Technical and Educational Activities

A Technical Rationale for RASSP Educational Activities

This article describes, the technical rationale behind the RASSP Education & Facilitation program. In this ground-breaking effort, the Department of Defense?s Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has explicitly funded technology transfer from its Rapid Prototyping of Application-Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program to the university and industrial communities. Rather than follow the ...

Separation of educational and technical content in educational hypermedia

The creation and development of educational hypermedia by teachers and educational staff is often limited by their lack of computing skills, time and support from the educational institutions. Especially the lack of computing skills is a hinderance to most of today’s educational experts. The problem is to find out how those educational experts could be supported by computer based tools which ar...

Digital representations Contribution to Educational Activities of IAPR Technical Committee on Discrete Geometry (TC18)

Diabetic foot workshop: Improving technical and educational skills for nurses

Diabetes mellitus as one of the most common metabolic disorders has some complications, one of the main ones is diabetic foot (DF). Appropriate care and education prevents 85% of diabetic foot amputations. An ideal management to prevent and treat diabetic foot necessitates a close collaboration between the health team members and the diabetic patient. Therefore, improving nurses' knowledge a...

Social Software and Educational Technology: Informal, Formal and Technical Values

Social software is a growing reality worldwide and several authors are discussing its use to promote social interaction in learning contexts. Although problems regarding privacy, reputation, and identity are commonly reported in social software, an explicit concern regarding peoples’ values is not a common practice in its design and adoption, in part, due to the lack of research in this subject...