the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of blended learning and multimedia software on iranian esp students' vocabulary learning. to this end, 120 iranian esp learners were assigned to two groups: the experimental and control groups. the experimental group received instructions through multimedia software while the control group received traditional instructions. the data were c...

Squeak Etoys is a free and open source media-rich authoring system with a user-friendly visual interface which comes preinstalled on One Laptop Per Child XO computers. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project1 is a revolutionary blueprint for children’s personal computer use created to bring an efficient and functional educational technological tool to nearly every child between six and twelve y...

Advanced three-dimensional virtual environment technology, similar to that used by the film and computer games industry has been used to generate an interactive learning environment that allow students to design and perform virtual chemical engineering laboratory experiments. Early attempts at ‘virtual’ chemical laboratories have often consisted of little more than online calculators or interac...

Individual Perspectives on Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 258 It is a great challenge to create baccalaureate programs in nanoengineering for four-year undergraduate students. Skeptics may argue that it can’t be done because nanotechnology requires competence in too many fields of knowledge for a student to gain meaningful mastery in an undergraduate career. But the fut...

conclusions meeting the prerequisites to incorporating tbl in the curriculum of medical universities plays a pivotal role in its success. accordingly, in the assessment of the curriculum of medical universities, these requirements should be fully identified and fulfilled so as to be able to devise appropriate plans for the success of teaching methods. context this review study, performed in 201...

Computer tools for education have become common in university research settings. However, their practical and widespread bene t has yet to be realized. Furthermore, cognitive science literature on learning and transfer suggests that concepts acquired in a single context tend to be coupled to that context and hence are not likely to be spontaneously accessed and used in new settings [1]. Such nd...

background: a combination of teaching modalities instead of a single method may enhance learning. the purpose of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of integrating e-learning modules into the syllabi of clinical contents from different clinical majors at different levels. methods: a total of 108 undergraduate students enrolled from various clinical majors, and participated via u...