The use of classroom blogs in higher education serves to engage and motivate students as well as to help them build a professional online profile and connect with fellow classmates. Although many studies have focused on the implementation and benefits of blogging in education, few have investigated best practices in design, which can have a critical impact upon success. In this study, we propos...

Preliminary results are reported for a field experiment in distance communication and learning. Students enrolled in traditional classroom courses are provided with asynchronous distance communication support, consisting of optional anytime/anyplace access to classroom lectures via the World Wide Web. The traditional classroom lectures are audio-recorded and the audio transcripts are digitized,...

According to Denehy (1999), "school nurses can play a powerful role in promoting health in their schools and community." She encouraged school nurses to "Take and make opportunities to promote health in the classroom" (p. 4). Classroom presentation of hearing conservation information is one way for school nurses to promote health and to reduce the prevalence of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL)...

SPOC is characterized by improving teaching effectiveness. Currently open teaching mode is the popular trend, which is mainly related to several aspects: how to carry out teaching practice by using MOOC proprietary, high-quality online teaching resources in open education, that is, deep integration of curriculum resources and teaching design. On the basis of SPOC development, combined with open...

The Pavane program visualization system is an implementation of the declarative paradigm of visualization. After a brief report on the status of the Pavane implementation, we present the results of an evaluation of the usability of Pavane. This evaluation is based on the use of Pavane by its developers to construct program visualizations, on its use in a classroom setting as a tool for examinin...

Introduction Classroom-based crew resource management (CRM) training has been increasingly applied in healthcare to improve safe patient care. CRM aims to increase participants' understanding of how certain threats can develop as well as providing tools and skills to respond to such threats. Existing literature shows promising but inconclusive results that might be explained by the quality of t...

Purpose (Hypothesis) – The measure of how well an implemented intervention follows the original is called Fidelity of Implementation. This theory was used to address the research questions: What is the fidelity of implementation of selected RBIS in engineering science courses? That is, how closely does engineering science classroom practice reflect the intentions of the original developers? Do ...