Cohabitation is sometimes thought of as being inversely associated with education, but in Britain a more complex picture emerges. Educational group differences in cohabitation vary by age, time period, cohort, and indicator used. Well-educated women pioneered cohabitation in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. In the most recent cohorts, however, the less educated have exceeded the best educated in...

This paper describes a study conducted on the attitudes of students towards the integration of the Web as a channel of communication and a study tool in traditional distance teaching of Computer Science (CS) at the Open University of Israel (OUI). We examined the incorporation of web communication into the traditional model with three different groups of undergraduate students—one of 700 studen...

Technological Education is a subject where students acquire knowledge and technical skills, which will enable them to analyse and resolve specific situations and will prepare them for an increasingly technological world. This course requires students to gain knowledge and know-how such that motivation and commitment are crucial for the development of classroom projects and activities. It is in ...

The study of traditional built environments is instrumental in understanding the essence behind the formation of vernacular architecture. Insight gained from this study helps in learning important lessons about the mutual interaction between culture and architecture, and the effect that each has on the other. This approach was greatly used in teaching the history of architecture and, in some in...

First, traditional legal education does not encourage creative thinking by students. Traditional Chinese legal education consists of teachers on the platform speaking and students in the audience listening—the “spoon-feeding” method. Teachers are the protagonists; students are passive recipients of legal theory. There are few discussions between teachers and students and examinations are a test...

Over the past two decades, the Internet has emerged as a powerful tool for the dissemination of medical knowledge. The routine online publication of peer-reviewed journals and the standardisation of the portable document format (.pdf) marked a coming of age for Internet technology allowing readers, authors and editors to quickly access articles old and new and share them efficiently. Although t...

This research project examines the differences between two teaching methods in the teaching of mathematics—active teaching and traditional teaching—in special education classes in standard elementary schools in the Arab sector of Israel. The differences examined are related to the advancement of scholastic achievements in mathematics, both from the aspect of understanding the study materials an...

Computer-based patient information systems are introduced to replace traditional forms of patient education like brochures, leaflets, videotapes and, to a certain extent, face-to-face communication. In this paper, we claim that though computer-based patient information systems potentially have many advantages compared to traditional means, the surplus value of these systems is much harder to re...

The objective of this paper is to define and share the conception of a research about the population of Portuguese Open University students who are enrolled in curricular units of the Bachelor in Management. We intend to build up a questionnaire to identify the following analytical dimensions: 1) the study and work practices of students in current traditional distance learning; 2) the student’s...