Helping LIS Students Understand the Reference Librarian’s Teacher Identity

Helping students to understand that outward currents depolarize cells.

The physiology of excitable membranes is a fundamental topic in neuroscience and physiology courses at graduate and undergraduate levels. From the building blocks of ionic gradients and membrane channels whose permeability is selective and variable, we build the concepts of resting potential, action potential, and propagation in neurons and muscle fibers. Many students have an intuitive underst...

Helping Students Understand Challenging Topics in Science Through Ontology Training

Chi (2005) proposed that students experience difficulty in learning about physics concepts such as light, heat, or electric current because they attribute to these concepts an inappropriate ontological status of material substances rather than the more veridical status of emergent processes. Conceptual change could thus be facilitated by training students in the appropriate ontology prior to ph...

Patient safety: helping medical students understand error in healthcare.

OBJECTIVE To change the culture of healthcare organisations and improve patient safety, new professionals need to be taught about adverse events and how to trap and mitigate against errors. A literature review did not reveal any patient safety courses in the core undergraduate medical curriculum. Therefore a new module was designed and piloted. DESIGN A 5-h evidence-based module on understand...

Computer Classes for Job Seekers: LIS Students Team with Public Librarians to Extend Public Services

Helping Computers Understand People

Recommender systems are new types of internetbased software tools, designed to help users find their way through today’s complex on-line shops and entertainment websites. This paper describes a new recommender system, which employs a genetic algorithm to learn personal preferences of users and provide tailored suggestions.