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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

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2008; 2006; Collins and Foote, 2005; Laakkonen and Nevgi, 2014). At the Louisiana State School of Veterinary Medicine, a veterinary anatomy pre-course correlated with improved exam grades and reduced anxiety (McNulty and Lazarus, 2018). Journal of Veterinary Medical Education 32 (2): 170–72. link] Hafen, McArthur, Allison M.J.

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More professors now embrace Wikipedia in the classroom

Inside Higher Ed

Image: About a decade ago, Amin Azzam, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, often told his medical students not to research health information on Wikipedia out of concern for the website’s reliability. He decided to design and teach an elective course at the medical school on Wikipedia editing.

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

Faculty Focus

2008; 2006; Collins and Foote, 2005; Laakkonen and Nevgi, 2014). At the Louisiana State School of Veterinary Medicine, a veterinary anatomy pre-course correlated with improved exam grades and reduced anxiety (McNulty and Lazarus, 2018). Journal of Veterinary Medical Education 32 (2): 170–72. link] Hafen, McArthur, Allison M.J.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. From the inherent right to grant degrees to requiring permission The power to permit the award of degrees began as an inherent right of the first English universities.

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