role in addressing the nutritional intake of themselves and the children so stunting could be prevented e…
Malnutrition has been a problem in Indonesia over the past years. Many factors are known to affect the nutritional status of a child including the mothers’ knowledge regarding nutrition. The objective of this study was to improve the mother’s knowledge and attitude regarding family nutrition and to know which factor affects both. This program was conducted in Pangkalan Village, Tangerang…
Assistive technology (AT) is invaluable to people with special educational needs and disabilities, enabling them to function more efficiently. Designed with low power consumption and a GPU capable of running AI frameworks, NVIDIA's Jetson Nano is an affordable embedded system device. With this system, users will be mobile and connected to any computer with an appropriate interface, and able…
The purpose of this study was to determine the Effect of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy on the Success of Small and Micro Enterprises during COVID-19 in Papua. The survey method was distributed to collect 150 micro-enterprises from small and micro business (street vendors) in Nabire City, while only 122 data passed need to be processed and analyzed further. Based on the literature, there are …
Adequate intake of fruit and vegetable (F&V) are known to be crucial in providing numerous benefits during the growth and development of primary school children. Low F&Vs intake has been investigated to contribute to the increasing prevalence of double-burden of malnutrition (i.e., childhood obesity and micronutrient deficiency), especially in the urban area (e.g., Jakarta city) and in priv…
English for Academic Study: Reading is designed to challenge and stimulate students on pre-sessional and pre-departure courses. The Course Book contains step-by-step activities written by EAP professionals at the University of Reading’s International Study and Language Centre. The activities are designed for use with authentic reading texts in the accompanying EAS: Reading & Writing Source Bo…
Knowledge was once power - difficult to find, slow to transmit and coveted. Now we can access almost the sum total of human information with a swipe of our thumbs. The impact on the knowledge economy has been vast, leaving learning and development (L&D) professionals wondering how to keep pace. Many organizations naturally turn to technology to ensure workplace learning at scale and at speed, b…
Entrepreneurship& Small Business examines how firms develop from start-up, both tracing growth and exploring failure. It studies entrepreneurs - what motivates them, how they manage and lead, and how certain defining characteristics they possess can help shape the businesses they run. The book outlines good management practice for students and encourages and develops entrepreneurial skills. Cle…
The Bases of Competence explains what skills and competencies students need to succeed in today's workplace and details how colleges and universities can strengthen the curriculum to cultivate these skills in their undergraduate students. The book addresses the continuing disparity between the skills developed in college and the essential skills needed in the dynamic workplace environment. By p…
Engaging, accessible and practical, this book helps students to get the most out of new technologies to enhance their learning practices, engage with their studies and improve their study skills. Covering a broad range of topics, it encourages a reflective perspective on e-learning resources.
Keeping students involved, motivated, and actively learning is challenging educators across the country,yet good advice on how to accomplish this has not been readily available. Student Engagement Techniques is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to help t…
Reading and making notes at university is different from studying at school and college. This practical pocket guide takes you all stages of reading and note making, from different reading purposes, to making the most effective use of your notes.
Morality and philosophy of medicine and education / Naomi Tan, Adrian Sutton, and Tim Dornan -- Perspectives on learning / Karen Mann, Tim Dornan, and Pim Teunissen -- Medical education in its societal context / Ayelet Kuper and Brian Hodges -- Medical education in an interprofessional context / Scott Reeves and Joanne Goldman -- Patient involvement in health professional education / Angela Tow…
For many years commentators have described what is wrong with business schools - characterizing them as the breeding grounds of a culture of greed and self-enrichment in global business at the expense of the rest of society and of nature. Management Education for the World is a response to this critique and a handbook for those seeking to educate and create knowledge for a new breed of business…
In these complex and challenging times, students, teachers and employers are all interested in the development of generic abilities as these typically make the difference between good and indifferent employees, successful and unsuccessful learners. This book explains why generic capacities have become so important and argues that the process of acquiring them is both lifelong and developmental.
Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher is a new book that will serve as a perfect introduction for new teachers to the exciting opportunities facing them, whether they are working in undergraduate, postgraduate or continuing education. It will also be of considerable use to more experienced teachers to review and assess their own practice and gain a new perspective on how best to facilitate the…
This is an evidence-based approach to improving the practice of graduate management education. Compiled by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) and with contributions by administrators and professors from the top global MBA programs, this book provides business school decision-makers with an evidence-based approach to improving the practice of graduate management education. The book…
This edition addresses new research on how people learn, active learning, and student engagement; includes illustrative examples from online teaching; and reports on the effectiveness of Fink's time-tested model. Fink also explores recent changes in higher education nationally and internationally and offers more proven strategies for dealing with student resistance to innovative teaching. Ta…
How well are college students learning? How effectively are faculty teaching? Teachers themselves are the closest observers of learning as it takes place in their classrooms--and thus have the opportunity to become the most effective assessors and improvers of their own teaching. But in order for teaching to improve, teachers must first be able to discover when they are off course, how far off …