Ms. Jacquelyn L. Fried is Associate Professor and Director of the Dental Hygiene Program in the Department of Health Promotion and Policy at the University of Maryland Dental School. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a Certificate in Dental Hygiene from the Ohio State University. She also holds a Master of Science in Dental Hygiene from Old Dominion University. She...

Advances in information technologies (IT) are one of the driving forces of change in Higher Education. As colleges and universities attempt to more aggressively pursue distance education as a means in search of increasing revenue, enrollment and visibility, they must identify the current and perspective students and their needs. There have been continuous research and debate on open source lear...

The notion that technology education is somehow quite different from industrial arts education has been around for half a century, when Warner and his graduate students first brought the study of technology to our field’s attention. 1 DeVore (1964) drove the point home by arguing the case for technology as an “intellectual discipline,” and many others have echoed this theme. Clark, (1989) sugge...

Background: Clinical education is the most critical component of surgical technology and anesthesiology student’s education. Therefore, this study was designed to determine the amendable challenges and barriers of clinical education from the viewpoints of operating room and anesthesia students and clinical instructors. Methods: In this descriptive cross-s...

the purpose of educational technology is to facilitate, develop, and strengthen teaching-learning processes. computer-assisted language education technology is developed as a result of introducing information and communication technology in humanities. this technology has a multidisciplinary nature and is based on investigations carried out in theoretical and practical principles of applied lin...