LON-CAPA is a distributed open-source Learning Content Management and Assessment System that provides instructors with a common, scalable platform to assist in several aspects of teaching a course, from lecture preparation, communication among faculty and students, calendar keeping and announcements, to administration of homework assignments and exams. It also enables instructors to create educ...

a bstra ct   background: clinical education is the heart of the nursing education program. effective nursing clinical instructors are needed for graduating the future qualified nurses. there is a well - developed body of knowledge about the effectiveness of clinical teaching and the instructors. however, translating this knowledge into a context - based evaluation tool for measuring the effecti...

Teaching ethics to nurses leads to their involvement in providing high quality care, enable them to duly encounter ethical issues. One of the key elements of educational systems is nursing instructors. Even though lots of studies show the role of instructors in students' learning, their role in promotion of professional ethics has been attended to less. The objective of this study is surveying ...

Teachers establish prerequisites that students must meet before they are permitted to enter their courses. It is expected that having these prerequisites will provide students with the knowledge and skills they will need to successfully learn the course content. Also, the material that the students are expected to have previously learned need not be included in a course. We wanted to determine ...

Military training instructors increasingly often employ computer games to train soldiers in all sorts of skills and tactics. One of the difficulties instructors face when using games as a training tool is the creation of suitable content, including scenarios, entities and corresponding terrain models. Terrain plays a key role in many military training games, as for example in our case game Tact...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this evaluation study was to identify the feasibility of repurposing specific online modules developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada as continuing education modules for front-line practitioners, in teaching clinical epidemiology to undergraduate medical students. Specifically, relevancy of the content, quality of online material, time-effectiveness of using the...

CONTEXT While sex education is almost universal in U.S. schools, its content varies considerably. Topics such as abstinence, and basic information on HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), are commonly taught; birth control and how to access STD and contraceptive services are taught less often. Factors potentially associated with these variations need to be examined. METHODS Data...

The process of creating effective educational materials that fully utilize electronic media can be greatly improved. The goal of using instructional technology is, of course, to provide students with better quality educational experiences. Among other things, this means that educational materials should be provided in a way that matches the individual student’s learning style, in a variety of s...

Background: Quality of education plays a key role in the development of education. Having this perspective in mind the researchers explored the quality of ESP courses from ESP instructors point of views and investigated the role of quality of education of ESP courses in information-seeking behavior of the students. They also probed the possible relationship between EFL instructors reflective pr...