Education for Justice

Education for Justice

The Education for Justice (E4J) initiative by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) pursues preventing crime and advocating a lawfulness culture through education projects designed for primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. These activities help educators teach next generations to understand better and address what can undermine the rule of law, and encourage students […]

Massive Open Online Interventions

Massive open online interventions (MOOIs) are used to expand the reach, scalability, and affordability of psychological interventions. The proof of concept that MOOIs could substantially contribute to diminishing the burden of health problems was a participant -preference smoking cessation open trial. In this trial, the authors used the San Francisco Stop Smoking site to enroll […]

Mobile Apps in Cancer Care

Mobile Apps in Cancer Care

“The best cancer care starts with the best information” is how Cancer.Net defines its purpose. To approach patients and follow their journeys, Cancer.Net Mobile was created. The APP can help patients, families, and caregivers track symptoms and medications, get answers to disease and cancer care questions, and the latest news from Cancer.Net’s blog, videos, and […]

Lean Healthcare

Lean Healthcare

Lean Healthcare is applying “lean” ideas in healthcare to minimize waste with ongoing process improvement. Learn how to use Lean to improve patient satisfaction and care outcomes while reducing costs. The rising costs in healthcare and the need for safer and more efficient processes for patients and paying sources are demands to sustainability and survival. […]

Collaborative learning and mobile devices: An educational experience in Primary Education

In this paper, Rodrígues, Riaza, and Gómez (2017) describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a collaborative experience with Communication Technology involving students in the 5th year of Primary Education in a Spanish school. Data has been collected from all those involved: teachers, tutors, and students. The results showed Communication Technology provides tools and channels […]

Oncology and Mobile Tools

Oncology and Mobile Tools

Hello my colleagues, and Happy 2021 for everyone. My name is Alexei Peter dos Santos, born and raised in Brazil and this is my second term in MET. I am a medical oncologist and preceptor of oncology in Brazil. Medical education is very conservative, with little space for modern teaching tools. In the last few […]