A growing body of literature suggests that today's learners have changed and education must change as well since Millennial generation students expect technology to be used in their coursework. This study sought to determine what educational technology is being used in U.S. dental hygiene programs, what student and faculty perceptions are of the effectiveness of technology, and what barriers ex...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate an extension agent's perception with respect to effectiveness of mass teaching methods employed in educational activities of irrigated wheat growing farmers in golestan province. survey and correlational methods were employed in the study. questionnaire was used as means to collect data. the study population consisted of the whole extension workers...

In this proposal I describe a new kind of educational game architecture: the self-aware educational game. Instead of simply amplifying an educational game designer’s best guess at a teaching strategy, self-aware games will actively reason over uncertainty about how a subject should be taught, perform experiments, and meaningfully adapt to collected evidence on a global scale. Combining accepted...

Technological support for personalized learning has the potential to transform the educational system in the United States. There is a growing interest in educational games and their potential for motivating learners. Techniques from the educational data mining and intelligent tutoring systems communities can be leveraged to better understand, design, and evaluate educational games for both lea...

E-learning is recently considered as a critical strategy to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of education. Although the use of e-learning has been growing rapidly in medical education, there are not sufficient data applying e-learning and evidence of the effectiveness. The purpose of the study is to review the recent literatures on applying e-learning in medical education settings and t...

BACKGROUND Inclusive education/mainstreaming is a key policy objective for the education of children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities. AIMS This paper reviews the literature on the effectiveness of inclusive education/mainstreaming. The focus is on evidence for effects in terms of child outcomes with examination also of evidence on processes that support ...

ICT is thought to be successful in helping students to learn more deeply and actively. Despite its popularity, evidence as to its effectiveness is undergoing increased scrutiny. This article reports on the empirical investigation of the implementation of two interactive animations. Questionnaires measured students’ learning styles, ICT competence and students’ impressions of the animations. In ...