BACKGROUND Children's activity level, including physical activity (PA) and screen sedentary time (SST), is influenced by environmental factors in which parents play a critical role. Different types of parenting styles may influence children's activity level. Inconsistent results were found on the association between parenting styles and PA, and few studies tested the association between parenti...

In this paper we present the way a multi-criteria decision making methodology is applied in the case of agent-based selection of offered learning objects. The problem of selection is modeled as a decision making one, with the decision variables being the learner model and the learning objects’ educational description. In this way, selection of educational content is based on dynamic data input ...

Modern cyber security educational programs that emphasize technical skills often omit or struggle to effectively teach the increasingly important science of cyber deception. A strategy for effectively communicating deceptive technical skills by leveraging the new paradigm of honeypatching is discussed and evaluated. Honey-patches mislead attackers into believing that failed attacks against soft...

Background Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. The present study has been developed with the aim of designing a Competency Model for Educ...

Learning styles encapsulate the preferences of the students regarding to how they learn. By including information about the student learning style, computer-based educational systems become able of adapting a course to the individual characteristics of the students. In accomplishing this goal, educational systems have been mostly based on the use of questionnaires for establishing a student lea...

China has recently experienced an increased demand for Western-style marketing and business practices due in part to a burgeoning economy and recent entry into the WTO. Market-based education has diffused rapidly across China as Chinese universities have started to imitate their Western counterparts and have entered into joint venture agreements with them. First, increased demand for Western-st...

This study tested an innovative model for creating consumer-level content about precision medicine based on health literacy and learning style principles. "Knowledge pearl" videos, incorporating multiple learning modalities, were created to explain genetic and cancer medicine concepts. Cancer patients and caregivers (n=117) were randomized to view professional-level content directly from the My...

Information technology and communication in education have transformed the traditional school in digital classrooms. The adaptability of technological tools as teaching-learning resources facilitates the rationalization of educational work. Operate with a network computer, through digital information flows, allows us to opening choices for preparing and presenting educational contents. The prac...

Games are increasingly being used as educational tools, in part because they are presumed to enhance student motivation. We look at student motivation in games from the viewpoint of attribution theory, which predicts more learning by students who make attributions along certain dimensions, and thus may provide a way of examining this claim in more detail. We studied 13 students as they played a...