background: in order to transfer teachers’ knowledge, the presence of students is necessary in the classroom. despite numerous studies on the causes of absence, the strategies of its reduction have not been yet investigated and this study intends to address this issue. methods: inthis cross-sectional study 401 students were participated who were selected with systematic random sampling. the stu...

Although there is an abundance of medical educational content available in individual EU academic institutions, this is not widely available or easy to discover and retrieve, due to lack of standardized content sharing mechanisms. The mEducator EU project will face this lack by implementing and experimenting between two different sharing mechanisms, namely, one based one mashup technologies, an...

teaching whether it is the type,method,subject or the content, is depended on the textbook to a very great extent and it is one of the most important elements of the learning procedures, and a flowing and updated interpretation for what is called the academic context for the method, and therefore the type and the quality of the textbook is from the issues that concerns those who care about the ...

Based on education concept of CDIO (Conceive – Design – Implement – Operate) engineering, and combined with the requirements of the educational reform in colleges and universities, aimed at some problems existing in the Sensor course teaching of civil engineering, this paper suggests the reform approach from the prospects of teaching methods, teaching content, teaching environment, curriculum a...

Objective: In this paper, the authors describe the design, development and evaluationof specific simulation software for Cytogenetics training in order to demonstrate the usefulness of computer simulations for both teaching and learning of complex educational content. Background: Simulations have a long tradition inmedicine and can be very helpful for learning complex content, for example Cytog...

It is widely believed that the major purpose of foreign language learning is to master the speaking skill of that language. Learners even evaluate their foreign language learning on the basis of their achievement in speaking proficiency. This study discusses different teaching methodologies aimed at the development of task-based language learning, drama and the manifestation of scenario-based t...