The World Wide Web is currently the single most popular hypertext system; however, a number of features that were common for advanced “standalone” hypertext systems are not supported by the web. These features are important for such demanding application areas as education. To answer this need, a range of projects focused on enhancing the web. The most active thread of work is content annotatio...

abstract- agricultural extension agents should provide dry land producers with appropriate education to make them more interested in learning about water use optimization. therefore, it is recommended to accompany education with art. in this regard, a study, using the randomized experimental research design, was carried out among dry land grape producers in herayjan village, southwest iran, usi...

The large collection of educational data provides the opportunity to study how students learn and can be a source of valuable knowledge both for students when planning their studies and for educators and administrators for improving their curricula and services. In our work, we mine course relationships and student consumption patterns found in the data. We present a visual analysis system, Lea...

The educational experiences from robot contest of entry, junior and advance level are presented based on guided constructionism approach in education that combines hands on guidance with hands-on experience. The aim of the competition as a whole are to allow the student to (i) conceptualise the robot (ii) manage the non-deterministic characteristic of the environment and (iii) manage integrated...

— The Virtual Campus of the Complutense University of Madrid has been used to deploy an institutional repository of educational resources that promotes the active learning of CS1-liked subjects. This paper presents the evolution of this repository, from a first version where students could freely access to any resource to a more sophisticated version where the access to resources is guided by t...

The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical outcome of intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) for transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect (ASD) compared with the trans-esophageal echocardiography (TEE) guided method. From May 2010 to April 2011, 46 patients who underwent ICE guided (n = 23) or TEE guided (n = 23) transcatheter closure of ASD were analyzed retrospectively. We compar...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical outcome of intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) for transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect (ASD) compared with the trans-esophageal echocardiography (TEE) guided method. METHODS From May 2010 to April 2011, 46 patients who underwent ICE guided (n=23) or TEE guided (n=23) transcatheter closure of ASD were analyzed retrospec...

We summarize three evaluations of an educational augmented reality application for geometry education, which have been conducted in 2000, 2003 and 2005 respectively. Repeated formative evaluations with more than 100 students guided the redesign of the application and its user interface throughout the years. We present and discuss the results regarding usability and simulator sickness providing ...

mass production and industrial organisation is neglecting its greatest resource?gifted children and young people. It is interesting that the concept of "gifted" which guided the collection and analysis of material during the two years' research which preceded the publication of the book, was deliberately not confined to the kind of brilliance revealed by intelligence testing, and that considera...

Many newly licensed nurses begin their careers with limited knowledge and experience in end-of-life care. Findings from a literature review and a learning needs assessment of newly licensed nurses at a comprehensive cancer center guided the development of an 8-hour educational program on end-of-life care. An experiential learning approach was used to foster confidence and develop knowledge and ...