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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"educational tool"”.
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Music as an educational tool for HIV/AIDS : a comparative study
… of the ways in which music is being used as an educational tool for HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, India, China, the U.S., and Canada. Music for education is an aspect of a number of academic disciplines. I introduce the principles of Entertainment-Education and Participatory …
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The Building as an Educational Tool - A Competitive Sport Boarding School
As the topic for my master's thesis, I wanted to challenge myself with a project to which I have a personal connection and use my experience for designing. At 13 years old, I went ot a competitive sport boarding school for 5 years. This time left me with a very distinctive and also some negative …
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The design of an educational tool for visualizing freedom and constraint topologies
The purpose of this thesis project was to figure out how to make a parametric CAD model of a cylindroid, hyperboloid and a hyperbolic paraboloid. These models will help designers better visualize and understand flexure motion and constraint topologies. The models needed to include the lines that …
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An educational tool to assist students in the evaluation of object avoidance algorithms
… of an algorithm and an education support tool add-on to MOOS that allows the end user to quickly vary the parameters to test the performance of the system.
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Freirean Codes: A Transformative Educational Tool for Community Empowerment and Arboviral Control in Kenya
<p>Dengue and chikungunya fever are two of the fastest spreading tropical diseases globally. There are 390 million dengue infections per year globally, and 65 million cases in Africa. In East Africa, Kenya and Tanzania have suffered outbreaks of these diseases. Dengue fever is transmitted by the …
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The Formative Evaluation of an Educational Tool to Help Curb Children's Intake of Sugary Beverages
… model developed as an additional educational resource for use in primary and dental care settings. The purpose of this model is to highlight the importance of limiting sugary beverage consumption and to encourage more healthful beverage choices by children and parents/guardians. …
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Educating students about mental illness: ethnic students' perspective of the effectiveness of a web-based educational tool
… scale assessed Mindsight’s (a web-based tool for MH education) effectiveness with ethnic students from the initial sample (n=13). In the final phase, ethnic students provided feedback on Mindsight’s effectiveness during focus groups/telephone interviews. Results: Most students considered …
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The effectiveness of the web accessibility audit as a motivational and educational tool in inclusive web design
… identified as having a particularly positive educational and motivational impact on recipients who did not identify themselves as having expertise in Web accessibility. There was also evidence that the design approach promoted by the audits had been adopted and applied by some of the …
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"What Happened to Breakfast": development of an educational tool to facilitate changes in food habits of pregnant women and young mothers
This document only includes an excerpt of the corresponding thesis or dissertation. To request a digital scan of the full text, please contact the Ruth Lilly Medical Library's Interlibrary Loan Department (rlmlill@iu.edu).
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Relational Development, Self-Disclosure, and Invasion of Privacy: College Students and Teachers as Facebook Friends
… social networking could produce additional educational opportunities for collaboration and instruction, while also causing tension or awkwardness as the process develops. Semistructured interviews were utilized by the researcher to obtain information from the selected participants, and the …
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A Survey of the Effectiveness of Grouping by Reading Ability at the Elementary Level
… not grouping by reading ability is an effective educational tool which enhances the students' opportunities for achievement.
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A Comparison of Instructional Design Methodologies for Central Venous Catheterization in a Mannequin-based Healthcare Simulation
<p>Simulations are becoming a widespread educational tool in healthcare. However, there is little research exploring the effectiveness and efficiency of instructional design methodologies compatible with mannequin-based simulations. Modern mannequins can breathe, blink, bleed, and speak. This study …
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Outdoor augmented reality n-th game editing suite
… comprehensive Augmented Reality game development tool. Augmented Reality provides players a view of the real world augmented with virtual characters and information. Augmented Reality has proved to be a valuable educational tool, but bridging the gap between experimental game engines and in-class …
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Online polymer crystallization experiment
… spherulite growth was developed for use as an educational tool. Finally, the experiment was used in the design process for modifying the generic iLab framework to incorporate interactive functionality. Specifically, a reservation model and design changes to the experiment storage and service …
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An educational approach to machine learning with mobile applications
… with about 10 students and can be used as an educational tool.
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The Medicine Wheel for Carbohydrate Counting
… evaluation of a culturally specific web-based tool “The Medicine Wheel for Carbohydrate Counting.” This web-based educational tool reflects Native American culture and values, primarily of the Native Americans of the Northern Plains. In-depth interviews from ten adult Native Americans with a …
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Placebos and Panaceas
… of work, Placebos and Panaceas was created as an educational tool to expose the public to the kind of treatments that claim to help or cure everything from obesity to cancer. Rather than just get upset at the ways these companies swindle those with illnesses, I turned that passion into comedy to …
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Discovering the meaning behind the story : creating a system for documenting and supporting children's narrative development
… and harness the power of narrative as an educational tool. Despite the importance of narratives, there are significant gaps in the literature for understanding children's narrative development and designing interventions to support growth. Unlike literacy, there are no state-reported …
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Human immunodeficiency viruses prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis : a doctoral evidence-based practice project
… practice project aimed to assess the impact of educational handouts on increasing healthcare provider comfortability with prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in a mobile health clinic. Despite the availability of PrEP, previous literature indicates that providers often refrain from …
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