Terminology diploma theses should meet a range of requirements within the framework of our translator training program. The first and foremost objective is a didactic one. After an introductory lecture and a seminar on terminology management systems students should be able to do a terminology project on an independent and autonomous basis. The diploma theses provide a first testing ground for t...

It is a feature central to cooperative work that practitioners develop and maintain their collective competences and skills, and one will in many settings find elaborate didactic practices that reflect this state of affairs. The concept of ‘knowledge transfer’ that plays a key role in the knowledge management research area offers an obvious framework to the study of mutual learning. However, th...

Few tests were delivered using mobile phones a few years ago, but the flexibility and capability of these devices make them valuable tools even for high stakes testing. This paper addresses research done through the PAULEX (2007-2010) and OPENPAU (2012-2014) research projects at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and Universidad de Alcalá (Spain) to provide a powerful but low cost delivery...

PROMETHEEmethods are widely used in Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) to deal with real world decision making problems. In this paper, we propose to apply the Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA) to the family of PROMETHEEmethods in order to explore the whole set of parameters compatible with some preference information provided by the Decision Maker (DM). The applicati...

ABSTRACT: A didactic wind tunnel was designed and built as a pedagogical proposal aimed at teachers students of technical course in mechatronics integrated into the high school Federal Institute São Paulo. The to analyze learning results from implementation project added an experimental test; well investigate integration contents interdisciplinarity this practice, also present technical-mathema...

abstract   background and purpose: traditional lecture-based teaching has been long used to transit theoretical knowledge to the participants. due to some problems of this didactic approach, some believe that integration within an active method is more valuable in nursing education. in this study, we hypothesized that integrating lecture-based teaching within clerkship course would enhance nurs...

Background: Simulation teaching means recreating clinical scenario for training / evaluation. Aim: To expose postgraduates to simulation / didactic lecture for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) management; to assess which method was more effective. Methods: Present prospective study was conducted in Obstetrics Gynecology department of rural tertiary center of Northern India.  Twenty postgraduates wer...

A lesson plan is an important methodological component of the learning process. The key purpose of the article is to analyse the current situation and suggest how the information technologies can assist in the development of lesson plans, their accumulation and retrieval, thus ensuring their effective application. The authors disclose the problems of lesson plan creation and their description a...

BACKGROUND Quality improvement (QI) education in residency training is important and necessary for accreditation. Although the literature on this topic has been growing, some specialties, in particular psychiatry, have been underrepresented. METHODS We developed a didactic and experiential QI curriculum within a US psychiatry residency program that included a seminar series and development of...