background: we aimed to develop and evaluate outcomes of a blended learning (bl) program for nursing and midwifery education in iran. materials and methods: this was a participatory action research project. after designing bl website, providing technological infrastructures, and holding preparatory workshops, 22 blended courses were designed. bl method was implemented for one semester. students...

Students bring prior knowledge to their learning experiences. This prior knowledge is known to affect how students encode and later retrieve new information learned. Teachers and content developers can use information about students’ prior knowledge to create more effective lessons and materials. In many content areas, particularly the sciences, there is extensive research about the conceptions...

Recent interest in online course design has prompted concern in issues relating to assessment of student contributions in computer-mediated communication (CMC) environments. A current focus of discussion in CMC research is to look into how instructors could move away from looking at the quantity (i.e., the number of postings) to assessing the quality (i.e., the usefulness and meaningfulness of ...

Educators are increasingly using online computer-based training and assessment software— especially with large classes or in distance education settings. This technology is often criticized, however, for hampering personalized interaction with students. This paper introduces a unique approach for analyzing student characteristics influencing their adoption and use of computer-based educational ...

As writing instruction moves from the defined spatial and temporal parameters of the traditional classroom to various degrees of online interaction—from explanatory e-mails to courseware mediated distance education—instructors have had to reconceptualize how they identify themselves to their student audience. While many instructors have tried to translate their face-to-face strategies to the di...

For both instructors and students, the epitome of computer-based instruction is a program that presents precisely the information that the instructor wants students to know. The program is interactive, selfpaced, self-directed, and, unlike the instructor, never distracted or too tired or in too much of a hurry. The program may be a tutorial, a self-assessment quiz, a presentation of cases, or a...

Examination process is important activities for educational institutions to evaluate student performance. Thus the quality of the exam questions would determine the quality of the students produced by the institutions. Preparing exam questions is challenges, tedious and time consuming for the instructors. Usually the instructors keeping their own test bank in some form to help them prepare futu...

there are many determining factors such as changes in information technology, increasing number of students enrolling in pursue of education, and need to just in time education that attract attentions to e-learning. in this direction, there are more attentions required to be paid to applied-science education because of its nature. instructors as the basic cornerstone of every education system a...