The purpose of this paper is to consider the introduction of online courses to replace the current classroom-based staff training. The current training is practical, and must be completed before access to the financial computer system is authorized. The long term objective is to measure the efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency of the training, and to establish whether a transfer of knowledge ...

Training is an important means by which corporate staff and management can learn computing skills and gain knowledge in new technologies. However, despite the myriad of training methods and options which are available, frequently training does not achieve its desired result. While some of this may be due to individual differences or the ability for a particular subject to learn, the type of tra...

recently, hardware sensors are widely used in monitoring and measurement of water quality parameters. constraint of the instrument to measure some water quality parameters such as the 5-day biochemical oxygen demand (bod5), which are time consuming, causes efforts are diverted to the use of software sensors for online prediction of bod5. the main goal of this research is developing an appropria...

This study assessed the merits of introducing a novel, online interactive training module designed to positively engage dental students and teach them to recognize and report signs of child abuse and neglect. The study aimed to determine if the online training module educated the students equivalently or better than a lecture presentation of the same content. Seventy-two students from Columbia ...

Introduction: Asynchronous online training has become an increasingly popular educational format in the new era of technology-based professional development. We sought to evaluate the impact of an online asynchronous training module on the ability of medical students and emergency medicine (EM) residents to detect electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities of an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Me...