This position paper describes an application of social networks to support the work of special education professionals. In our research, we found that without appropriate professional, social, and personal support, these professionals are unlikely to be able to use innovative technologies with their students, despite the potential benefits that their uses can engender. Teacher professional deve...

Technical communication is extremely important for engineering education (ABET) requirements, but limited resources make it challenging to offer writing-intensive classes in a growing engineering school. Use of online technologies can help writingintensive classes to scale. We describe our experiences using a variety of Web-based functions to teach and administrate CMPE185, Technical Writing fo...

Near peer teaching is a model of instruction that has been shown to be an effective approach to learning. It is a teaching exchange whereby students of similar backgrounds, separated by one to two years, teach each other. Students agreed that near peer teaching is a valuable component of the University of the Sciences Doctor of Physical Therapy program as it helps prepare them for their future ...

The purpose of this article is to describe a model of education about hepatitis C virus prevention tested in a county correctional facility. The Teach One Method and Relational Communication models inform this work. Using a one-group pretest-posttest prospective design our aims were to (1) convey education about prevention, protection, and safety; (2) provide this information through relationsh...

BACKGROUND In the area of youth health, peers education is an approach to health promotion. Assess the training needs of peers educators clarifies the components, values, and quality of training protocols. Aim to that we conducted a participatory educational needs assessment of youth peer educators. METHODS Involving youth and key informants in direct collaboration with research team, a quali...