Informatics is a relatively new discipline, but is nowadays of key importance in all economic processes. Many professionals need development of different informatics backgrounds. The Informatics Curriculum Framework 2000 (ICF-2000) [3] has been designed to cope with a large diversity of demand for informatics education in a controlled way. It offers 8 different curriculum specifications that fi...

A recent master's level course in the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations at Illinois State University pushed the envelope on using instructional Internet technologies. This course utilized several in-person sessions (both onand off-campus), e-mail, and a dedicated World Wide Web site. The majority of classes were held over the Internet using CU-SeeMe client and server soft...

Background The relatively new specialty of Hospital Medicine in the USA is one of the fastest growing fields in internal medicine. Academic hospitalists are largely involved in the medical education of postgraduate residents and medical students. Little is known about the effectiveness of peer-to-peer teaching in internal medicine residency training programs and how the medical residents percei...

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Introduction Educational technology is an essentially 'positive project.' Most people working in this area are driven by an underlying belief that digital technologies are—in some way—capable of improving education. This mindset is evident, for example, in the recent tendency to refer to 'technology-enhanced learning' or before this to 'computer-assisted learning'—descriptions that both leave l...

The revolution of internet technology and its usage have led a significant increase in the number of online transactions and electronic data transfer, parallely increased the number of cybercrime incidents around the world. Steady economic growth in the Sultanate of Oman accelerated the volume of online utilization for e-commerce, banking, communication, education and so forth. Normally attacke...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated an association between preterm delivery and increased risk of special educational need (SEN). The aim of our study was to examine the risk of SEN across the full range of gestation. METHODS AND FINDINGS We conducted a population-based, retrospective study by linking school census data on the 407,503 eligible school-aged children resident in 19 Sco...