Education in architecture requires access to a broad range of learning materials, so as to develop flexibility and creativity in design. The learning material is comprised of textual and visual media including images, videos, descriptions of architectural concepts or projects, ie digital artifacts on different aggregation levels. Until now, repositories storing such information have not been interrelated and have not provided unified access. Consequently, finding and retrieving architectural learning objects is cumbersome and time consuming. ...

Background Approximately 6% of all newborns and up to 80% of infants weighing less than 1,500 grams require some resuscitation intervention at birth and the quality of care provided at that time can have a significant impact on the outcome of that life. The Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), introduced in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) in the early 1990's, has been developed to educate physicians and other health care providers about newborn resuscitation. Several studies have examined the use of simulation in resuscitation training, but few have compared low and high-fidelity simulation for NRP learning outcomes. Objectives To examine the effect of using low versus high-fidelity manikin simulators for NRP training on medical student knowledge, skill, confidence, and teamwork performance. Methods Randomized posttest-only control group study; experimental group received NRP instruction and megacode assessment using a high-fidelity manikin simulator, while control group receive...

SUMMARYMany smallholder farm systems in Uganda produce coffee as an important cash crop. Yet coffee yields are poor. To increase farmers’ production, a range of agronomic practices have been recommended by national and international agencies. Yet the adoption potential of recommendations differs between farm systems. To understand the differences in adoption potential of recommended coffee management practices in Uganda, we provide a typology of farm systems with coffee, assess the diversity between the farm types, and evaluate the current use of existing management recommendations for each farm type. Through factor analysis and cluster analysis of farms producing coffee, we identified five farm types: large coffee farms, farms with off-farm activities, coffee-dependent farms, diversified farms, and banana–coffee farms. The farm types were based on differences in size, and on the relative contributions of coffee, banana and off-farm labour to total household income. They also differ...

«Mən şumerli bir müəllim, şair və yazıçıyam. Yaşım 75-dir. Müəllimlik sənətini çoxdan tərk etdim. Ancaq, deyəsən, şairliyim və yazıçılığım ölənə qədər davam edəcək»... Bundan tam 4000 il əvvələ aid olan şumerli bir müəllimin «Xatirə dəftəri» bu sözlərlə başlayır. Həmin dəftər insanlıq tarixinin bilinən ilk müəllim xatirələridir. Tapılan bu mixi yazılı gil kitabələrin birləşdirilib oxunması 60 il ərzində mümkün olmuşdur. Tamamı 23 tabletdən ibarət 1000 sətirlik bu «xatirə dəftəri»nin müəllifi Ludinqirra adlı Nippur sakini şumerli bir müəllim idi. Onun qələmə aldığı xatirələrində özünün şagirdlik və müəllimlik həyatına yer verməsi əsərin qiymətini daha da artırıb. Belə ki, dünya pedaqogika elmi bu əsər sayəsində insanlığın ilk təlimtərbiyə və təhsil həyatı haqqında ətraflı məlumat sahibi olmuşdur. Məlum olduğu kimi, şumerlər tarixin ilk ictimai-siyasi təşkilatlarını, mədəniyyətini və dövlətlərini yaradan xalq olub. Özlərinin Urmiyə gölü ilə Xəzər dənizi arasında yerləşən, yəni Cənubi Azərbaycanda ortaya çıxmış Aratta diyarından gəldiklərini iddia edən bu xalqın tarixi ölkəmizin ən qədim keçmişi ilə birbaşa əlaqəlidir. Bu iddia doğrudursa, Şumerli Ludinqirranı mənəvi baxımdan özümüzün «ilk müəllimimiz» hesab etməliyik. We read from the daybook: «I am a Sumerian teacher, poet and writer. My age is 75. I have long left the teacher profession. But, I think, my poetry and writer profession will continue until I die ...» The «Memorial Daybook» of a Sumerian teacher begins with these words, which is about 4,000 years ago. This book is one of the first known teacher memories of human history. It has been 60 years to combine these clay cuneiform inscriptions have found as wedge writings. The Nippur resident, Ludingirra, who was the author of this «Memorial Daybook» of 1000 tablets with a total of 23 tablets, was a Sumerian teacher. In his memoirs he gave his studentship and teaching experience more value. Thus, thanks to this work, the world's pedagogical science has acquired detailed knowledge of the first human-education and education of humanity. As it is known, the Sumerians were the people who created the first social-political organizations, culture and states of history. The history of this people, claiming that they came from the Aratta region, which is located between the Lake Urmia and the Caspian Sea, which originated in southern Azerbaijan, is directly related to the ancient history of our country. If this claim is true, Sumerian Ludingirra should be regarded as «our first teacher» from the moral point of view.