BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family physicians are expected to provide culturally sensitive care. However, teaching about cultural diversity and measuring educational outcomes can be challenging. We describe a diversity curriculum based on the concept of cultural humility, which includes participatory didactic and structured learning activities. METHODS Two classes of second-year family medicine...

OBJECTIVES This article reviews an evaluation vector model driven from a participatory action research leveraging a collective inquiry system named SMILE (Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment). METHODS SMILE has been implemented in a diverse set of collective inquiry generation and analysis scenarios including community health care-specific professional development sessions and ...

By introducing the concept of Cloud Computing, the architecture of e-Learning has been changed, So, we propose an autonomous learning support system that encourages learners’ interaction by “the Architecture of Participation”. We developed learning management system based on SNS. This system has two models that describe 1) learner’s acquired knowledge, and 2) learner’s participatory attributes....

The paper aims at showing how Participatory Design contributes to the understanding of learning processes related to Communities of Practice (CoPs) and, at the same time, to the design and implementation of Web Services to support organisational and individual learning in CoPs. This research builds on the European PALETTE project.

Objective: To study the effect of promoting self-esteem by participatory learning program on emotional intelligence among early adolescents. Material and Method: The quasi-experimental study was conducted in grade 9 students from two schools in Bangbuathong district, Nonthaburi province. Each experimental and comparative group consisted of 34 students with the lowest score of emotional intellig...

Learning about narrative and spectatorship in film studies lends itself to active forms of learning. This paper reports on the participatory development between film studies and learning design of an activity called Director's Cut. A class of 250 undergraduate students created their own film sequence applying their understandings of genre, screenwriting and editing in order to manipulate how fi...

In this work we describe two instruments for introducing evolutionary behavior into intelligent systems. The first is the hierarchical prioritized structure (HPS) and the second is the participatory learning paradigm (PLP).