While learners’ ability to speak academic language develops over time in content-based programs, the development of their nonacademic language appears to lag behind. Students’ speaking in content-based (CB) classrooms is confined to an academic discourse style. In the researchers’ point of view, the gap of less amount of nonacademic speaking can be bridged by the application of the conceptual f...

Background: There are no general strategies or tools to evaluate daily lesson plans; however, assessments conducted using traditional methods usually include course plans. This study aimed to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of online survey software in collecting data on education in medical fields and the application of such softwares to evaluate students' views and modification of lesso...

The vision of a new generation of learning environments, which possess the ability to make intelligent decisions about the interactions that take place during learning, encourages researchers to look at novel forms of co-operation and communication between tutors, learners, developers and computers and to investigate the technical possibilities for their realization. In this paper, neuro-fuzzy ...

The Mobile Informatics program at the Viktoria Institute has to some extent used scenario planning as a method for discussing issues related to Informatics research during one year. One important lesson is that the scenario exercises have given the participants interesting ideas and perspectives as a side effect, while some other expected advantages seem much harder to achieve.

This article demonstrates that careful planning and management can help to ensure effective learning for pre-registration students during theory and practical skills teaching. It highlights two lesson plans with intended learning outcomes, one for a didactic teaching session and the other for a psychomotor clinical skills session. The article identifies a variety of teaching and learning strate...

background and purpose: lesson plan is considered a vital component of the teacher training and successful teachers are in variably good planners and thinkers. the present study was conducted to survey the academic staff’s views about lesson plan in shiraz university of medical sciences in 2001. moreover, considering the finding of the study there was an attempt to seek the experts’ views on ho...

Developing skills in performing basic slit-lamp biomicroscopy is an important element of the ophthalmology undergraduate curriculum. As a doctor working in an ophthalmology department, I often provide slit-lamp teaching for medical students. This paper describes a lesson plan for this technique using Gagne's nine events of instruction. The presented lesson plan is a combination of Gagne's nine ...