iran universities of medical sciences have experienced a period of expansion in past decades. now previous concerns are alleviated, and the former quantity-based policy has given a way to a more quality-seeking attitude. in this study, we developed a planning model for expansion and stagnation of higher education in iranian universities of medical sciences based on workforce requirements of the...

background: the aims of the research that formed the basis of the current study are as follows: determining methods that are used by teachers for giving feedback in clinical settings. determining types of feedback, teachers give to their students in clinical settings. determining barriers of giving feedback and its important teachers’ experience in clinical settings. methods: this applied resea...

Advances in emerging ICT have enabled organisations to develop innovative ways to intelligently collect data that may not be possible before. However, this leads to the explosion of data and unprecedented challenges in making strategic and effective use of available data. This research-in-progress paper presents an action research focusing on applying business intelligence (BI) in a UK higher e...

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are often the size of small municipalities. Worldwide, the higher education (HE) sector has expanded phenomenally; for example, since the 1960s, the United Kingdom (UK) HE system has expanded sixfold to >2.4 million students. As a consequence, the overall production of waste at HEIs throughout the world is very large and presents significant challenges as th...

Higher education institution management faces the challenge of improving study process quality and efficiency. Employable graduates are the result every education institution wishes to produce. Graduation rate is therefore crucial key performance indicator (KPI) important in many national models of financing higher education institutions. To achieve performance improvements of institution under...

This document presents a five year development initiative that sought to implement a learning management system clearly differentiated from the CMS domain. The present article reports on our research work showing our effort towards a design of a true learning management system which entails pedagogical strategies embedded into the system design and the online learning environment. This is chara...

The most important goal of each society, is to reach economic development. As the goal and agent of development, man has got an important responsibility, which responsibility is realized by way of education, specially higher education, because the universities are the main factors for progress, production of knowledge and education of specialized human forces and they play a significant role in...

the aim of the present study was to identify dimensions and dimensions and components of improving the educational quality of graduate students (master). the statistical population included all faculty and students of islamic azad university, science and research in the city of bushehr. the sample size in accordance with the morgan table was estimated about 201 faculties and 351 students, and t...