The purpose of this study is to develop computer aided instruction courseware for introductory statistics and to examine the effectiveness of this type of instruction for schooling. Following the theory of educational technology, statistics is a subject area that needs CAI for university students. The courseware of statistics developed meets this need. Using CAI, students not only receive tutor...

Medical training in radiology should be viewed as a continuum that begins in medical school and proceeds throughout the years in practice. Unfortunately, there are significant barriers to providing continuing medical education. One key barrier is the physical separation between the information source and the workplace. A multimedia medical library distributed via wide area networks has been dev...

BACKGROUND Electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) are used to document and support learning activities. E-portfolios with mobile capabilities allow even more flexibility. However, the development or acquisition of ePortfolio software is often costly, and at the same time, commercially available systems may not sufficiently fit the institution's needs. The aim of this study was to design and evalua...

BACKGROUND Physicians are continuously engaging in continuing medical education (CME) activities. Whether CME activities actually improve their knowledge and whether multiple media, instructional techniques, and exposures are better than single experiences are questions that are still under discussion. METHODS The Johns Hopkins Evidence-based Practice Center for Healthcare Research and Qualit...

A multimedia instruction that integrates different types of media is a way to maximize learning effectiveness, and three-dimensional lessons through a variety of multimedia will be able to offer a more realistic education as an innovative alternative to one-sided, lecture-oriented instruction. The growth of computer engineering has an extremely positive effect on early childhood education as we...

Distance education can be very effective use of instructional materials with visual, auditory, audiovisual and multimedia content. Visual content can be in the form of text, drawings, pictures, graphics and models, and the like. Auditory facilities are oral presentation or a speech, musical accompaniment, different sounds, etc.. Audiovisual content combine visual and auditory content, usually i...

As different means of information visualization become more popular and available both as commercial or open source products, there is an opportunity to use them in the education process by providing students with a larger variety of tools for mastering the required information and skills related to a learning object. The chapter discusses the use of various multimedia tools and edutainment (an...

Multimedia information education is along with the computer network technology development and appear of a new type of teaching mode, the domestic sports also has been committed to exploring network education technology and college physical teaching integration research. The development of modern science and technology, effectively improving the development of undertakings of physical culture a...