The assessment of Knowledge Grid is important to its design, development and maintenance. The difference between Knowledge Grid and website in structure and content determines that the current website assessment approaches are not suitable for assessing the Knowledge Grid. This paper proposes a fuzzy collaborative assessment approach combining the objective and subjective assessment strategies....

Introduction : 99% of 4million neonatal mortality occur in developing countries every year. Mortality rate of newborns accounts for 18.3 per 1000 live birth that comprised 69% of IMR and 56% of Under 5 mortality in IRAN. A  Comparison of statistical trend between infant and newborn rate from 1988 to 2001 revealed a considerable decrease in IMR but slightly decrease in NMR. training postnatal mo...

The Kuala Selangor mangrove forest are facing massive reclamation for economic development but the conservation aspect and fisheries values of mangroves have been ignored in the decision-making process. The local community support and awareness of the mangrove forest conservation are still doubtful. The aim of the study is to analyse the local community perception on the mangrove forest conserv...

Instructional design students are typically provided with a strong set of instructional design theories and models as a major component of an instructional design degree. These models vary in particulars but include three basic questions: Where do you need to go? (learner and needs assessment) How will you get there? (instructional strategies) How will you know when you have arrived? (evaluatio...

The paper focuses on the distance laboratory organisation for training the electrical engineering staff and students in the fields of electrical drive and power electronics. To support online knowledge acquisition and professional enhancement, new challenges in remote education based on an active learning approach with self-assessment have been emerged by the authors. Following the literature r...

Postoperative pain assessment was reviewed as part of an ongoing update of evidence base behind management protocols at the regional neonatal surgical unit at St Mary’s hospital, Manchester. This article reviews the current knowledge base and demonstrates evidence-based methodology to determine a neonatal postoperative pain assessment tool. The main objective of this review is to establish what...

CycSecure is a network risk assessment and network monitoring application that relies on knowledge-based artificial intelligence technologies to improve on traditional network vulnerability assessment. CycSecure integrates public reports of software faults from online databases, data gathered automatically from computers on a network and hand-ontologized information about computers and computer...

A major change in teaching and learning in online courses is the student imparting their own knowledge on a subject to other students, lecturers and tutors and being assessed for such a task. An online student conference is discussed in this paper to illustrate this change and critically discuss and assess its potential as a student assessment instrument. This paper will discuss some current id...

Given that the best measures of presence currently available are subjective self-assessments, it is desirable to attempt to develop reliable, repeatable, quantitative measures. We present the results of two experiments intended to separate presence into measurable subcomponents: attention and spatial comprehension. The first experiment was a conventional dual-task study where we measured attent...