In recent years there has been significant growth in the use of 3D virtual worlds for e-learning and distance education. These immersive environments offer the ability to create complex, highly interactive simulations using in-world modelling and scripting tools. Virtual learning environments support teaching and learning in an educational context, offering the functionality to manage the prese...

It is clear that the Internet and other global information infrastructures provide a major challenge to Higher Education. Questions such as: the extent to which education should become ‘virtual’, the actual cost and value of such innovation and to what degree such education suits its stakeholders (e.g. students) are now discussed the world over. These issues formed the focus for a conference he...

BACKGROUND Along with emersion of the Internet, virtual education increasingly has been growing. Many studies discussed this method and its impact on learning. Present study investigated students' attitude towards virtual education as well as its effect on learning. METHODS This was a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study. The nursing students, who had selected fluids and electrolyte diso...

ethic is a reflection and mirror image of dominant values in organizational activities and responsibilities. the present study investigates the experience and viewpoints of faculty members of payam-e-noor university of kerman regarding the factors that may influence professional behavior at the stable virtual university. the study analyses the contents of the interviews of 14 faculty members th...

Introduction: Virtual education is among the important factorsimproving the learning of medical students. This study aimed toexplain the perceptions of faculty members towards the challengesof virtual education.Methods: The present study was carried out with a qualitativeapproach and using a conventional content analysis method.The participants included 28 faculty members working inMedical univ...

iran’s industry has had a considerable number of difficulties to perform so well as was expected in the post – revolutionary era. unfavorable legal, political environments combined with eight –year imposed war may be singled out as the root causes of such performances. however, this paper argues that our industry’s lack of realization of its dire need to adapt to the emerging unprecedented envi...