A key goal of educational neuroscience is to conduct constrained experimental research that is theory-driven and yet also clearly related to educators' complex set of questions and concerns. However, the fields of education, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience use different levels of description to characterize human ability. An important advance in research in educational neuroscience would...

Since 1995, we have been researching the application of ubiquitous computing technology to support the automated capture of live university lectures so that students and teachers may later access them. With virtually no additional effort beyond that which lecturers already expend on preparing and delivering a lecture, we are able to create a repository, or digital library, of rich educational e...

This paper shows that in education and training systems LOM can be used to map the structure of courses. The necessary extension of the aggregation level is introduced. The description of the courses created with LOM allow for the reuse at all levels. Rhetoric didactic relations between the learning objects are also stored in the LOM records and support adaptivity. Our approach for the first ti...

The aim of this study was to discuss the experience of building an educational software about the auscultation of breathing sounds. In the process, Lev Semenovic Vygotsky's pedagogic theoretical framework was used, and the content was delimited so as to encompass the auscultation method step by step. The objective of the auscultation was to classify normal and strange sounds and their particula...

We discuss the design of an inexpensive, high-throughput CCD spectrograph for a small telescope. By using optical fibers to carry the light from the telescope focus to a table-top spectrograph, one can minimize the weight carried by the telescope and simplify the spectrograph design. We recently employed this approach in the construction of IntroSpec, an instrument built for the 16-inch Knowles...

Youth empowerment is the main goal of sex education according to Dutch Government and NGO policies. Academics from different disciplines have argued, however, that the ideal of empowerment through education is problematic, because of the unequal power relations implicated in educational practices. Building on one-anda-half years of online and offline ethnographic fieldwork among Dutch youth, th...

Purpose – This paper provides an example of how organization theory can be linked with other literatures in a complementary and productive manner. Establishing a bridge between the organization theory and learning environment literatures, the authors seek to provide an example of how such literature-bridging can enrich our understanding of the school-classroom relationship. Design/methodology/a...

My wife and I first traveled to Eldoret in February, 2005. I was the Brown faculty member for the month, primarily responsible for teaching on a general medical ward at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH). Aside from these duties, I began a series of lectures in diabetes and clinical endocrinology for the residents. What struck me the most was the inadequate care of the diabetic patients,...

Youth empowerment is the main goal of sex education according to Dutch Government and NGO policies. Academics from different disciplines have argued, however, that the ideal of empowerment through education is problematic, because of the unequal power relations implicated in educational practices. Building on one-anda-half years of online and offline ethnographic fieldwork among Dutch youth, th...

Youth empowerment is the main goal of sex education according to Dutch Government and NGO policies. Academics from different disciplines have argued, however, that the ideal of empowerment through education is problematic, because of the unequal power relations implicated in educational practices. Building on one-anda-half years of online and offline ethnographic fieldwork among Dutch youth, th...