Background: One of the ways for effective communication between learners and instructional multimedia content in mobile learning systems is taking advantage of characters or pedagogical agents. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of the levels of realism in mobile-based pedagogical agents on health e-learning. Methods: The s...

background and objectives: outsourcing healthcare and the associated services has proven as an effective strategy for enhancing hospital performance and improving quality of services. despite, the concept is relatively new in iran, calling for studies investigating different aspects of the issue and its potential benefits. thus, this study was conducted to explore the impact of outsourcing mana...

QUESTION How were traditional librarian reference desk services successfully eliminated at one health sciences library? SETTING The analysis was done at an academic health sciences library at a major research university. METHOD A gap analysis was performed, evaluating changes in the first eleven months through analysis of reference transaction and instructional session data. MAIN RESULTS ...

UNLABELLED This study had two aims: (a) to describe the quality of language intervention provided by school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to children with language impairment in the primary grades with respect to the quality of emotional support, instructional support, and proactive management during SLP-child interactions, and (b) to determine if key characteristics of the SLPs are...

Instructional quality of online delivery is still a common concern. Quality assurance requires a comprehensive framework of several perspectives of learners’ and instructors’ needs including critical analysis of their teaching and learning practices with the course technology platform. Using online surveys and semi-structured interviews with 10 instructors and 29 students, this case study inves...

this research has studied and ranked the service quality and its relation with customers' satisfaction in a bank in iran. in the theoretical principles section, the concepts and denitions related to services, satisfaction, banking and research background have been studied. the statistical community of the study was all the bank customers that have referred to the bankand have had interest...

The activities developed in this paper were aimed at providing an awareness of the elements that should be considered in quality learning objects instructional design for elearning systems. We thus propose our own LO definition taking into account aggregation level number 2. On this basis, we analyze cognitive theories for promoting learning and we explain issues relating to the LO characterist...

Metacognition plays an essential role in learning mathematics. Due to missing tools for observation and evaluation of metacognitive activities in mathematics instruction, rarely anything is known about how metacognition is fostered in mathematics instruction. This paper presents the design of such an innovative tool. It also explains the methodology used to evaluate its reliability as well as t...