OBJECTIVES The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the problem-based learning (PBL) method as an alternative to conventional educational methods in Iranian undergraduate medical courses. MATERIALS AND METHODS We systematically searched international datasets banks, including PubMed, Scopus, and Embase, and internal resources of banks, including MagirIran, IranMedex...

Sustainability is conceptualized, approached and acted upon differently by people, sectors, societies, nations and educational systems. Consequently, the “sustainability thinking”-related scientific, technological, environmental, societal, economic and policy/political components are expected to transform differently. The related necessary transformative paradigm shifts in science, technology, ...

The aim of this contribution is to present the work that the Universidad Industrial de Santander is currently carrying out through the institutional project named ProSPETIC, designed to give support to academic programs using ICTs. The development is based on principles of the instructional engineering considering methods for the design, development and planning of learning systems distribution...

The use of information technology forms an integral part of primary and secondary education in many different parts of the world. In the past decade, as the price of software and hardware has become more affordable, there is an increasing interest in applying various communication technologies to support collaborative learning. The introduction of Video-Conferencing Learning Environment (VCLE) ...

In this paper, the authors first discuss the main rationales of situated cognition and its connections with innovation in teacher education. The challenges that might occur in applying situated cognition in teacher education programs, including insufficient opportunities for cognition apprenticeship, limited social interactions, and constraints in microteaching, are then presented. Correspondin...

The objective of this research is determining the effectiveness of philosophy education on metacognitive beliefs among high school students. The objective of the research is applied and the method of data gathering is semi-experimental, pre-test and post-test with control group. Statistical population includes high school students in district 3 of Tehran in the first mid-term of educational yea...

The purpose of this paper is to report on a study that considered Transactional Distance Theory (TDT) in a current technology context of web-based distance education (DE) in a high school environment. Data collection relied on semistructured interviews conducted with 13 e-teachers and seven other personnel within an organization responsible for high-school distance education in Newfoundland and...

background: educational clinical environment has an important role in nursing students' learning. any difference between actual and expected clinical environment will decrease nursing students’ interest in clinical environments and has a negative correlation with their clinical performance.   methods : this descriptive cross-sectional study is an attempt to compare nursing students'perception o...