Information and communication technology (ICT) is a principal driver of economic development and social change, worldwide. In many countries, the need for economic and social development is used to justify investments in educational reform and in educational ICT. Yet the connections between national development goals and ICT-based education reform are often more rhetorical than programmatic. Th...

BACKGROUND Although nursing education in Iran has a positive trend in growth; it is still facing with multifaceted challenges. This study aims to explore the challenges for effective evaluation of nursing education perceived by academic managers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A qualitative study was performed by using 21 face-to-face, in-depth interviews with academic managers in medical universities...

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) has been highly regarded as a landmark decision that set forth the promise of equality in education for all students. Today, almost sixty years later, the promise of equality still remains a promise as students of color continue to lag behind in educational attainment. Brown had an ambitious agenda that aimed to desegregate as an intermediate step to equalizin...

Empirical studies have repeatedly pointed out that the readability of a privacy policy is a potential source of trust of online users. Nevertheless, many online companies still keep the readability of their privacy policies at a low level. This could possibly coincide with a low compliance of their privacy policies with the guidelines of fair information practices and thus with users’ privacy e...

Education is a strong predictor of health and longevity: the higher a person’s level of education, the greater the likelihood of a long and healthy life. This is true in the U.S. as well as in other parts of the world. The association is stronger in some countries than in others— for example, in the U.S. than in most Western European countries, perhaps because of greater economic returns to sch...

During COVID-19 pandemia, orthopedic ward of Shariati Hospital continued its work as the refferral ward for trauma patients. As an educational center with undergrad and postgrad medical students, we were forced to acutely change our policies and the ward workflow in a way to limit the danger of disease transmission and continue education and giving medical service at the same time. Here we repo...