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Direct linkChuan-Hang Yu; Toshihide Sato – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2025
This study investigates the intriguing choice of frontispiece design in Kaitai Shinsho (1774), the first systematic Japanese translation of a Western anatomical text. While the main content of Kaitai Shinsho was translated from Johann Adam Kulmus's "Ontleedkundige Tafelen" (1734), its frontispiece notably deviates from Kulmus's original…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medicine, Asian History, Asian Culture
Satoe Okabayashi; Kyoko Kitazawa; Hisashi Noma; Yoshimitsu Takahashi; Taku Iwami; Takashi Kawamura; Takeo Nakayama – Health Education Research, 2024
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is helpful for laypersons' decision-making. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of e-learning materials on the essential components of EBM for laypersons. We conducted a web-based, open-label, randomized controlled trial with laypersons in Japan aged [greater than or equal to]20 years who used the internet.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Materials, Medicine, Randomized Controlled Trials
Yagi, Kenta; Sato, Yasutaka; Sakaguchi, Satoshi; Goda, Mitsuhiro; Hamano, Hirofumi; Aizawa, Fuka; Shimizu, Mayuko; Inoue-Hamano, Arisa; Nishimori, Toshihide; Tagi, Masato; Kanno, Marina; Matsuoka-Ando, Rie; Yoshioka, Toshihiko; Matstubara, Yoshiko; Izawa-Ishizawa, Yuki; Shimizu, Rieko; Maruo, Akinori; Kuniki, Yurika; Sakamoto, Yoshika; Itobayashi, Sayuri; Zamami, Yoshito; Yanagawa, Hiroaki; Ishizawa, Keisuke – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Owing to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, understanding how to hold future online academic conferences effectively is imperative. We assessed the impact of COVID-19 on academic conferences, including facilities and settings for attendance, participation status, cost burden, and preferences for future styles of holding conferences,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physicians, Medicine, Professional Personnel
Download full textIwata, Jun; Wang, Shudong; Clayton, John – Research-publishing.net, 2019
In e-learning environments, 'digital badges', often referred to as 'micro-credentials', are expected to function not only as valid indicators of learner's accomplishments but also as useful tools for motivational and reward purposes (Clayton, 2012). In this study, we investigated students' perceptions about the use of digital badges in an online…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Recognition (Achievement), Information Storage, Electronic Learning
Matsushita, Ryohei – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2017
In the field of education, evidence means an objective ground for setting or judging an educational policy, plan or method, as an effective means to attain a given political end or educational objective. Evidence-based education has been regarded as a decisive device to pursue the accountability and improve the quality of education by connecting…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries, Educational History
Iwata, Jun; Tamaki, Yuko; Shudong, Wang; Telloyan, John; Ajiki, Yuri; Clayton, John – Research-publishing.net, 2014
The authors conducted a needs analysis to investigate their medical students' needs and preferences for using mobile devices for their English study. The analysis showed the students' expectations of mobile learning were very high and two-thirds of them were interested in building medical English terminology through mobile learning. Then, the…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Student Attitudes
Kirkgöz, Yasemin, Ed.; Dikilitas, Kenan, Ed. – English Language Education, 2018
This volume offers research-based studies on English for Specific Purposes in higher education from across the world. By drawing on international studies, the book brings together diverse ESP practices and aspects of relevant issues in the development of ESP programs, teachers and learners in a coherent fashion. There is a growing need for…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Second Language Instruction
Willey, Ian; Tanimoto, Kimie – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2013
Native-English-speaking English teachers at universities in EFL contexts are often asked to edit scientific manuscripts written by English as an additional language (EAL) colleagues. However, a lack of familiarity with scientific writing can make such editing tasks burdensome to English teachers. Using Lave and Wenger's (1991) notion of legitimate…
Descriptors: Familiarity, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Matsuki, Noriaki; Takeda, Motohiro; Yamano, Masahiro; Imai, Yohsuke; Ishikawa, Takuji; Yamaguchi, Takami – Advances in Physiology Education, 2009
Current engineering applications in the medical arena are extremely progressive. However, it is rather difficult for medical doctors and engineers to discuss issues because they do not always understand one another's jargon or ways of thinking. Ideally, medical engineers should become acquainted with medicine, and engineers should be able to…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medicine, Biomedicine, Engineering
Lopez-Varela, Asuncion, Ed. – InTech, 2012
This is a unique and groundbreaking collection of questions and answers coming from higher education institutions on diverse fields and across a wide spectrum of countries and cultures. It creates routes for further innovation, collaboration amidst the Sciences (both Natural and Social) and the Humanities and the private and the public sectors of…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Hermeneutics, Observation, European History
Smith, Ann F. V., Ed.; Strong, Gregory, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2009
"Adult Language Learners: Context and Innovation" presents instructional practices that are particularly successful with adults. Adult language learners are goal oriented and direct their learning to fulfill particular needs or demands: to advance their studies, to progress up the career ladder, to follow business opportunities, to pass…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Personal Autonomy, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedOno, Yoshiro – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1998
The behavior disorders of 54 Japanese individuals with mental retardation receiving antipsychotic medication were compared to 52 subjects receiving anticonvulsants and 202 subjects without medication. Results found the problem behaviors of subjects receiving antipsychotic drugs were more severe and severity of disability was associated with higher…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Disorders, Drug Therapy, Foreign Countries
