Mobile technologies have become an integral tool for communication and information delivery. It transformed educational paradigms from traditional one-size-fits-all to personalized and context aware learning. Such education can support human resources development, resulting in improved outcomes. Quality of education and working skills are the important driving force for economic development. Th...

Online education is a popular paradigm for promoting continuing education for adult learners. However, only a handful of studies have addressed usability issues in the online education environment. Particularly, few studies have integrated the multifaceted usability evaluation into the lifecycle of developing such an environment. This paper will show the integration of usability evaluation into...

Introduction. Setting up “Clinical Skills Labs” has been started in some Iranian medical universities since five years ago. In an educational workshop for Clinical Skills Labs managers in January 2001, many managers stated that if there were standards for these centers it would help them define the necessities of the center. These standards would also make the basis for internal and external ev...

extended abstract 1. introduction human development is defined as a process for increasing people's options and level of life welfare. united nations as the most authoritative organization believes that the target of development or various economic, social, and political indices is human. therefore, if an economy grows but people do not take advantage of the economic development, there is no do...

background: faculty development programs have received considerable investment of resources from medical institutions, though the effect and output of them has been infrequently studied. this study was design to measure the effect of the mashhad university of medical sciences’ faculty development workshops. methods: three faculty development workshops on educational research were conducted to i...

background: since 2009, evaluation of scholarship in teaching activities of faculty members is considered for their promotion in iran. until now, policies regarding the minimum obligatory scholarship score required for promotion have changed dramatically. the effects of changes in policies on the scholarship activities of faculty members of mashhad university of medical sciences (mums) are eval...

chaharmahal and bakhtiari province is one of the 31 provinces of iran and located on the southwestern part of the country. its capital is shahrekord. it has an area of 16,332 square kilometers and a population of 857,910. to study of human development used the surplus biocappacity (sb) and human development index (hdi). this research accrued in the shahr-e-kord, boroojen, farsan, ardal, lordega...