diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease of lifelong duration and its management requires a fundamental change in patient’s lifestyle. the aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of an interactive health education program on knowledge, behavior, hba1c and health-related quality of life (hrqol) of diabetic patients. eighty patients were randomly selected and assigned to two groups, 40 to the...

BACKGROUND Intensive care units (ICUs) encompass advanced clinical management and technology, mandating continuing education for nurses to maintain competency. This study examined nurses' perceptions of current education on invasive mechanical ventilation in an Australian ICU. METHODS Qualitative data were obtained from five optional open-ended questions as part of a larger 30-item cross-sect...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether health outcomes of children who have asthma can be improved through the use of an Internet-enabled interactive multimedia asthma education program. METHODS Two hundred twenty-eight children with asthma visiting a pediatric pulmonary clinic were randomly assigned to control and intervention groups. Children and caregivers in both groups received traditional patie...

BACKGROUND Medical physics is a relatively small community but it spans great geographical distances, usually with a scarcity of experts whose expertise could greatly benefit students entering into the field. In addition there are many software systems for which an interactive education method would be most advantageous. OBJECTIVE To develop a process to optimally use the Internet for real-ti...

This paper reports the results and implications for management education of an empirical study evaluating the impact of interaction among learners on their knowledge and performance in a judgmental decision making task context. The results indicate that interaction had a significant positive effect on individual learning over time. Interactive learners were found to make significantly smaller d...

The concept of Interactive Pattern Stories is introduced as a way to support software design education. An example interactive pattern story is presented, along with benefits, liabilities, and applicability of the approach. Key benefits include enabling readers to explore different choices to design problems and to experience positive and negative consequences of design choices, and the engagin...

in this paper, we propose a unified and interactive mobile learning (M-Learning) model to help with expanding and spreading education in the Arab Homeland countries. The model utilizes a new competitive spot beam satellite communication technology, which enables efficient channel allocation, where communication channels can be allocated to specific and precise areas. The proposed model is refer...

The present interactive multimedia courseware is predominantely monolingual. On the other hand, economy, society and education are global and multilingual. Therefore, it seems reasonable to expect that multilingualism should bring benefits to the education process. This paper defines the aspects of multilingual interactive multimedia courseware composition and advocates for the support of multi...

In this paper, we explore the design of a seamless broadcast communication system that brings together the distributed community of remote secondary education schools. In contrast to higher education, primary and secondary education establishments should remain distributed, in order to maintain a balance of urban and rural life in the developing and the developed world. We plan to deploy an amb...