The Development of the Leadership in the Public Area: From Government Leadership to Public Leadership
The paper puts forward a new way of leadership in the public field, namely the public leadership. The main characteristic of the public leadership is that the public organizations work in coordination in the public area. The cause of its forming is that the development of society leads to the change of the function, power and ability of the leadership in the public area. The public leadership, which is not the same with the government leadership, goes with the trend of social development and has a series of new changes.
The web has the potential to offer an environment that can support standardized medical education to students dispersed in time or place and, in the process, respond to reduced availability of patients for practice. This exploratory article describes how we evaluated critical thinking in an online collaborative Problem-based Learning (PBL) tutorial built on a platform integrating a well-known course management system and a voice-over the Internet communications tool. We discuss the process and results of evaluating the tutorials by adapting and applying an earlier framework used to measure the level of critical thinking taking place in collaborative online PBL tutorials. Our results indicate that this framework could be used as a method to compare levels of critical thinking between tutorial groups as well as tutorial variables such as case study formats and the types of technology used to support the sessions.