The goal of this research is to examine the impact of media formats used in web-based courses on the way students perceive these courses and on their performance in the courses (in terms of grades). Factors influencing the evaluation of web-based courses by the students are analyzed, based on courses of an online distance-learning graduate program. In particular, we studied conventional hyperte...

Introduction: Many PhD students will continue their academic career as university lecturers; therefore they should be familiar with presentation skills. Most universities around the world offer postgraduate pedagogic courses in their PhD curriculums, while such courses are not included in most Iranian PhD programs. Thus at the Education Development Office of Mashhad Medical School, we offered t...

Online courses are popular in the United States. In particular, the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform such as Coursera and edX are used to deliver online courses exclusively. Although these courses often do not provide any college level credits or degrees, scores of people have already joined the courses and finished them. Many schools are struggling to incorporate online modalities ...

Aims: The present study was carried out to evaluate the relationship between the grades of pre-clinical and clinical courses of endodontics, fixed prosthodontics and restorative dentistry achieved by dental students entering Tabriz Faculty of Dentistry in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Materials and methods: The subjects in this retrospective cross-sectional study consisted of dental students entering Ta...

Various organizations offer online continuing dental education (CDE) courses. While previous investigations focused on objective measures to determine the quality of the courses, this exploratory study evaluates the participants' experience with them. We surveyed 436 past course participants from nine online CDE courses (courses provided by six organizations) regarding their experience with the...

background: teachers' self-efficacy and development may be conceptualized as their beliefs in their own ability to plan, organize and carry out activities that are required to attain educational goals. in this study, we examined the effect of different medical education training courses (six-day, one- month short- term and six-month long- term courses) on perceived self-efficacy and development...

operating urban and rural councils in iran put some new hopes to improve the local situation and correct some authorized procedures in urban management affairs. the third period of local councils started in 2007. at present many councilors and officials aware about the importance of training some necessary skills and knowledge for the councilors. this article tries to adopt a relevant education...

Undergraduate Students' interest in taking quantitative vs. non quantitative courses has received limited attention even though it has important consequences for higher education. Previous studies have collected course interest ratings at the end of the courses as part of student evaluation of teaching (SET) ratings, which may confound prior interest in taking these courses with students' actua...

In this paper the authors describe Pundit, a course recommendation and search tool at Teachers College, Columbia University. The alpha prototype employs a novel combination of data retrieval and data mining approaches to recommend courses to users based on a match between their profiles and course contents. We utilize course management system and library e-reserves data to collect information a...

Signature Courses in the College Courses SIGN 26002. Code Making, Code Breaking. 100 Units. This course investigates the nature and use of codes and ciphers: what they are, how they are constructed and solved, and the significant roles they have played throughout history. We will begin by looking at the development of writing, the most basic tool for encoding thought and experience, and at the ...