agriculture in the kingdom of saudi arabia has witnessed many phases, from ancient small-scale bedouin nomadic subsistence agriculture to mass-scale farming to ensure food security and self-sufficiency, to the present-day desire for sustainability. these transitions have made the work of extension staff very challenging. effective extension work depends upon competent and well-trained agricultu...

background:learning the key issues in providing nursing care requires new instructional strategies that prevent superficial learning of students and improve meaningful and high level learning in them. the aim of this study was to determine effect of teaching the nursing process in composing method on nursing students and their clinical learning. methods: in a quasi-experimental study with two g...

many medical universitiesaround the world have donestunning changes in the recent years.some of these changes have been performed with the support of international organizations.they changed the traditionaltrainingprograms based on teacher- centered learning and disciplined approach to the educational course based on community needs responsivity and student-centered learning. this process is ai...

Perception and experience gained in the contemporary school could not help human beings' active learning. Totally, participation is the main element in active learning and thus, the active participation of students in the learning process is emphasized by education and learning in secondary schools. Given the importance of active learning, in this paper, the effective components in this type of...

the issue of entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurs’ different learning methods are addressed to attract and empower young interested people to create and manage business activities. although learning has a crucial role in the process of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and researchers lack a comprehensive pattern for explaining learning in terms of sources, methods, as well as entrepreneurs...

evaluation of nursing student's perception toward the use of audience response systems (ars) in the classroom teaching process     baghaei r [1] *, zareie f [2] , rasouli d [3] , sheykhi n [4]     received: 4 apr , 2013 accepted: 2 jun, 2013  abstract  background & aims : the use of innovative learning methods in nursing schools is necessary to improve the educational process. using audien...

the first spoken dialogue system developed for the persian language is introduced. this is a ticket reservation system with persian asr and nlu modules. the focus of the paper is on learning the dialogue management module. in this work, real on-line training data are used during the learning process. for on-line learning, the effect of the variations of discount factor (g) on the learning speed...