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...

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' st...

Distance-education programs have the potential to greatly increase the number of veterinary technicians. The demographic characteristics, readiness for independent and online learning, learning styles, and academic locus of control of a group of distance-education and on-campus veterinary technology students were examined. Distance-education students preferred independent learning and were more...

This research investigates the effects of social networks on students’ performance in online education which uses networking as an adjunct mode for enhancing traditional face-to-face education or distance education. Using data from a 40-student course on Advanced Management Information Systems (AMIS), we empirically tested how social networks (friendly, advising, and adversarial) related to stu...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS There are a number of people that should be recognized for their help and assistance during my thesis work. First of all I want to express my sincere gratitude to my thesis advisor professor Martin A. Brooke, who has given me the opportunity to complete my Ph.D. study at school of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Georgia Institute of Technology. I really appreciate the ti...

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Khe Foon Hew is an Assistant Professor at the Learning Sciences and Technologies academic group at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests include teacher education, online learning and technology integration. Wing Sum Cheung is an Associate Professor, also with the same academic group at the National Institute of Education, Nan...

The advising process plays an essential role in the success of a student's academic life, and should include mentoring and counseling offered by faculty advisors. Unfortunately, the limited advising time available is often spent on routine tasks such as course advising and approvals. In addition, faculty advisors spend a large proportion of advising time answering the same questions for multipl...