OBJECTIVE To assess verbal interactions related to television and other electronic media exposure among mothers and 6 month-old-infants. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of 154 mother-infant dyads participating in a long-term study related to early child development. SETTING Urban public hospital. PARTICIPANTS Low socioeconomic status mothers of 6-month-old infants. Main Exposure Media exp...

The problem of sharing heterogeneous database for accessing different educational resources has to be considered. The study is carried out to realize the heterogeneous database sharing for educational resources using multi-media educational resources as the researching object. XML is applied as middleware for the practical requirements of education. The study has important practical significanc...

New Media teaching and learning is on everyone’s lips at the moment. It must be analyzed whether e-learning and multimedia with its possibilities can make a lasting contribution to the university teaching. New Media will influence both, the presence teaching and the self-learning at home. This paper deals with the educational dimension of the new media and with didactic models and learning theo...

“Educational media alone do not influence the achievement of students. Researchers who have attempted to demonstrate the superior influence of educational technologies on achievement have been unsuccessful. On the other hand, researchers who have attempted to identify the appropriate techniques of message organization and the correct process of instructional delivery with technology have been m...

An exploratory study was conducted to answer the following questions: What are older adults' perceptions of social media? What educational strategies can facilitate their learning of social media? A thematic map was developed to illustrate changing perceptions from the initial unanimous, strong negative to the more positive but cautious and to the eventual willingness to actually contribute con...

The support of technological resources in teaching and learning has contributed to make them more efficient and enjoyable. Through this support has become quite common to use media resources before explored only for entertainment for educational purposes, among them the TV. The interactive Digital TV (iDTV) provides resources that make possible the development of a plethora of educational appli...

OBJECTIVE. Our objective was to develop a convenient yet comprehensive process for transferring 35-mm radiology slides into a digital teaching-file system capable of delivering online educational content and serving also as a general-purpose digital media repository. CONCLUSION. We believe this approach provides a feasible solution for converting radiologists’ educational 35-mm slides into well...

The ability to create and read different kinds of media products is seen as an important skill for citizenship. In Finland media education (in communicational education) has been taken into the official curriculum as a cross-curriculum subject in 1994 at the primary school level, after the first finnish dissortation in media education had been published (Härkönen 1994). At the same time finnish...

BACKGROUND Information and Communication Technology (ICT) opens up new possibilities for introducing innovative teaching and learning methods to deliver education in different educational areas. Use of internet and social media has grown rapidly and is a key way in how nurses and nurse educator students find information. However, the evidence is still lacking how nurse educator students use soc...