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Diabetes is a very common chronic disease which produces compli-cations in almost all body organs and consumes a huge amount of the health budget. Although education has proved to be useful in diabetes management, there is a great need to improve the availability of these courses for the increasing number of diabetic patients. E-learning can facilitate this service, but the current education system should be tailored towards e-learning standards. Amongst diabetic patients, adolescents as computer natives are suggested as the best target to e-learning diabetes education. With regards to its features, Web 2.0 can be a very good technology to build a framework for diabetes education and consequent evaluation of this education.
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Shabestari, O., Roudsari, A. (2009). Potentials of Web 2.0 for Diabetes Education of Adolescent Patients. In: Weerasinghe, D. (eds) Electronic Healthcare. eHealth 2008. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 0001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_29
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