Background: Cooperative and Collaborative Learning approach with online programs is useful in response to rising demand for university educational system. This study evaluates the use of internet and computer in collaborative teaching and learning process for post graduate nursing students. Method: This is a correlation descriptive study. The population in the study is based on census sampling ...

Agent-based collaborative decision support is a methodology of utilizing domain specific intelligent systems, interacting in a common environment, to partner with one or more human decision makers to reach a consensus solution to a complex problem. An example is the recently developed Collaborative Infrastructure Assessment Tool (CIAT) that provides a collaborative planning facility management ...

This paper is intended to provide an informal assessment of the theoretical foundations and methodological applications that have been used to study collaborative information seeking. The review of previous studies on collaborative information seeking reveals that most studies have been predominantly descriptive and exploratory in nature, and little has been based on existing conceptual or theo...

This paper describes a computerized collaborative testing environment in which students can take an assessment session in groups. For each question, an individual response is firstly requested, then students are allowed to view the answers of the others and discuss the question. After that a final response is requested. This collaborative environment has been used to measure the effect of colla...

The characterization and assessment of the social capital of a member in collaborative networks is an important element to help promoting the success of collaborative networks. However, models to measure the social capital are lacking. Applying some concepts from social networks theory, this paper discusses some perspectives and criteria to identify and measure the value of social capital of a ...

This paper describes a case study addressing risk assessment in a hospital unit. The objective was to analyse the impact on collaborative work after the unit changed their installations. The study adopted the SHELL model. A tool aiming to support the inquiring activities was also developed. The outcomes of this research show the model is adequate to analyze the complex issues raised by healthca...

background: cooperative and collaborative learning approach with online programs is useful in response to rising demand for university educational system. this study evaluates the use of internet and computer in collaborative teaching and learning process for post graduate nursing students. method: this is a correlation descriptive study. the population in the study is based on census sampling ...

Methods The Austrian Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment (LBI-HTA) implemented an EAAS specifically for oncologic drugs in 2009 [2]. Due to rising costs for cancer therapies, oncologic drugs are of importance throughout Europe and are therefore assessed concurrently by health technology assessment (HTA) agencies leading to considerable redundancies. Experiences of the LB...