Background: The most important responsibilities of an education system are to create self-directed learning opportunities and develop the required skills for taking the responsibility for change. The present study aimed at determining the impact of a learning contract on self-directed learning and satisfaction of nursing students.    Methods: A total of 59 nursing students participat...

the steady growing innovations in the area of information and communication technology have raised new concepts and possibilities in different life aspects. in the field of further education and professional training, electronic learning and web-based education are perhaps the most prominent ones. proponents of this technology claim that e-learning courses are at least as effective as correspon...

The use of ICT’s in the design of learning in the higher education sector is becoming an important skill for all academics. With the range of ’quality’ measures being implemented and forshadowed by government, including dollars linked to student learning outcomes, all academics will be increasingly asked to examine their instructional strategies and to offer quality learning opportunities. Oppo...

This paper argues that in “educational” game development, there is often a gap between design and learning. It suggests how involving learners in the design process, known as the informant design approach, is able to close this gap. One key affordance of such an approach is the provision of learning opportunities for the learners themselves where designing and learning are intertwined. Specific...

Remote laboratories offer new opportunities for students to engage in laboratory-based learning, providing both increased flexibility and opportunities for resource sharing. The move from face to face to remote laboratory classes can appear on the surface to be a simple change of access mode; however there are a wider range of factors at play in the changed learning environment. These have the ...

Assisting independent learners to access, compose and manage their learning pathway throughout their life in a range of institutional, informal and work-based settings is a challenging issue on the lifelong learning agenda. In this paper, we present a service-based architecture and an implementation that provides support in planning lifelong learning and creating personalised learning pathways....