Nurses' patient education is important for building patients' knowledge, understanding, and preparedness for self-management. The aim of this study was to explore the conditions for nurses' patient education work by focusing on managers' discourses about patient education provided by nurses. In 2012, data were derived from three focus group interviews with primary care managers. Critical discou...

Part 2’s focus on empirical research—research into how genres are learned, how they function in particular contexts, and how they carry out communicative goals and reflect/reinforce ideologies—illustrates how research can inform our practices as writing teachers. Research into genre learning and acquisition has provided teachers with useful methods for situating learning and for fostering meta-...

The paper reports a quasi-experimental study comparing the “traditional flipped classroom” pedagogical design with the “productive failure” (Kapur, 2016) pedagogical design in the flipped classroom for a 2week curricular unit on polynomials in a Hong Kong Secondary school. Different from the flipped classroom where students are provided video clips with new concepts and associated procedures to...

—This paper presents a review of e-assessment tools bearing in mind the use of standards and pedagogical practices. The former covers both technological standards and those related with the learning process. Regarding pedagogical practices, the study takes into account the use of adaptive techniques to adjust the assessment to students' knowledge level, the variety of types of items and the str...

In this paper, a new approach is presented for organizing pedagogical texts for researchers, based on a kernel projection from a hybrid text-researcher space onto the researcher’s ability space, where the text-researcher space includes text’s features as well as the researcher’s reasoning styles and intention in doing research. The approach has been applied to organizing pedagogical texts for t...

This paper deals with the process of expanding the virtual secondary education school network, aiming to provide daily basis, online teaching. The context of this research is the ESR funded Eastern Finland Educational Network Project, which is a network of 36 high schools providing courses via web-based learning environments. The project is a shared activity between teachers and researchers. Th...

V Sammanfattning VII List of Included Papers IX Other Work by the Respondent XII CHAPTER 1: VIRTUAL EMBODIED PEDAGOGICAL AGENTS 1 Virtual embodied pedagogical agents 1 CHAPTER 2: VIRTUAL PEDAGOGICAL AGENTS – A SHORT HISTORICAL RÉSUMÉ 5 Knowledge systems and artifi cial intelligence 5 User modelling 7 Embodiment 7 Computer based pedagogy 7 Present state 8 References 9 CHAPTER 3: A RESEARCH OVERV...

The Tutoring Research Group at the University of Memphis is developing an intelligent tutoring system which takes advantages of recent technological advances in the areas of semantic processing of natural language, world knowledge representation, multimedia interfaces, and fuzzy descriptions. The tutoring interaction is based on in-depth studies of human tutors, both skilled and unskilled. Late...

Because technological pedagogical content knowledge is becoming an increasingly important construct in the field of teacher education, there is a need for assessment mechanisms that capture teachers’ development of this portion of the knowledge base for teaching. The paper describes a proposal drawing on qualitative data produced during lesson study cycles to assess teachers’ development of tec...