A critique of teaching approach on the higher education level

Na visokoškolskim institucijama u Hrvatskoj nastavnom se radu nažalost ne pridaje značenje kakvo mu pripada. Ukorak s rehabilitacijom vrednovanja nastavnog rada na fakultetima treba razvijati svijest o potrebi sustavne izobrazbe nastavnika na fakultetima za rad u nastavi s ciljem podizanja kvalitete nastave. Danas smo suočeni i s izazovom permanentne motivacije studenata; od motivacije za upis, pa nadalje. Zadaća je fakulteta koncipirati i provoditi politiku usmjerenu ponajprije na studente, od potencijalnih studenata pa do upisanih, dakle i prije upisa, tijekom čitavog studija, ali i poslije, u okviru cjeloživotnog učenja. Aktualni i zanimljivi programi bez kvalitetnih nastavnika nisu dostatni. Uspješnijem studiranju ne pridonosi samo razvijenost strategija i vještina učenja studenata nego i način poučavanja nastavnika. Od čitavog spektra načina poučavanjai nastavnih metoda uglavnom se koriste frontalni rad i metoda usmenog izlaganja. Opisivanje je pretežito znanstveno, nedostatno se provjerava razumijevanje tijekom samoga nastavnog procesa, needucirani nastavnici nisu dorasli didaktičkom vođenju studenata... To su samo neke od slabosti koje bitno umanjuju kvalitetu visokoškolskog obrazovanja. Rješavanje mnogih problema s kojima se susreću nastavnici i njihovi studenti zahtijeva od nastavnika i znanja iz područja didaktike, psihologije i metodike. Stoga je prijeko potrebno u tom smjeru uvesti značajne promjene na razini visokoškolskog obrazovanja. U radu su korišteni i neki rezultati istraživanja provedenog nad studentima prve godine Kemijsko-tehnološkog fakulteta u Splitu s ciljem ispitivanja učinkovitosti strategija učenja.In higher educational institutions class activities unfortunately do not have the importance they deserve. Following the rehabilitation of higher education class evaluation, the level of consciousness about the necessity of college teachers’ systematic education should be increased in order to improve the quality of education. Today, we face the challenge of students’ permanent motivation; from enrollment onwards. The task of college is to draft and apply an agenda that is primarily student oriented, towards both potential and registered ones; which is to be realized before enrolment, during the entire study, and later in the context of lifelong learning. Current interesting programs, without competent teachers are not suffi cient. Not only that the development of certain strategies and students learning skills contributes to successful studying, but also the teaching methods are crucial. From a wide range of teaching and educational methods, frontal work and the method of speech presentation are mostly used. Description is predominantly scholarly, comprehension is rarely questioned during class, uneducated teachers are not competent enough to didactically direct students; and these are only a few weaknesses which signifi cantly reduce the quality of higher education institutions. Solving many problems that teachers and their students encounter demands teachers’ knowledge in didactics, psychology and methodic. Therefore it is highly necessary to introduce certain changes on the level of higher education. This work incorporates results from survey conducted on students of Faculty of Chemistry and Technology in Split due to exploring the learning strategy effectiveness

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Constructing custom-made radiotranscriptomic signatures of vascular inflammation from routine CT angiograms: a prospective outcomes validation study in COVID-19.

BackgroundDirect evaluation of vascular inflammation in patients with COVID-19 would facilitate more efficient trials of new treatments and identify patients at risk of long-term complications who might respond to treatment. We aimed to develop a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted image analysis platform that quantifies cytokine-driven vascular inflammation from routine CT angiograms, and sought to validate its prognostic value in COVID-19.MethodsFor this prospective outcomes validation study, we developed a radiotranscriptomic platform that uses RNA sequencing data from human internal mammary artery biopsies to develop novel radiomic signatures of vascular inflammation from CT angiography images. We then used this platform to train a radiotranscriptomic signature (C19-RS), derived from the perivascular space around the aorta and the internal mammary artery, to best describe cytokine-driven vascular inflammation. The prognostic value of C19-RS was validated externally in 435 patients (331 from study arm 3 and 104 from study arm 4) admitted to hospital with or without COVID-19, undergoing clinically indicated pulmonary CT angiography, in three UK National Health Service (NHS) trusts (Oxford, Leicester, and Bath). We evaluated the diagnostic and prognostic value of C19-RS for death in hospital due to COVID-19, did sensitivity analyses based on dexamethasone treatment, and investigated the correlation of C19-RS with systemic transcriptomic changes.FindingsPatients with COVID-19 had higher C19-RS than those without (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 2·97 [95% CI 1·43-6·27], p=0·0038), and those infected with the B.1.1.7 (alpha) SARS-CoV-2 variant had higher C19-RS values than those infected with the wild-type SARS-CoV-2 variant (adjusted OR 1·89 [95% CI 1·17-3·20] per SD, p=0·012). C19-RS had prognostic value for in-hospital mortality in COVID-19 in two testing cohorts (high [≥6·99] vs low [InterpretationRadiotranscriptomic analysis of CT angiography scans introduces a potentially powerful new platform for the development of non-invasive imaging biomarkers. Application of this platform in routine CT pulmonary angiography scans done in patients with COVID-19 produced the radiotranscriptomic signature C19-RS, a marker of cytokine-driven inflammation driving systemic activation of coagulation and responsible for adverse clinical outcomes, which predicts in-hospital mortality and might allow targeted therapy.FundingEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, British Heart Foundation, Oxford BHF Centre of Research Excellence, Innovate UK, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust, Onassis Foundation