As time becomes an issue in teaching and learning or training in higher educational institutions, most trainers resort to lecture-based training. When training is restraint to predominantly lecture method, meaningful learning may not be the main intention of training any longer. This is due to the fact that lecture method is essentially more pertinent for learners with auditory learning style p...

background: the purposes of this study were to develop a problem-based learning program for nursing student’s education and to evaluate the program after its implementation. methods: an intervention study carried out on 27 third year undergraduate nursing students in the nursing and midwifery faculty of kashan university of medical sciences. problem-based learning method was used for one group ...

background and purpose:     methods:       results:       between the two settings. however, the mean score for lecture sessions was slightly higher in lecture settings. conclusion:     key words       : l ecturing , c omputer b ased l earning , d istance e ducation since this study reveals that the learning outcomes in traditional lecture based settings and computer based study are not signifi...

This study compared the effects of a computer-based stimulus equivalence protocol to a traditional lecture format in teaching single-subject experimental design concepts to undergraduate students. Participants were assigned to either an equivalence or a lecture group, and performance on a paper-and-pencil test that targeted relations among the names of experimental designs, design definitions, ...

People are not very good at detecting deception in normal communication, and past efforts to train them to become better detectors have been mixed. This paper reports on a training study involving 177 military officers. In addition to developing and testing a training program to improve deception detection, this study also aimed to test different versions of a computer-based training system. Pa...