Although older adults rarely outperform young adults on learning tasks, in the study reported here they surpassed their younger counterparts not only by answering more semantic-memory general-information questions correctly, but also by better correcting their mistakes. While both young and older adults exhibited a hypercorrection effect, correcting their high-confidence errors more than their ...

Usually the first course in mathematics is calculus. It’s a core course in the curriculum of the Business, Engineering and the Sciences. However many students face difficulties to learn calculus. These difficulties are often caused by the prior fear of mathematics. The students today can’t live without using computer technology. The uses of computer for teaching and learning can transform the b...

Somerset Maugham is well known for his literary skills as a best-selling author. But many may not know that he studied medicine and qualified as a surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital, London. It is no wonder that in his book “Of Human Bondage”, Maugham wrote of a lecturer advising first-year medical students that, “You will have to learn many tedious things which you will forget the moment you have...

Resume International statistics show that more than a half of the software projects fail before any user could try the product. The general opinion is that the fiasco can be traced back to the lack of proper design work. It is a sign that made us to meditate on our teaching and curriculum developing practice. This paper intends to present our experience and a new strategy aiming a better traini...

The importance of ethical conduct in health care was acknowledged as early as the fifth century in the Hippocratic Oath and continues to be an essential element of clinical practice. Providers face ethical dilemmas that are complex and unfold over time, testing both practitioners' knowledge and communication skills. Students learning to be health care providers need to develop the knowledge and...

Although the concept of applying computer software for educational purposes dates back some 30 years, using Computer Based Learning (CBL) environments and Web-based Training (WBT) systems for teaching computing is a eld of increasing interest. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a research project whose objectives led to the design and implementation of such a system. The art...

The objective of this article is to introduce a multidisciplinary biostatistics course program, targeting professionals and academics involved in researching genetics and genomics. The program is designed to adapt statistical concepts, uses and language to this field, which is at the forefront of knowledge. The idea underlying this initiative arose through a research project conducted by physic...

Mark Warschauer University of California, Irvine Less than two decades ago, new forms of socially constructed multimedia were believed to be devaluing writing, marginalizing the essay, and contributing to a postmodern death of the author (e.g., Faigley, 1997; Landow, 1992). But today, writing is more important than ever before (National Commission on Writing, 2003), mastery of the essay remains...