1 NESSE is a network of independent experts working on social aspects of education and training. It was established in 2007 after a Call for Tenders by the European Commission. It supports and advises the European Commission in the analysis of education policies and reforms and of their implications for future policy development at national and European level. 2 With special thanks to Kathleen ...

Education and Society are closely bound, such that they cannot be separated from each other because education builds up society and on the other hand society is the source of education .Education transfers culture, knowledge and etc of a society from one generation to the next. Hence, better education is for a better society and healthier society becomes the foundation of better education. Educ...

Objectives: Social media are online tools that allow collaboration and community building. Succinctly, they can be described as applications where “users add value”. This paper aims to show how five educators have used social media tools in medical and health education to attempt to add value to the education they provide. Methods: We conducted a review of the literature about the use of social...

People with disabilities have the same fundamental right to access mainstream services in the community (education, health-care, employment, social services and social protection) as any other citizen. Inclusive transport is a critical element in a comprehensive strategy of mainstreaming people with disabilities in developing countries. A freely accessible society without any physical obstacles...

BACKGROUND The provision of excellent patient care is a goal shared by all doctors. The role of social media (SM) in helping medical students and doctors achieve clinical excellence is unknown. Social media may help facilitate the achievement of clinical excellence PURPOSE This report aimed to identify examples of how SM may be used to help promote the achievement of clinical excellence in me...

Understanding factors that enhance or diminish learning and adaptability levels of individuals is instrumental in achieving individual and organizational performance goals. In this study, the effect of social network structure on learning attitudes of emergency personnel during an emergency event is investigated. Based on social network theories, and the social influence model of learning, a th...

The study examines the degree to which demographic, human capital, and social capital variables predicted career success for public relations practitioners in Taiwan. Social capital includes two dimensions: social trust and social network. Human capital includes education, rank, career tenure, and motivation. Results obtained from a sample of 150 public relations practitioners from 16 agencies ...

Coauthorship networks consist of links among groups of mutually connected authors that form a clique. Classical approaches using Social Network Analysis indices do not account for this characteristic. We propose two new cohesion indices based on a clique approach, and we redefine the network density using an index of variance of density. We have applied these indices to two coauthorship network...

Social media, including blogs, Twitter, wikis, Facebook, YouTube, and Ning, provides an opportunity for nurse educators to engage undergraduate nursing students who are members of the millennial generation in active learning while enhancing knowledge and fostering communication. Despite the rise of social media usage in undergraduate nursing education, there is a significant deficiency of empir...