Objective To elicit patient stakeholders' experience and perspectives about patient-centred care. Design Qualitative. Setting A large urban healthcare system. Participants Four patient stakeholders who are prostate cancer survivors. Main outcome measures Experience and perspectives of patient stakeholders regarding patient-centred care and treatment decisions. Results Our patient stak...

We appropriate Rogoff’s (Apprenticeship in thinking: Cognitive development in social context, 1991; in: Wertsch et al. (eds.) Sociocultural studies of mind, 1993) notion of guided participation to demonstrate, through abbreviated case studies, our strategy for integrating mobile technology-based learning experiences in higher education. Guided participation implies facilitating access to shared...

School Feeding Programme strategies enable primary pupils to qualify for high nutritious school meals, comprehensive health package and services. The purpose of the study was establish how meals programme strategies, monitoring evaluation practices influence learner participation in Public Primary Schools Makueni County, Kenya. objective article is examine regular provision during days anchored...

Learner autonomy (LA) has always been a controversial issue among applied linguists. Several studies have been carried out to investigate the teachers' and learners' perceptions of learner autonomy as well as the feasibility of learner autonomy. Despite the importance of learner autonomy and the existence of several related studies, the challenges in promoting LA in Iranian institutes to the re...

School violence is singled out by many researchers as an area of salient concern, both nationally and internationally. Moreover, learner-on-educator has become a phenomenon great concern in schools worldwide; no school ruled this challenge. Various studies the field focus on safety learners at schools, with inadequate attention paid to perpetrated against educators environments. Although some l...

this study attempts to examine the multilingualism in algeria, in other words, the phenomenon of linguistic diversity which characterizes the algerian reality and its relationship. for that matter the article visualizes the linguistic level of learners especially children, highlighting the characteristics of the multiplicity of its causes and manifestations. here, the descriptive methodology is...

Abstract There is a growing body of empirical evidence documenting the positive effects associated with participation in environmental education and outdoor learning for students, teachers wider community. Despite this, there has been substantial reduction opportunities school possibly due to focus on evidenced-based outcomes, high-stakes standardised testing programs, lack teacher knowledge, c...

This paper introduces t-OLM, an open learner model to investigate user trust in a range of learner model externalisations. It was found that, while sufficient levels of use were made to suggest user trust in an externalised learner model, the relationship between trust and perceived utility, perceived accuracy, and level of understanding of the model representations, is not straightforward.

Sustainable e-Learning holds the promise of enabling higher education to meet the needs of a large and diverse market. Central to this is the response of academic staff teams in meeting the needs of individual learners, in order to enfranchise them within an evolving, enabling learning context. Enfranchisement is underpinned by the management of learner-expectations in the value-added nature of...