Background: "motivation" is an influential factor in the learning process, whose absence can prevent the learner from learning. Motivation affects both new learning and performance, skills, strategies, and pre-learned behaviors. "Educational motivation" is an essential aspect of education and the learning process. Educational motivation is generally referred to as the desires, needs, and factor...

Introductions: Problem based learning is considered superior to the conventional didactic teaching for contextual learning, long term retention of knowledge, development of generic skill and attitudes. This study looked in to the students’ perception and preference of problem bases learning in a sixmonth introductory course in the beginning of undergraduate medical school program. Methods: A 20...

Social cognition and learning potential have been proposed as mediating variables between neurocognition and functional outcome in schizophrenia. The present study examined this relation in a schizophrenia group (N = 26) with normal IQ. Neurocognition was measured with a composite score from tests of verbal learning, psychomotor speed, and executive functioning. Functional outcome was defined a...

One of the facts of online learning is when learners engage in such learning, the rest of the Web is merely a click away. While many studies have identified an association between learners’ personal attributes and online learning experiences, few have explored the linkages among learners’ aptitude, experiences of daily social web activities, and perception of online learning. The purpose of thi...

In a series of papers, we have formalized an active Bayesian perception approach for robotics based on recent progress in understanding animal perception. A central aspect of this active perception approach is the inference of ‘where’ and ‘what’ objects are in the environment under uncertainty, termed Simultaneous Object Localization and IDentification (SOLID). Here we describe some of the deta...

INTRODUCTION In the new concept of medical education, creativity development is an important goal. The aim of this research was to identify a model for developing critical thinking among students with the special focus on learning environment and learning style. METHODS This applied and cross-sectional study was conducted among all students studying in undergraduate and professional doctorate...