Competency is a topic of great interest to educators and administrators in practice disciplines, particularly health care disciplines such as nursing. This article focuses on the role of competency in nursing. Through a concept analysis process, various elements of competency were assessed. The defining attributes of competency are the application of skills in all domains for the practice role,...

Automated Essay Grading (AEG) technology has been maturing over the final decades of the last century to the point where it is now poised to permit a transition in ‘assessment-thinking’. The administrative convenience of using objective testing to attempt to assess deep learning, learning at the conceptual level, has now been obviated by efficient and effective automated means to assess student...

E-learning students are generally heterogeneous and have different capabilities knowledge base and needs. The aim of the Sumy State University (SSU) e-learning system project is to cater to these individual needs by assembling individual learning path. This paper shows current situation with e-learning in Ukraine, state-of-art of development of the adaptive e-learning systems and shows results ...

When designing an e-learning system it is important to consider not only technical and resource related aspects, but user characteristics along with pedagogical and contextual issues as well. This paper proposes an approach to universal design within the e-learning environment able to address issues related to learner-centred design paradigm, context of use approach, individualized approach, pe...

While the existing DSS enables self-motivated learners to engage in situated, exploratory and independent learning, the addition of teaching strategies and a student model would allow: 1) Scaffolded and individualized exploitation of the overview for case-based teaching. 2) Learner motivation through selective presentation of challenging cases. 3) Active guidance on the use of integrated web-ba...