OBJECTIVE To implement a "flipped classroom" model for a renal pharmacotherapy topic module and assess the impact on pharmacy students' performance and attitudes. DESIGN Students viewed vodcasts (video podcasts) of lectures prior to the scheduled class and then discussed interactive cases of patients with end-stage renal disease in class. A process-oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) act...

The Internet has become a major sales platform, assuming a growing importance in increasing the economic growth of a company. Therefore it is of great importance to analyse the incorporation of Web 2.0 tools and their relation to the website success and its design. Through a systematic exploration of the 36 most visited Portuguese e-commerce websites, according to the ranking published by Markt...

With the rapid development of wireless networks and mobile technologies, the widespread use of mobile learning has raised the need for ‘anywhere, anytime and any device’ access to information and has influenced the design of learning objects. The newly emerging IMS AccessForAll and Dublin Core adaptability and accessibility standards and the proposed profiles of needs and preferences (PNP), pre...

Future’s environments will be sensitive and responsive to the presence of people to support them carrying out their everyday life activities, tasks and rituals, in an easy and natural way. Such interactive spaces will use the information and communication technologies to bring the computation into the physical world, in order to enhance ordinary activities of their users. This paper describes a...

Aga Khan University (AKU) is implementing blended learning (BL) in their existing programs. This study reports the use of BL mode in one of the courses entitled Advanced Concepts of Community Health nursing (ACCHN), offered for undergraduate nursing students, for the first time in Karachi Pakistan. A qualitative exploratory design was adopted.The year II students of Post-RN BScN programme who w...

Abstract The current study compared the effects of two types flipped instruction (FI) (low- and mid-tech) with other class conditions, a blended course conventional teaching, on learning outcome language learners different levels impulsivity in an on-campus General English (GE) course. To attain such goal, four GE classes consisting 100 freshmen (25 students each class) were selected organized ...

UNLABELLED Introduction Online educational resources (OERs) are increasingly available for emergency medicine (EM) education. This study describes and compares the use of free OERs by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) EM residents and program directors (PDs) and investigates the relationship between the use of OERs and peer-reviewed literature. METHODS A bilingual...

Podcasts are audio or video files which can be automatically downloaded to one’s computer when the episodes become available, then later transferred to a portable player for listening. The technology thereby enables the user to listen to and/or watch the content anywhere at any time. Formerly popular as radio shows, podcasting was rapidly explored and used in different areas and with several pu...