Educational technology in higher education has not managed to match the ubiquity of technology in everyday life. Is this because higher education institutions are inherently resistant to change? The organization, structure, culture and climate of higher education institutions reflect the wider agendas of current and predominant practice. They may particularly influence the success or failure of...

The introduction of ICT in university teaching is a long process and is strongly conditioned by many variables, first of all the level of knowledge the faculty members possess about the educational uses of ICT and the related instructional design approaches. This is the key issue on the basis of which the two specific training projects referred in this paper have been launched. After describing...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) and metacognition are key in the context of 21 century education, adult training, and lifelong learning. For instructional strategies to foster metacognition and self-regulation it is crucial to know what are good metacognitive and SRL behaviors. We investigated this question in the context of a training simulator in a curriculum setting with 152 medical students. ...

in recent year, the evolutionary structural optimization (eso) method, has been applied as an effective tool for structures design. the concept of eso method is to use the finite element  results in each iteration of process and removal of inefficient material based on these results. in this method there are several experimental parameters such as rejection rate and evolutionary rate that are e...

1569-190X/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.simpat.2010.03.004 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +34 91 3089469. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (V. Sanz) (S. Dormido). The analysis and identification of the requirements needed to describe P-DEVS models using the Modelica language are discussed in this manuscript. A new free Modelica package, named DEVSLib, is presented. It fac...

Digital Library Management Systems are systems that are able to manage collections of digital documents that form Digital Libraries and Digital Archives, and they are currently in a state of evolution. Today, most of the times they are simply places where information resources can be stored and made available, whereas for tomorrow they are becoming an integrated part of the way the user works. ...

objective: the main objective of this research was the economic valuation of public library services using the contingent valuation. although, estimating the average willingness to pay for public library service, demographics on the willingness to pay, and economic valuation and pricing public library services were other objectives that investigated in this study. methodology: explanatory varia...