Software architecture design is challenging, especially for junior software designers. Lacking practice and experience, junior designers need process support in order to make rational architecture decisions. In this paper, we present the results of a comparative multiple-case study conducted to find out if decision viewpoints from [1, 2] can provide such a support. The case study was conducted ...

INTRODUCTION Integration of public health and medical education has been thought to have an important role in medical students' training. Shiraz University of Medical Sciences has developed an MD/MPH dual degree educational program for the talented volunteer students. The aim of this study was to assess the students' viewpoints about various aspects of Shiraz MD/MPH program. METHODS This cros...

Sara Davidson Squibb is Head, User Communication & Instruction, University of California, Merced Library, e-mail: [email protected]; Susan Mikkelsen is Teacher Librarian, Merced High, (formerly, Instruction & Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of California, Merced Library), e-mail: [email protected]. © 2016 Sara Davidson Squibb and Susan Mikkelsen, Attribution-NonCommercia...

Training students in the discernment ability is an important task in distance education. To improve the training results, this chapter makes the following contributions: (1) suggests Web courseware on controversial social issues with different viewpoints for discernment training; (2) constructs the courseware for Discernment Ability using a method called DRPA. This method is presented with five...

The world is changing and changing fast. Contemporary students live in a world full of impressions, fast changing viewpoints, ubiquitous information, zapping behaviour, play and joy etc. They use facilities such as MSN, on-line gaming, and SMS. They expect a seamless access to information, mostly in a social context. At the same time we see drastic changes in learning environments, moving them ...

Currently in nursing education, active student participation, discussion, observation, and reflection are paramount for successful learning. Simulation is one of the up-and-coming tools that can be used across the nursing curriculum to replicate experiences in nursing practice. This interactive experience immerses students in patient health care scenarios in a safe environment. Simulation exper...

As an interesting example of ill-defined domain, Law domain has been challenged AI-ED system researchers. In this context, Law students have little chance to deal with realistic situations, requiring to apply real cases, rules, and different viewpoints. To address these issues, we introduce an agent-based Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) applied to the mentioned domain. Then, we defined an age...

Faced with increasing competition for students and funds, Australian universities hope that innovative technologies will provide the capability to offer flexible learning pathways that meet the needs of current and future students. However, the application of such technologies to develop an IT (information technology) degree for online external delivery is a difficult and complex process with b...