This study shows the importance of interaction to student learning within Web-based online learning programs. The population of this study was students enrolled in multiple academic disciplines at a private university in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. A Web-based research instrument was designed to assess students’ characteristics, their perceptions of learning, satisfaction, student-to-...

Distance learning programs are proving to be very popular for advancing nursing education from both a continuing education and academic degree perspective. Whether one is exploring opportunities to maintain perianesthesia certification or to pursue an advanced academic degree, distance learning technologies offer many feasible options. The following article provides prospective distance learnin...

The main objective of this research is to describe the use that students make of an academic SNS (social network service) and detail the relationship between socio-demographic and academic factors associated with the use of EDMODO and the perception of the contribution to the acquisition of skills for the future career. In the analysis of user experience, participants positively evaluated EDMOD...

BACKGROUND There are different teaching methods; such as traditional lectures, bedside teaching, and workshops for clinical medical clerkships. Each method has advantages and disadvantages in different situations. Emergency Medicine (EM) focuses on emergency medical conditions and deals with several emergency procedures. This study aimed to compare traditional teaching methods with teaching met...

BACKGROUND Mentoring relationships, for all medical school faculty members, are an important component of lifelong development and education, yet an understanding of mentoring among medical school clinical faculty members is incomplete. This study examined associations between formal mentoring relationships and aspects of faculty members' engagement and satisfaction. It then explored the variab...

The objective of the study was to empirically investigate the relationships between transformational leadership style proxied by charismatic or inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration with job satisfaction. 100 respondents from an academic institution in Malaysia had voluntarily participated in the study. The data was analyzed by means of confirmator...