introduction: the increasing development of software in e-learning has opened a new horizon in education. the current research was conducted to assess the effect of web-based teaching of anatomy course on medical students’ attitude, perceived ease of use, perceived benefit and satisfaction with teaching method at kermanshah university of medical sciences. methods: the present study was an inter...

A significant research base has increasingly substantiated that teachers are among the most significant players affecting student achievement in second language classrooms. As a result, teacher-related variables have enjoyed much research attention over the recent decades in both mainstream education and English Language Teaching (ELT). Likewise, the present study was set to test a stru...

The Network Training Materials Project at the University of Newcastle (UK) surveyed the existing scope of network training materials and found that printed material was the most common, but that there was a demand for alternative forms of training material, particularly for self-teaching purposes. The Project is producing generic training materials primarily for the UK user-support community., ...

Speaking is deemed by many scholars as a fundamental skill in second language (L2) learning. From the myriad of factors playing a role in willingness to communicate (WTC) in a foreign language, communication apprehension and self-perceived competence have attracted a good deal of interest in recent decades. Furthermore, it is generally agreed that cooperative teaching can enhance learners' ling...

Speaking is deemed by many scholars as a fundamental skill in second language (L2) learning. From the myriad of factors playing a role in willingness to communicate (WTC) in a foreign language, communication apprehension and self-perceived competence have attracted a good deal of interest in recent decades. Furthermore, it is generally agreed that cooperative teaching can enhance learners' ling...

The traditional classroom teaching mode is based on the content of the subject, takes the teacher as the center and gives priority to classroom instruction. While PBL (Problem Based Learning) teaching method breaches the traditional mode, combining the basic science with clinical practice and covering the process from discussion to self-study to re-discussion and re-self-study, and students bec...

BACKGROUND Curriculum evaluation is key to continuous assurance of quality of education. OBJECTIVES To assess the teachers' perceptions on how well student teaching and learning activities were conducted at an institution that had practiced PBL for five years. METHODS A cross sectional descriptive study. 150 teachers from 23 departments at the College of Health Sciences participated in the ...