George Veletsianos is Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and Technology and associate professor with the School of Education and Technology at Royal Roads University in Victoria B.C. His research examines learners’ and scholars’ practices and experiences in emerging online settings such as online social networks and open courses. Address for correspondence: Dr George Veletsianos, Scho...

Career planning, decision making about specialty choice, and preparation for residency matching are significant sources of stress for medical students. Attempts have been made to structure and formalize career advising by including it in accreditation standards. There is an expressed need for national guidelines on career advising for medical students. The Future of Medical Education in Canada ...

We have done the best we can to explain this newly emerging source of education on this page and have various links to the top Australian universities that offer online education. eLearning stands for Electronic Learning and it is defined as the method by which a student and a professor use online programs and technology to interact with each other. The main point is that there is no physical i...

Editor’s note: This article is part of the Dialogue series which features transcriptions of e-mail discussions focused on a current issue in the field held by two scholars who have approached the issue from different perspectives. For further details, see the editorial published in Med Educ 2012;46:826–7. In this contribution, Dr David Cook, Professor of Medicine and Medical Education and Assoc...

In regard to knowledge economy, the current concept in model construction of online education, including distance education and learning, generally refers a kind network-based learning behavior, similar training. Compared with traditional offline methods, through application information technology internet for content dissemination rapid has characteristics high efficiency, convenience, low thr...

I am highly delighted to be called upon to give a keynote address in this very important conference and on the theme: “Reproductive Health: Global Infertility Trend”. Initially, I was a bit worried why a Gynaecologist should be called upon to address a gathering of very seasoned Physiologists but when I remembered that the journey to Gynaecology started with Physiology and Physiology is the bed...

Offline strategies and contingency plans are not adequately flexible in these settings. We are seeking online methods for commanding and advising collectives in order to adjust how individuals relate to one another and to their group. These methods provide social control. In this paper we offer design and initial implementation of a framework for social control in the domain of reconnaissance a...

the relationship between religiosity, self-control and drug abuse     kazemi y [1] , nikmanesh z [2]    received: 18 oct, 2010 accepted: 8 mar, 2011   abstract background & aims: some investigations show that social disorders have been increasing in iran recently. examining related factors helps to reduce these disorders. the present study aimed to investigate the relationships between religios...