OBJECTIVE Peer-assisted learning is widely used in medical education. However, little is known about an appropriate didactic preparation for peer tutors. We herein describe the development of a focused didactic training for skills lab tutors in Internal Medicine and report on a retrospective survey about the student tutors' acceptance and the perceived transferability of attended didactic train...

Generally, learning systems suffer from a lack of an explicit and adaptable didactic design. A previously introduced modeling approach called storyboarding is setting the stage to apply Knowledge Engineering Technologies to verify and validate the didactics behind a learning process. Moreover, didactics can be refined according to revealed weaknesses and proven excellence. Successful didactic p...

This paper presents the essential issues of creating the educational content of e-learning platforms from the viewpoint of both didactic and technological standards. Although e-learning is currently the fastest developing method of distance learning based on the most advanced information technology, the problems of content standardization have not been sufficiently dealt with so far. Owing to t...

Technically e-learning material can be downloaded from a PC environment to a mobile phone environment. But the context, environment, physical limitations of a mobile phone, sets limits to a mobile learning environment. The didactic model cannot be transferred usually from e-learning to mobile learning environment. In an experiment we test the limitations of a mobile learning environment and pos...

In this paper we present LEA (Linguistic Exercises with Annotation tools). LEA is a new didactic concept helping students to become familiar with corpus linguistic methods and annotation tools. The main idea behind LEA is that classical linguistic exercises are being solved with annotation tools. We will present the advantages of this method (e.g. didactic benefits, automatic correction) and de...

Even though there are many kinds of software the development processes are mostly defined for general purpose. Didactic games have characteristics that distinguish them from other types of software and this is not reflected in the actual processes. Furthermore, no relevant development process for computer games is known. In this paper we present an initial proposal of a process for the developm...

This paper investigates the use of computational intelligence for adaptive lesson generation in a distance learning environment. A method for adaptive pedagogical hypermedia document generation is proposed and implemented in a prototype called KnowledgeClass. This method is based on specialized connectionist architecture. The domain model is represented in a connectionist-based system which pro...

Day care workers are not only responsible for meeting the needs of the children they care for but creating an enriched and friendly environment as well. Few daycare centers require any specific inservice training for their staff members. When provided, training typically occurs as a didactic workshop. For this study a multiple baseline design across participants was used to evaluate the effects...