E ffective teachers do no simply present information for students to learn by rote for a good grade. Rather, they provide an environment in which students can engage with course material and both learn and interpret it for their own interest and goals. With this in mind, I have spent a considerable amount of time developing an active learning format for my introductory biology course, including...

based on kolb’s theory of learning and teaching a post-test group design was applied to investigate the effect of congruent/ incongruent teaching and learning styles on students’ performance at the faculties of agriculture and natural resources at the university of kurdistan, iran in 2007. using spss software descriptive statistics, t- test and manova were employed in analyzing the data. result...

a survey was made to compare the clinical education problems viewed by nursing instructors an senior nursing students in nursing-midwifery colleges affiliated to the faculty of medicine in isfahan (iran, 1994).   the purposes of this study were to determine the demographic characteristics of the subject further the clinical instructors' and the students' views regarding problems they ...

 As internet usage becomes more popular over the world, e-learning system has been accepted globally in the past ten years. E-learning system can make learner study at any time and any location conveniently. However, because the teaching materials in different e-learning systems are usually defined in specific data format, the sharing of the teaching materials among these systems becomes diffi...

The purpose of this national survey was to explain the relationships between professors’ contextual characteristics, teaching conceptualizations and motivation, and the use of learnercentered teaching (LCT) methods in colleges of environmental, agricultural, applied, and life sciences. Three hundred and twenty-nine professors from land-grant universities (1862 & 1890) and state colleges partici...

Web-based or “online” learning commonly known as e-Learning which makes use of internet technologies has been widely used by many education institutions around the globe. Higher education institutions have been using Learning Management system (LMS) as a part of their campus-based and distance teaching. To date, very little research has been carried out to investigate whether the uses of LMS ac...

background and purpose: in education of medical science courses, there has been a growing orientation towards replacing traditional teaching in with e-learning education. since the modern system of education is based on self-directed learning, e-learning requires special powers to deal with new-emerging challenges and professionally encounter the learning environment. the purpose of the present...