A recent investigation of the further education market showed increasing numbers of temporary partnerships between public and private partners. These partnerships, called dynamic education webs, are based on fragmented, unaligned provider initiatives. Dynamic education webs affect both public and private further education suppliers, focusing on sustainable lifelong learning concepts. The usage ...

To competently deal with changes in the health care system, health professionals for the future must have expanded abilities and new attitudes. Education of health professionals for community-oriented health care (COHC) is being promoted as one approach to achieve this focus. This article reports on the development and testing of the Community-Oriented Health Care Competency Scale, which measur...

In this paper it is presented our contribution for carrying out adaptive and intelligent Web-based Education Systems (WBES) that take into account the individual student learning requirements, by means of a holistic architecture and Framework for developing WBES. In addition, three basic modules of the proposed WBES are outlined: an Authoring tool, a Semantic Web-based Evaluation, and a Cogniti...

Knowledge that needs to be learned in the workplace may often be illstructured, arising from the need to solve a problem, rather than from a motivation to learn an entire content domain. Existing visually structured knowledge representation methods for education are designed to support subject-based learning. In this paper we describe our conceptual model of collaborative learning which is deve...

The paper is focused on development of innovated course focused on ergonomics education in the conditions of the Czech Republic. Although the proposed course can be seen as a country oriented it is built on universal foundations, which can be applied everywhere. The ambition is to create innovated course content that will be fun and educated at the same time. During course preparations a Constr...

using cross-provinces and panel regressions, this paper investigates the interrelationship between gender equality and fertility in iran for the period 2007-2012. the article attempts to explain the low fertility rate in iran by distinguishing between two types of gender equity, i.e. gender equity in individual-oriented institutions and gender equity in family-oriented institutions. for this pu...

A basic introduction to the markup concept and advanced markup techniques is provided. It is pointed out where these techniques can be used in computer based education, and how a successful exploitation of markup ideas requires the development – and standardisation – of content structuring and usage patterns, similar to the design pattern of object oriented software engineering. Several concept...

This paper presents an overview over an experiment, which investigated the effect of dynamic (e.g. animations) and static (e.g. pictures) media types for process oriented learning content. Teachers who want to apply new technology in education need guidelines in order to develop the presentations themselves, supervise programmers or to know what to buy. Many fragments for such guidelines do exi...