IRAN: A STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS Morteza Arab-Zozani, Habib Jalilian, Mina Mahami Oskouei, Mohammad Dehghanian, Zoleikha Asadi Aghbalaghi. School of management and medical informatics, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; School of management and medical informatics, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, Tabriz Universi...

In 2005, medical educators at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), began developing the Parnassus Integrated Student Clinical Experiences (PISCES) program, a year-long longitudinal integrated clerkship at its academic medical center. The principles guiding this new clerkship were continuity with faculty preceptors, patients, and peers; a developmentally progressive curriculum wit...

the aim of this study is to analyze the effects of religion and religiosity on the lifestyle of students who studied at the universidad de los andes colombia (bogota center) during the years 2011-12. 393 randomly selected participants were surveyed and handed questionnaires to complete. the results of this research show a correlation coefficient of 0.329. the independent variables that correlat...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Chester Community Physical Therapy Clinic (clinic) is a student-led pro bono clinic that provides physical therapy services to uninsured and underinsured community members. The purposes of this administrative case report are to describe the creation and implementation of a student-led pro bono clinic model designed to meet student and community needs and to consider i...

WebCT that has been used widely in higher educational institutes of North America is going to be a mission critical e-Learning platform in on-campus education, rather than mere WBT system. In this paper, we describe WebCT and its current status in North America at first. Secondly, we introduce three critical trends for educational information basis that we can observe in the movement of WebCT; ...

T hese days macroeconomics has become more respectable than it used to be. I can remember when many economists liked to say: Microeconomics is not problematic, but I just don’t understand macroeconomics. There was a definite implication that something must be wrong with macroeconomics, not with the observer. Of course macroeconomics cannot be “exact;” it has to work by rough analogy and empiric...

The Impact of Personalization-Based Tailored Instructional Communications on College Student Persistence by Nichole Gibbs MA, City University of New York, 2000 BS, Howard University, 1996 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Psychology Walden University May 2013

Enterprise systems (ES) are important business software which can be difficult to implement, while the failure to account for organisational culture can lead to projects that are expensive and late. However most of the existing research has focused on national level culture. As such little is known of how organisational culture influences the implementation of enterprise systems. This ongoing r...

Student modelling systems must operate in an environment in which a student’s mastery of a subject matter is likely to change as a lesson progresses. A student model is formed from evaluation of evidence about the student’s mastery of the domain. However, given that such mastery will change, older evidence is likely to be less valuable than recent evidence. Data ageing addresses this issue by d...

Virtual or Managed Learning Environments (VMLEs) cannot be fully effective unless well-integrated with existing campus information systems. Institutional planning for the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has provided an unexpected impetus at the University of Bristol. The DataHub, a reporting database created initially to back-end a locally developed Web application (IRIS) to support the R...