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...

LabSET (Support Laboratory for Telematic Learning) – ULg (University of Liège) developed, in close collaboration with higher education teachers willing to "go online", more than 100 distance courses, representing a large spectrum of disciplines and a wide range of teaching/learning objectives, methods and challenges. For those courses, LabSET used the "8 Learning Events Model" (Leclercq & Pouma...

The chapter draws on the work of two national projects concerned with developing research-based approaches to learning and teaching and supporting these through technology. A pedagogic framework underpinning the design and delivery of such courses is outlined. In exploring the usability of online environments (programs) for research-based learning and teaching, the chapter discusses issues and ...

The educational design of seven on-line courses was analyzed whith the aim to relate the professors' pedagogic knowledge and technological abilities with the course design. The courses already imparted where analyzed in the LMS where they were designed (Virtual U, Moodle and Virtual UABC). Assesment where carry out with instruments to evaluate the quality of the designs and semi structured inte...

This study is aimed at contributing to the transformation movement to be developed in the Nursing Courses/Schools. The contribution refers to the formation of nurses with autonomy and discernment, to ensure the construction of the model of health attention, to the production of new knowledge and to the delivery of quality services directed to the health needs of the population. This study bring...

Using an academic library has always been a crucial part of studying in higher education, but this has presented problems for independent learners taking distance education courses. In the past, Open University (UKOU) students received almost everything needed to successfully complete any course. Nowadays, growth in Internet use enables learners to go ‘outside the box’ to locate resources that ...

The demand for further skills and qualifications in the educational technology field remains strong as the range of technologies increases and their potential use in educational contexts becomes more compelling. Students registering for the University of Cape Town (UCT) Masters level courses are employed in schools, government agencies, universities, non-governmental organisations, or in the co...

Pedagogic conversational agents can be effective in promoting the acquisition of language and intercultural skills, both as virtual coaches and virtual conversational partners. This paper gives an overview of a framework for utilizing conversational agents to promote acquisition of intercultural communication skills. Adaptation plays an important and increasing role, in creating courses that ar...

Introducing CMC into the Media Mix Developing CMC Competence Staged Development Creating the On-Screen Environment Ideal Numbers and timing of moderator interventions Creating Effective On-screen Environments Conclusions References Abstract This paper is about how we attempted to overcome barriers to the use of Computer Mediated Conferencing (CMC) for effective learning in Open University Busin...