Saudi Arabia, Its People, Its Society, Its Culture

Distance Education and its Prospects in Saudi Arabia

In this work, we give an overview of stateof-the-art in distance learning and its recent evolution. Case studies of a few distance learning programs in developed as well as developing countries have been examined. Prospects of distance education in Saudi Arabia are also explored.

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Society News Message from the Editor ................................................................................ 3 Message from the President ........................................................................... 4 IEEE ITSS Executive Committee February’13 Meeting Report .................. 5 IEEE ITSS Board of Governors April’13 Meeting Report ........................... 6 Launching o...

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s of forthcoming papers on IEEE Transactions on ITS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ANALYSIS IN MIXED TRAFFIC CONDITION USING VIDEO DATA ZHANG, YINGYING; YAO, DANYA (DANIEL); QIU, TONY; PENG, LIHUI; ZHANG, YI With dramatic development of image processing technology, a growing number of traffic flow detection and analysis have been conducted by using video data. Time to Collision (TTC) and Post-Encroachment T...

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Academic culture and its changes in Iran

Amis: One of the preconditions for the civilization is science production, which requires cultural, social and normative structures. One of the most important cultural tools is academic culture. Academic culture is different from the social, organizational and national culture. This research aimed to investigate the academic culture in Iran and the reasons for its changes. Methods: based ...