BTA distance learning course in pulmonology

BTA distance learning course in pulmonology

1. Disciplina de Pneumologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu (SP) Brasil. 2. Hospital Geral Otávio de Freitas – HGOF – Recife (PE) Brasil. The Brazilian Thoracic Association (BTA) statute states that one of the purposes of the BTA is to bring together physicians and other professionals involved in pulmonology research,...

A distance-learning Course on Indoor Environmental Comfort in Buildings

An Open Distance Learning Web-Course for NLP in IR

A computer-based course addressing the topic of" applying Natural Language resources and techniques to Information Retrieval is presented. The course provides several Internet on-line resources to support a learning by doing approach in a real world context. Rationale for the design of the course is presented and a detailed description of the course structure and content is given.

Course of Programmable Logic Control (PLC) in Distance Learning

The experience and content of a PLC course developed for distance learning (ODL) is presented. The course aims to introduce the student into the automation world of industrial processes allowing him/her the acquisition of a certain level of PLC programming as well as its internal operation. The background required is: basic knowledge on electricity and computers at user level. A CD-ROM with the...

Preparing for Distance Learning: Designing An Online Student Orientation Course

This paper describes the analysis undertaken to design a 1-credit-hour online orientation course for students new to online learning. An instructional design team, as a part of an advanced instructional design course, worked with a university-based client. The client identified specific problem areas encountered by novice students of online courses and the team designed a comprehensive program ...