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This guide provides a 'framework' for people who lead training programs in a plain language approach to communications. Based on a two-day course, this reference is divided into nine modules that can be customized in order to help participants to develop the skills necessary to use a plain languag…
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Offers a critique of the roots of management education and argues that institutions of higher learning must teach managers how to integrate the discipline of learning into their very being.
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Although Outcome Measurement has become an important tool in the evaluation of health promotion, patient education and other health services interventions, there remain problems in locating reliable measurements and scales. This book provides a compilation of more than 50 self-administered scales f…
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In this book, the author explores the inner landscape of the teaching self, and to understand that landscape more fully, the author discusses three important paths that must be taken: intellectual, emotional, and spiritual.
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This guide will help teachers, individually and in groups, reflect on their teaching and renew their sense of vocation by exploring the inner landscape of their lives along Palmer's three dimensions--intellectual, emotional, and spiritual.
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Teaching is one of the most valuable services nurses provide to patients and families. But whether in the hospital, clinic, home, or long-term care facility, other tasks and responsibilities often compete for nurses' time. This book offers nurses useful, everyday information to apply to real-life …
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Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) consists of two parts. In the first part, Prensky argues that the prevalence of video games has actually rewired our brains and made traditional learning methods less effective. In the second part, Prensky makes the case that DGBL can be used successfully by corpo…
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Designed to describe the process of writing for publication, the book contains four sections: writing various types of articles for publication in journals; structure of different types of articles; the writing process; steps used to submit materials; and strategies for dealing with editorial issue…
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This book is a comprehensive guide to developing and managing educational simulations.; Contents; Why Simulations Further Educational Goals; What is an Educational Simulation? Designing an Educational Simulation; Managing an Educational Simulation: Debriefing an Educational Simulation; Responsible …
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In this resource the author explores activies and games as an instructional method for teaching adults. It shows you how to customize more than thirty different kinds of games and activiites that fit the circumstances perfectly and that can be designed in mere minutes.
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This book offers trainers and educators the information and perspective they need to understand, design, build, and deploy computer simulations for this generation. It outlines the design principles and critical decisions around any simulation's components— the interface, the physics and animation …
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This book details a journey from theory to practice, informing the design of powerful and engaging online learning environments. A consistent theme in this book is the interaction between pedagogical models, instructional strategies, and learning technologies. This process is embedded in a flexible…
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An easy-to-use resource guide on ways to effectively convey health information. Whether you are a health provider, public health specialist, health educator, practice manager, literacy teacher, professor, student, or librarian, this book is for you.
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This practical text/reference provides theory-based approaches to teaching patients of all ages and their families in a variety of healthcare settings.--Table of Contents: Principles of Contemporary Patient Education;; Patient Education in Nursing Practice;; Health Promotion: Models and Application…
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This book debunks the accepted wisdom that video games are harmful to children. Instead, he contends that games can teach a multitude of skills, including problem solving, language and cognitive skills, strategic thinking, multitasking, and parallel processing.
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This book is written specifically for marketers to enable them to produce more effective copy for an online audience. Drawing on his experience in professional writing, the author provides guidance on the key topics to be addressed and important tips when writing for the web, such as writing for we…
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Pre-eclampsia remains one of the most common causes of maternal mortality in the developed world, and we still have no known effective prophylaxis and proven modifiers. The recent successful clinical trial of recombinant human activated protein C (rhAPC) in the management of SIRS (systemic inflamma…
Written for anyone wanting to write persuasive and interesting web content that will draw readers to a website and engage them enough that they will add the site to their bookmarks file. This book will not teach you how to code in html or Java. Instead, it offers sound principles that web writers n…
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With the help of families, informed and educated patients can participate in their own treatment, assist in identifying errors before they occur, and improve outcomes. This fact is the foundation of the revised edition of this book, which is designed to guide and support educators at all levels of …
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This curriculum uses the professional resource, Growing Babies...Growing Parents (the resource) to provide women and their partners' classes or groups throughout the perinatal period. This curriculum is woman and family centered.
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