E-learning usability is a goal of the user centred elearning design. Its achievement depends on the determination of the requirements, characteristics and preferences of the users of an e-learning system or environment (learner, teacher and administrator of an educational process). This paper presents different aspects of e-learning usability. One of them requires an evaluation of learner’s pre...

During the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference 2014, a workshop was held three consecutive times as part of the Pedagogical Speed Dating sessions to introduce experienced college/university faculty and instructional designers to an approach to instructional design that is based on increasing motivation. The purpose of the workshop was to demonstrate the use of Kelle...

bedside teaching is a vital component of medical education. it is applicable to any situation where teaching is imparted in the presence of patients. in teaching in the patients’ presence, learners have the opportunities to use all of their senses and learn the humanistic aspect of medicine such as role modeling, which is vital but difficult to communicate in words. unfortunately, bedside teach...

This paper investigates learner-initiated responses to English language teachers’ referential questions and learner initiatives after teachers’ feedback moves in meaning-focused question-answer sequences to analyze how interactional practices of language teachers, their initiation and feedback moves, facilitate learner initiatives. Classroom discourse research has largely neglected learner init...

Electronic learning systems and virtual learning environments for education or training are increasingly gaining attention in educational organizations as well as in industry. An important dimension in the evaluation of a virtual learning environment is the assessment of e-learner satisfaction. Critical elements in the assessment procedure are the learner interface, the course content, the acce...