In 2004, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) recognized the need to expand its outreach activities to minority students. To meet this objective, NLM sponsored a program presenting information on varied health sciences topics to minority students interested in health sciences careers. An existing initiative, NLM’s Adopt-A-School program, provided an initial foundation for this project. As par...

This paper will present ELEVATE that aims to deliver an innovative training, educational and certification environment integrating the application software to be taught with the training procedure. ELEVATE aspires to address the training needs of software development SMEs and the solution proposed is based on three basic notions: to provide competence training that is tailored to the needs of t...

As time becomes an issue in teaching and learning or training in higher educational institutions, most trainers resort to lecture-based training. When training is restraint to predominantly lecture method, meaningful learning may not be the main intention of training any longer. This is due to the fact that lecture method is essentially more pertinent for learners with auditory learning style p...

Human resource studies seeks to investigate the factors affecting training and the impact of these trainings on the development of human learning in organizations, and in this field, it uses different methods. The complexity of the educational environment and others, the different dimensions of human resources training and the different conditions and influencing factors based on blended learni...

This research objective was to determine the effect of training with blended project-based learning on lecturers' competence in developing teaching materials. The participants consisted 15 lecturers. method a weak experimental by comparing results participants' pretest and posttest. data analysis technique this used N-gain showed that score 63.61% classified as medium. Training for lecturers ha...

BACKGROUND While emergency airway management training is conventionally conducted via face-to-face learning (F2FL) workshops, there are inherent cost, time, place and manpower limitations in running such workshops. Blended learning (BL) refers to the systematic integration of online and face-to-face learning aimed to facilitate complex thinking skills and flexible participation at a reduced fin...

The development of an online corporate training program is a challenge from many standpoints. When the training program involves specialized content and the need for the trainees to meet an international professional standard, the challenges multiply. This case study discusses the development of an online program for international aviation personnel who must meet a newly mandated English langua...

In the electrical domain, qualified electricians are required since it involves danger. Training has been based on classroom courses and practice in the real installations, but it takes a long time and is costly. We propose to complement traditional training with an intelligent training system based on virtual environments in such a way that a blended training model is composed. We are looking ...

BACKGROUND E-learning and blended learning approaches gain more and more popularity in emergency medicine curricula. So far, little data is available on the impact of such approaches on procedural learning and skill acquisition and their comparison with traditional approaches. OBJECTIVE This study investigated the impact of a blended learning approach, including Web-based virtual patients (VP...