Background: it seems necessary to assess dentists’ needs in order to upgrade the quality of the educational programs. This study was conducted to determine general dentists’ perspectives in the continuing educational programs in Mazandaran Province.    Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among 430 dentists in Mazandaran during 2011-2012. A questionnaire was distribut...

Introduction: The people’s mental, intellectual and physical nonreadinessto confront earthquake may result in disastrous outcomes.This research aimed to study of effects of a training interventionon health connector’s knowledge regarding their approach toearthquake in health-training centers in East of Tehran.Methods: This research which is a semi-experimental study wasdesigned and executed in ...

In this article we apply theoretical tools from the work of Elias and Connell to critically discuss ways in which gender relations on Higher Education sport courses are manifested experienced by students. Drawing data an analysis curriculum, as well interviews, surveys workshops with students across a range at one university, explore curriculum design knowledge is presented both marginalises co...

Efforts by universities in sub-Sahara Africa to promote professional development of instructors in course design and delivery by e-learning technologies have often lacked meaningful impacts. This study investigated the impact of collaborative course design on instructors’ professional learning about design and delivery of e-learning courses at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT). Six Teacher ...

This paper discusses two recent graduate courses in educational technology, and contrasts them with previous work in the context of Participatory Pattern Workshops (Mor, Winters, and Warburton, 2010). Both courses were based on a design studio model, where students worked in teams and were asked to identify an educational challenge and address it using an appropriate technology. The paper consi...

One way to develop effective online courses is the use of learning design patterns, since patterns capture successful solutions. Pedagogical patterns are commonly created by human cognitive processing in "writer's workshops". We explore two ideas; first whether IMS Learning Design is suitable for detecting patterns in existing courses and secondly whether the use of inductive analyses is a suit...

Professional development (PD) workshops designed to help faculty move from teacherto learner-centered science courses for undergraduates are typically evaluated with self-reported surveys that address faculty’s satisfaction with a workshop, what they learned, and what they applied in the classroom. Professional development outcomes are seldom evaluated through analysis of observed teaching prac...

To internationalize higher education, non-English dominant nations have increased English-medium instruction, posing challenges to non-native speaker (NNS) students’ written English ability. The present study examines nine American professors’ literacy brokerage at an English-medium summer school in China, where they taught courses in art history, history, philosophy, political science, psychol...

Local training for high performance computing using remote national supercomputing centers is di erent from training at the centers themselves. The local site computing and communication resources are a fraction of those at the national centers. However, training at the local site has the potential of training more computational science and engineering students in high performance computing by ...