In 2010 settles in the Educational Unit of Palmeira dos Indios, Campus Arapiraca, group Tutorial Education Program – Alagoas Semiarid Studies Center (PET-Nesal), bringing together courses Psychology Social Work. The group's proposal for elaboration branches from need reflections on internalized space that UFAL began to occupy 2006, since emergencies existing semiarid region demand a contextuali...

OBJECTIVES This paper tests whether differences by gender and by educational attainment in contact with friends and family and in support expected from friends and family narrow or widen in late middle age. METHODS The data are drawn from about 4,800 members of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey who answered questions about their frequency of contact with social ties and expectations of 3 kind...

Interactive Digital Television (iDTV) has facilitated and expanded the communication and interaction in activities of knowledge acquisitions, entertainment, and recreation in the distance learning field. This new way of teaching and learning has been called t-Learning. In this context, the Learning Objects (LOs) have an important role in assisting in the electronic courses’ development. Due the...

We have developed an educational system that helps novice programming learners. Our system can understand meaning of programs by simulation in domain world models and generate explanations that show functions of the programs using vocabularies of domain words. Our conventional system cannot handle programs in which pointers are used. Therefore we extend the system for understanding complex prog...

abstract the overall purpose in this study was to investigate extensional- educational factors that influencing on transgenic plants usage. the research design of the study was a survey utilizing descriptive-correlation technique. the target population consisted of 85 biotechnology experts at research institutes of tehran province which were studied by a census study (n=85). finally 63 experts ...

eXtension (pronounced e-extension) is an online resource transforming how faculty can collaborate and deliver equine education. As the first Community of Practice launched from eXtension, HorseQuest (HQ) offers free, interactive, peer-reviewed, online resources on a variety of equine-related topics at http://www.extension.org. This group has adapted traditional educational content to the online...

More than 50 agents participated in a series of workshops that were offered as inservice training and as a graduate level North Carolina State University (NCSU) course worth four credits. The Organic Unit at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), a 100acre (40-ha) facility dedicated to research and education in organic farming systems, served as a home base for training activities...