Compensation measures are a new method for handling impact on cultural heritage in land use planning. The idea with compensation measures can be understood as an extension of the polluter pays principle. Today, compensation measures are mainly used when natural environments are damaged by development, but it is also possible to use compensation measures when a project results in negative impact...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Future physicians are urged to balance effectiveness and cost in their prescribing of medications. This study determined whether educational sessions for residents together with a "Resident Report Card" changed residents' prescribing of generic medications in both commercial and Medicaid patient panels, compared with regional performance of physicians in practice in th...

This paper provides a review of existing instructional planning approaches, classified in two groups: delivery and content planning (Wasson, 1990). It is suggested that instructional planning doesn’t have to be associated with a particular teaching style or locus of control. Two examples are used to illustrate how instructional planning can implement different instructional strategies, some of ...

In this paper we present an educational tool, named CAMOU, which has been designed to both, acquire (learning) knowledge from the (educational) interactions among students and educators, and aid educators in the process of course design and analysis. CAMOU integrates a system, named IPSS, which uses planning and scheduling modules as main reasoning module. IPSS is used to automatically analyse,...

Recent years have seen a growing interest in educational games, which integrate the engaging features of digital games with the personalized learning functionalities of intelligent tutoring systems. A key challenge in creating educational games, particularly those supported with interactive narrative, is devising narrativecentered tutorial planners, which dynamically adapt gameplay events to in...

This paper presents PASER, a system for automatically synthesizing curricula using AI Planning and Machine Learning techniques on an ontology of educational resources metadata. The ontology is a part–of hierarchy of learning themes which correspond to RDCEO competencies. The system uses an automated planner, which given the initial state of the problem (learner’s profile, preferences, needs and...

In this paper an application of the cluster analysis technique in educational planning is demonstrated by means of a developed computer software with some characteristics of an expert system. The main idea is based on the knowledge-based systems which have been applied in group technology. The software is applied to weekly schedules of the courses and professors of the Industrial Engineering De...

BACKGROUND Academic medicine is in a state of dramatic transformation. For this reason strategic thinking is the most essential part of educational planning. The main purpose of the present study was developing the strategic educational planning of Ophthalmology in Iran from 2007 to 2010 METHODS A qualitative investigation using focus group discussion has been implemented successfully for dev...

Background Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. The present study has been developed with the aim of designing a Competency Model for Educ...

In Fiji, notable among the recent spate of educational reforms has been the Ministry of Education’s (MoEs) requirement that all schools undertake a process of school strategic planning. This preliminary study explores perceptions of a sample of Fijian teachers on the way this exercise has been conducted in their schools. The analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data indicates that scho...