With an accelerating growth in the educational sector along with the aid of ICT and cloud-based services, there is a consistent rise of educational big data, where storage and processing become the prime matter of challenge. Although many recent attempts have used open source framework e.g. Hadoop for storage, still there are reported issues in sufficient security management and data analyzing ...

background: one of the medical team’s responsibilities is to teach the methods of rescue and aid necessary for casualties who have been injured in disasters. they must be taken away of the place of disaster, transferred, categorized and cured. methods: delphi technique was used in this research. firstly, a number of questions were framed and sent to a number of experts of different majors. they...

DEXi is an educational Multi Criteria Decision Aid (MCDA) computer program aimed at interactive development of qualitative multi-criteria and hierarchical decision models and the evaluation of options. XMCDA is an emerging data standard which enables the representation of Multi Criteria Decision Aid data elements in XML according to a clearly defined grammar. In this paper we investigate the me...

ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the early childhood education teachers’ knowledge about first aid before and after participation in an educational action. Method: Quantitative research with a quasi-experimental pre- post-test design, carried out 45 teachers from four schools. For data collection, instrument questions regarding characterization of participants was used. Data were analyzed through ...

The Molecule of the Month website (http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/motm.htm) is an educational resource that is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Here we reflect on its pioneering role in promoting new technology for visualizing and presenting chemical information on the web, as well as its achievements, as a free educational resource, both as a teaching aid and as a multi-user, multi-author lea...

This research aims to explore the use of persuasive technology within the educational context. Technology has previously been applied to aid teaching and to encourage skills development and learning in various educational settings, primarily targeting students who are already in education. This research, however, addresses individuals who are not involved in education or who may choose not to c...

Hearing impairment in adolescents is a major public health problem. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) deafness and hearing impairment are common health problems throughout the world. Hearing impairment generally impairs emotional, social, communication and educational function. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between duration of hearing aid use and improvem...