the aim of the present study was to investigate and compare the effects of twokinds of motivational and instructional self–talk on the performance of static anddynamic balance tasks in the elderly. for this purpose, 45 old subjects agedbetween 60 and 70 from qom province participated in this study. static balancetask (stand on one leg) and dynamic balance task (sebt test) were instructed withno...

This manuscript addresses a problem teachers of computer software applications face today: What is an effective method for teaching new computer software? Technology and engineering teachers, specifically those with communications and other related courses that involve computer software applications, face this problem when teaching computer software designed to assist in graphic design, web des...

TECHNOLOGY is a valuable instructional tool for teaching and learning fundamental concepts such as mathematics, reading, and writing. The teaching of advanced topics with abstract concepts can also benefit from instructional technology. For example, computer programming involves the design and development of problem-solving algorithms. Algorithms are inherently abstract ideas. The physical repr...

Designing learning scenarios and exploiting them for setting up a learning situation on Moodle is still a complex task. Visual Instructional Design Languages and their dedicated graphical editors have been identified as important conceptual tools for achieving more creative design solutions within a design process. However, binding and operationalizing such learning models is not tackled for no...

In this paper, we introduce an effective Web-page construction method especially for instructions and tutorials of GUI based operations. We often obtain knowledge of specific software tools and its usages by Web documents such as blog entry and product sites. Also we sometimes need to create instructional web pages for teaching and distributing particular softwares. The instructional web pages ...

Anthropomorphized robots are regarded as beneficial tools in education due to their capabilities of improving teaching effectiveness and learning motivation. Therefore, one major trend of research, known as RobotAssisted Language Learning (RALL), is trying to develop robots to support teaching and learning English as a foreign language (EFL). As more practical studies on materials development h...

This study examines the relationships between cognitive styles of field dependent learners with their attitudes towards e-learning (distance education) and instructional behavior in e-learning instruction. The Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) and the attitude survey (for students’ preferences) towards e-learning instruction as distance education was administered to 157 students enrolled in va...

The development of high performance computing and communications is enabling the creation of new exciting automated learning environments. In particular, the creation of richer distance learning environments has been obtained by merging together the World Wide Web with the educational features of multimedia and simulation technologies. However, most of today's Web-based courseware tools is ofte...