background:     purpose:     methods:     results:     conclusion:     key words:     ict, esp, medical students , methodology instruction based on ict specialized articles is a more effective method for teaching esp to the students of medicine linguistically and methodologically. the students achieved better results with internet-based medical english articles, compared to the traditional text...

South African Universities are tasked with increasing student throughput by offering additional academic support. A second task is to teach students to challenge and question. One way of attempting to achieve these tasks is by using Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The focus of this paper is to examine the effect of using an ICT tool to both increase academic support to students,...

The editorial provides a background for the special issue on Problem Based Learning and ICT and focuses on three core themes: Problem Based Learning (PBL) and its background and pedagogical principles; learning characteristics of information and communication technology (ICT); and intercultural perspectives. The editorial presents a Danish perspective on PBL based on the long tradition for PBL ...

One of the many challenges facing many developing countries today is preparing their societies and governments for globalization and the information and communication revolution. Academics are increasingly concerned with the need to make their societies competitive in the emergent information economy. For example in 1997 Uganda working with World Bank Institute initiated a programme to effectiv...

Executive Summary This deliverable is produced within Work Package 3 of the ENTELIS project (WP3-State of Art Analysis on innovation in ICT and ICT-AT education and learning). It contains a State of the Art study regarding ICT and ICT-AT learning and education, in its broadest sense, for persons with disabilities of all ages. Data of different nature were collected from different sources and us...

Engagement is being widely recognised as critical to the learning process. Either formally or informally this term arises during most discussions about learning, especially when ICT is being used to enhance learning environments. While suggestions abound for ways of using ICT in learning to increase engagement, few of these reports offer means for recognising and measuring engagement. This pape...

The paper describes a study conducted in Rwanda involving 12 participants selected from a larger cohort of 24 final-year university students who were part of a group based training programme. The programme was about how to search, retrieve and use webbased literature. Empirical data were collected through interviews and focus group discussions. The purpose was to explore ways of using Informati...

Icariin (ICA) and icaritin (ICT), with a similar structure to genistein, are the important bioactive components of the genus Epimedium, and regulate many cellular processes. In the present study, using the estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer cell line, SKBr3, as a model, we examined the hypothesis that ICA and ICT at low concentrations stimulate SKBr3 cell proliferation in vitro throu...