So, they thought it was all over

Just when you thought it was safe.

Teachers today have brought computers out of the isolation of labs and into the main learning area of the classroom, enabling access to the web for their students on demand. Whatever the merits of the so-called Digital Education Revolution, we now have computers, notebooks or PCs owned by the school or students, in classrooms , in most cases now playing a vitally important role in teaching and ...

They think it's all over, but it may not be!

I t is evident that anyone required to perform at a high level in sport or other physically demanding occupation has a limited number of years before demands made on the body begin to take their toll, sometimes accompanied by difficulties of a psychological nature. Although there may be a good deal of informal support from family, friends, and perhaps even other athletes who have retired, in so...

Multiple sclerosis: it's not the disease you thought it was.

Multiple sclerosis (MS), the most common disabling neurologic disease of young people, afflicts approximately a quarter of a million Americans. The symptoms of MS result from recurrent attacks of inflammation in the central nervous system, which probably occur through an autoimmune mechanism. The target of the immune attack is myelin, the lipoprotein sheath that surrounds the axons and insulate...

I S the Imagery Debate over ? I F so , What Was It about ?

They Call It Learning Style But It’s So Much More

The questions of how important a learner’s ‘learning style’ is for the learning outcome needs to be investigated for learning environments: (1) for a didactically flexible design and possibly for an adaptation to the individual learner and (2) for a differential evaluation of learning systems. Many dichotomies of learning styles have been investigated empirically. For several reasons, the impli...