Background: Achieving organizational objectives depends on the effectiveness of administrators. However, managerial efficacy largely depends on the knowledge and skills of managers. This study aimed at assessing the skills of financial and budget management of the Ministry of Health from the perspective of resource development assistants of universities of medical sciences na...

OBJECTIVES To report the lessons learned from eight years of feeding back routinely collected cardiovascular data in an educational context METHODS There are distinct educational and technical components. The educational component provides peer-led learning opportunities based on comparative analysis of quality of care, as represented in computer records. The technical part ensures that relev...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention on healthcare professionals' adherence to the technical recommendations for tracheobronchial aspiration in intensive care unit patients. METHODS A quasi-experimental study was performed to evaluate intensive care unit professionals' adherence to the tracheobronchial aspiration technical recommendations in intensive care un...

A Critical Analysis of Iranian Training Programs forTechno-Vocational Teachers across Time   A. A. Khallaaghi, Ph.D.* A. Navidi, Ph.D.**   The Iranian educational system has been facing, not only a shortage of techno-vocational teachers across all such schools and over the past one hundred years, but inadequacies in the qualities of those who have served in this sector. An analysis of th...

INTRODUCTION Simulation is becoming an increasingly popular educational tool in numerous surgical specialities, including urology. This article reviews the current role of urological simulators; discussing their need, availability, incorporation and current limitations. MATERIAL AND METHODS A literature review of the electronic databases Medline, Embase and Google Scholar was performed. RES...

The Internet offers easy access to open resources, especially for educational use. However, the quality of open resources has been constantly criticized (Wiley & Gurrell, 2009). The purpose of this study was to examine English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) open educational resources (OERs) and to make recommendations for designing ESL OER websites that supported open language learning. Both the ES...

Collaborative Learning is emerging as an important learning method. Computer and network supported collaborative learning systems and environments are starting to appear. In order that these systems contribute positively into the educational process, it is important to consider quality requirements. This paper presents the CLE (Collaborative Learning Evaluation), a framework for evaluating Coll...