Using the World Wide Web (hereinafter the ‘Web’) has become an increasingly viable way to source information in academic writing. However, the Web is a fundamentally different type of resource from conventional sources such as books and journals. This paper argues that there is a need among learners for a heightened critical awareness of web-source nuances. Specifically, although the Web contai...

Method: We invited the registered users of Ireland’s most popular community website (http://www.boards. ie) to participate in an online survey. Two standardized vignettes depicting depression and psychosis were presented, and respondents were asked about what they thought the conditions were and who might be best placed to help the person. Participants were asked a series of knowledge-based que...

BACKGROUND Chronic conditions are an increasing challenge for individuals and the health care system. Smartphones and health apps are potentially promising tools to change health-related behaviors and manage chronic conditions. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore (1) the extent of smartphone and health app use, (2) sociodemographic, medical, and behavioral correlates of smartphone ...

This study examined the effect of civil servants’ Self-Directed Learning Readiness (SDLR) and network literacy on their online learning effectiveness in a web-based training program. Participants were 283 civil servants enrolled in an asynchronous online learning program through an e-learning portal provided by the Regional Civil Service Development Institute in Taiwan. Data were collected via ...

Current measures of health literacy have been criticized on a number of grounds, including use of a limited range of content, development on small and atypical patient groups, and poor psychometric characteristics. In this paper, we report the development and preliminary validation of a new computer-administered and -scored health literacy measure addressing these limitations. Items in the meas...

A relatively new arena of public health practice, known as health promotion, attempts to address the underlying determinants of health, including social, cultural, economic and political factors, which contribute to global health inequities. The concept of health literacy, though still in the process of gaining universal recognition and utilization, has developed from this perspective and is a ...

There is no way to study orality as an object independent from literacy. Orality is the creation of literacy, even when the two concepts are thought to be mutually exclusive: literacy then defines its imagined opposite, orality, by its own absence. But what is literacy? This question was not high on the agenda of the early theorists of orality, who were more interested in defining what orality ...

Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 38 No 2 2007 369–372 doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2006.00644.x Blackwell Publishing Ltd.Oxford, UKBJETBritish Journal of Educational Technology0007-1013British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, 20062006382369372Colloquium ColloquiumB...

BACKGROUND Mental health literacy is an individual's knowledge and belief about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management and prevention. The aim of this study was to investigate mental health literacy among students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, data were collected by the anonymous self-administered questionnaires and finally ...

BACKGROUND Older Australians are high consumers of complementary and alternative medicines (CM). To help older people to take an active role in their health, we will develop and evaluate a novel educational intervention to support decision self-efficacy, and improve health literacy skills. METHODS The primary hypothesis is that participants receiving a web/DVD plus booklet intervention compar...