Understanding large amounts of multimedia information is a challenge in many domains – as technology makes its way into the classroom, the classroom becomes one such domain. An instructor has little attention to focus on the technology and is instead focused on teaching. We examine several techniques for clustering digital ink diagrams drawn by students during in-class activities. These diagram...

Physics Education Research (PER) is currently facing significant difficulties in disseminating research-based knowledge and instructional strategies to other faculty. Co-teaching is a promising and cost-effective alternative to traditional professional development that may be applicable in many situations. This paper discusses the rationale for coteaching and our initial experience with co-teac...

The explosion in the number of students taking online courses warrants a deeper understanding of instructor strategies that meet rhetorical and relational goals. Guided by social presence theory and rhetorical and relational goals theory, 329 participants were randomly assigned into one of three manipulated social presence online learning conditions to watch a short lecture. The student percept...

a comparative study between two methods of health   education on mother's knowledge about child training in   urmia health center in 2003.     amirzadeh n [1] , khalilzadeh h [2] , amirzadeh j [3]     abstract:   introduction: the future of every society depends on its children. today, parents (especially mothers) must challenge for their care, training, and socialization. parents most be ...

the efficacy of an instrument designed for specific self – afficacy measurment in patients with mi     zand s [1] *, rafiei m [2]     received: 9 apr , 2013 accepted: 15 jun , 2013   abstract   background & aims : f or efficient evaluation of their beliefs in patients with heart failure, there is a need to use a tool with scientific principles of psychometrics. in our country because of the abs...

That’s the nutrition and comfort intervention one of my undergraduate classmates prescribed on a nursing care plan, circa 1972. In response, her incredulous instructor wrote, “I assume the patient likes this?!?” Apparently, the teacher didn’t share the patient’s enthusiasm for the interesting and unique sensory qualities of buttermilk—a combination of sourness, astringency, yellow–white color, ...