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Curriculum development and courseware implementation using World Wide Web technology.

J Mantas·M Diomidus
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The curriculum development of medical informatics related courses and their adoption into the faculty curriculum is one of the main tasks of the present day educators. To this end the Internet technology has supported this task. The Internet was born in December of 1969 and has grown phenomenally since. Its graphically interactive, user-friendly modality, the World Wide Web (WWW), is younger and growing even more explosively. By its nature, the WWW is a tool ideally and uniquely suited for the advancement education. This paper describes the design, development and the implementation of a Web Site for supporting the education of the students in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Athens. The application will be used also in the European project Nightingale.

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Computer-Assisted InstructionCurriculumEducation, DistanceEducation, NursingGreeceInternetMultimediaJournal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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J Mantas, M Diomidus. 1998. Curriculum development and courseware implementation using World Wide Web technology.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10384567/

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