conclusions lecture and educational package can both improve some dimensions of the qol in patients with hypertension. however, as pamphlets are cheap and easy to use, this method may be used as an effective method for self-care education in health care settings in iran, where the system is faced with nursing shortage. results no significant differences were observed between the three groups fo...

This study tested the possibility that interactive lectures explicitly based on activating learners' prior knowledge and driven by a series of logical questions might enhance the effectiveness of lectures. A class of 54 students doing the respiratory system course in the second year of the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery program in my university was randomized to two groups to rece...

Researchers stated that learning and applying certain set of lexical bundles of native lecturers by non-native lecturers would help students improve their proficiency through incidental vocabulary input. The present study shed light on the lexical bundles in hard science lectures used by Native and Non-native lecturers in international universities with the main purpose of analyzing the structu...

INTRODUCTION An one hour didactic lecture is the common method of teaching in dental colleges in India. Lengthy lectures are boring and students are passive recipients of the information. Interactive lectures are suggested as a means of overcoming the disadvantages of regular lectures. AIMS The present study was conducted to pilot various methods of making lectures interactive and to find the...

A cohort of first-year biology students was surveyed regarding their opinions and viewing habits for live and recorded lectures. Most respondents (87%) attended live lectures as a rule (attenders), with 66% attending more than two-thirds of the lectures. In contrast, only 52% accessed recordings and only 13% viewed more than two-thirds of the available recordings. Respondents regarded lectures ...

This paper presents the approaches IRIT developed for the VLNetChallenge regarding recommender systems in the context of video lectures. The first task aims at recommending newly acquired lectures after viewing an “old” lecture. We use random walk algorithms based on a graph composed of author, category, event, and lecture nodes and associated relationships. The second task aims at recommending...