background: using thinking-based scientific methods such as paper-based and electronic nursing processes in nursing education can lead to education of skilled and efficient experts that can affect students’ satisfaction in addition to their quality of care. the present study aimed to compare the effects of recording and implementing the nursing process based on two methods (paper-based and elec...

The theoretically oriented part of the education at the Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical and Electronical Engineering, is traditionally given by lectures and seminars. Now we intend to restructure the lecture system at ICT (Institute of Computer Technology) significantly, following special research results of modern learning theory. We expect organizational and educational...

PERSONAL STATEMENT 1. Overview My definition of scholarship follows that espoused by the late Ernest Boyer, American educator and president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: " The scholarship of engagement means connecting the rich resources of the university to our most pressing social, civic, and ethical problems, to our children, to our schools, to our teachers and ...

In this paper we present the results of the MIE/GMDS-2000 Workshop 'Case-Based Reasoning for Medical Knowledge-based Systems'. While in many domains Cased-Based Reasoning (CBR) has become a successful technique for knowledge-based systems, in the medical field attempts to apply the complete CBR cycle are rather exceptional. Some systems have recently been developed, which on the one hand use on...

in tourism, like any other service industry, the people offering service are a constituent part of the product, and their expertise, theoretical knowledge, and job skills undeniably affect the quality of services. hence, composition and implementation of human resource development strategies is of a great importance and education/training, therein, plays a major part. higher education, compared...

background: hundreds of patient education materials i.e. pamphlets are annually published in healthcare systems following their design, correction, and revision. aim: to design and evaluate patient education pamphlets based on readability indexes and their comparison with literacy level in society. method: the average literacy level among 500 patients admitted to two training hospitals in bojnu...