Quality primary education is a key focus in development. Educational software has the potential to help teachers provide good education. Due to limited computer resources in low-income schools, there has been substantial ICTD interest on multiple-user educational tools. Building on the foundation of research that addressed the technical problems and the humancomputer-interface (HCI) concerns of...

This paper presents two prototype software architectures that are used for building applications that are used for enhancing the on-line educational environments. The software architectures are based on the concept of educational data/knowledge flow. The presented software architectures are designed with the goal of setting up an infrastructure whose implementation will offer functionalities fo...

School-based body image interventions for girls have typically been evaluated in single-sex rather than coeducational settings. However, there may be advantages to including boys within classes and it might also be more practical to deliver interventions to co-educational classes. Hence, it is important to examine any difference in outcomes between these two delivery settings. This study evalua...

BACKGROUND In order to consolidate their educational knowledge and skills and develop their educational role, many clinicians undertake professional development in clinical education and supervision. It is well established that these educationally-focussed professional development activities have a positive impact. However, it is less clear what factors within the clinical workplace can shape h...

background: morning reports are one the most popular clinical education in hospital setting. the first step to improve quality of this educational method is to know about current situation. the aim of this study was to study the effect of educational workshop on quality of morning report in golestan university of medical sciences. methods: in this interventional study, using census sampling 147...

In this issue of Academic Medicine, Broderick and Nocella describe the creative use of an educational consortium model to bring community providers together to solve the fiscal crisis faced by the local family medicine residency program, which was sponsored by a single-program sponsoring (hospital) institution. The authors of this commentary explore the specific adaptation of the educational co...

In recent years, machine-learning software packages have made it easier for educational data mining researchers to create real-time detectors of cognitive skill as well as of metacognitive and motivational behavior that can be used to improve student learning. However, there remain challenges to overcome for these methods to become available to the wider educational research and practice commun...

Students presenting learning disabilities may have trouble accessing some educational tools, including software. In this paper we analyse what accessibility might mean when referred to content, strategies and interface of educational software. We point out how a very precise analysis of these components should be made in order to allow learning-disabled pupils to make good use of them. Based on...

The understanding, study, and use of educational tools and their application to the education of adults in professional fields are increasingly important. In this review, we have compiled a description of educational tools on the basis of the teaching and learning setting: the classroom, simulation center, hospital or clinic, and independent learning space. When available, examples of tools use...

Educators have advocated the use of informal complementary learning approaches such as Communities of Practice (CoPs) to support existing formal educational structures. They argue that educational structures need to leverage its social capital through informal learning to support the sociocultural approaches to instructions. The CoP concept has been successfully used in business and other organ...