Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have recently received a great deal of attention from the academic communities. However, these courses face low completion rates and there are very limited research pertaining to this problem. Therefore, this study uses Triandis theory to better understand variables that are indicative of MOOC completion. Furthermore, this study scrutinizes the quantitative r...

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the KS enablers and individual factors influence intention to KS in E-Learning system. Moreover, its objective is to identify the individual influence on intention to share knowledge in E-Learning system and to recognize relationships among them. The current research expands a theoretical framework of online KS factors with the Decomposed Theory of Plann...

Humans excel at mirroring both others' actions (imitation) as well as others' goals and intentions (emulation). As most research has focused on imitation, here we focus on how social and asocial learning predict the development of goal emulation. We tested 215 preschool children on two social conditions (imitation, emulation) and two asocial conditions (trial-and-error and recall) using two tou...

BACKGROUND To ensure the quality of healthcare provision, nurses must continuously enhance their professional knowledge and competencies via continuing education. As compared with traditional learning, electronic learning (e-learning) is a more flexible method for nurses' in-service learning. Hence, e-learning is expected to play a key role in providing continuing education for nurses. PURPOS...

Personalized search has recently got significant attention in the web search. Accordingly, user’s intention of search is very important information to retrieval information in aspect of personalized Search. Although many personalized search and strategies have been proposed, the majority of web users are difficulty in retrieval information corresponding their search intention. In this paper, we...

Recent advances in the field of inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) have yielded sophisticated frameworks which relax the original modeling assumption that the behavior of an observed agent reflects only a single intention. Instead, the demonstration data is typically divided into parts, to account for the fact that different trajectories may correspond to different intentions, e.g., because t...

The Postgraduate Year (PGY) Program allows doctors-in-training to learn about the diagnosis, treatment and nursing of various common, general diseases. These items form the core curriculum and are mostly learned through caring for patients and clinical teaching. Doctors-in-training are evaluated for their knowledge through written tests or assignments, based on which the effectiveness of their ...

Currently, mobile technologies are widely used on diverse fields and in daily life. In the educational environment, the use of mobile devices as an alternative tool in learning process has increased progressively. In this way, experiences related to mobile learning (m-learning) have been reported all around the world and tablets have become one of the most popular devices used on this type of l...