NON-FORMAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN RURAL SETTINGS

Gamification in formal educational settings 1 Games and Learning: Gamification in formal educational settings

The purpose of this exploratory literature review on games and education is trifold: First, it serves as the final project report for Social Informatics 668 and presents research which indicates a social dimension of learning (while being engaged with a game), which in consequence directly relates to this class and requirements of this report. Second, it introduces gaming and Gamification withi...

GAMES IN FORMAL EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS Obstacles for the development and use of learning games

Translation Evaluation in Educational Settings for Training Purposes

The following article describes different methods and techniques used in educational settings for translation evaluation. Translation evaluation is the placing of value on a translation i.e. awarding a mark, even if only a binary pass/fail one. In the present study, different features of the texts chosen for evaluation were firstly considered and then scoring the t...

Psychological Practice in Rural Settings

This article reviews how psychologists working in rural communities often have to be at the cutting edge of practice because of the issues inherent in rural life. Problems faced by rural residents, such as poverty, unemployment, lack of transportation, lack of education, substance abuse, lack of health and mental health providers, and lack of insurance, complicate living day-to-day and receivin...

Formal assessment of the educational environment experienced by interns placed in rural hospitals in Western Australia.

INTRODUCTION Increased numbers of rural hospital rotations for interns (first postgraduate year) are being created in Western Australia (WA). This study utilised the Postgraduate Hospital Educational Environment Measure (PHEEM), an internationally validated multidimensional questionnaire, to assess and compare the educational environment of five new or established rural sites and an urban teach...