In today’s technology driven digital era, education domain is undergoing a transformation from traditional approaches to more learner controlled and flexible methods of learning. This transformation has opened the new avenues for interdisciplinary research in the field of educational technology and natural language processing in developing quality digital aids for learning and teaching. The too...

Several prominent educational institutions have recently increased their use of team-based projects to both enhance learning and aid in assessment. We present some of our ongoing research into the use of project-based learning for the instruction of applied probability and stochastic processes at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels. In particular, we will demonstrate how “real-w...

Dear Editor, Statistics show that Iran is one of the main disaster prone countries. 1 In the Bam earthquake alone in De-cember 26, 2003, more than 25000 people died, 50,000 were injured and 100,000 lost their homes. 2 Disaster may happen during any person's life and preparedness is the best way for preventing the dramatic consequences. By sure, implementing proper preparedness for disasters in ...

While demands for large scale improvements in education systems increase worldwide, education system structures continuously fail to meet, or even make notable advancements, toward these demands. Inseparable from this problem is the very similar way in which education systems are managed. Educational managerial structures have become so universal, perpetual, and therefore, deeply ingrained in s...

In a world where the most used sentences is: "I haven’t got the time...” Information Technologies (IT) plays an important role in supporting our daily work, including in everyday educational settings. Such technologies can aid a complete educational system to function successfully so to help the whole school educational life. For this to prove, we present the “Coaching for Teacher” system, a pe...

In late 2015, California passed the End of Life Option Act (AB 15), which allows residents at the terminal stage of an illness to request a prescription for medications meant to hasten death. As California seeks to implement the law in June 2016, findings from other states that practice aid in dying (AID) may guide implementation. This policy brief provides an overview of the use of AID, outlin...

With the advent of network technologies, many educational web sites have been developed to assist students in the learning of subjects on computer networks. However, without proper aid, students may have difficulty in selecting appropriate web sites, that are of benefit to them; hence, studying, evaluating and recommending educational web sites has become an important and challenging issue. In ...

In the last decade, the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) has gained an undeniable momentum. However, it is an easy trap to confuse download and registration rates with actual learning and interest in the adoption and re-use of open educational resources. If we focus solely on access, we cannot differentiate between processes of mere information foraging and deep sense making activiti...