background and purpose: shiraz university of medical sciences as one of the oldest and largest universities of medicine in iran with 50 years history has more than 450 faculty members and 5000 students. this study is an attempt to find out the level of job satisfaction among shiraz university of medical sciences’ faculty members. methods: in midterm of 2003-2004, data on job satisfaction level ...

As a part of the 2000-01 American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Leadership Institute, the Leadership Institute Fellows conducted a faculty development workshop for department chairpersons and program directors during the 2001 ADEA Annual Session. A central premise of the workshop was that successful chairpersons and program directors are both effective leaders and effective managers and t...

Guest Editors 1 Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, The Netherlands, [email protected] 2 ESADE Institute of Public Governance and Management, Spain, [email protected] 3 Danube University Krems, Center for E-Governance, Austria, [email protected] 4 Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Manageme...

the barriers of e-learning implementation in medical sciences domain and provided the necessary solutions     rahimi b [1] , jebraeily m [2] , mehdi oghli r [3] , rashidi a [4] , masomi r [5]     received: 14 apr , 2013 accepted: 20 jun , 2013   abstract   background & aims : in today's world , e-learning as a knowledge acquisition tool have been developed and changed in a rapidly expanded...

The researchers examined responses from 862 faculty members at 38 institutions nationwide using the blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) to supplement their face-to-face instruction. The four research questions addressed the primary uses that faculty make of blackboard, perceptions that faculty have of how certain blackboard features enhance or elevate (or might enhance or elevate) their...

he aim of educational assessment is promoting the quality of educationand efficiency in the educational system (1). in every educational system,keeping quality requires awareness of the strengths and weaknesses andmeasurement of the objectives (2).the internal assessment is carried out as an introduction to performexternal assessment in order to do budgeting and ranking of universities.therefor...

In the year 2011, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava awarded 159 Master’s degrees in fields within Information Sciences and Technologies, studying at its Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies. The Faculty offers 3 study programmes. In Computer and Communication Systems and Networks, there were 52 graduates, in Information Systems 43 graduates, and in Software Engineerin...

Publishing scholarly articles in traditional and newly-launched journals is a responsible task, requiring diligence from authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers. The current generation of scientific authors has ample opportunities for publicizing their research. However, they have to selectively target journals and publish in compliance with the established norms of publishing ethics. Over ...

We agree with Dupoux and Jacob (DJ) [1] that human moral capacities are, in ways yet to be understood, grounded in our biology. However, we disagree with DJ’s outright rejection of the linguistic analogy (LA). Fully cognizant that our present understanding of the moral faculty is no better, and perhaps is worse, than the state of affairs in linguistics circa 1950, we believe that it has opened ...