Designing personalized interface for reading purpose to fulfill the needs of children with reading disabilities, especially the slow learner, is not an easy task. It requires indepth knowledge of the children and their ability to read as well. Realizing that the basis for user-centered design is the knowledge of users and task, this study take an initial step by developing slow learner persona....

In today’s new economy characterized by industrial change, globalization, increased intensive competition, knowledge sharing and transfer, and information technology revolution, traditional classroom education or training does not always satisfy all the needs of the new world of lifelong learning. Learning is shifting from instructor-centered to learner-centered, and is undertaken anywhere, fro...

This paper presents an ongoing work on a multisensory Augmented Reality system for engineering education. The system, composed of both software and hardware elements, will be used in embedded electronics courses. We first present similar systems and their potential advantages for education. Then, we discuss the originality of our system. Finally, we present the general approach as well as a num...

BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals' person-centered communication skills are pivotal for successful group-based diabetes education. However, healthcare professionals are often insufficiently equipped to facilitate person-centeredness and many have never received post-graduate training. Currently, assessing professionals' skills in conducting group-based, person-centered diabetes education prim...

Medical education is continuing to evolve to meet the healthcare needs of the future. The longitudinal integrated clerkship (LIC) model is an important innovation in medical education. It has in its vision and structure "patient- and learner-centered education", using longitudinal relationships between patients and students as a foundational element in its design. LIC students have shown more p...

This study investigates the andragogical and pedagogical teaching philosophies of online instructors at the California State University, Long Beach in the Spring Semester of 2010. Drawing from reflective adult education theory, this article proposes a new model for this reflective adult education theory. It is either the helping relationship (andragogical philosophy) or the directing relationsh...

The knowledge economy demands a highly skilled and well-rounded work force. However, because traditional institutions cannot meet the demand for post-secondary education, technological innovations, particularly distance learning, are becoming the solution for increased access. As distance programs are developed for global delivery, cultural and linguistic issues must be considered. Pedagogical ...

one of the subjects which have long been obsessing the minds and spirits of deep-thinking believers is the relationship between religion in all aspects and scopes we can consider for it and the model of reason and rationality. the scope of religious studies is full of various and ever-emerging questions in this regard. there are diverse approaches to the relation between these two. adopting eac...

Abstract To make up for the shortcomings of traditional teaching mode, such as teacher-centered, less interaction, limited output, and inability to meet students’ personalized learning needs, author proposes a mathematical model college English interactive distance teaching. Based on social culture theory teaching, based analyzing education functions WeChat, this paper constructs an mixed WeCha...

As visual connectivity improves, an opportunity to enrich and rethink the place of learning design in online and distance education is presenting itself. The opportunity is derived from the increasing scope for personalised synchronous interaction which has been missing in computer mediated communications (CMC) and previous generations of distance education. This paper presents a model which di...