Raising Libyan EFL undergraduate students’ awareness about environmental issues through project-based learning

Enhancing EFL Learners’ Self Efficacy Beliefs through Raising Metacognitive Awareness

This study aimed at investigating the possibility of improving EFL learners’ self-efficacy by implementing a metacognitive strategies instruction program. The participants were 53 female EFL learners who were divided into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group received an eight-week treatment on metacognitive strategies through descriptions, modeling, and practice. At the b...

Teaching undergraduate nursing students about environmental health: addressing public health issues through simulation.

Schools of nursing are challenged to find clinical placements in public health settings. Use of simulation can address situations unique to public health, with attention to specific concerns, such as environmental health. Environmental health is an integral part of public health nursing and is a standard of professional practice. Current simulations focus on acute care situations, offering limi...

Instilling Environmental Awareness in Undergraduate University Students

Raising Awareness for Environmental Issues through Mobile Device Based Serious Games

We investigate the design of computer games for mobile phones to raise awareness for environmental issues through targeting the attitude people have towards them. Focusing on peoples attitude when investigating their behaviour is an established approach [1] in behavioural psychology. Recent studies claim that the repeated playing of (computer) games can influence the players behaviour [2]. Comp...

Raising Awareness among Health Students about Aging Changes

Globalization has had repercussions on the daily lives of individuals, including on health. The ease with which people cross borders has contributed to these changes occurring in an accelerated and constant way. In this new context, health workers face daily challenges due to various transitions, such as demographic and epidemiological [1] which has required students to assume a proactive attit...