Introduction: Many PhD students will continue their academic career as university lecturers; therefore they should be familiar with presentation skills. Most universities around the world offer postgraduate pedagogic courses in their PhD curriculums, while such courses are not included in most Iranian PhD programs. Thus at the Education Development Office of Mashhad Medical School, we offered t...

entrepreneurship courses had a tremendous potential to improve the knowledge and skills of thestudents in agricultural applied-scientific education centers (aasecs) to make a business aftergraduating. this study was designed to analyze barriers of entrepreneurship education coursesdelivering in aasecs in fars province. the population of the study consisted of all 1018 students infour aasecs in ...

ePortfolios can both facilitate and assess knowledge transfer from lower division, general education courses to upper division, discipline-specific courses. The chapter opens with a discussion of Teaching/Writing in Thirdspaces (Grego & Thompson, 2008) and argues that the notion of thirdspace can apply to the distance between general education courses and the information skills required within ...

nowadays, more attention is being paid to customers’ satisfaction as funding decisions are made. extension organization, which plays an important role in educating farmers, must know how far the learners are satisfied with its educational program. accordingly, this study was conducted in yazd province (iran) with the main objective of investigating the pomegranate growers’ satisfaction with the...

background: clinical training is an important part of the training courses of medicine during which students learn how to face the patients, diagnose the diseases and treat the patients. alongside clinical apprenticeship, related theoretical courses are presented so that the most training possible is covered. in the past the theoretical courses of pediatrics ward of birjand university of medica...

This national study of post-secondary departments of agricultural education examined leadership and human resource management/development course offerings, course characteristics, future department plans, backgrounds of faculty, and related outreach activities. The majority of the courses were offered for undergraduate credit and were predominately required courses for agricultural education de...

This national study of post-secondary departments of agricultural education examined leadership and human resource management/development course offerings, course characteristics, future department plans, backgrounds of faculty, and related outreach activities. The majority of the courses were offered for undergraduate credit and were predominately required courses for agricultural education de...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the motives and reasons of non-physical education graduates to continue their education in postgraduate physical education discipline. research method was descriptive. the statistical sample of the research consisted of physical education students of the universities in tehran who were studying in 2009-2010 educational disciplines. 136 subjects were ...

PURPOSE This study surveyed dental hygienists in order to assess their routine approach for dental implant maintenance and to determine if a relationship exists between the formal education of dental hygienists and their previous attendance and interest in future implant related continuing education courses. METHODS A survey was distributed to dental hygienists attending an annual national c...

One of the paths that lead to excellence in teaching in higher education involves training of faculty members in higher education pedagogy. This study gives a summary of individual surveys and hands-on experience acquired through implementation of methodology courses for faculty members. At the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and at other higher education institutions throughout the Czech ...