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    Problem based learning per le professioni sanitarie

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    Problem based learning for health personnel This book describes the problem based learning (PBL) educational approach and its application in the health professionals education. Problem based learning (PBL) is a student centred approach to active learning originating from McMaster university in 1970. We can find its roots in John Dewey's approach to education. The author wrote 5 chapters (1-2-3-4-10). The first chapter describes the rationale and the history of problem based learning. The second chapter tries to answer the question: “Is PBL effective?” and illustrates the results of the main systematic reviews concerning student and teacher satisfaction, academic achievements, major competencies acquired by students comparing to traditional curricula. Since PBL is not only an educational methodology, but it is also a curriculum organizer, the third chapter describes how to plan an entire academic curriculum to train health personnel, including a lot of examples of curricula for the training of nurses and physiotherapists at international level. The fourth chapter is dedicated to problem construction, the different formats of problems and taxonomy, how to write a good problem for educational purpose. . Chapter 10 is dedicated to the introduction of PBL in continuing education of inter professional health professions. The book is the most exhaustive one about this subject in Italian language

    The new entrepreneurial opportunity recognition process. Assessing the role of public intervention on the electricity market

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    The topic of the thesis is the opportunity recognition process with a special focus on the electricity market. The paper is organized in three big chapters. The first one contains an extensive literature review about the opportunity recognition process. An insight in recent entrepreneurship research shows an increasing number of contributions and a considerable academic interest for the phenomenon. This work concentrates on the existence, discovery and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. The second chapter considers a set of about fifty entrepreneurs operating in technological fields and investigates, through detailed interviews using Grounded Theory, exactly the path through which the individual becomes entrepreneur. Using some theoretical models, that jointly consider the role of entrepreneurs and of opportunities, a deepen comprehension of the phenomenon has been reached. Also a quantitative approach, using a factor analysis, highlights the existence of latent factors and regularities drawing the process of opportunity recognition: in particular the ones referring to education reinforce the idea that it is possible to create a fertile environment for entrepreneurship. The third chapter deepens the previous analysis through the study of a specific industry: the electricity market. The study aims to identify suitable regulatory frameworks and business models for transmission investment to enable international exchange and local use of renewable energy across the EU and MENA regions. In particular the analysis explores how policy frameworks can support the discovery of some opportunities and the rise of some entrepreneurial projects. This research has its roots in the guidelines suggested by the European Union to overcome the actual crisis enhancing innovation, through new entrepreneurship and SMEs, and competitiveness, through sustainable development and cost savings especially about energy
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