the purpose of this research was to analyze efl writing tasks in two of the most popular english for speakers of other languages (esol) exam preparation courses in iran, namely ielts and toefl. having collected the criteria of writing task appropriateness in light of the process-oriented approach to writing instruction, we asked 60 learner participants to rate efl writing tasks in 3 ielts and 3...

Learning objects along with their sequencing are being studied to support efficient e-learning systems. They could solve the problem of costly reproduction of learning materials for e-learning systems. The problem arising here is related to the size and complexity of methods used to achieve the appropriate composition of learning objects in order to generate courses with pedagogic efficiency an...

There is a growing expectation from registering authorities and the public for health professionals to enter their respective professions armed with the necessary skills, attitudes and behaviours to be reflective practitioners. However, there is limited and inconsistent evidence of the effectiveness of pedagogic strategies used for teaching reflective practice in health practitioner courses. We...

The usability of an eLearning system is a key feature for its success. This paper describes several aspects of the usability evaluation of the user-adaptive eLearning system ActiveMath to exemplify how usability engineering techniques can be applied to and adapted for an eLearning system and what the particularities of an eLearning system compared with a ‘conventional’ application are. Topics t...

This paper reports the results of the first survey of introductory programming courses (N = 80) taught at UK universities as part of their first year computer science (or similar) degree programmes, conducted in the first half of 2016. Results of this survey are compared with a related survey conducted since 2010 (as well as earlier surveys from 2001 and 2003) in Australia and New Zealand. We r...

We illustrate here why today practical teaching in preclinical anatomy is important and why the use of human cadavers is still essential for learning human anatomy by taking two examples. We explain why it is important for a student to be able to dissect and learn anatomy by exploratory anatomy. Several alternatives are discussed and modern teaching tools are illustrated with on-line and comput...

on pedagogic retardation owing to the fact that the psychological retardation of large numbers of children was impossible to ascertain. The Binet test furnishes us with a method for measuring the psychological retardation of the child. It is, however, almost impossible to test every child in the school system of a great city by means of these tests. This is so for two reasons: first, the length...