after development of a great concern (in last decade) about the adequacy and fidelity of the undergraduate educational program of electrical engineering in the electrical engineering department of sharif university of technology, a committee was assigned in 2004, to identify the shortcomings of the program and initiate a dynamic, restructured program to satisfy the educational requirement of a ...

Students’ learning goals demonstrate much stronger variety than traditional goal orientation models for classroom learning assume, especially when the educational context allows so. In this empirical study we will investigate the richness of students’ goal orientation in a collaborative learning context. We do so with the help of a goal setting framework that is based on a two-facet approach di...

In the recent years, the usage of 3D CVEs for educational purposes has increased. The metaphors behind the design of virtual places are quite diverse, from replication of real universities to art museums and scientific labs. The goal of this paper is to provide an extended characterization of place metaphors in educational CVEs. It will serve as a background for an extensive exploration of 3D e...

In this paper the literature on the unique characteristics of educational organizations and themes emerging from educational reform efforts are used to inform policy orientations and practices aimed at achieving the goal of greater inclusion within the Cameroon education sector. It is argued that the goal of inclusion will be achieved, if among other things, policies and practices are not domin...

Interactions and relationships involving goal attributes and goal types were examined to supplement previous studies of goal types alone. In previous studies, goal attributes such as positive-based incentive values had been found to be higher for intrinsic goals, mastery goals, and more difficult goals. Intrinsic goals and mastery goals were more positive-based than were extrinsic and performan...

Many researchers have focused on the mining of educational data stored in databases of educational software and Learning Management Systems. The goal is the knowledge discovery that can help educators to support their students by managing effectively educational units, redesigning student’s activities and finally improving the learning outcome. A basic data mining technique concerns the discove...

BACKGROUND Goal-setting within rehabilitation is a common practice ultimately geared toward helping patients make functional progress. OBJECTIVE The purposes of this study were to (1) qualitatively analyze data from a wellness program for patients with spina bifida (SB) and spinal cord injury (SCI) in order to generate software requirements for a goal-setting module to support their complex g...