The current state of affair in e-learning world-wide shows a reluctance to didactic design. Learners frequently complain and scientists discuss about insufficient adaptivity of e-learning offers to the learners’ needs. Didactics is badly underestimated. High quality didactic design is seen as a crucial aspect of dissemination. E-learning content and services need to reach their audience properl...

This MBoC Technical Perspective (Pollard, 2010) was sorely needed. The author had been grousing about this for some time and conveying it in various quarters. One occasion was the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Physiology Course. He had given a typically fine lecture, during which he had stunned the students by asking whether they knew the equilibrium association constants for an...

The Faculty of Pharmacy of Cluj was created in 1948. The first dean was Erwin Popper (1906-1974) - professor of analytical chemistry. At the beginning of the activity the didactic spaces in this institution were not sufficient. Consequently, Prof. Popper tried and succeeded in solving this problem. In 1955-1957, despite financial and economic difficulties, he succeeded in raising a new building...

thanatology is the academic study of dying, death and grief. it encompasses thoughts, feelings, attitudes, events and the psychological mechanisms of dealing with them. death obsession includes ruminations, repetitive, intrusive thoughts or images about death. death obsession in the nursing profession can occur on a daily basis, and communication with dying patients can be stressful for nurses....

This article reports the outcomes of a kinesthetic learning strategy used during a cardiac lecture to engage students and to improve the use of classroom-acquired knowledge in today's challenging clinical settings. Nurse educators are constantly faced with finding new ways to engage students, stimulate critical thinking, and improve clinical application in a rapidly changing and complex health ...

In this paper wc first outline why pupils should be given the opportunity to visit and havc direct contact with the cultural heritage. We then propose some 'didactic itineraries' organized by museums and other cultural institutes which are aimed at specific subjects and ages of pupils. We illustrate the main organizational aspects and the people involved in the various stages of the project. 11...

Growth of research conducted over the past year involving the application of virtual worlds in the educational field enabled the development of didactic interventions, which aim to complement the learning process of students. Based on this assumption, this paper presents an analysis based on a systematic review of virtual worlds applied in the educational context seeking to highlight qualitativ...

Text-to-speech synthesis is the main subject treated in this work. It will be presented the constitution of a generic text-to-speech system conversion, explained the functions of the various modules and described the development techniques using the formants model. The development of a didactic formant synthesiser under Matlab environment will also be described. This didactic synthesiser is int...

Background: Medical education continues to face challenges particularly with the increased need for high quality accessible curricula delivered in a time effective manner. The purpose of study was assess feasibility and student learning web-based training program ultrasound limited obstetrics gynecology. Methods: We created six-module E-learning (5 didactic modules 1 biometry module) that conta...

This year’s Discovery Challenge was dedicated to solving of the video lecture recommendation problems, based on the data collected at VideoLectures.Net site. Challenge had two tasks: task 1 in which new-user/newitem recommendation problem was simulated, and the task 2 which was a simulation of the clickstream-based recommendation. In this overview we present challenge datasets, tasks, evaluatio...