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This paper presents a case study of a university campus in Kiziba refugee camp in Rwanda. It evaluates different aspects of this university as a unique example of education in an extreme environment. The goal is to answer what accommodations, educational and technical, need to be made for a university to function in such extreme environments. In the process, field measurements were made evaluating...
Online Practice Communities promote learning through mutual commitment and continuous communication among people facing a common goal. The research presented in this communication is based on an Educational Innovation Project at a college level where an Online Practice Community was created for the development of a subject in an undergraduate program. The research analyzes two variables that influence...
Access to broadband Internet is becoming a necessity for obtaining information and resources about healthcare, education, and employment. However, the broadband global digital divide continues to inhibit and limit individuals' access within and among nations. We address the question, What factors hinder and enable people from being able to afford broadband access to obtain vital information? This...
This study examined the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by students at the College of Medicine as a tool for supporting learning. Questionnaires containing both open and closed questions were administered to 65 undergraduate students representing 10% of the total population of students. The students were randomly selected within their departments as strata for the study. Data...
E-health usage is often studied at the level of online health portals, which is invaluable in understanding how these important portals are utilized by various health consumers. However, this approach does not provide information about usage of the underlying e-health services, which is crucial in improving the overall success of e-health portals. In this study, we examine variations in use of 12...
Augmented reality has the potential to provide powerful, contextual, and situated learning experiences for medical students. There are need learning theories to guide the design of AR in health education to bring out the potentials. The objectives of this paper is to present the learning theories which could be supported AR in health education. We propose use situation learning, experiential learning;...
Medical education have developed stably and balanced for many years. With the development of the internet, social network, shared media, film and music, it has been gradually changing the medic cause of ecological, and also changed the education method of medical educators, the interaction between colleagues and in patients. Although there are dangerous wrong conceptions about medical knowledge and...
Even though open and user approaches drive actually innovation, there is still a lack of tools and strategies that help organizations to improve their innovation management during collaboration with others. This is the case of organizations having problems to harness the knowledge fluxes in an innovation space. “Living Lab Micro Innovation Cell” (iCell) is our proposal of a strategy to co-design prototypes...
Within all aspects of healthcare education, the teaching and learning of anatomy and physiology is regarded as the singularly most problematic area of the curriculum. This paper outlines a project currently in development to create an online tool that utilizes problem-based learning strategies to contextualize anatomy and physiology education; basing the learning on real-world scenarios will aim to...
Web-based interventions can be effective in changing behaviour of people faced with health problems. However, it is unclear whether they are effective in preventing health problems like overweight. The aim of this study was to investigate usage and effectiveness of a web-based application to increase healthy behaviour in adults with a healthy weight or slight overweight (BMI 18-28 kg/m2) by means...
In this article, we describe a wiki based system which promotes student participation in the production of high quality collaborative teaching materials. To this end, the MediaWiki platform has been modified so that it is able to perform an automatic evaluation of their contributions. To assess the quality of each contribution, the time that they remain in the system has been used as a heuristic....
The incorporation of new technologies in everyday life, specifically Internet and the Web, has been rising steadily and similarly happened in the world of education, however, this trend has continued at different rates. The Xunta de Galicia has made available to schools a project called Webs Dinámicas, which aims to democratize the use of these technologies in education. We think this is the time...
Healthy People 2010 challenges individuals, communities, and professionals to take specific steps to ensure that good health, as well as long life, are enjoyed by all. Past research reports rural residents are less likely to receive preventive screening services, exercise regularly, wear safety belts, and maintain healthy lifestyle behaviors. Timely access to emergency services and the availability...
This paper presents mobile application framework such as Web/mail applications, for health ware education, based on framework known as MVC. In our study, one M and one C are prepared and several Vs are developed for each interface as Web, e-mails, and so on. We show some source codes and discuss the environment.
This paper examines the impact of cyberinfrastructure architecture on healthcare services. More specifically, this research details the architectural design for a personal health record system called "HealthATM" that utilizes and integrates services from Google's cloud computing environment. These services are integrated into an unobtrusive and easy to use ATM-style interface for health...
The exploitation of nomenclatures, taxonomies, terminologies and classification of medical diseases, procedures, guidelines has been pivotal to advances in the healthcare domain. Parallel to those have been evolutions in educational technology and medical education where medical educational content is often shared among different educators and institutions. This paper compares the above parallel evolutions...
Educational content is often shared among different educators and is enriched, adapted and in general repurposed so that it can be re-used in different contexts. This paper discusses educational content and content repurposing in medical education, presenting different repurposing contexts. Finally, it proposes a novel approach to content repurposing via Web 2.0 social networking of learning objects...
This paper illustrates the use of common sense knowledge, acquired from volunteers through the web, to support teachers to plan learning activities, which fit to pedagogical issues presented in renowned Learning Theories, so that effective learning can take place. It is approached in this paper how common sense knowledge is related to four Learning Theories, proposed by authors who are aware in the...
Weblog becomes an important channel among people in the digital society. How to operate a successful Weblog is a momentous task. A good or successful Weblog depends on many factors. This paper is to investigate and compare the different influence factors for an effective and successful Weblog. Firstly, a questionnaire with several design factors is going to be distributed and collected from experts...
The introduction of the Internet into medical practice as an information-sharing and communication medium has brought about many opportunities for the management of chronic care. Research has shown that teleconsultation for example is a practical, cost-effective, and reliable way of delivering a worthwhile health care service to diabetics. As a result, Internet-based applications are being developed...
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