OBJECTIVES To (1) assess the hydration knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of doctors; (2) develop an evidence-based training package; and (3) evaluate the impact of the training package. DESIGN Educational intervention with impact evaluation. SETTING Cambridgeshire, UK. PARTICIPANTS General practitioners (GPs (primary care physicians)). INTERVENTIONS Hydration and healthcare train...

Note: This article is a substantially revised version of the author’s plenary lecture at the 15th Annual Congress of the Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa (AMESA), which appeared in the proceedings of the congress (Stylianides, 2009b). The concept of proof is central to meaningful learning of mathematics, but is hard for students to learn. A serious misconception dominant am...

During the past decade, the trend to couple the World Wide Web (WWW) in teaching and learning has been gaining momentum rapidly. Learning availability over the Internet is expanding and gradually constitutes a usual means of education and training. In this paper, the development and implementation of an AI-based interactive teaching package for open channel flow on Internet is depicted. The lat...

This project involves the production of a computer-based multimedia package for teaching Ecology at undergraduate level. The product will be designed to enhance the development of investigation skills in students of ecology and biology. It is a cross-faculty initiative involving collaboration between the Faculty of Education and the Department of Biological Sciences. The package will take full ...

In the current study, the aim is to investigate the theses addressing the issue of program evaluation in the field of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) in 1997-2015. The study employed the survey model. The universe of the study consists of totally 87 theses addressing the issue of program evaluation in the field of C&I in 1997-2015. As the data collection instrument of the study, the document a...

Criticism is sometimes leveled at the academic Software Engineering community on the basis that current educational practices are too document-centric. Both students and practitioners have suggested that one of the popular, lighter-weight, agile methods would be a better choice. This paper examines the educational goals for undergraduate Software Engineering education and considers how they mig...

A kind of virtual plant laboratory system for process systems engineering education and research is developed, which is deemed an effective and applicable tool. The proposed system consists of pilot tanks, package simulation software of unit operation and a real enterprise information system including DCS, management database and MES (manufacturing execution system). Particularly, positive effe...

intervention in early childhood development as one of the social determinants of health, is important for reducing social gap and inequity. in spite of increasingly developing intensive neonatal care wards and decreasing neonatal mortality rate, there is no follow up program in iran. this study was carreid out to design high risk infants follow up care program with the practical aim of creating...