Gamification can be defined as the process of adding games or game elements into something in order to encourage participation (Webster). Although the notion of learning subjects such as physiology or pharmacokinetics by playing games seems inane, it has actually been proven to help develop the skills of healthcare professionals and improve their overall confidence. Traditional lectures focus o...

This study offers a new evaluation methodology for peer-education programs. Peer educators' knowledge, self-esteem, peer pressure, and the number of friends, neighbors, and relatives given HIV/AIDS information were compared before and after training using self-administered questionnaires. Significant changes were observed in knowledge, peer pressure, self-efficacy, numbers of people given condo...

The critical thinking process is a mental activity of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion. It can also be viewed as a mental process that involves high quality and high level of thinking for problem solving and decision making. This paper presents and explains a new method for applying and promot...

The versatility and wide applicability of the Abstract State Machines Method for the design and the analysis of computational systems has not yet been fully exploited for teaching. We suggest to use it for introducing basic algorithmic concepts in a succinct and uniform way, which makes the definitions adoptable in traditionally unrelated courses, covering the full range of computing science cu...

Portfolios are increasingly used in postgraduate medical education and in gastroenterology training as an assessment tool, as documentation of competence, a database of procedure experience (for example endoscopy experience) and for revalidation purposes. In this paper the educational theory behind their use is described and the evidence for their use is discussed.

We proposed an effective method for education in acoustics that integrates three educational tools: textbooks, computer simulation and physical models. Our focus was the mechanism of vowel production in the speech and hearing sciences. We implemented a computer model by approximating a vowel as a plane wave propagating inside an acoustic tube, the diameters of which vary successively. In additi...

Patient education is a central component in high-quality integrated care of patients with chronic pain. The current study assessed patients' satisfaction with a 12 wk "Pain Education School" program within the initial 2 yr phase of implementation. A mixed-method treatment outcome design was used. A sample of 219 veterans between November 6, 2009, and January 20, 2012, was evaluated. Quantitativ...

This work presents the “myAgile” method that integrates the industry-hailed extreme programming (XP) method with someuniversity programming courses. The goal is to build a XP-based modern programming education. A Java grade system project has been designed for students to practice “myAgile”. And, an experiment of the project is being conducted. In the long run, it is expected that some programm...

abstract background: nursing continuing education with development of knowledge, skill, and attitude results in improvement of nursing activity, and thus improves the health care in the society. if the education is not planned and implement properly, it affects the patient care. this study was designed to explore the challenges of nursing continuing education in isfahan university of medical sc...