OBJECTIVES The improvement of safety in healthcare worldwide depends in part on the knowledge, skills and attitudes of staff providing care. Greater patient safety content in health professional education and training programmes has been advocated internationally. While WHO Patient Safety Curriculum Guides (for Medical Schools and Multi-Professional Curricula) have been widely disseminated in l...

As technical compatibility standards have become critical in business and industrial computing, educational software interoperability is rapidly becoming an issue for users and developers of educational information systems. New software interoperability initiatives are under way in several domains of educational computing, including library automation, higher education information services, and...

the present study aimed to compare academic performance and self-concept of physical education and sport sciences course between conventional and distance educational systems. the statistical population included all physical education undergraduate students at ardabil state universities in 2012-2013 academic years (n=234). using stratified random sampling method, 100 students were selected and ...

ii Preface The AIED'05 session of the SW-EL'05 workshop focuses on Semantic Web-based knowledge representation and engineering approaches and methods for the needs of intelligent learning systems and discusses issues related to their use for content and knowledge components specification, effective intelligent courseware construction and modelling the learner. The following topics are addressed...

The great amount of educational resources available on educational repositories enriches the learning process. However, it raises a new challenge: the need to provide support to the location of those resources that meet the needs, goals and preferences of each student. The location of useful educational resources to support the learning process is addressed by using recommender systems. Recomme...

MFO1 /PCO1 Plus Postage. *Educational Assessment; *Educational Change; Educational Quality; Elementary Secondary Education; Models; Jrganizational Development; *Organizational Effectiveness; School Restructuring; *Systems Analysis; *Systems Approach Although educational reformers frequently use the words "system," "systemic change," and "sys.temic approach," many lack a fundamental understandin...

Addressing affective issues in the recommendation process has shown their ability to increase the performance of recommender systems in non-educational scenarios. In turn, affective states have been considered for many years in developing intelligent tutoring systems. Currently, there are some works that combine both research lines. In this paper we discuss the benefits of considering affective...