Abstract Aims Educational courses supplement deanery-led teaching, and may be mandatory for training progression. The Royal College websites are the first contact trainees to search courses, with other identified by word of mouth. This project aimed collate a comprehensive database available core higher general surgical identify areas requiring development. Methods A snowballing approach was us...

Offerings of electronic courses and degrees are growing at a surprising rate. Some have surmised that E courses represent the future for higher education and that the traditional university may soon be a relic of the past: do E courses represent a significant improvement over traditional pedagogy for educating students? In this context, 305 questionnaires were sent by e-mail to accounting chair...

Online courses are an integral part of nursing education programs.The responsibility for developing and teaching asynchronous online courses can be challenging, especially for neophyte educators. Two experienced educators discuss strategies for developing and enhancing selected aspects of asynchronous online courses. Practical, evidence-based aspects of designing, conducting, and evaluating web...

The authors present how the Institute for Research in Intelligent Systems (IRIS) at California State University, Chico (CSUC) provides access to robotics equipment to support courses in intelligent systems. The supported courses range from core courses in computer science, general education courses, and senior project courses in computer science and in engineering.

This study analyzed students who took STEM courses online or face-to-face at a large urban community college in the Northeastern U.S. to determine which course-level characteristics most strongly predicted higher rates of dropout or D/F grades in online STEM courses than would be expected in comparable face-to-face courses. While career and elective STEM courses had significantly higher success...

nowadays, more attention is being paid to customers’ satisfaction as funding decisions are made. extension organization, which plays an important role in educating farmers, must know how far the learners are satisfied with its educational program. accordingly, this study was conducted in yazd province (iran) with the main objective of investigating the pomegranate growers’ satisfaction with the...