Finding Information Framework: A Tool to Teach Life-Long Learning Skills

Presenting a Framework for Supporting Life-long Learning in Iranian public libraries and Its validation

Purpose: Since nowadays public libraries are considered lifelong learning centers, these centers must have the required standards and conditions to support lifelong learning in order that they could help society members to achieve their personal and professional learning more effectively. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop and provide a mechanism to support lifelong learning in public libr...

How to . . . Teach practical skills

Practical skills teaching in medicine has traditionally been based on the principles of ‘see one, do one, teach one’. Healthcare professionals learn a wide range of practical skills over the years – from basic skills such as suturing a skin wound or the incision and draining of an abscess, to undertaking more complex technical procedures in theatre, such as appendectomy. But to what extent is t...

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

Leveraging Online Learning Resources to Teach Core Research Skills to Undergraduates at a Diverse Research University

Today's students have unique learning needs and lack knowledge of core research skills. In this program report, we describe an online approach that we developed to teach core research skills to freshman and sophomore undergraduates. Specifically, we used two undergraduate kinesiology (KIN) courses designed to target students throughout campus (KIN1304: Public Health Issues in Physical Activity ...

Using Robots To Teach Humans Motor Skills

One such approach is that of haptic training. The training of perceptual motor skills has been the application of several virtual environments. In addition to demonstrating the impact of visual cues on the acquisition of motor skills, studies have also been performed on the role of force and motion feedback in virtual environment training. This has been explored by Feygin, D et al in [1]. In th...