Learner Needs Analysis for T&I Program Reform

Public reporting needs reform!

L ike many of my colleagues, I support President Obama's call to demonstrate value as part of health care reform. One way to do that is through public reporting. The rationale is that public scrutiny of outcomes will motivate the health care " industry " to improve the " product " (outcomes), rather than accelerating value-less economic activity (process) that often benefi ts providers more tha...

A Framework for Developing Serious Games to meet Learner Needs

This paper will communicate preliminary findings from applied research exploring how to ensure that serious games are cost effective and engaging components of future training solutions. The applied research is part of a multimillion pound program for the Department of Trade and Industry, and involves a partnership between UK industry and academia to determine how bespoke serious games should b...

Older Learner Needs and Requirements for Learning with ICT

The emergence of the knowledge society implies that every citizen must be digitally literate in order to be on a better footing in terms of equal opportunities in a world in which digital functions are proliferating (Merchant 2004). In the knowledge society, those who can use the new media are more advantaged than those who do not. While the possession of basic ICT skills is now taken for grant...

langauge needs analysis of undergraduate business management and economics students

the aim of conducting this study was to investigate the foreign language learning needs of undergraduate economics students and business management students in faculties of social sciences of alzahra and azad naragh university. in the study, which was designed on the basis of a qualitative-quantitative basis using interviews and questionnaires, 146 female undergraduate business management as we...

Global health response to crises needs reform.