OBJECTIVE 1. Selecting the key problems in medicine--I. Diagnostic problems, II. Didactic and training problems of medical education, III. Economical problems, IV. Communications technologies problems, V. Psychological problems, VI. Social problems, VII. Strategic problems. 2. Outline ways to optimal solution of these problems. METHODS Innovative intellectual approach to medical diagnostic de...

Multimedia production is generally considered to be an expensive task. This is true when dealing with complex graphics, animation, artistic effects, music and high quality video editing, but didactic applications do not require such advanced features. A conventional lesson can be effectively reproduced in a multimedia environment using a small set of multimedia features and a simple, regular st...

1 Introduction Between the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) and Lausanne (EPFL) a teleteaching experiment has been established in order to gain practical and didactic experiences in three main areas of application-oriented communication and didactic research: • Network support for dialog-oriented, isochronous services; • Technical equipment to be utilized, such as advance...

In today's technologically advanced healthcare world, nursing students should be active learners and think critically to provide safe patient care. A strategy that promotes students' active learning is case-based learning (CBL). The purpose of this study was to examine critical thinking (CT) abilities of nursing students from two different curricular approaches, CBL and didactic teaching. The d...

This article aims to establish a parallel between the organizational models and the didactic architectures used by businesses to manage internal training. The objective is to understand whether so-called "eLearning 2.0" (eLearning based on the tools and approaches typical of web 2.0) can be useful in different frameworks and organisations. In this context, the paper looks at whether it is possi...

The past 60 years have witnessed remarkable advances in our understanding of the mechanisms that control body temperature, but except for brief historical background chapters occasionally included in didactic monographs and symposia proceedings, no book, to my best knowledge, has yet been published on the " makers " of thermal physiology. Thermal physiology is an integrative science, and this i...

This MBoC Technical Perspective (Pollard, 2010) was sorely needed. The author had been grousing about this for some time and conveying it in various quarters. One occasion was the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Physiology Course. He had given a typically fine lecture, during which he had stunned the students by asking whether they knew the equilibrium association constants for an...

The overall aim of the study has been to gain knowledge about computer games used in an educational context. In our research we have analyzed and interpreted the game`s characteristic interactive dramaturgy exposed in the interplay between the game and the gamer and integrated in the medium itself. We have looked specifically at the challenges that the educator faces in the didactic interaction...