e-learning as an educational approach has been adopted by diverse educational and academic centers worldwide as it facilitates learning in facing the challenges of the new era in education. considering the significance of virtual education and its growing practice, it is of vital importance to examine its components for promoting and maintaining success. this analytical cross-sectional study wa...

These days there are numerous examples of educational multimedia; e.g., Homer [15], Virtual Microscope [39], Art Explorer [9], Encarta™ and so on. While these are all " educational multimedia " , most users, multimedia designers, and educators would agree that these examples represent very different types of applications. However, most people would probably have a difficult time cogently explai...

This work represents a literature review of the current state of simulation in adult education. The use of simulation and games in adult education has a considerable history. They have played a supporting role in the more objectivist approaches to knowledge that has pervaded adult education for the last two centuries. They do so by representing a systematic illustration of a universal truth wit...

The cooperation between designers, engineers and scientists in the human–computer interaction (HCI) community is often difficult, and can only be explained by investigating the different paradigms by which they operate. This study proposes a paradigm model for designers, engineers and scientists, using three barriers to separate the professions. We then report on an empirical study that attempt...

Design is a field that encompasses many disciplines and professions (e.g. engineering, arts and architecture, digital media, fashion design and others). But how are knowledge and identity specialized in the design field and within the different disciplines? When learning a professional trade, besides learning specific procedures to perform, one has to learn the “rules”, “processes” and “languag...

Students that come from disadvantaged backgrounds have more that their fair share of obstacles to overcome when seeking a university education. This paper describes an innovative approach, adopted by the course designers, that uses a mix of educational media and technology to deliver a high impact and quality learning experience to disadvantaged students seeking to enter university via non-trad...

Although many design process studies and theories have been developed presented, in reality designers rarely followed standard rules. A is often more a form of personal self-expression. The type approach that use their work depends on preference, experience, education background. Therefore, this focused understanding the colour selection method by collecting data from with aim to summarize gene...