Background: Interaction is considered a necessary, and integral part in all forms of distance learning and web -based learning environments. That how much technologies can support and help interactions is one of the most important issues that should be considered in the web-based environment. These interactions seek to engage students with other students, teachers and also non-human contex...

Background and Objectives: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has severely disrupted medical education. Distance learning is a way to reduce this problem. The Vice Chancellor for Education of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences has tried to implement distance education as much as possible by using a program that includes perspective, strategy and operational plan. With the im...

Introduction: In order to equip health system administrators with further education, for the first time in Iran, Kerman Medical University enrolled 30 of them as MPH (Master of Public Health) distance learning students in 2008. It seemed necessary to document the experiences of this course to design better programs in the future. Methods: This study was a qualitative descriptive study. All thi...

Distance metric has a key role in many machine learning and computer vision algorithms so that choosing an appropriate distance metric has a direct effect on the performance of such algorithms. Recently, distance metric learning using labeled data or other available supervisory information has become a very active research area in machine learning applications. Studies in this area have shown t...

Introduction: Continuing Medical Education (CME) is a key element in increasing the knowledge, skill, quality and effectiveness of health systems. Initially the CME programs were defined as face to face programs, but for many reasons distance learning by CME programs was also introduced. Aim: This study aimed to determine the viewpoints of faculty members of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medi...