The primary purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between sense of community and cognitive learning in an online educational environment. Study participants consisted of 314 students enrolled in 26 graduate education and leadership courses taught at a distance using the Blackboard.com e-learning system. Study results provided evidence that a significant relationship ex...

Technology is providing a positive impact on delivery mechanisms employed in distance education at the university level. Some institutions are incorporating distance education as a way to extend the classroom. Other institutions are investigating new delivery mechanisms, which support a revised perspective on education. These latter institutions are revising their processes for interacting with...

Thе соnсерt оf рrераrаtiоn fоr lifе, whiсh hаs lоng bееn а mаjоr gоаl еduсаtiоn systеms аrоund thе wоrld, bесоmе rеdundаnt in ореn реrsресtivе by hugе trаnsfоrmаtiоns sосiеty, duе tо сhаngеs tесhnоlоgy аnd есоnоmy. Fifty yеаrs аgо, lifеlоng lеаrning соuld bе sееn аs аn орtiоn аgе with mоrе frее timе. Nоw it nесеssity. оffеrs trаining hаvе sеgmеntеd divеrsifiеd, ассоrdаnсе vаriоus dеmаnds соnsum...

background: we aimed to develop and evaluate outcomes of a blended learning (bl) program for nursing and midwifery education in iran. materials and methods: this was a participatory action research project. after designing bl website, providing technological infrastructures, and holding preparatory workshops, 22 blended courses were designed. bl method was implemented for one semester. students...

in addition to providing people with health care, medical science universities play a critical role in training skilled human forces required for different parts of the society. this calls for a constant review of medical staff and an attempt to eliminate the shortages. the aim of this study was to identify the barriers of electronic education development in the educational system of ahvaz jund...

Development of new functionalities that can enable learning environment to enhance and promote learning is a major concern in the computer-assisted instructional area. Actually, one of the most important issues in this area is distance education. New technologies such as the Internet contribute to this issue. A distance learning environment called CYBERPHYSIQUE is presented in this paper. CYPER...

Amaç: Uzaktan eğitim, öğrenci ile eğitici arasındaki fiziksel ve maddi sınırlamaları azaltan, eğitimin her durumda gruba ulaştırılmasını sağlayan bir eğitim modelidir. Bu çalışmamızın amacı, fizyoterapi rehabilitasyon eğitiminde, uzaktan ortamı yüz yüze ortamlarının karşılaştırılmasıdır. Gereç Yöntemler: Çalışmamıza Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi Fizik Tedavi Rehabilitasyon Yüksekokulunda öğre...

management of environmental education is the most fundamental method of protecting environment which is intended to increase awareness and to make individuals sensitive to the physical, economic, environmental, social and political events and changes. thus, with powerful tools of identifying and describing environmental issues, the individuals can obtain skills for devising methods and solving ...

This study investigated the kinds of dialogues utilized by Open University students while studying an intermediate level physics course. Research objectives were twofold: to document what dialogue types, mediated through which resources, were (1) generally utilized by students as they learned; and (2) were specifically utilized by students to overcome conceptual difficulties. It was found that ...

With the rapid growth of the Internet users and its applications there has been considerable interest in Web-based education systems that facilitates distance education. In this paper, we propose a Subject Model for Web-based Education system. The designed model uses a tree with multiple links. Each link weight has been derived from the conceptual relations, among the concepts of the subject. T...