The integration of advanced virtual engineering methods into 3D-CAD based development processes leads to increased requirements, concerning the software packages as well as regarding the applied procedures and strategies. Modern ITbased engineering tools offer much more than the conventional development methodologies in component creation and digital mock-up processes. The trend definitely goes...

Ethics education is an essential component of academic programs that prepare nurses for advanced practice; the concept of respect for human dignity is integral to this education. Sixty-three graduate students enrolled in their first course of a nurse practitioner program completed a researcher-developed Ethics Questionnaire that was designed to elicit their baseline ethics-related knowledge, in...

ALLES is a new project on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) for advanced learners of English, German, Spanish and Catalan in the domain of business and economy. NLP tools and techniques will play an important role in ALLES for evaluating user ́s oral and written production as well as for gathering and tailoring teaching materials.

We present a research work about an innovative national teacher training program in France: the Pairform@nce program, designed to sustain ICT integration. The Pairform@nce trainings are grounded in a principle of collective lesson design by teams of trainees; they associate face-to-face and distant training. We study here a training for secondary school teachers, whose objective is to foster th...

OBJECTIVE Literature on human resources for health in Africa has focused on personal health services. Little is known about graduate public health education. This paper maps "advanced" public health education in Africa. Public health includes all professionals needed to manage and optimize health systems and the public's health. METHODS Data were collected through questionnaires and personal ...

Lack of accessibility in the design of e-learning courses continues to hinder students with vision impairment. E-learning materials are predominantly vision-centric, incorporating images, animation, and interactive media, and as a result students with acute vision impairment do not have equal opportunity to gain tertiary qualifications or skills relevant to the marketplace and their disability....

Case histories--rich, anecdotal narratives--are theorized to support the acquisition of cognitive, social, cultural, and emotional knowledge and motor skills through active learning. This manuscript focuses on the value of case histories in teaching and evaluating acute and critical care advanced practice nursing students. Information about the use of case histories in advanced critical care ed...

The purpose of this study was to examine coaches' preferences for continuing coaching education. The sample consisted of 122 male and 102 female coaches from the Gauteng Province of South Africa who were purposively recruited to participate in this study. The results of this study showed that the coaches wanted to learn more about motivational techniques, advanced instructional drills, advanced...

Hiroyuki KITAHATA*, Yutaka SUMINO, Yuya SHINOHARA, Norifumi L. YAMADA, Hideki SETO Department of Physics, Chiba Univ., Chiba 263-8823, Japan, and PRESTO JST Faculty of Education, Aichi Univ. of Education, Kariya, Aichi 448-8542, Japan Department of Advanced Materials Science, The Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan Institute of Materials Structure Science, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0...