The establishment of a sustainable world, ecology, and economy cannot be accomplished without the success social relations among world’s inhabitants. In context globalisation, which fosters blending various people’s characters cultures, English as an international language plays paramount role in sustaining human tool for negotiation; it functions signifier engagement collaboration. Therefore, ...

The Spanish National Distance Education University (UNED) Model is presented in which traditional distance courses are complemented by CiberUNED services. The methodology used from the teacher’s point of view is analysed and an overview of the strategies that has been emphasized using virtual courses are presented. The Avicenna Virtual Campus Research Eumedis Project is presented. 1.Introductio...

Learning is enhanced by the physical and social technologies typically used in distance education. Students in distance programs typically have access to tools that allow them to repeat lectures and interact with their fellow students and faculty. Students in all classes, including face-to-face and blended courses, benefit from having similar tools and technologies available. This article will ...

This paper examines the key issues regarding The Interaction Equivalency Theorem posited by Anderson (2003a), which consists of the three interaction elements found in formal education courses among teacher, student, and content. It first examines the core concepts of the theorem and argues that two theses of different dimensions can be articulated in the theorem, namely, value and amount (or q...

BACKGROUND Blended learning, defined as the combination of traditional face-to-face learning and asynchronous or synchronous e-learning, has grown rapidly and is now widely used in education. Concerns about the effectiveness of blended learning have led to an increasing number of studies on this topic. However, there has yet to be a quantitative synthesis evaluating the effectiveness of blended...

E-learning in healthcare professional education still seems like it is a new innovation but the reality is that e-learning has been around for as long as the internet has been around. This is approximately twenty years and so it is probably appropriate to now take stock and consider what the future of e-learning in healthcare professional education might be. One likely occurrence is that there ...

Technology is influencing education, providing new delivery and assessment models. A combination between online and traditional course, the hybrid (blended) course, may present a solution with many benefits as it provides a gradual transition towards technology enabled education. This research work provides a set of definitions for several course delivery approaches, and evaluates five years of...

Technology is influencing education, providing new delivery and assessment models. A combination between online and traditional course, the hybrid (blended) course, may present a solution with many benefits as it provides a gradual transition towards technology enabled education. This research work provides a set of definitions for several course delivery approaches, and evaluates five years of...

This paper presents several strategies and actions which improve the education process by using a platform of learning such as Moodle. In particular, a set of resources and an evaluation system have been created using this blended leaning platform with three basic objectives: to stimulate the autonomous learning by providing interactivity between students to make flexible the way how the studen...