BACKGROUND Blended learning (BL) is defined as "a way of meeting the challenges of tailoring learning and development to the needs of individuals by integrating the innovative and technological advances offered by online learning with the interaction and participation offered in the best of traditional learning." The Gulf Medical University (GMU), Ajman, UAE, offers a number of courses which in...

BACKGROUND The learning environment of a medical school has a significant impact on students' achievements and learning outcomes. The importance of equitable learning environments across programme sites is implicit in distributed undergraduate medical programmes being developed and implemented. PURPOSE To study the learning environment and its equity across two classes and three geographicall...

OBJECTIVES To measure the students' perceptions of educational environment of a medical school, to compare the perceptions of high, average and low academic achievers, and to explore the relation between these perceptions and their academic achievements in order to identify specific problem areas. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted at Ziauddin University, Karachi, during the mid ...

This research-in-progress employs expectancy theory to evaluate key factors that may motivate students to participate in the peer evaluation process of group projects. The preliminary results indicate that students generally perceived peer evaluation being taken into consideration in determining peers’ grades to be the most attractive outcome of a peer evaluation system. The second attractive o...

The changing role of dental hygienists deserves dental and dental hygiene educators' attention. The first aim of this survey study was to assess University of Michigan dental, dental hygiene, and graduate students' and faculty members' perceptions of dental hygienists' roles; their attitudes and behaviors related to clinical interactions between dental and dental hygiene students; and perceived...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: assessing educational environment is vital in determining the success or failure of any institute. a positive environment leads to achievements of students in learning while a negative one would hinder their accomplishments. the aim of this study was to evaluate the medical students’ perceptions of their educational environment and to id...

The majority of studies examining dental school curriculum have addressed organization, structure, and content issues from the perspectives of administrators, faculty, practitioners/alumni, and professional organizations. However, few studies have focused on students' opinions of dental school. The purpose of this study was to determine students' perceptions of the learning environment, intelle...

Despite the consensus on the importance of reflection for dental professionals, a lack of understanding remains about how students and clinicians should develop their ability to reflect. The aim of this study was to investigate dental students' and mentors' perceptions of mentor groups as an instructional method to facilitate students' reflection in terms of the strategy's learning potential, r...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This paper reports on non-mature general nursing students' perceptions of nursing as a career prior to their first clinical placement. BACKGROUND It is widely recognised that the first clinical practice experience serves a dual role, that of validating students' choice of career and shaping their perceptions of nursing. This study sought to explore 23 first year non-mature...

This case study investigated the attitudes and perceptions of primary school students and their teacher toward collaborative writing using a wiki technology in a Chinese writing class in China. An online collaborative writing environment named “Joyous Writing Club” (JWC) was designed and developed using a wiki. Participants included 59 primary four students and their Chinese language teacher. T...