Nowadays, eLearning has been adapted in all educational institutes, starting from kindergartens, primary schools, high schools, to the universities. Teachers are encouraged to use computer and Internet as a teaching medium in addition to the classroom teaching. The result is a blended learning which combines eLearning as a supplementary learning means to classroom learning. The issue becomes wh...

Despite the growing interest in Internet-based teaching and the application of advanced Internet technologies in education, research investigating the use of advanced Internet-based technologies has been very scarce. The objective of this study is to gain a better understanding of factors influencing students’ actual usage of sophisticated Internet-based technologies (IBT) in virtual classroom ...

introduction: the increasing development of software in e-learning has opened a new horizon in education. the current research was conducted to assess the effect of web-based teaching of anatomy course on medical students’ attitude, perceived ease of use, perceived benefit and satisfaction with teaching method at kermanshah university of medical sciences. methods: the present study was an inter...

Among health professions the field of respiratory care (RC) once enjoyed a leadership role in integrating new technologies in teaching, largely because of the excellent match between branching-logic clinical simulations and microcomputer technology. RC can reclaim leadership status by concentrating on effective teaching and the judicious (rather than lavish) deployment of educational technologi...

In an earlier study I investigated the essential principles that facilitate higher levels of learning in Internet-based distance learning university courses. In this study I explored how these teaching and learning principles could be applied in Internetbased distance learning environments. I used an open-ended questionnaire to determine how (or if) the teaching and learning principles identifi...

The realization of virtual reality technology is useful in distributed practical teaching because its advantages such as illustrated, no limit by space and time, high intelligence, good ability of interactivity and etc. The practical teaching virtual reality technology is based on static images and IP network of computers. Recording the course of video, frequency, operation process of practical...

this study aims at explaining informal internet-based chat format with respect to its genre and writing components and system. the researchers analyzed 53 chat samples which were produced by 53 iranian students in high intermediate and advanced levels of english in a private institute while chatting with foreigners. besides the genre analysis, the purposes why people all around the world chat o...