BACKGROUND In the current economic climate, hospitals and academic institutions demand that medical departments function in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Detailed business plans are necessary to build new clinical programs, and institutions have learned that new programs are associated with significant costs for purchasing and maintaining equipment. We report our experience with repai...

in order to understand what educational planning means, it is necessary to understand what is meant by planning and what a plan is. it is from this level that we will go into the explanation of educational planning in urban planning and architecture. the finding of research shows fundamental discourse that has been surveyed in this paper. character of educational planning in urban studies concl...

Having acquired a Diploma in Electrical Engineering and a Masters Degree in Advanced Digital Communication in the Aristotle University in Greece, and after having worked as an educator both in formal and informal settings for 10 years now, I have, since January 2008, started the PhD Program in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. My research interests are : Developmental En...

The electronic health record (EHR) requires the use of standardized nursing languages such as NANDA, NOC, and NIC. Helping nurses use these languages for an EHR requires different educational strategies in 3 domains: intellectual, interpersonal, and technical. The author explains the rationale for changes in educational methods, expectations that educators and managers should set for students a...

162 CURRENT ONCOLOGY—VOLUME 15, NUMBER 3 Copyright © 2008 Multimed Inc. Educational service provided to physicians by an unrestricted grant from Sanofi-Aventis Introducing our new series of expert guest editorials reporting upon different aspects of practice. These are independently reviewed and supported by unrestricted educational grants from our colleagues in industry. I N V I T E D E D I T ...

This study presents a comprehensive picture of educational governance in California and describes how that structure affects decision making. The questions it explores include: 1. What analytic framework can help policymakers to better understand California’s complex education governance system? 2. Are there specific indicators of effectiveness that can be used to evaluate the governance system...

This paper discusses Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (AEH), which is at present a hot topic of research and an important aim for commercial educational systems. Section 2 considers generally current AEH advances and summarises main directions of research. Section 3 presents a project where an adaptive Computer-Aided Language Learning (CALL) environment was developed. Section 4 focuses on studen...

In this paper, we provide an overview of our work in mining design patterns from the Educational Software Components of Tomorrow project. By identifying, crystallizing and organizing design patterns, we aim to address problems of reusability and interoperabily that currently present critical bottlenecks for the rapid assembly of educational technology. We describe 4 categories of patterns: inst...

introduction: educational justice is a process by which all those involved in education are pondering and seeking to establish it in their regulatory environments. this study aimed to investigate effective factors in an ideal educational justice and the current condition of educational justice from the students’ viewpoint and ultimately increase the awareness and understanding of authorities an...