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...

BACKGROUND Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is a core unit delivered across many medical schools. Few studies have investigated the most effective method of teaching a course in EBM to medical students. The objective of this study was to identify whether a blended-learning approach to teaching EBM is more effective a didactic-based approach at increasing medical student competency in EBM. METHOD...

The adoption of groupware in organizations is the result both of targetted organizational and technical interventions and the spontaneous and unplanned appropriation moves of the users. Training ist the core of a groupware (organizational) implementation. Here the targetted actions of the implementors and the unplanned appropriation by users meet and the resulting contradictions need to be reso...

BACKGROUND Different teaching-learning methods have been used in teaching endocrine physiology for the medical students, so as to increase their interest and enhance their learning. This paper describes the pros and cons of the various approaches used to reinforce didactic instruction in endocrine physiology and goes on to describe the value of adding an Early Clinical Exposure program (ECE) to...

This essay synthesizes more than a decade of research, most which has been published, on the teaching and learning floating sinking (FS) phenomena. The research is comprised iterative design, development, implementation evaluation Teaching-Learning sequence (TLS) for density within FS It was initiated frame European Community supported “Materials Science” project. Due to many, different aspects...

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...

Based on in vitro assays, we performed a High Throughput Screening (HTS) to identify kinase inhibitors among 10,000 small chemical compounds. In this didactic paper, we describe step-by-step the approach to validate the hits as well as the major pitfalls encountered in the development of active molecules. We propose a decision tree that could be adapted to most in vitro HTS.