background the direct and indirect negative impacts of hypertension on mortality and morbidity and the deficiencies in physicians’ knowledge on its management prompted us to search for new methods of training this item. objectives in this study, 2 methods of teaching—planned lecture and cooperation—were compared in instructing hypertension to medical students. materials and methods this study w...

In recent years, the information and communication technology (ICT) has created a significant impact on the methods of communicating information and knowledge to the learners and, consequently, innovative teaching techniques have evolved to change the way teachers teach and students learn. In this paper, the focus is on a study which was conducted on a group-based cooperative learning class to ...

Introduction: In this study, the authors aimed to examine theeffects of cooperative learning methods using Web Quest andteam-based learning on students’ self-direction, self-regulation,and academic achievement.Methods: This is a comparative study of students taking a course inmental health and psychiatric disorders. In two consecutive years,a group of students were trained using the Web Quest a...

background: failure in reaching the predetermined goals of education can be considered as one of the most important problems of educational systems. today, it is believed that active teaching methods are more effective than lecturing which lead to effective teaching. participation of students in education is one of the major factors of active learning. the purpose of the present study is to det...

In the last years different methodologies have been proposed to systematize the Web development processes. Some of them are supported by CASE tools that help the user in all or in part of the phases of the application development. A number of these tools are used with didactic aims, for teaching the development process of Web applications. Nevertheless, to our knowledge, none of the currently a...

This paper reflects upon the issues posed by students' extensive use of collaborative internet tools, or social web (Web 2.0). Internet-based cooperative activities are usually underrated by academic and offical school practice, though students dedicate most of their time to the web. Moreover, the paper attempts to consider the innovative collaborative practices of Web 2.0, of social bookmarkin...

1. Introduction Web-based Course Management Software (CMS) provides a single portal for students and teaching staff to collaborate in an elaborate interactive environment. This portal provides tools for online submissions, examinations, student performance monitoring, discussion threads, real-time chat, and electronic mail. In higher education, these facilities are becoming more common for deli...