This voluntary, anonymous questionnaire survey was performed to assess the willingness of Basic Life Support (BLS) participants to perform bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). A total of 55 dental students and 73 school teachers were assessed on their willingness to perform bystander CPR after completion of their BLS training. In general, only 29.0% of the total 128 participants said ...

y and perhaps reconsider previously held This paper examines one such approach in online learning, where an alternative pedagogy was utilized to offer opportunities for rich and sustained dialogue amongst the teachers (participants in the study) involved in a course, Reflective Practice for Teachers. The pedagogy referred to in this study is predicated on Fenwick’s (2005) notion that pedagogy i...

We investigate a possible application of computer algebra system as a tool in learning and teaching mathematics. There are analyzed the technical and didactic aspects of some mathematical expressions using different systems. The main purpose is to help pupils, students, teachers in better understanding of different computer algebra systems. Knowing the advantages and disadvantages of these syst...

Mi-Hwa Park is an assistant professor in the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education of the College of Education at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky. tential for improvement in ELLs’ learning engagement. Indeed, learning engagement is a strong indicator of academic success (Hyson, 2008). In the context of teaching ELLs, however, little information is available on discuss...

Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) have become accepted and used widely to model uncertain reasoning and causal relationships. We have developed an interactive visualization tool (VisNet) that allows students and/or teachers to inspect BBNs. Using VisNet it is possible to experiment with concepts such as marginal probability, changes in probability, probability propagation and cause-effect relatio...

Abstract This chapter introduces the basic information for need of strategic decision-making, including internal key organization, external information. Strategic decision makers are required to conduct analysis and have a deep understanding industry trend organization resources capabilities.