Mahdi Nouri, Saeideh Ghaffarifar, Homayoun Sadeghi Bazargani, Reza Ghaffari. MSc student of Medical Education, Medical Education Department, Education Development Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran; Assistant Professor, Medical Education Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran; Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Healt...

In today’s e-commerce era, more than ever, we need to equip our students to be independent on-line learners. In this article, we will look into the use of online education as a means of understanding the emerging educational paradigm (from a teacher to a student-focus paradigm). Specifically, the focus is on the secondary school system in which the aim is to comprehend and explore the reasons b...

Introduction: There is a growing trend in online education coursesin higher education institutes. Previous studies have shown thathigh levels of self-direction are essential for successful onlinelearning. The present study aims to investigate challenges of andbarriers to self-directed virtual-learning among postgraduatestudents of medical sciences.Methods: 23 postgraduate virtual students of me...

competency- based mastery learning: a planned clinical experience for nursing students     baghaei r [1] , mohammadpour y [2] *, habibzade h [3] , rasouli d [4] , khalilzadeh h [5] , jafarizadeh h [6]    received: 2 may, 2011 accepted: 6 july, 2011   abstract  background & aims: clinical education is one of the most important and crucial parts of nursing education. successful clinical education...

COURSE IN THE AREA OF HEALTH PROMOTION Mahrokh Kheshvari, Niko Yamani, Peyman Abidi, Hossein Shahnazi. Assistant Professor, Nursing and Midwifery Research Center in nursing and midwifery school in Isfahan University of medical sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Associate Professor, Medical Education Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Professor of Medicine; Isfahan Uni...

The notion of trends in social networks has emerged as an important problem attracting the attention of researchers as well as the industry. Although, recent work has studied trends from various perspectives such as its temporal and geospatial properties, the structural properties of the network that creates such trends are ignored in trend detection. In this work, we propose two novel structur...

There have been many stories prophesying changes in how we learn with technology. ’MOOC’ could be one of them or it might turn out to be a real game changer. Some initially weak signals become more central and turn mainstream over time, others not. Great ideas cannot thrive by themselves; research, development, evaluation, deployment, procurement are activities planned and performed by interdep...