NURS:1700 Global Health Nursing 3 s.h. Complexity of health and nursing in a global context; overview of the biological, social, epigenetic, and environmental contributors to health and diseases in populations around the world and nursing's role in improving health; includes case studies of various global organizational and educational structures and systems relative to population health, selec...

The basic tradition in the education of mi nority children in this country has been grounded in the "compensatory" approach on the assump tion that black, latin, and other minority groups have special deficiencies that must be "made up" in the educational effort. The overwhelming opinion has been that blacks were educationally deficient and thus cul turally inferior. Even those who believed in ...

NURS:1700 Global Health Nursing 3 s.h. Complexity of health and nursing in a global context; overview of the biological, social, epigenetic, and environmental contributors to health and diseases in populations around the world and nursing's role in improving health; includes case studies of various global organizational and educational structures and systems relative to population health, selec...

NURS:1700 Global Health Nursing 3 s.h. Complexity of health and nursing in a global context; overview of the biological, social, epigenetic, and environmental contributors to health and diseases in populations around the world and nursing's role in improving health; includes case studies of various global organizational and educational structures and systems relative to population health, selec...

Limited access to patients is an increasing problem in medical education. In order to reduce patient shortage, we previously proposed a strategy for assigning patients to courses based on routinely available patient and educational data. However, the previous work showed deficiencies in terms of practical applicability with existing curricula. This paper introduces a corresponding refinement of...

In the past many distance learning projects have concentrated on the development of educational multimedia material for offline use. Effective learning requires online contact between teachers and students, and also among students. In this paper we claim that the multimedia application software we have today is insufficient for online (synchronous) teleteaching. We list the requirements for goo...

Chat tools are nowadays an integral part of many collaborative e-learning environments. However, standard chat tools suffer from important coordination and coherence deficiencies. In this paper we propose an open source generic framework for building malleable structured chat applications. Users can strengthen or relax constraints when they want during a chat session. The paper shows some demon...

Majority of the systems developed in the field of education aim to tailor information presented to their users according to them as efficiently as possible. Often these systems use a User Model, a Domain Model and an Interaction Model to provide the adaptation/personalization effect. However, any deficiencies in these models directly influence the quality of adaptation the system provides. In o...

Web portals are being considered as excellent means for conducting teaching and learning activities electronically. The number of online services such as course enrollment, tutoring through online course materials, evaluation and even certification through web portals is increasing day by day. However, the effectiveness of an educational web portal depends on its accessibility to a wide range o...