LiveUSB Mediated Education: A method to facilitate computer supported education

Design and Implementation of a Web directory for Medical Education (WDME): a Tool to Facilitate Research in Medical Education

Introduction: Access to the medical education resources on the web is one of current challenges for researchers and medical science educators. The purpose of current project was to design and implement a comprehensive and specific subject/web directory of medical education. Methods: First, the categories to be incorporated in the directory were defined through reviewing related directories an...

Computer-Supported Cooperative Education and Development in Southern Africa

Using cognitive theory to facilitate medical education

BACKGROUND Educators continue to search for better strategies for medical education. Although the unifying theme of reforms was "increasing interest in, attention to, and understanding of the knowledge base structures", it is difficult to achieve all these aspects via a single type of instruction. METHODS We used related key words to search in Google Scholar and Pubmed. Related search results...

Computer Supported Collaborative Social Environment for Education, Training and Work

The increasing employment of collaborated and blended learning techniques in educational institutes indicate that this kind of solution maximizes investments whether the growth of students demands more resources and teachers. Collaboration is working together towards a common goal at different times (time flexibility), in different locations (spatial flexibility), at different companies and edu...

Animated science education: possible pitfalls of computer supported collaborative learning

Misconceptions – This notion is one of the grand themes of educational research in general and science education in particular. Students’ misconceptions of various scientific principles are recurrent topics in numerous studies, in for instance physics (D. E. Brown, 1992; Jones, 1991), biology (C. R. Brown, 1990; Odom, 1995) and chemistry (Goh, 1993; Nicoll, 2001; Sanger & Greenbowe, 1999). The ...