Poor Internet connectivity is one of the pertinent issues in the digital divide between developing and industrialized countries, hampering the transition to the global information society. Recent emergence of national and regional research and education data communication networks in parts of the developing world has shown large benefits arising from collaboration amongst tertiary education ins...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Simulation-based medical education has become popular in postgraduate training for medical emergencies; however, the direct impact on learners' clinical performances during live critical events is unknown. Our goal was to evaluate the perceived impact of simulation-based education on pediatric emergencies by auditing pediatric residents immediately after involvement in...

BACKGROUND Implementation of World Health Organization case management guidelines for serious childhood illnesses remains a challenge in hospitals in low-income countries. Facilitators of and barriers to implementation of locally adapted clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have not been explored. METHODS This ethnographic study based on the theory of participatory action research (PAR) was co...

Improving patients' knowledge has been suggested to improve their symptoms and prognosis. Very little is known about epileptic patient's knowledge of their illness in cross-cultural settings. This pilot study investigated what Omani patients know about their disorder. Patients attending a tertiary hospital completed a structured knowledge questionnaire to elicit information pertaining to aetiol...

The paper studies the interaction between public and private spending in a two-stage education framework (K-12 and tertiary education) and their e¤ects on economic growth. We …nd that an increase in the overall educational public spending crowds out the total level of private contributions and increases the share of resources that households devote to K-12 education. For a given public budget, ...

Wage Dispersion, Markets and Institutions: The Effects of the Boom in Education on the Wage Structure In this paper, we investigate the effects of the boom in education on the wage structure in Europe. We use detailed information on the distribution of wages, estimated from microdata from 12 European countries from the beginning of the 1980’s to the present, to analyse the changes both between ...

The opinions expressed in this paper are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the OECD or of the governments of its Member countries. Division in the Directorate for Education and it complements the analyses being undertaken by the participating countries and the OECD Secretariat. The objectives of the review are to examine how the organisation, financi...

In this paper, I review some current technologies and software used in collaborative knowledge building and learning in general and then discuss the interactive system I designed to facilitate collaborative knowledge building and learning in tertiary education. This system is used in conjunction with a wireless intelligent personal electronic response system in the classroom. Contributors and l...