Purpose: To explore areas in which the education at the Pakistan Institute of Prosthetic & Orthotic Science (PIPOS) could be improved or supplemented to facilitate clinical practice of graduates. To describe educational opportunities PIPOS graduates have had since their graduation and explore their further educational needs. Method: 15 graduates from PIPOS participated in semi-structured interv...

The typical software engineering education lacks a practical experience of the process of software engineering— students are presented with relevant process theory in lectures, but have limited opportunity to put these concepts into practice in an associated class project. SimSE is an educational, interactive, fully graphical computer game that simulates software engineering processes, and is d...

The need for tele-education is rapidly growing. This paper describes a tele-educational environment and reports on experiences obtained during international trials. The tele-educational environment is build around the metaphor of a college. The virtual college offers the opportunity for students to participate in desktop tele-education from their homes or offices. The environment is based on In...

There are likely to be many opportunities and challenges for health informatics and health informatics higher education in China following acceptance as a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The purpose of the article is to review the current status and consider future directions for health informatics and health informatics higher education in China. Today, China's educators are view...

We would like to draw your readers’ attention to an innovation information and communications technology project from the Otago region of New Zealand. The School of Nursing and School of Midwifery at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand saw potential to work with an existing local organisation (OtagoNet) that was using video conferencing for high school educational purposes within the rural ...

ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics are restarting CGEMS, the Computer Graphics Educational Materials Source, an on-line repository of curricular material for computer graphics education. In this context, the question that we ask ourselves is: “How can CGEMS best meet the needs of educators”? The aim of this forum is to provide the audience with an idea of the purpose of CGEMS – a source of education...

An education gap exists for new graduate registered nurses in mental health because of insufficient clinical experience. In an effort to bridge this gap, defined competencies and assessments provided the framework and direction for educational immersion scenarios with standardized patients. Kirkpatrick's (1995) model directed the evaluation of the learning achieved through the immersion scenari...

This paper presents the learning results obtained in a course called “Creating accessible digital educational content”, and taught in Finland. This course was aimed at teachers conducting virtual training, and its objective was training teachers in how to create digital educational content that any student can use, whether or not they have any kind of physical or sensory disabilities. The cours...

In this paper, we investigate how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in the timing of national identity card distribution, which make it easier for rural migrants to register as temporary residents in urban destinations. We...

This article examines the global digital divide, with tables of data that document the wide disparity between the world’s information-rich and information-deprived. Its fundamental causes and ramifications for the world’s poor are examined, with an emphasis upon how it affects educational opportunity. Critical challenges associated with addressing this problem are discussed, and some misguided ...