This paper reports on the results of an ongoing project for the development of a platform for e-Learning, which automatically constructs curricula based on available educational resources and the learners needs and abilities. The system under development, called PASER (Planner for the Automatic Synthesis of Educational Resources), uses an automated planner, which given the initial state of the ...

The large collection of educational data provides the opportunity to study how students learn and can be a source of valuable knowledge both for students when planning their studies and for educators and administrators for improving their curricula and services. In our work, we mine course relationships and student consumption patterns found in the data. We present a visual analysis system, Lea...

Schools are expensive and last a long time. When we build new schools or modernize existing ones, it is important to consider the trends that are changing how we think about and deliver public education. Although no one can predict the future, we have an obligation to identify evolving attitudes and practices and to try our best to understand how they might affect the physical settings we use f...

This article is intended to provide students and clinicians aspiring to perform educational research with some background information pertaining to many of the issues inherent in performing research within this domain. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive review of the quantitative methods one might adopt, nor will it fully reflect all of the debate that currently exists within the edu...

BACKGROUND Quality of services, making communications with target groups, and educating them are among the most important success factors in implementation of family planning programs. Provision of public access to contraception and related methods, counseling services, and paying attention to social specification and cultures are important in promotion of service quality. With regard to applic...

We present a service-oriented personalization system, set in an educational framework, based on a semantic annotation of courses including prerequisites and learning objectives. The system supports users in planning personalized curricula and in verifying the compliance of curricula against a model describing the designer goals. We have developed a prototype of the planning and validation servi...

This paper tries to bridge the gap between engineering and education by introducing a new way of how to use existing and well known design techniques of engineering in order to structure teaching. It may be called the engineering approach to educational modeling. Planning a new course or restructuring an existing one can be understood as a system design task. Where the system is the course with...

introduction: leadership and management are two expected features and competencies for general practitioners (gps). the purpose of this study was leadership and management curriculum planning for gps which was performed based on kern’s curriculum planning cycle. methods: this study was conducted in 2011-2012 in iran using an explanatory mixed-methods approach. it was conducted through an initia...