The popularity of sites like YouTube demonstrates the potential preference for users to use video podcasts (vodcasts) as an instructional tool. As educators have been encouraged to become more literate in authoring Web 2.0 technologies, the implementation of vodcasts as an effective pedagogy has been increasingly used in educational settings. The recent proliferation of distance education cours...

Objectives: More knowledge is needed regarding efficient methods of oral health prevention and reducing disparities in oral health. Motivational interviewing (MI) has demonstrated utility for improving health behavior, including among those with serious mental illness (SMI). This study tests whether MI enhances the efficacy of an oral health education intervention in individuals with SMI. Mater...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The prenatal education promotes the empowerment of parents during pregnancy and postnatal period. This study aimed to assess the quality of educational sessions held in the third trimester of pregnancy as part of the parenting education programme for Spanish National Health System in Madrid. METHODS The design is a cross-sectional study in 41 primary care centre...

The Regional Department of Education and Culture of the Autonomous Region of the Azores in the 20032004 school year implemented an innovative project for adult learning. The school EB 3/S Vitorino Nemésio, a public school, on Terceira Island, became the first Portuguese school offering adult education mediated through the Internet, serving elementary level (5th grade) to the secondary level (12...

Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengungkap karakteristik pendidikan Islam di Aceh Barat. Sebagai wilayah yang menerapkan syariat secara konstitusional, Barat memiliki corak berbeda. Pertama, struktur kelembagaan Dinas Pendidikan Dayah khusus membina dayah sebagai lembaga original Aceh. adalah mirip pesantren namun lebih kompleks dalam sejarah dan kulturnya. Lembaga lain dibentuk pemerintah menangani...

This paper presents several strategies and actions which improve the education process by using a platform of learning such as Moodle. In particular, a set of resources and an evaluation system have been created using this blended leaning platform with three basic objectives: to stimulate the autonomous learning by providing interactivity between students to make flexible the way how the studen...