To this end, medical educators have developed a host of communication courses and workshops that combine lectures, self-assessments, video recordings and "standardized patients," or actors in the role of patients.
To that end, health educators, UNICEF staff and volunteers here are tirelessly repeating the same message: Polio is still in Nigeria and can paralyze your child.
"I believe most adults can get excited, can yell, 'Kill,' and go back to their lives without carrying it with them," said Lin Dawson, the former New England Patriots tight end-turned-educator and conflict resolution counselor.
Educators end up caught in a morass of prescriptions and prohibitions, bled of the initiative and energy that characterize effective schools.
In some schools, kids have too much freedom, and educators end up abdicating their responsibility to serve as authoritative professionals that guide student learning.
For weeks on end, swarms of demonstrating educators wore evergreen T-shirts emblazoned with the same cri de coeur.
A spokesperson for Rape and Domestic Violence Services Australia – an evidence based counselling service which also offers training – said that using unqualified educators could end up reinforcing victim blaming myths and vicariously traumatising former survivors of assault.
This method facilitates collaborative development of virtual humans by two groups of end-users: domain experts (educators) and domain novices (students).
If all (economists, educators, women) were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
At the end, they are handed what educators there see as one of their most important learning tools: an iPad.
