The Interactive Learning Wall is a Windows/PC-based virtual blackboard system that can be controlled remotely by a classroom instructor and/or students. A laser pointer used by the instructor emulates mouse actions on a computer projection screen. An inexpensive video camera sends each projected frame to a video capture card in the computer; our software detects the bright laser spot, moves a s...

We examine the impact of class size on student evaluations of instructor performance using data on all economics classes offered at the University of California, Santa Barbara from Fall 1997 to Spring 2004. A particular strength of this data is the opportunity to control for both instructor and course fixed effects. In contrast to the literature examining class size effects on test-based outcom...

Faculty members are often busy with various research work and thus have little time to prepare lectures. Advances in technology offer a solution to this problem. That is, they can record the lectures and reuse them over semesters. It is common for these lecture videos to include an inset frame of the instructor giving the lecture. However, little research has been done to investigate the effect...

student concept learning in pulmonary physiology. Pathfinder scaling is used to derive concept maps for medical and veterinary students and their physiology instructors at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, respectively. The concept maps are evaluated for coherence (internal consistency), student-instructor similarity, and correlation of similarity with final examination s...

Staff CRNAs often find themselves functioning in the capacity of clinical instructors for nurse anesthesia students. In order to utilize the clinical environment as an educational forum and maximize the quality of the student's learning experiences, evaluations are a vital tool. Instructor evaluation of student performance is the subject of much highly publicized material. However, the purpose ...

Abstract Synchronous online learning platforms have been used actively during the COVID-19 period. They opened possibilities for and interaction, but also posed new challenges instructors. This article provides insights into one teacher’s interactions examines how instructor presence is expressed in teachers’ activities virtual classrooms higher education. Instructor investigated using social t...

Pakistan Oral & Dental Journal Vol 34, No. 1 (March 2014) 1 Assistant Professor of Endodontics – RAK College of Dental Sciences 2 Clinical Instructor – RAK College of Dental Sciences For Correspondence: Dr Osama Khattak Email: [email protected] Mobile: 00971554176533 P.O.Box – 12973 RAK College of Dental Sciences Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. Received for Publication: January 16, 2014 Revision Rece...