Blended Massive Open Online Courses (bMOOCs) have arisen as a blended learning strategy that combines the use of MOOC platform-supported activities and video-based content with in-class face-to-face activities in Higher Education contexts. While first bMOOCs experiences are being reported in the literature, it is unclear which is the general perception of this approach by university teachers. T...

Teachers are evaluated in different ways. However, the most prevalent and controversial method is teacher evaluation by students. The present study was targeted at the examination of students’ view on the teachers’ evaluation criteria. Methods: The population of this descriptive cross-sectional study was 107 students of Paramedical Faculty of Urmia University of Medical Sciences that two of th...

the present research identified major barriers of isfahan university teachers participation in electronic technology courses. a second goal of this study was to examine the effects of characteristics and demographics of university teachers on these barriers. in this research problems and barriers fell into three distinct categories: personal, perceptual, and contextual. a questionnaire was desi...

Large-scale environmental epidemiologic studies often rely on exposure estimates based on linkage to residential addresses. This approach, however, is limited by the lack of residential histories typically available for study participants. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of using address data from LexisNexis (a division of RELX, Inc., Dayton, Ohio), a commercially available credit...

Robert T. Carter, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University Jessica M. Forsyth, MA, Ed.M., Doctoral Candidate, Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University Bryant Williams, MA, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University Silvia L. Mazzula, MA, NCC, L...

The present study was designed to test the influence of confirmed expectations, perceived usefulness and perceived competence on e-learning satisfaction among university teachers. A questionnaire was completed by 125 university teachers from 12 different universities in Norway. We found that 51% of the variance in university teachers’ satisfaction with e-learning could be explained by the three...

this study aims at discovering whether university entrance exam (uee), a high-stake selection test in iran, influences the high school and pre-university efl teachers` methodology and test development. the participants of this study included thirty high school and pre-university efl teachers who were randomly selected from ten different schools. to answer the research questions, five types of m...