Day care workers are not only responsible for meeting the needs of the children they care for but creating an enriched and friendly environment as well. Few daycare centers require any specific inservice training for their staff members. When provided, training typically occurs as a didactic workshop. For this study a multiple baseline design across participants was used to evaluate the effects...

OBJECTIVE 1. Selecting the key problems in medicine--I. Diagnostic problems, II. Didactic and training problems of medical education, III. Economical problems, IV. Communications technologies problems, V. Psychological problems, VI. Social problems, VII. Strategic problems. 2. Outline ways to optimal solution of these problems. METHODS Innovative intellectual approach to medical diagnostic de...

In today's technologically advanced healthcare world, nursing students should be active learners and think critically to provide safe patient care. A strategy that promotes students' active learning is case-based learning (CBL). The purpose of this study was to examine critical thinking (CT) abilities of nursing students from two different curricular approaches, CBL and didactic teaching. The d...

This article aims to establish a parallel between the organizational models and the didactic architectures used by businesses to manage internal training. The objective is to understand whether so-called "eLearning 2.0" (eLearning based on the tools and approaches typical of web 2.0) can be useful in different frameworks and organisations. In this context, the paper looks at whether it is possi...

ARES System is an application dedicated to data analysis, data exploration and knowledge discovery. This versatile tool offers rough set based methodology as well as emerging patterns and Support Vector Machine algorithms to be applied to input data presented as an information system. Many analytical capabilities provided with an user-friendly, intuitive graphical interface and XML based suppor...

Communicating bad news, otherwise known as difficult conversations, is a complex communication skill that requires didactic learning and practical application. Students learn that what may be interpreted as bad news is determined by the recipient and not by the person who is delivering the news. Learning a systematic approach, such as the SPIKES (Setting, Perception, Invitation, Knowledge, Empa...

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 ...

The past 60 years have witnessed remarkable advances in our understanding of the mechanisms that control body temperature, but except for brief historical background chapters occasionally included in didactic monographs and symposia proceedings, no book, to my best knowledge, has yet been published on the " makers " of thermal physiology. Thermal physiology is an integrative science, and this i...

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 overall aim of the study has been to gain knowledge about computer games used in an educational context. In our research we have analyzed and interpreted the game`s characteristic interactive dramaturgy exposed in the interplay between the game and the gamer and integrated in the medium itself. We have looked specifically at the challenges that the educator faces in the didactic interaction...