Online courses appear to be the future if colleges and universities choose to increase enrollments with students who need more flexibility in scheduling. The challenge has been to create a course that is rigorous with the limitations to physical presence of the instructor and the parameters inherent in technological delivery. This article relates the planning and execution of such a graduate ps...

WEAR is an authoring tool for building Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) over the Web. The innovative feature of WEAR is its instructor modelling capabilities. In particular, WEAR maintains instructor models for the human instructors who author the ITSs in order to adapt the interaction with each instructor and provide individualised support to them throughout the ITS’s lifecycle. The instruc...

introduction. clinical education is a process by which students obtain clinical experiences and ideas on the patients' bedside to be prepared for patient’s problem solving. continuous evaluation and identification of strengths and weaknesses of this process by different methods is necessary for development of an effective medical education and assessment of student satisfaction (ss) is one...

Introduction. Clinical education is a process by which students obtain clinical experiences and ideas on the patients' bedside to be prepared for patient’s problem solving. Continuous evaluation and identification of strengths and weaknesses of this process by different methods is necessary for development of an effective medical education and assessment of student satisfaction (SS) is one of t...

LEARNING WHILE USING AN INSTRUCTIONAL SIMULATION Tayyaba Batool Old Dominion University, 2017 Director: Dr. Ginger S. Watson Learner control is thought to be valuable by some scholars who believe that it allows learners to adapt instructions to their needs while reducing cognitive load (Mayer & Moreno, 2003). Although learner control offers some advantages to the learner, the importance of an i...

Introduction: The importance of optimal clinical nursingeducation in professional skills development is undeniable.In clinical education, nursing students are often faced withproblems. Recognizing nursing students’ perception on clinicaleducation is the first step to remove the barriers of this challenge.Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conductedto determine the nursing stude...

Increased pressure relating to employment schedules, finances, and family responsibilities, as well as the high-cost of post-secondary education and the limited availability of scholarships, has created an increased need for distance education. Distance learning research has defined certain problematic areas which must be addressed in an effort to enhance the distance learning experience. This ...