Learning plays a key role in ageing societies as it can help to address many of the related challenges and opportunities. Opportunities to learn should be given to senior citizens through appropriate local lifelong learning programmes. There is a need to improve research and development on learning tools and approaches designed to meet the different needs of older people. ICT has an important r...

In digital repositories around the globe there is an abundance of available resources like learning objects, learning designs, teaching methods, and assessments. Building web-based learning opportunities by exploiting these resources is a complex endeavor with controversial motivational underpinnings. It requires provision of support for accessing, using and packaging the resources with interop...

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) has been demonstrated to improve student interaction in complex collaborative learning scenarios. When orchestrated appropriately, it also provides opportunities for learning high-level social learning skills, or “learning to learn together” (L2L2), but these opportunities are often only dealt with implicitly. This paper presents work towards an ...

Background Mobile learning affects learners through motivation, cooperation, information sharing, and availability. It provides opportunities for learners, learning providers and universities. This study aimed to examine the role of mobile learning on the academic achievement and self-regulation of paramedical sciences in Birjand University of Medical Sciences. Methods This survey is a quasi-ex...

To determine the impact of advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPE) on student self-confidence related to medication therapy management (MTM), fourth-year pharmacy students were surveyed pre/post APPE to: identify exposure to MTM learning opportunities, assess knowledge of the MTM core components, and assess self-confidence performing MTM services. An anonymous electronic questionnaire adm...

How to design effective learning opportunities? Why is learning by experience often more efficient than learning by studying? How to provide the learning experiences needed to respond to current challenges? Using computer games and games in general for educational purposes offers a variety of knowledge presentations and creates opportunities to apply the knowledge within a virtual world, thus s...