During the last decade, medical education in the German-speaking world has been striving to become more practice-oriented. This is currently being achieved in many schools through the implementation of simulation-based instruction in Skills Labs. Simulators are thus an essential part of this type of medical training, and their acquisition and operation by a Skills Lab require a large outlay of ...

PURPOSE Cultural sensitivity may be especially important in the care of children, and national pediatric associations have issued policy statements promoting cultural competence in medical education. The authors conducted a national survey to investigate the current state of cultural competence teaching and learning within U.S. pediatric clerkships. METHOD The authors surveyed 125 U.S. pediat...

Openness has become a key feature in the discourse and practice of higher education in recent years as has its potential to drive innovation in teaching and learning practices. More often this discourse refers to the processes involved in learning such as in the phrase open and distance learning. Much less attention has been paid to the processes in teaching. The advent of the internet and its ...

How do students perceive teaching materials within Moodle? Which type of elements do they fixate first? How do students perceive images compared to text elements? How does the complexity of a teaching material influence eye movements and subsequently the learning process with Moodle? To which extent does student’s involvement influence eye movements during learning? ... This paper outlines how ...

The main goal of this paper is to consider the usage and usability testing of a virtual mathematical interface. The main sections of the Laboratory of Applied Mathematics at Lappeenranta University of Technology new Web pages will be also introduced here. The reason initiating the design of this interface was that, for some reason, the mathematical skills of new university students in Finland, ...

Teaching in general and teaching sustainability aspects in various disciplines specifically can be facilitated by recording the lectures on video. The videos can then be shared not only with the own students but across universities, especially, if the accompanying teaching material like manuscript and PowerPoint presentation are shared simultaneously. The video recording actually leads to an in...

the development of materials for language teaching has been retraced from different perspectives. for example, some have identified influences of a social view on designing course books and compiling materials for language classes. the purpose of this article is to focus on the specific case of elt material, its design and priorities in the context of iran. this article also offers a detailed a...

Searching the World Wide Web for information on medical mycology can be challenging. We provide the reader with an organized overview of the available resources on the Internet, including authoritative sites from academic institutions, professional societies, government agencies, and personal sites. This article reviews clinically relevant Internet resource directories, comprehensive sites of i...

Learning prosodic control for speaking Japanese is effective to reduce syntactic and lexical ambiguity and to improve the comprehensibility of learners’ spoken Japanese. Good prosody can also improve its naturalness. In the conventional curriculum however, prosody training has not been provided satisfactorily for learners partly because of scarcity of teaching materials. To facilitate prosody t...

Across the K-16 system of primary, secondary, and post-secondary education, the need for interdisciplinary resources is widespread. Resources are dispersed, however, across disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and professional forums, as well as the “gray” or “fugitive” literature of conference papers, teaching materials, program reports, working papers, and other unpublished work. We enlarge the c...