This bookpresents and analysesstudies that examine educational technologies in medical and health sciences education leading to applied, clinical practice. Authors focus on technologies such asdigital learning objects, including video cases and virtual patients; interactive whiteboards with internet searching capability; mobile devices; learning management systems; virtual reality software and 3-D simulations and haptics in para-clinical training. The collection isresearch-based, seeking to expand and synthesise current understandings of both theoretical backgrounds and empirical evidence for...

The business world is constantly transforming. When restructures, mergers, bankruptcies, and layoffs hit the workplace, employees and managers naturally find the resulting situational shifts to be challenging. But the psychological transitions that accompany them are even more stressful. Organizational transitions affect people; it is always people, rather than a company, who have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresponding change.

As veteran business consultant William Bridges explains, transition is successful when employees have a purpose, a plan, and a part to play....

A critical issue in higher education is the effective implementation of assessment with the core purpose of promoting productive student learning.

Drawing on a diverse range of healthcare contexts across Asia, in particular, in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan, this edited volume probes empirical analyses and meta-reflections on the empirical, epistemological and theoretical foundations of doing research on language and health communication in Asia.