Perioperative nurses must use critical thinking and sound clinical judgment to meet their patients' needs safely and effectively. This requires the integration and continual updating of large amounts of detailed clinical information. Innovative education strategies are designed to make teaching and learning more interesting and interactive, especially for the presentation of complex subject mat...

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI 2010, April 10–15, 2010. Atlanta, Georgia, USA ACM 978-1-60558-930-5/10/04. Abstract The role which “artifacts” play in design, and indeed the nature of such artifacts themselves are notably diverse. During a semester-long case study, we examined a variety of design artifacts and the ways they were able to impact the design process. Applying the kno...

1 Don Millard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Academy of Electronic Media, Troy, NY 12180, [email protected] 2 Gerald Burnham, University of Texas-Dallas, College of Engineering, Dallas, TX, [email protected] Abstract: The techniques used to educate future electrical engineers need to integrate innovative teaching approaches with today’s technology in order to reach and motivate the diverse...

Methodologies involving issues to empower remotely distributed communities localized with sub-standard information backbone are still in demand of imperative attention from the policy initiation level in each country. Especially, nations with constricted global Internet bandwidth, rustic social condition, not properly managed information networks, unnecessary preconditions in formulating action...

The authors discuss the necessity of multiple flexible output forms in an educational Web simulation environment. Ideally, such an environment should allow the creation of visual, interactive simulations and their integration in the pages of theWeb document being constructed. As a suitable candidate for this, the authors propose their system to generate documents for theWeb that consists of thr...

Several studies show that the distance education is a viable way to offer education to places that have difficulties in access to quality education. In the Amazon State, Brazil, some projects have gained notoriety for their emphasis on providing effective education at various high school and higher education levels in remote cities. We aim at providing mainstream inclusion to people who live in...

The aim of this project was construction of a universal platform for rapid development of interactive computerbased health education programs. Pocket PC was used to pilot test the platform and to implement two educational curriculums: for asthma and anticoagulant therapy. Qualitative analysis of the system acceptance in 46 patients showed that computer-assisted education can be successfully imp...

Computer-tailored nutrition education is an innovative and promising tool to motivate people to make healthy dietary changes. It provides respondents with individualized feedback about their dietary behaviors, motivations, attitudes, norms, and skills and mimics the process of "person-to-person" dietary counseling. The available evidence indicates that computer-tailored nutrition education is m...

The development of new technologies has undoubtedly promoted the advances of modern education, among which Virtual Reality (VR) technologies have made the education more visually accessible for students. However, classroom education has been the focus of VR applications whereas not much research has been done in promoting sports education using VR technologies. In this paper, an immersive VR sy...