background: one of the essential and inevitable principles in improving the education quality, particularly in universities, is the continuous assessment of students’ educational progress at different education levels. the  role of advisors and consulting tutors at universities are considered as one of the important interventions of the ministry of health for the purpose of guiding students&apo...

conclusions the majority of the trauma-related articles from the aaos patient education website have readability levels that may make comprehension difficult for a substantial portion of the patient population. results the mean (sd) grade level readability for all patient education articles was 8.8 (1.1). all but three of the articles had a readability score above the sixth-grade level. the rea...

“You can take ’em naked,” the advert in the back of the New York Times Magazine promises. The advert sought attention for online multimedia studies classes, but the same fringe benefit applies to biomedical courses on the web. A few web teaching sites still use the traditional ‘chalk and talk’ approach, but fortunately the authors of most sites know the strength of their medium: no online cours...

background because the quality of information on the internet is of dubious worth, many patients seek out reliable expert sources. as per the american medical association (ama) and the national institutes of health (nih) recommendations, readability of patient education materials should not exceed a sixth-grade reading level. the average reading skill of u.s. adults is at the eighth-grade level...

Online Education, E-learning, and M-learning Online education: There are many terms for online education. Some of them are: virtual education, Internet-based education, Web-based education, and education via computermediated communication (CMC). The following definition of online education is based on Desmond Keegan’s (1988) definition of distance education. Hence, online education is character...