Fostering Critical Thinking Skills Through a Web-Based Tutorial Programme for Final Year Medical Students— A Randomized Controlled Study

Shekhar M. Kumta; Pak L. Tsang; Leung K. Hung; Jack C.Y. Cheng

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 12, No. 3 (2003) pp. 267–273

Purpose. To study the performance of final year medical students, at the end of module assessments, following exposure to a web-based tutorial programme designed to facilitate critical thinking and logical reasoning. Method. Multimedia enhanced...

Topics: Cognition, Multimedia, Programming, Students

Automatic Online Educational Game Content Creation by Identifying Similar Chinese Characters with Radical Extraction and Graph Matching Algorithms

Jason Kwong-Hung Lai; Howard Leung; Zhi-Hui Hu; Jeff K. T. Tang; Yun Xu

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 8, No. 3 (2010) pp. 31–46

One of the difficulties in learning Chinese characters is distinguishing similar characters. This can cause misunderstanding and miscommunication in daily life. Thus, it is important for students learning the Chinese language to be able to...