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The use of synchronous videoconferencing teaching to increase access to specialist nurse education in rural Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
(KM&EL, 2010)
ABSTRACT: In KwaZulu-Natal more than 50% of the population lives in the rural area but most of the health workers are based in urban centres where teaching hospitals and high incomes are common. Nursing provides the backbone ...
Challenges for information literacy education at a university of technology
(University of Kwazulu Natal, 2010)
The article reports on an action research project to investigate the effectiveness of an information literacy intervention for first year engineering students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). The ...
Educator's pedagogy influencing the effective use of computers for teaching purposes in classrooms: Lessons learned from secondary schools in South Africa
(Academic Journals, 2010)
The use of computers in the classroom could allow both educators and learners to achieve new
capabilities. There are underlying factors, however, that are obstructing the adoption rate of computer
use for instructional ...
Reflecting on some of the challenges facing postgraduate nursing education in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2010)
Considering the dearth of professional nurses in South Africa today, and the fact that postgraduate nursing education can contribute towards enhancing the competences of those in the profession, I shall examine some of the ...
Teaching for clinical reasoning – helping students make the conceptual links
(Informa Healthcare, 2010)
INTRODUCTION:
The paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding how conceptual learning is achieved, and the way in which conceptual understanding influences clinical reasoning and the ability to transfer ...
‘Your thrust is to understand’ - how academically successful students learn
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010)
The article sets out to understand how academically successful students learn. Self-regulated learning theory is used as a lens to explicate the learning strategies adopted by a cohort of academically successful dentistry ...
Moving beyond description: research that helps improve teaching and learning
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010)
This paper is premised on the assumption that education research, in order to be relevant, needs to generate explanations that have educational significance and applicability. It argues that much of the health sciences ...