Background The role of peer teachers in interprofessional education has not been extensively studied. This study is designed to determine if peer-teacher-led problem-based seminars can influence medical and pharmacy students' perceptions of interprofessional education. Methods Undergraduate medical and pharmacy students participated in one-hour problem-based learning seminars held over the cour...

This study tries to identify the determinants of user’s attitude toward apps, intention to use and continual consuming intention. This study holds the two main constructs: (1) user’s intrinsic determinantsvalue, innovativeness, gender, Well-being and superordinate influence on the attitude toward mobile apps, (2) the relation between attitude and app purchase & repurchase intention, and the aff...

This paper reviews some research initiatives to allow situated learning through the use of computer-supported mobile activities. The article also describes the development of a learning activity based on the situated learning theory, which makes use of a mobile application to help students to relate learning activities inside the classroom with activities performed in the field and at home. The...

We introduce current home Internet of Things (IoT) technology and present research on its various forms and applications in real life. In addition, we describe IoT marketing strategies as well as specific modeling techniques for improving air quality, a key home IoT service. To this end, we summarize the latest research on sensor-based home IoT, studies on indoor air quality, and technical stud...

In this paper, we describe a motivation to develop an Android mobile application for a wine lover. We introduce a simple map of concepts used for analysis and modeling of the subject domain. We also briefly describe the application architecture and the interfaces developed to support major use cases that a wine amateur may require in order to store and manage information about wines.

With an increase in the interest in the energy conservation for buildings, and the emergence of many methods and easily-understandable approaches to it, energy conservation has now become the public’s main interest, as compared to in the past when it was only focused upon by experts. This study aims to help the occupants of a building to understand the energy efficiency and consumption of the b...

Clinical Applications I (CA I) and Clinical Applications II (CA II) were created and implemented to facilitate the development of first professional year pharmacy students’ interaction skills through the use of case presentations and a multidisciplinary faculty team. During the Clinical Applications (CA) classes taught in the 1995-1996 academic year, actual patients presented to the students. W...