Optimum arrangement of communication resources for a distance education system to support collaborative learning, including hand-manipulation of physical objects, was empirically investigated. The authors propose a ‘body metaphor’ concept, which follows the ordinary body arrangement in everyday instruction. It allows: (1) to display instructor’s pointer; (2) to display instructor’s face; (3) to...

background the present study was conducted to perceive the role-model nursing instructors’ experience in terms of professional challenges and identification of occupational concerns in the education of nursing students. nursing instructors have a critical and decisive role in the training of skilled and specialized manpower and subsequent growth and development of the communities. so, the prese...

The spread of the Covid-19 all over world have negatively affected many areas, leading to a number changes throughout world. Being one these education had undergone some and shifted distance during pandemic. However, has also brought discussions problems. This study was carried out investigate thoughts middle school students on face-to-face education. Based quantitative research design, this ad...

Most of the times, asynchronous e-learning tools are used to conduct distance education activities in higher education. Instructor and students interact from anywhere anytime. On the contrary, synchronous e-learning tools require the participants in the learning process to communicate live. Real-time interactions in synchronous e-learning resemble those that occur in traditional face-to-face co...

A postgraduate programme is developed to provide Family Medicine training to practising General Practitioners. The programme provides physicians with didactic material by distance education while enhancing clinical competence through face-to-face sessions in ambulatory clinics. Assessment of participating physicians is based on the responses to distance education assignments, case presentations...

In Artistic design education, the teacher instructs each student individually face to face. As a result, it is difficult to share coaching with a third party or to teach distantly. To solve these problems, we have developed Manga University, which is a web-based application to aid artistic design education. It enables distant teaching or shared teaching and provides learning portfolio for colla...

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have been successfully used to transform either partial/total face to face or distance learning education [1]. Educational software systems aid the teaching/learning process, promoting the development of a lot of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), improving the assimilation of the content presented in the class. Using mechanisms such as Hard...

The perspectives of instructors who teach both online and face-to-face in a higher education context have been compared in this study. The diff e rences and similarities between their approaches, and the influences each modality has on the other have been explored, as well as possible differences in organizational cultures between the groups, who were based in Canada and Australia. The trend to...

Is the use of an online course delivery format, when compared with the more traditional face-to-face format, good or bad in the context of university education? Those who subscribe to the no-significant-difference perspective argue that online delivery is good, because it allows students with time and geographic distance constraints to obtain the education that they need, with no significant ne...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to compare the effects of 'face-to-face education' and 'educational movies' on 'knowledge' and 'practice' of women of child-bearing-age, in terms of health-care during pregnancy and during infancy in a suburban region near Tehran City, Iran. METHODS In this quasi-experimental study, the sample included 873 married women. Questionnaires for knowledge and pra...