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Enterprise LMS from eFront. A new publishing platform for PLoS Currents. Blog. Guided Tours of the BGA. The Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics (BGA) was created as a Web-based "textbook.

Guided Tours of the BGA

" The creation of the BGA is a research project to explore the use of the personal computer and the Internet to present educational materials to students, teachers, and lifelong learners in a more interactive way than a printed, bound textbook. As a general rule, the Web consists of many individual pages that are connected, or related, to one another through hyperlinks. Slide5.

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Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI) Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI) FDA Advisory Committee recommends approval of Riociguat for CTEPH and PAH. Riociguat was announced under the trade name Adempas at an August 6th 2013 meeting of the Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee meeting, which took place in Maryland, USA.

FDA Advisory Committee recommends approval of Riociguat for CTEPH and PAH

There, Bayer HealthCare Pharamceuticals Inc specified Adempas’ ability for the improvement of exercise capacity and World Health Organisation functional class for CTEPH WHO Group 4 patients, and to help WHO Group 2 PAH patients with exercise capacity, WHO group functional class improvement, and the delay of clinical worsening. Both PAH and CTEPH are rare diseases, and the current treatment choice is limited. CTEPH patients may benefit for surgical pulmonary endarterectomy, which may be curative, but is only available to those patients who are operable. However, if the surgery fails to remove the pulmonary hypertension completely, or should the patient prove inoperable, no pharmacotherapies are available- until now.

According to panelist Dr. FDA Advisory Committee recommends approval of Riociguat for CTEPH and PAH. FDA Advisory Committee recommends approval of Riociguat for CTEPH and PAH. Riociguat was announced under the trade name Adempas at an August 6th 2013 meeting of the Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee meeting, which took place in Maryland, USA.

FDA Advisory Committee recommends approval of Riociguat for CTEPH and PAH

The Short Presentation of the Courseware. Photo Editing. Undertone. Royal Society Publishing Partners. JSTOR. Journals. Introducing Annotum to Wordpress Bloggers. Version 1.0 of Annotum, the free WordPress theme for writing scholarly articles, was announced in late November.

Introducing Annotum to Wordpress Bloggers

Back in June I wrote about the first public version of Annotum, but until now using Annotum was experimental. Annotum is available in the WordPress Themes Directory at WordPress.org (and has been downloaded more than 9,000 times in the past three weeks), and is also available for users of WordPress.com. I have installed Annotum 1.0 here, please drop me a note if you want an account. But how is an Annotum blog different from a regular WordPress blog? Annotum is a WordPress ThemeWordPress can be extended via Plugins and Themes. Annotum uses articles and not posts Annotum uses the custom post type article for scholarly content. The Annotum editor knows about document structure Scholarly articles have more structure than blog posts, and you can add this structure with the Annotum editor (see below).

Technical Lead Article-Level Metrics and Product Manager, PLOS. Peerless. Introducing SCORM Cloud. Creating a SCO from Flash files. SCORM and Chicken Wings : A Very Brief Introduction. eLearning (E-learning) and SCORM Simplified. 4 Steps to Becoming an eLearning Pro with Articulate's Tom Kuhlmann. The Rapid eLearning Blog. Creating great interactive learning experiences requires a few core building blocks: relevant content, pull versus push, and real-world decisions.

The Rapid eLearning Blog

Sharable Content Object Reference Model. SCORM is a specification of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative from the Office of the United States Secretary of Defense.

Sharable Content Object Reference Model

SCORM versions[edit] SCORM 1.1[edit] SCORM 1.1 is the first production version. Learning management system. A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of electronic educational technology (also called e-learning) education courses or training programs.[1] LMSs range from systems for managing training and educational records to software for distributing online or blended/hybrid college courses over the Internet with features for online collaboration.

Learning management system

Colleges and universities use LMSs to deliver online courses and augment on-campus courses. The use of elearning in medical education: a review of the current situation. Postgraduate Medical Journalpmj.bmj.com 2007;83:212-216 doi:10.1136/pgmj.2006.054189 Review Abstract Computers are increasingly used in medical education.

The use of elearning in medical education: a review of the current situation

Electronic learning (elearning) is moving from textbooks in electronic format (that are increasingly enhanced by the use of multimedia adjuncts) to a truly interactive medium that can be delivered to meet the educational needs of students and postgraduate learners. The use of elearning in medical education. Postgraduate Medical Journalpmj.bmj.com 2007;83:211 doi:10.1136/pgmj.2007.058610.

The use of elearning in medical education

EdX - Home. EdX: Harvard, MIT team up to offer free online courses. MIT and Harvard announce edX. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced the launch of edX, a transformational partnership in online education.

MIT and Harvard announce edX

Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners. EdX will build on both universities’ experience in offering online instructional content. The technological platform recently established by MITx, which will serve as the foundation for the new learning system, was designed to offer online versions of MIT courses featuring video lesson segments, embedded quizzes, immediate feedback, student-ranked questions and answers, online laboratories, and student paced learning.

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