Teaching and learning for a New Age require a new model of education. It means an interactive and creative education based on individual needs and abilities. The new education strategy also needs freedom in learning and teaching and an active mode of learning influences innovative personality development, which creates something unique and turns it into entrepreneurial activity. Our research sh...

BACKGROUND The prolonged use or abuse of voice may lead to vocal fatigue and vocal fold tissue damage. School teachers routinely use their voices intensively at work and are therefore at a higher risk of dysphonia. AIMS To determine the prevalence of voice disorders among primary school teachers in Lagos, Nigeria, and to explore associated risk factors. METHODS Teaching and non-teaching sta...

Modern educational technology is playing a very important role in information engineering discipline in ordinary universities and colleges. The using of modern educational technology can be classified into instinctive stage and rational stage. In the instinctive stage, users have been aware of the importance of those modern assisted teaching methods and make full application already. In rationa...

BACKGROUND Learning to undertake intimate female and male examinations is an important part of medical student training but opportunities to participate in practical, supervised learning in a safe environment can be limited. A collaborative, integrated training programme to provide such learning was developed by two university teaching departments and a specialist sexual health service, utilisi...

The aim of this article is to solve teaching quality evaluation problems within higher education institutions. However, the evaluation process includes complex analysis of teaching resources and the learning environment. As a result, it is very difficult to evaluate teaching quality accurately and quantitatively. The research carried out quantitatively analyses and evaluates the quality of teac...

Instant e-Teaching is a new concept that supplements e-Teaching and e-Learning environment in providing a full and comprehensive modern education styles. The e-Learning technology depicts the concept of enabling self-learning among students on a certain subject using online reference and materials. While the instant e-teaching requires ‘face-to-face’ characteristic between teacher and student t...

The communication focuses on the educational environment for teaching "Digital Speech Processing" at undergraduate, graduate and PhD levels in the Department of Telecommunications from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Emphasis will be done to reveal particular successes and drawbacks in order to set up and to develop a modern curriculum during the last four years. This educational ...

BACKGROUND Medical Education is becoming increasingly community-oriented, student-centred, self-learning and self & peer-assessing process especially in the undergraduate years. This is happening because of increasing patient awareness of their rights in our new healthcare world of increased consultant responsibility; and implementation in the U.K. health institutions of the 'European Working T...

Cooperative leaning techniques have their own unique advantages for the teacher and the students. This paper is to discuss the English teaching model of cooperative learning in the network environment in higher vocational education based on theory of cooperative learning and theory of computerassisted cooperative learning. First, it introduces the characteristics of the computer-assisted cooper...

This chapter presents a summary of research undertaken at the University of Hertfordshire into the usability and affordances of three-dimensional (3D) virtual environments (VE) used in teaching and learning. Our earlier experimental work identified important variables related to individual differences and how these affected task completion, learning, and attitude to the environment. More recent...