Editorial: Maker Education: Opportunities and Challenges

Islam; Challenges and Opportunities

Undoubtedly Islamic Revolution of Iran has been the source of Islamic awakening in the middle-east. Therefore Islamic Republic of Iran plays the role of an example and a director of political developments in the region. Islamic awakening in Arab countries has been able to question the dominant discourse of dictators in the middle-east region and topple their regimes. These developments include ...

Data-Driven Education: Some opportunities and Challenges

A program of study can be viewed as a knowledge graph consisting of learning units and relationships between them. Such a knowledge graph provides the core data structure for organizing and navigating learning experiences. We address two issues in this talk. First, given a knowledge graph, how can we use data mining to identify and correct deficiencies in a knowledge graph. Second, how can we u...

Challenges and opportunities facing medical education.

Medical education is at a crossroads. Although unique features exist at the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education levels, shared aspects of all three levels are especially revealing, and form the basis for informed decision-making about the future of medical education.This paper describes some of the internal and external challenges confronting undergraduate medical education. Key i...

Editorial: Today's Nutrition and Tomorrow's Public Health: Challenges and Opportunities

Scientific research in the field of nutrition and health has made great strides in recent years. Food-related investigations cover a broad range of topics in close relation with many other health-oriented disciplines. This E-book elaborates on the relevance of putting diet and food habits at the heart of strategies aiming to improve the global health status of the general public, and on the nee...

Guest Editorial: Visual Analytics in Multimedia - Opportunities and Research Challenges