Introduction: Nowadays, intense competition and technology changes make an increasing pressure to organizations and their various ways for increasing manpower productivity. Human resources are expected at this time to have greater impact on their products and services. This is the exact thing that caused competency to become an important factor in competitive environment. Competency term is use...

A decade of hindsight allows us to examine the phenomenon of Web-based course delivery and evaluate its successes and failures. When Webdelivered courses mushroomed from campuses in the 1990s, they were embraced by students, faculty, and administrators alike. The prospect of “electronic tutelage” (Marold, 2002), which allowed students through Web interface to take college courses for credit any...

Robert Maynard Hutchins was an educational philosopher, Dean of the Yale University Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, and President and Chancellor of the University of Chicago in Illinois.1 Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism in education. Perennialists believe that “one should teach the things that one deems to be of everlasting importa...

This essay illustrates five ways that Internet-based higher education can capitalize on fundamental principles of learning. Internet-based education can enable better mastery through distributed (shorter, more frequent) practice rather than massed (longer, less frequent) practice; it can optimize performance because it allows students to learn at their peak time of their day; it can deepen memo...

background and purpose: today, according to busy doctors, one of the ways to keep their medical information up to date is the use of evidence-based medicine (ebm). the purpose of this study was to determine the educational needs of ebm in clinical faculty members working in shahid beheshti university hospitals in tehran and the prioritization of these needs . methods: the study was descriptive,...