While A/V technology has gotten increasingly more cost-effective, its deployment in instructional settings has typically not taken best advantage of its capabilities, resulting in low quality data that hampers the analysis process. This paper will outline a two-year process of the design and evolution of recording technology packages for use in a range of science education instructional setting...

This discussion paper gives an overview of the shortcomings of existing computer-based business simulation games and identifies the requirements for developing an integrated gaming environment based on active intelligent agents and interactive pedagogical agents. In particular, methods are presented to integrate a business game vertically and horizontally employing reusable intelligent agent te...

The predicted shortfall of primary care physicians and the millions of newly insured beginning in 2014 call for an increase in the number of advanced practice nurses (APRNs). Advanced practice nurses can significantly improve their clients' quality of life and increase their life expectancy through tobacco cessation education. The purpose of this study was to educate APRN students on smoking in...

High-fidelity simulation (HFS) is a learning method which has proven effective in medical education for technical and non-technical skills. However, its effectiveness for knowledge acquisition is less validated. We performed a randomized study with the primary aim of investigating whether HFS, in association with frontal lessons, would improve knowledge about advanced life support (ALS), in com...

This study was supported by the French National Research Agency; CERoPath (Community Ecology of Rodents and their Pathogens in Southeast Asia Project ANR 07 BDIV 012); Infectiopôle Sud; Center for Excellence on Agricultural Biotechnology; the Science and Technology Postgraduate Education and Research Development Office; the Office of Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education (AGBIO/PER...

BACKGROUND An effectively prepared and continually updated workforce of health professionals is essential to maintenance and improvement in patient care. The major goal of continuing education is to improve and promote quality care. Continuing education is also important to an organization's strategic plan because of its positive influence on the quality of care provided. The purpose of this st...

proper education and notification of patients undergoing heart valve replacement is of paramount importance. the past decade has witnessed a growing interest in the use of modern, advanced technologies in medicine and patient education. this study aimed to introduce an education-notification application for patients undergoing heart valve replacement. research was carried out in two phases of s...

ISSN-2277-1956/V1N3-826-833 A Multi-Channel Analog-To-Digital Conversion Technique Using Parallel Duty-Cycle Modulation Jean Mbihi 1 Léandre Nneme Nneme 2 Advanced Teachers' Training College for Technical Education, University of Douala, BP 1872, Douala, Cameroun [email protected]* http://www.cyberquebec.ca/mbihi/ Advanced Teachers' Training College for Technical Education, University of Douala,...

Education and training in advanced airway management as part of an anesthesiology residency program is necessary to help residents attain the status of expert in difficult airway management. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) emphasizes that residents in anesthesiology must obtain significant experience with a broad spectrum of airway management techniques. However...

A national work group met in 2004 to discuss the future of advanced practice nursing. The representatives were nursing education, certification, accreditation, and regulation experts, and the goal was to develop a consensus model for advanced practice nursing regulation (Nevidjon et al., 2010). As a result, a set of recommendations was published in an article that defined a new consensus model ...